have our fox news chief meteorologist rick reichmuth with us. rick this has been rough so far. really has. three things, the storm surge that broke records in fort myers and naples as well by a lot by the way, three feet higher than we had ever seen from any kind of storm surge in the past. that obviously causing all that flooding right along the immediate coast. then we have the winds, actual verified winds of 140 miles an hour in cape corral. a lot of this wind was really prolonged because it s such a slow-moving storm and then you have the rainfall. because it s so slow we get rainfall that just continues to batter the state and we ll see big time inland flooding concerns. this made land fall in the exact same space that hurricane charlie came on shore in 2004 which is amazing to have two massive hurricanes or two strong hurricanes like this come on shore in the exact same spot, hard to imagine, because it came on so strong, it s still a category 2 hurricane after having
joined by florida senator rick scott is with us. senator, let s talk about the rescue recovery efforts. i know the state of florida, we ve been putting it up on the screen. if people know relatives, friends, that might be trapped, there is an input web site, we ll put it up on the screen where people can go and put it up, and i think it s, what is it, floridadisasterfund.org. sean it s floridadisaster.org. first my heart goes out to everybody impacted. i hope everybody s safe our first responders will get to you as quickly as possible. i ve been talking to sheriffs, mayors, police chief fire and rescue across the state and they re committed to getting to people as quickly as they can. great coordination between local state and federal. i talked to the fema administrator yesterday the lady that runs southeast for fema are committed to doing everything they can, the state s doing everything. so hopefully everybody stays safe. don t do anything foolish. and then we ve got to look at