Out of florida, millions of people under threat from Monster Size Hurricane milton. That powerful Category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds of 120 miles an hour has come ashore. The eyewall made landfall half an hour ago in siesta key, which is a Barrier Island off of the coast of sarasota. Right now, the storm with a diameter of 450 miles, is bringing lifethreatening winds and potentially devastating Storm Surge up to 13 feet. Earlier today, the national oceanic and atmospheric administration, noaa, took steal drones on the gulf of mexico. They showed 40 nautical miles away from meltons eye, the winds were gusting 76 miles an hour and waves were cresting up at 28 feet high. That powerful storm is hitting land. For those not in the eyewalls direct path, there is reason to be vigilant as much of florida is under a tropical Storm Watch or warning. The national Weather Service also issued warnings in parts of south and central florida, where milton has spawned 10 tornadoes. Airports,
i think the sewer plants are shut down. it s bad but it s only going to get worse until we get the power restored, water drained and get people back to it s not rescue, it s now gathering their personal belongings and then basically tearing many of these homes down and rebuilding. and that s the next step. and just very quickly, how long do you think it will take to return the power and see the water recede and really get people back into their homes? it will take a month to get the water out and return power. and then we re talking it s not only this community. it s all communities in florida. we re going to be talking years before the restoration is complete because there s so much to do and so many homes need to
nobody will be going out to the supermarket, to the gas station. nobody will be going to work. slowly the sewer plants will shut down. you will have to deal with some horrible, wicked, evil people. steve: actually that kind of sounds like what happened in new york a few weeks ago. brian: or by my house. steve: those are the stars of doomsday preppers. an entire family prep to go make it out of armageddon alive. fox & friends, hour two for a wet tuesday from new york city. anybody else want to put their heads in? come on over here. we re going to win by a smile in a moment. let s start. gretchen: sorry about that. i didn t realize that steve was coming back on camera. brian: i don t think they picked it up. gretchen: they just got my
we got we got the iraqi launcher, got out in front of it, got one round off, i was looking to see if we had any wounded. i got kim berland on my back and armstrong, took them down where they would be in a safe position. bill: the point i m making is we re not going to cut spending in washington if we think it s the job of every congressman and senator to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants, these protectual interests are getting in the way of national interests. right now we have over 500
and these interests are used to push bad policy and big spending bills and although earmarks could only make up $20 billion or $30 billion a year they are used to pass the huge spending bills. the point i make, we are not going to cut spending in washington if we think it s the job of each congressman and senators to build local sewer plants. the parochial interests get in the way of the national interests. right now we have over 500 congressman and senators who think it is their job to bring home the bacons and republicans have to stop this and hopefully we will vote to stop it next week. neil: would you support mccorn mcconnell to be your leader in senate? guest: we, we need to get back the argument of parochial versus national. we cannot have bills passed with thousands of earmarks that have no relevance to the national good just because we think it would be good for our state. this is borrowed money.