parts of the state getting hit with wind gusts up to 126 miles per hour. this report coming out of redfish pass, a sform surge up to 18 feet is threatening important charlotte and the fort myers area. we have fox team coverage with steve harrigan where ian is making the direct hit. robert ray is in fort myers on how folks are dealing with this and rick reichmuth is in the fox weather center on how long the heat could last. given the slow movement, quit awhile. welcome. i m neil cavuto. a busy day right now and a monster of a hurricane that is big and also slow. that is the problem. it hangs around awhile. steve harrigan with more. steve? neil, we had the illusion for the last 15 or 20 minutes that things might be dying down. that was the eye of the storm. part of that eye passed over us. the skies got lighter, the heavy rain which has lashed for hours stopped completely. the winds died down. now the tail end of that storm is beginning to hit us, the back side of it. we ll s
next. here she is. sandra: thank you, dana and bill. fox news alert here as we begin a new hour, pressure is mounting for the presidents at harvard and m.i.t. to resign after the university of pennsylvania s president stepped down. all three failing to outright condemn the anti-semitism raging on their elite campuses. welcome and this is the faulkner focus. i m sandra smith in for harris today. the congressional testimony last tuesday sparked massive and ongoing backlash. they said they would need context to tell if a call for genocide violates their school s codes of conduct. then on saturday u penn announced president liz mcgill s resignation. one editorial board says quote, one awful university precedent down. most of u.s. academia to go. another the ivy league mask falls. it argues this, the furor over anti-semitism on campus is a rare and welcome example of accountability at american universities. but it will not amount to much if the only result is the resignation o
second. show you the trees being blown over throughout the parking lot. we have telephone poles down in the distance. there s terra-cotta roofing that is flying around. we ll look out front here. what is normally a major roadway. i mentioned this early on a. we were going to see how the street lights held up. we re not holding on. we ve had several crash down, a few remain. they have come very close to a car that was trying to pass through. neil, i ll tell you how powerful this wind is. these street lights are heavy. when they fall down, the wind moves them out of the roadway and pushes them down the streets like toys. we ve heard the transformers exploding. shingles coming off of roofs. glass breaking near the building
parts of streetlights in the middle-of-the-road here being tossed around like they re toys, like they re weightlessless, and these are big pieces difficult to move around. we can hear the transformers exploding in the distance around us. that s gone down a little bit over the past hour, because so much of the infrastructure has been badly damaged, so much power lost. emergency alerts constantly on our phones, saying we re not able to do rescues at this point. it s going to be a while. we don t know when we ll get out to start doing rescues. that s terrifying news for people that stayed behind in these situations that maybe did not heed the evacuation orders, and find themselves in potentially life-threatening situations. we have a lot unfolding around us, neil, as this wind is shifting directions. every time it moves directions,
next and stay with us for abc 7 news at 4:00. we will see then. tonight, breaking news as we come on the air. life-threatening wildfires sweeping through parts of colorado. late today, the governor declaring a state of emergency. reports of multiple injuries, burn victims rushed to the hospitals. high winds fueling the flames. tens of thousands of people in the denver suburbs told to get out right now. evacuations under way throughout boulder county. powerful gusts downing power lines. transformers exploding. store customers rushing for the exits. the area expecting snow tomorrow, but it may not come soon enough. rob marciano standing by with the fire conditions and severe weather threats ahead of the new year. also tonight, the highly contagious omicron variant surging across america. the national case average climbing to an all-time high. 316,000 cases per day.