hearing as residents return home in florida. they re still looking at more than 100,000 without power as we speak. president biden says he will visit the sunshine state saturday morning. all of this as the costs pile up. early estimates put the price at the damage in florida alone at more than $9 billion. some estimates more than twice that. remember, that does not include south carolina and georgia. we ll get into that. we also have the guy that shot this video yesterday as he rode out the storm in cedar key, florida. it s not far from where hurricane idalia first made landfall. first, fox team coverage in steinhatchee, florida and then to grady trimble on the insurance bills. people that are not covered and still not ready. i m neil cavuto. let s go to max gordon in steinhatchee. how are things there? hi, neil. the wind and the rain lashed cedar key as hurricane idalia came to show. the big story here in cedar key was the storm surge. about seven feet of water rushed in w
russia and north korea now talking about a weapons deal? welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m omar jimenez. idalia is still causing havoc. now a tropical storm, idalia is bringing widespread life threatening flash flooding to southeastern north carolina as it slowly heads offshore. allison chinchar is live in the cnn weather center. what is the latest from the national hurricane center at this 5:00 a.m. forecast? obviously this hurricane now trap tropical storm has changed a lot over the last 24 hours. indeed it has. yes, the latest update still has the winds at 60 miles per hour, but they are gusting up around 70 miles per hour. the forward movement still pretty quick at about 21 miles per hour. we still have quite a significant amount of people without power right now. overall the bulk of them are across georgia and florida, but even through the carolinas, if you add all of it together, you are looking at roughly 300,000 people. they
explain what might be going on with mitch mcconnell, who appeared to free freeze in the middle of a q&a with reporters in kentucky today, just like he did at the capitol last month. senator you are up for reelection in 3 shorts short ears. what are your thoughts on it? that s okay. what are your thoughts on what are my thoughts about what? running for reelection in 2026. did you hear the question, senator? running for reelection in 2026? all right, i m sorry, y all, we are going to need a minute. so, what exactly is happening? and what does it say about the fitness of the 81-year-old senator to lead the republican caucus? and tonight, on the docket, a federal judge has determined that rudy giuliani has lost the defamation lawsuit from the georgia election workers ruby freeman and shaye moss. that s after he failed to provide information that was sought in he upended their lives when he singled them out, falsely accusing them of ballot tampering. i
florida. this is the location and a part of the state that took enormous damage from hurricane idalia, now tropical storm idalia, which still does pose a serious threat elsewhere. you can see the damage it did here at this truck stop. the storm passed directly overhead here, and it took that awning behind me and simply just tipped it over. and there was brick and metal that was holding it in place that s now just shredded. this exploded brick and twisted metal, with the awning leaning completely on its side. you can take a look. this is actually what it looked like right where i m standing earlier today, as the worst of the wind hit. you can see the awning. there it is. and that s it tipping over. here in perry, it was a wind and a rainstorm. along the gulf coast, though, it was all about the storm surge, a surge not seen in a lifetime. this is alexis and yes, where she was in the hometown she had recently returned to, swimming down the street was how she ended up getting a
take a look. this is actually what it looked like right where i m standing earlier today, as the worst of the wind hit. you can see the awning, there it is. and that is it tipping over. here in perry, it was a wind and a rain storm. along the gulf coast, though, it was all about the storm surge. a surge not seen in a lifetime. this is alexis de leone and, yes, where she was in the hometown, she had recently returned to, swimming down the street was how she ended up getting around. alexis will join us shortly. we are also going to speak to a resident of another hurricane hit area, the barrier island of cedar key. a man who told us last night, he was saying in part to help any neighbors who were hunkering down. and in a moment, the latest on where idalia is right now, where it s going, and who is at risk. first, though, the scope of it all so far from our randi kaye. keaton beach, florida, in the bull s-eye of idalia. just look at what is left of this home in keaton beach.