be there. that s my commitment to. neil: here s the thing. ian is not leaving. it s down but not out. ian now a tropical storm is expected to make its way back to a category one hurricane after devastating the sunshine state. south carolina s governor will hold a news conference shortly. here s what we know right now. a storm surge up to seven feet predicted for charleston, south carolina as of tomorrow. in florida today, more than 2.6 million people are still without power across the state. no indications when they will get that back. search and rescue operations underway in florida s barrier islands and other hard-hit areas. governor desantis calling it a 24/7 operation. moments from now, we ll talk to the mayor of fort myers florida particularly hard hit by the storm. first, fox team coverage with robert ray in fort myers and steve harrigan in charlotte county where they re trying to dig out. welcome. i m neil cavuto. let s go to robert ray in f fort myers that got reall
unfold and come to fruition throughout the night or overnight. we have crews going to the scene. adam housley will be there soon to give us an update. hundreds of cars have been spotted in wall-to-wall traffic as they were seen leaving the area on highway 99 as people streamed out of oroville away from the dam. ed the california department of water resources says it s releasing 130,000 feet per second from the heavily damaged spillway to drain the lake. it s going into the emergency spillway. and they were able to spot the hole and acted quickly in every degree of caution to make sure that 130,000 people could be evacuated. you can see that a lot of work has to be done to possibly plug that hole in. it s nightfall out there now, and obviously at 9:00 p.m. in