cavuto. glad to have you on a busy weekend. let s go first right now to lucas tomlinson traveling with the president in delaware where the president s spending the weekend. what s the latest there? reporter: good morning from a breezy wilmington, delaware, neil. many pundits believe this is not a good week for the biden administration, mainly because of to peck if +announced cuts to oil production which is sending gas prices higher. first, let s look at the job numbers are released yesterday. about 23,000 jobs were added, but while unemployment rate dropped to 3.5%, neil, economists say that s due to a decrease in labor force participation. the news sending markets down, the dow dropping 2.3%, losing 600 points. president biden spoke yesterday in heavierstown, maryland haverstown, maryland. our economy created 263,000 jobs last month. that s 10 million jobs since i ve come into office. that s the fastest job growth at any point of any president in all of american histor
before making landfall somewhere along that western coast of florida by midweek or so. so we ll be talking about this for a couple of days, early part of next week especially. so this starting small, 35 mile per hours, gusts to 45, moving west-northwest at 15. we already have tropical storm watches, hurricane watches in effect. the water is very warm in the caribbean as well as the gulf of mexico, so this is going to provide the storm with a ripe environment to thrive. we are going to see this storm intensify rapidly once it gets into the gulf of mexico, and that s the huge concern. this could be a category one storm as it crosses over cuba and a category 2, possibly three, and maybe even higher as we get closer to florida. but the national hurricane center is forecasting right now with 115 mile per hour winds by wednesday afternoon. and i wouldn t be surprised if those models go even higher. a lot of the forecast models agree on this forecast as well. and hurricane fiona a
out. what will we see when it happens, this is an area heavily populated with trees. we ll see trees pulled down, power lines pulled down as well. national guard troops have been deployed and they re ready to move in when this storm clears and all the power teams stay just outside the strike zone, and they ll have quite a task once this thing clears and gets out of the way. right now everything focused on the coastline and seeing this storm make landfall in the next couple of hours and bringing with it you talked about really an unprecedented storm surge as the forecast holds 12 to 16 feet, water taller than a first story building. that s something catastrophic as the hurricane center says of damage in areas that are hit. right now a bit of a spinning rain. we ve seen it harder at times, but we expect that s going to
we still have about 2-3 more weeks where you can see activity. obviously, the hurricane season goes towards the end of november, but really the meat is still for a couple weeks left. that said, take a look here in the atlantic basin, this is tropical storm julia that s heading to the west moving pretty quickly. and now that it s here across parts of the swerp caribbean, environmental conditions are really set for its to strengthen. this is headed right towards nicaragua, and we do expect to see this strengthen at least into a category one, maybe a category two hurricane before making landfall somewhere here in nicaragua. one of the things we re watching eventually, sometimes you can see a storm make landfall here and eventually commit up in across parts of the gulf of mexico and restrengthening. that could impact the u.s. we don t expect that. storm is staying par enough to the south that it could exit back out here and not have any impacts mt. u.s., which is really good news. that sai
a lot of the forecast models agree on this forecast as well. and hurricane fiona and expected to be the largest storm to hit the nova scotia area in almost 50 years. when is that storm expected? they re already feeling the impacts right now, so by tomorrow morning we ll see this storm make landfall. winds at 110 miles per hour right now with gusts 55. it could go down as one of the strongest storms ever to hit canada. we re already seeing lots of rainfall. we could see up to a foot of rain. we could see up to 8 feet of storm surge and 26 to 40-foot waves. so this storm is really a beast. it s going to slow down significantly and really batter this entire region tonight, tomorrow, and then on into the weekend, anderson. jennifer gray, i appreciate it. now exclusive new cnn reporting on the high stakes legal battle that until today had been unfolding in total secrecy. it s the fight being waged by attorneys by the former president to keep long time close aides from giving testimo