florida. the exact point of landfall is still unclear. the storm is growing stronger and also wider. prompting hurricane warnings across the entire state of florida. bill: ian tore through cuba. it knocked out power to the entire country. left 11 million in the dark. look at the satellite images. it set off a series of lightning strikes, the wind speed intensifies. 155 miles per hour clocked right now knocking on the door of category 5. dana: mandatory evacuations are affect being millions of people. everyone else should be ready to leave at a moment s notice. ron desantis underscoring the extreme threat this storm presents. it is knocking on the door of a category 5 storm. a storm of this magnitude will produce catastrophic flooding and life threatening storm surge. time to hunker down and prepare for this storm. it is a powerful storm that should be treated like you would treat if a tornado was approaching your home. dana: fox news and whether have our resources cov
swift boats, all ready to move in and begin to go door-to-door when it is clear enough to be able to do so. power outages have slammed half a million. that is the latest number that we have over the course of this hour that we re now in. floridians on the ground as ian barrels towards their homes, their businesses. we have people all across the state with updates about different sections of the state, what it feels like, what s going on there. fox team coverage with all of our great weather team out there spread across the state as well. we begin with katie burn who is in orlando. katie, what can you tell us from where you are? all right. let s go to max gordon first. max is in tampa bay. max, tell us what you re seeing where you are. hi, martha. so we ve been hearing a lot about the storm surge concerns in the fort myers area. but up here where we are on the north end of the storm, we ve seen an erie sight along old tampa bay. we ve seen what is known as reverse storm surg
our job is not to coronate the biggest fund raiser or rubber stamp the status quo or keep on going along to get along. it s to use our votes. to elect a speaker who will enable us to get our country back on track. neil: when we eventually decide on that person. i m neil cavuto. this is your world. the showdown to decide who will become the need leader goes into a sixth vote that for the republican leader right now, kevin mccarthy, it s the same old story. a political grounds hog day that yields the same results with every vote. etch though we don t have the sixth round of voting done, we can already know by seeing those under the others category that kevin mccarthy has failed yet again to get the votes he needed. you can t afford to lose more than 4. with each and every voted, he s lost that many and more. it could be as low as 19 and as high as 20. no matter how you slice it, he s coming up zero. chad pergram on capitol hill with more on this and where this goes now. c
to get the job done? now, if the answer to those questions is no and i imagine it is for most of use, neither man is really capable of serving as a u.s. senator or the u.s. president. at least not without a lot of people making decisions for him, protecting him from scrutiny and hiding the truth from the voters. of course, this is what is happening in both cases. now, nbc news reporter dasha burns dared to provide facts that helped pennsylvania voters answer the question on their mind. namely is fetterman really well enough to take on the demands of the job of u.s. senator. because of his stroke, he required closed captioning to read our questions as we asked them. laster, in small talk before the interview without captioning, it wasn t clear he was understanding our conversation. mind you, this was the first sit-down interview that fetterman had agreed to since his stroke. so pretty important, don t you think, to be transparent with the voters, correct? and the immediate
hillary clinton, even donald trump. five days out from election day and the political heavy hitters are out in force. the major issues they say you should keep in mind, as more americans head to the polls. plus, setting expectations as the votes come in. why we may not know results on election night. and a biden we don t often hear from, dishing on her anger? hunter biden s struggle with substance abuse and donald trump. welcome to the lead. it is the final countdown. the midterm elections now just five days away. more than 30 million voters have already cast their ballots. today s campaign trail features a splashy lineup of political heavy hitters. president biden stumping in new mexico and california. former president trump on the trail in iowa. and vice president kamala harris with former secretary of state and presidential candidate hillary clinton, trying to boost democrats in new york. clinton slammed republicans on cnn this morning, saying it s, quote, frankly di