rise. a strategic victory for ukraine and its war with russia. retaking a key city and a territory. this as a putin ally urges him to take more drastic measures in the fight. and portland oregon homeless crisis, no laughing matter. she confronted him about it at a city council meeting. much more on this ahead. we began with fox team coverage. steve harrigan kicks things off for us tonight. steve. we have been going up and down the coast along highway 75 seeing these flooded communities. we are about to see how this dodge ram doesn t this water. this worker checking on some downed lines. before they could turn the power back on here. 700,000 people. they will be back at 95% of the people with power. we have remarkable drone footage as well. it shows the flooding in these neighborhoods. two-3 feet of water around many houses. cut off from the rest of the place. we have seen a lot of rescues yesterday. today we have been seeing more salvage. people going in and trying to get
rise. a strategic victory for ukraine and its war with russia. retaking a key city and a territory. this as a putin ally urges him to take more drastic measures in the fight. and portland oregon homeless crisis, no laughing matter. she confronted him about it at a city council meeting. much more on this ahead. we began with fox team coverage. steve harrigan kicks things off for us tonight. steve. we have been going up and down the coast along highway 75 seeing these flooded communities. we are about to see how this dodge ram doesn t this water. this worker checking on some downed lines. before they could turn the power back on here. 700,000 people.
easier for temperatures to flare especially for people that lost everything. hard to make that work when you don t have power. phil keating, thanks. the white house announcing president biden will head to puerto rico tomorrow for a two were fiona s damage and then head to florida on wednesday to survey the devastation from hurricane en. chad pilgrim live at the white house with the latest on that. good evening. important for presidents to head to disaster zones, but they also do not want to get in the way. with president biden making the trip to florida this week, this is his opportunity to really show that he is putting people above politics. if he comes down here and talks about climate change and covid vaccines, that will grab a lot of people raw, especially because we are currently engaging in active rescue efforts.
people on the ground, ensuring they had the things that they needed to have. if there was anything i could do at the federal level. we hunkered down here. my house we still don t have power. cell service is spotty but it pales in comparison to the rest of my district. they don t have power, cell service very difficult. myself and senator rubio will go out tomorrow to survey some of the damage and help some of the people and ensure that we are getting the resources there. i signed a major disaster declaration letter to the president. he still has not signed that. we are asking the president to do that. we need help. we need that signed so congress can enact and congress needs to act to bring supplemental funding down here to florida. it is my understanding that the president had already declared a disaster area. you are looking for a major? there s a difference. he has to sign the
rescues continued to be made by the task force teams. the first focus was the barrier islands, sanibel, fort myers beach. a lot of those people decided to stay during the storm. as for the fatalities, the medical examiner said it was storm surge and drowning that killed them. a lot of people i spoke with actually stayed here and wrote it out. not sure they should ve done it but they certainly have a newfound respect for the power of a storm surge. getting power to people is obviously a very huge issue. here in lee county, the hurricane, category four en left 95% of households in the black. down to 75% now. progress is being made. thousands, tens of thousands of utility crews from in and out of state that are on the scene in the sunshine state which, in the days after the hurricane, very hot and very sunny making it