first confirmed hurricane related death in osceola count. 14 million people right now under a flood advisory. the scale of destruction is hard to comprehend. we are learning more by the minute. any minute from now, president biden gets a briefing on the scope and devastation of this storm. millions of floridians right now without electricity. lee and charlotte counties in southwestern florida knocked entirely off the power grid, that according to florida s governor. emergency responders working through a backlog of calls for help. for some, that help won t get there in time. in naples, scenes of desperation, first responders wading through shoulder-high water to carry, drag people to safety. in orlando, regret for not following orders to get out. i heard the evacuation going off on my phone, but i was, like, we re going to be all right. i kept saying, we re going to be all right, you know what i m saying? but, boy, was i wrong. i was wrong. if i would have known it was goin
the california state legislator who just got a bill passed to help turn and use government buildings into housing also helping to revitalize downtown areas exactly the practical and then the people in charge with the drama and theater. we have a recipe for fights and dysfunction then continuing to be even more dysfunctional. chaos and dysfunction more than a week after the speaker votes. but why? and then to rebrand the debates in the dysfunction and then with very few exceptions like our friend with the twitter files revealed in private standing up to democracy and pluralism. it is totalitarian. and then which was desperately tried to deny even though they are already doing it when where else? berkeley california then spreading across california across the country to new york at the same time the biden people and the media puppets gal that s not true the biden administration is in court supporting versus band. there is no justification it is not period practical essentia
hemmer. eric adams visited the border over the weekend and his city has received buses full of migrants in recent months. former acting dhs secretary chad wolf calling on the federal government to do more. it s clear they don t have a good handle what s going on but also clear the rest of the world knows what most americans know which is that border is wide open. dana: former chief is standing by. madison is standing by how it is affecting american cities and griff jenkins is in eagle pass, texas along the border. how do things look this morning? good morning. things are not slowing down in the slightest bit. if we can go to our drone right now high above eagle pass, the bridge connecting to mexico, you can see some national guardsmen repairing some fencing and barbed wire sections where they are trying to keep these numbers down. as we can show you, there is more migrants coming all day every day. we have had at least three groups coming so far. it comes as cbp sources
just after 3:00 p.m. east coast, the eye crossed over a barrier island near ft. myers, florida. this is a live look at the satellite right now. you can see the immense size and strength mof the hurricane. the winds are 150 miles an hour. that s just shy of making this a monstrous category 5. this was the scene just ahead of landfall captured by a storm chaser in pine island, florida. these conditions are expected to worsen in the coming hours, believe it or not. more than 850,000 customers are without power across the state of florida. another major concern today is the storm surge. the storm surge is the abnormal rise of ocean water that s generated by the storm. the lee county sheriff expects that to be, quote, life changing today. that area includes ft. myers and the city of cape coral where the emergency management manager tells cnn, hurricane ian will likely be one of the worst the region has ever seen. we are covering the storm as only cnn can with our team of journalis
florida. the exact point of landfall is still unclear. the storm is growing stronger and also wider. prompting hurricane warnings across the entire state of florida. bill: ian tore through cuba. it knocked out power to the entire country. left 11 million in the dark. look at the satellite images. it set off a series of lightning strikes, the wind speed intensifies. 155 miles per hour clocked right now knocking on the door of category 5. dana: mandatory evacuations are affect being millions of people. everyone else should be ready to leave at a moment s notice. ron desantis underscoring the extreme threat this storm presents. it is knocking on the door of a category 5 storm. a storm of this magnitude will produce catastrophic flooding and life threatening storm surge. time to hunker down and prepare for this storm. it is a powerful storm that should be treated like you would treat if a tornado was approaching your home. dana: fox news and whether have our resources cov