0 with first cause of this surge right now. reporting in fort myers, robert ray fox. whether. all right. thank you so much for sticking with us. right here on fox weather. a hurricane in a water log in southwest florida. streets and buildings completely flooded, as you can see here. power knocked out to two million people. and one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the united states . the hurricane making landfall wednesday afternoon near jocasta. a protected barrier island just west of fort myers in the hours since landfall in have moved inland, hurricane force winds likely to be felt well into central florida. yeah, thanks again for sticking with us right here on fox. whether i m local customer. and i m jim enah. thank you for joining us and a special welcome to those watching on fox news channel. well, the 2:00 a.m. advisory is in mike lindell, still a category one hurricane. so no major changes there, although and continues to shift and land continues to weaken just a
safety board is reporting that all new vehicles in the u.s. be equipped with blood alcohol monitoring systems that can stop an intoxicated person from driving. if enacted, the recommendation could reduce one of the biggest causes of highway deaths in the u.s.. it comes as nearly 43,000 americans were killed in roadway crashes last year, the highest number in more than 15 years. the arizona daily star reports fentanyl seizures in the state have reached a new high. new figures show that custos officers at arizona ports seized more than 1,300 pounds of fentanyl in august alone. that is more than twice as high as the amount seized in july, which was also a record setter. the paper notes that officers in arizona last month seized more than fentanyl than all other officers and agents throughout the country s border regions combined. according to the talave advance register, the number of
peter? steve patterson in colorado steve, thank you. even after a tough year dominated by covid tonight, another record setter. nearly 600,000 americans testing positive in a single day. that eye popping case count forcing many people to revisit their new year s plans. some cities even canceling festivities. but at new york times square, the show will go on. kathy park is there. reporter: tonight covid canceling new year s eve celebrations again as infections skyrocket from coast to coast. nearly 600,000 covid cases nationwide in just the last 24 hours. a new record for the second day in a row. and now for the second year, officials called off san francisco s fireworks show atlanta s peach drop canceled, too. i really do think it s the best interest of the city to keep everyone as safe as possible. reporter: new york city smashing its daily covid record for the third straight day. more than 76,000 new cases and 21% of the
because it started as a rain event the rain would have washed away the treatment. then the snow came in hard and built up quickly. road crews tried to keep up. they were quickly overwhelmed. then they had downed trees, abandoned cars, wrecked cars the thing simply got out of control by the way, senator kaine finally made it to washington late this afternoon lester we hope the same for some folks who spent tough hours on the road thank you, tom now to staggering covid numbers, daily cases surpassing 1 million in the midst of that critical shortage of covid tests. what happened to the free at-home tests president biden promised americans would have by now? our peter alexander has more from the white house. reporter: tonight, another covid record setter more than a million new infections reported nationwide in just 24 hours though some of it likely due to holiday backlog. nearly 1 in 100 americans now testing positive in the last week hospitalizations up 41% in two weeks president