i m john berman in ft. myers, florida, and the storm has intensified again. 85-mile-per-hour winds, heading towards the carolinas. this after tearing the destructive path across florida. it is expected to make landfall in south carolina around midday, somewhere between charleston and myrtle beach. it could produce life-threatening floods there in the carolinas. this is already liskely the largest natural disaster in florida s history. i m standing in the middle of some of the damage, in a marina where the boats have been washed up on to the shore here. parts of florida have been seriously damaged. as of this morning, 19 storm-related deaths. that number will almost certainly rise. in ft. myers beach, some of the destruction is breathtaking. i had a chance to have an aerial view of it, take a helicopter ride over, and there were sections that were just washed away. the pier, the large pier there, you can see it almost better from air. that s just been completely washed away. a
with governor ron desantis as the white house pledges more support. today hundreds of thousands of floridians are still without power, shelters filling up as homeless numbers grow. and emotions are especially high on sanibel island. today for the first time, residents are returning by boat to see what s left. entire homes lifted by the storm surge and moved. we have crews covering it all. let s go to kaitlan collins traveling with the president. kaitlan, he just arrived. the president will soon take this aerial tour. then what? reporter: yeah. he s getting an aerial tour. that s the way he s going to be able to see how much damage there is. drooirching down the roading you see a lot of it. there s no power at any of the stoplights as you make your way over to where we re standing right now. you make your way seeing what you see behind me. boats toppled in areas where boats should not be, businesses completely destroyed, wiped off their foundations, boats in yards of homes
a confusing world. welcome to your world. i m neil cavuto. happy to have you with us. let s go to jacqui heinrich on what we re likely to hear from the president. hi, neil. we re getting a closer picture of the strategy here at the white house. we ve heard from the president before and seeing more of now telling voters that things will get worse with the economy if republicans take back control of congress. we got an unusual e-mail in the white house press core from andrew bates telling us to watch an interview that house minority leader kevin mccarthy is going to be doing with punch bowl next week. bates writes to us in an e-mail, kevin mccarthy continues to show cause how eager maga republicans are to make inflation worse if it minds a wind fall for rich special interests at the expense of the middle class families. nobody gives more compelling proof for the fact that republicans in congress would exacerbate inflation and sell hard working families out to special intere
Note with his Phone Passcode and financial information. Welcome to fox news live. Jackie the latest updates from main in a moment but israel is expanding Ground Operation into gaza and reporting they killed several hamas operatives. We are awaiting a Press Conference from Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister galland, we will bring that live when it happens but we have fox team covered with mike emanuel, Trey Yingst In Southern Israel and greg palkot. What is the latest . Reporter good afternoon. On the israel gaza border, watching as the Israeli Air Force targets the northern part of the gaza strip. According to the Israeli Military there are still soldiers inside gaza after yesterday, and expanded raid was announced to target Islamic Jihad and hamas sells across the area. This video released by the military, tanks and a pcs, jurors operating in gaza, the first expanded raid since the conflict began 22 days ago. Despite the strikes and artillery on the border, factions in gaza maint
Night. Israels Ground Operations have now expanded. We have large explosions, arti artillery, tank fire, and possible Bunker Buster Bombs heard and seen all night long as the idf has now confirmed the expansion of operations, in other words, the Ground Incursion into gaza has now officially begun. Heres a description of how things went on earlier tonight, just how this all got started from trey yingst. Clearly something is happening. We cite the israeli military, they say theyre having ground raids into gaza. Dont want to speculate or call it what it could be, we need to wait and be patient. This is unlike any other night we covered. We have been here the past 20 days as it unfolds. This is a significant development. Also to give you a sense of the phases here, this is indicative of what we expected to come next. Israel told us they would be ramping up strikes against gaza before entering on the ground, this is the next phase of the war. At this moment, i cannot confirm the Ground Oper