i told each one of them, my conversation separately, whatever they need. sincerely, whatever they need, contact me directly. joining me now jamie rome, acting director of the national hurricane center. good to have you with us this hour. we saw in the most recent update, the 2:00 p.m. update that the storm was rapidly intensifying. the major concern at this hour seems to be the storm surge and also just how long this storm could sit. what are the areas that you re most focused on at this hour? i think water is going to be the big issue with this storm, both the incredibly heavy rainfall. you can see it starting to sweep over the southern portions of the florida peninsula. and the storm surge near to the east of where the center makes landfall, and those two when they combine together, it creates a lot of flooding issues. speaking the the mayor of tampa in the last hour, she was pointing to the separate saturation that they re already seeing on the ground there that they
hit the worst of ian. will tampa could be ground zero but we begin with chief meteorologist adam klotz weather center in new york with the latest track. good evening, adam. storm continuing to update in the models maybe moving just a little bit. a powerful storm currently a category 3 lifting up into the gulf of mexico, approaching florida and actually some of those outer bands as you said now stretching across all of the florida keys getting up into the sunshine state. that red polygon that is a toned warned storm typically see on the east side of the storm. tornado watch linger and lift its way up to the north see some of these more isolated tornadoes pop up. we have got plenty of advisories now stretching across the entire state and just in the last hour, the hurricane warnings have been updated now stretching all the way up into orlando as this track has slightly shifted maybe just a little bit to the south and little bit to the east. i will show you that here and we ar
carley: top democrat caught sharing concerns for midterm including big warning for house speaker nancy pelosi as the click ticks closer to november. you re watching fox and friends first on this busy friday morning, i m carley shimkus. todd: i m todd piro. those stories in just a moment. we start with ashley strohmier for more on the democrat warning. ashley: despite nancy pelosi s optimism about keeping the majority, chuck schumer is singing different song. chuck schumered there is 60% chance they would hold the senate and 40% chance they would hold the house, adding nancy pelosi could be in trouble. he believes trump will run in 2024. people say president biden struggled to unite the nation. he s more of a puppet than a leader. i think he s trying to be a unifier, it is really rough right now. everything he s doing is totally the wrong thing. ashley: the gop is seeing increase in voters. there is a disconnect that latino voters feel with modern democratic pa
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The government. But he says he has a job to do. 18 hours from now, autoworkers in detroit could strike against the big three. The Union President says were likely going to have to take action. He is talking about a targeted strike. And new details on the capture of the escaped killer in pennsylvania, he survived for days on watermelon and stream water and he was planning to escape to canada. And new watches are issued for coastal new england from Hurricane Lee. Cnn this morning starts right now. I know youre counting how many days away are we from potential shutdown . Youre putting me on the spot. 17, 16 . 16. Shutdown, Impeachment Inquiry, mitt romney, we have a lot to talk about as it relates to the former president ial candidate and current republican senator. And were glad that you are with us. A Government Shutdown looming as republicans instead of focusing on their Impeachment Inquiry of President Biden just a couple hours from now, House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy is set to meet wit