Hotel. they are a space, small space for you, a cot so that you can be sheltered from wind and water and rain for whatever that duration is. bill: a storm this size moving pretty quickly 12 miles per hour. janice dean said it could slow down over the gulf of mexico. that s what you don t want, rob. gather more steam and energy. yeah. and that s the fear. we ve seen that happen with other hurricanes. i think i recall one that hit houston a few years ago just camped out. so the real fear is that storm surge that comes from the storm itself and if it sits it is projected to camp out for up to 12 hours in the tampa bay area. it will dump rain during that part. i know your folks before me said a foot to two feet of rain. just that is a flooding event
Encourage the women of her country to have more babies. but that s what she is trying for in italy. byron, thank you so much. interesting to watch her political career. we ll see the reaction from that. nice to see you, byron. thank you. dana: ian has its eyes on florida. the tampa bay area, the latest on the storm s track. california lawmakers approving a first of its kind bill, doctors punished for misinformation. who decides what is misinformation?
Considers that extremely monstrously cowardly if we were to do that. thank you for being being here. we ll get the word out about the bill sitting on governor newsom s desk right now. hurricane alert. hurricane ian is intensifying moving toward florida. residents are preparing for the storm of the century. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: good morning and welcome back. i like the sunshine yellow, he said. yellow he said. bill: i m bill hemmer, good morning. you ll be on the story for days now. ian made landfall. category 3 storm slamming the island with heavy wind, rain and high storm surge. it could arrive in florida as early as tomorrow. dana: tampa is bracing for its first direct hit from a hurricane in 100 years. here is governor desantis last
keep an eye on the storm. ron desantis will hold a press conference in a few minutes live on america s newsroom. enter we ll carry it live to give you all the information you need to know. bill: 9:00 in new york. 9:00 in florida. fox weather tracking hurricane ion. cat three storm on a collision course with florida. governor desantis will give us an update. i m bill hemmer live in new york city. dana: i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. enter it s great to be back. yesterday i was in west virginia with senator march capito and we went some 4th and 5th grade students and journalism students. a good day.
Vulnerable region. dana: thank you so much for that. bill: want to bring the rob herrin from the hillsborough fire rescue. at the moment where do you think your situation is? well, hillsborough county fire rescue and our county is ready and prepared for the storm. we want to urge as has been said this morning, those residents in evacuation zones to please heed that warning. as mentioned, floridians can become comfortable and complacent. we need to take the storm seriously. it is the storm surge and those rainwaters and flooding that will follow that is the true danger here. dana: how many people have gone ahead and evacuated? it s been a slow trickle into our shelters. we have 43 shelters available and open throughout different parts of hillsborough county. we have started to see a little