they re great people, beautiful state. you know about their football team? bill: a little bit. dana: governor desantis will give a update any moment now and bring it live. florida is bracing for what could be a once in a century storm. bill: the current storm track shows landfall sometime on thursday, maybe in tampa. if that were a direct hit, it would be the first major storm to hit tampa in more than 100 years. dana: forecasters are predicting storm sturge. people are boarding up homes and businesses. the amount of water may simply be too much to overcome. bill: here is what we know. governor desantis declared a state of emergency. tampa s international airport will shut down at 5:00 east coast time. dana: evacuation orders affecting hundreds of thousands of people. folks there say supplies are running low. shelves are totally empty. people are starting to panic. it is crazy now. people are crazy, all the flights are insane. there is no flights. i would ho
residents of sanibel island today will be able to return to see what is left of their homes. residents have to access that barrier island now by boat. it remains cut off from the mainland. ian ripped apart a causeway. cnn s layla santiago just arrived a few moments ago and is able to file this report. reporter: this is west gulf drive, one of the main streets here on sanibel island. it s also a place where the residents tell me was the worst hit. this is now a street that s lined with debris. can you see straight into homes and see personal belongings everywhere. you also have part of a roof that is sitting on the side of the street. to make the point of exactly how powerful this storm was, residents tell me that this was actually across the street. now you can see straight in what was once a kitchen, a family room, no longer here. the equipment and refrigerator now partially on the the door. not much left to be salvaged. i believe we have leyla you want live. what more a
even the middle keys could be 2 to 3 feet. you will certainly get some very fast water flowing through the cuts there, especially in the lower and the middle keys. but where it goes from there is the size of this cone getting bigger and bigger and it is because this is the average error times a little bit. so two-thirds of the storm should fall into this cone. this is a completely different storm if this side of the cone is involved. this is a different storm for tampa if this side of the cone is involved. i think everybody is kind of looking down the middle because the computer models are trying to figure it out. the gfs, the american model, was way out west, started charging to the east. the european model is way over here, started charging to the west and now they re literally only 50 to 75 miles apart. so that kind of gives you a good runway. it also gives us a good runway if that actually occurs what the storm surge threat might be. from tampa to inglewood, bonita spring
billionaire heiress in memphis. police confirming a short time ago the body found monday afternoon is that of missing kindergarten teacher and mother of two eliza fletcher. the suspect in the disappearance is now charged with first-degree murder. great to be back with you, john. john: good to see you as well, sandra. this is america reports. sad news to start us off. fletcher had been missing since going on a jog early friday morning. surveillance video shows a man believed to be cleotha abston henderson exit his truck and aggressively run toward fletcher. the man then forces fletcher into his car. sandra: court documents say he was seen cleaning his truck and acting strange before the attack. he is a convicted kidnapper, spending nearly 20 years in prin for a similar crime carried out back in 2001. john: criminal defense attorney with more on this in moments, but charles watson is in memphis. what s the latest, charles, and the charges against the suspect? good aft
good to be with you. i m katy tur. it s not just the economy, stupid. today, we re starting with the midterms, but not with the accepted narrative. as you know, there are just seven days to go until november 8th and despite what you might see in polling averages, the results are far from clear and it s not just us. it is the pollsters themselves warning they might not be getting the full picture. that the samples might be skewed. democrats say that is underestimating their chances. one prominent strategist questioning the narrative of a red wave pointing to an influx sponsored by republican or allied groups in critical races across the country while others like the economist say the skew is actually underestimating republicans, arguing democrats are polling best in states where they seem to misfire. those are the predictions. what about the hard numbers? early voting has begun in many states but just like the polls, the numbers coming out of those states are frustratingly mur