miles an hour. it down trees and power lines, even without power. created storm surge in areas like fort myers and naples, florida. officials are warning residents about potential for flash flooding overnight, some areas inland could see over two feet of rain. let s go now to nbc news meteorologist michelle gross. michelle, you have been following the storm all day. what is the latest? i, there we are looking at really strong storm still. it is moving inland but we are still seeing winds at 90 miles an hour. so it s still moving on to his strength. it was a very storm strong category four storm, almost category five, really wide in distance as well and moving very slow. so, it s three things that kind of came together to make the worst-case scenario. we saw a really strong winds up to 135 mile an hour wind gusts in cape coral. and i was the story with the storm surge. what storm surges is a push of wind. it s a push of water, salt water, onto dry land. so, we saw feet,
torn off buildings. the treacherous situation has led to rescues all across florida. the fire chief of fort myers says his department conducted 200 rescues overnight over the course of just a few hours. this video shows a group of good samaritans who call themselves the call your county cowboys, they pulled a man stranded in his car to safety. in orlando, a reporter who happened to be on the scene rescued a woman trapped in flood waters. the situation has led biden administration to pledge a fulsome response. president biden has officially declared ian to be a major disaster, a move that makes federal funding available immediately to several hard hit counties. president biden warned of tough times ahead for floridians. this could be the deadliest hurricane in florida s history. the numbers are still unclear, but we re hearing early reports of what may be substantial loss of life. we re going to learn a lot more in the coming hours, but we know many families are hurting, man
u.s. economy added some 261,000 jobs in october, the unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 3.7%. that jobs figure lower than the month before, however, still higher than economists had forecast. cnn chief business correspondent christine romans joins us to break down the numbers. you always say wisely the trend is your friend. so what do these latest numbers show us about the trend in the job market and is this what the fed was looking for? so first i would call this resilient but slowing the rate of job growth here. 261,000 net new jobs added, you know, that is a strong showing in any economy, but the trend is important here. we re averaging about 400 and change a month this year and this is the slowest pace of job creation in almost two years. so still strong, still resilient, but starting to slow here. the government noting that that unemployment rate has been stuck in this 3.5 to 3.7% range since march. it s still stuck in that range, even after six months now of the
we have been following the story abouty liza fletcher since friday when this heiress disappeared on her morning jog. she went jogging and her family reported her missing four hours after that. bill: that afternoon investigators got surveillance footage of a man attacking here. they arrested a suspect a day later. dana: his name is cleotha abston and served a 20 year prison sentence for kidnapping and appearing in court in an hour. we are reporting live from memphis. good morning, guys. 38-year-old cleotha abston will face aggravated kidnapping and evidence tampering charges this morning in a memphis courtroom with the abduction of eliza fletcher. this coming hours after memphis police say they found a deceased body in a residential neighborhood in south memphis late monday evening. i want to make it clear memphis police haven t confirmed whether or not the remains belong to fletcher. the scene is attracting a large police presence. dozens of officers assisted in the inv
morning. i heard you talking to one of the people who got off the bus said they were from venezuela they said no, the border is o open. griff: that s right, brian, ainsley, steve. mommy s ago two buses showed up. we confirmed with officials in texas governor abbott s office that there is a total of 101 migrants. there is 53 on one bus. 48 on the other. both buses originating in eagle pass, texas. and we are meeting some of the migrants. what s your name sir? what zero. where are you from. we are from venezuela. griff: venezuela. do you know where you are? yeah. we know where we are. we are in washington, d.c. in front of the white house. griff: this is in front of vice president harris home. okay. thank you. griff: did they tell you that you were going to go to the vice president harris house? yeah. just now. griff: they did just now. who are you here with. my family. griff: this is your family? and what would you like to say? would you like to say