And unsurvivable about Helene Making Landfall Last Night in florida. Cat 4 hurricane. Big storm and really moving like a clipper, too. Im bill hemmer, welcome to our program. Dana im dana perino. This is americas newsroom. Another fast week. It was good that it moved fast but still means there is a lot of damage. Ron desantis was right on time yesterday and we expect to see him any moment. Lets get to Steve Harrigan outside of tampa. This is the scene a lot of people in florida and even georgia are waking up to today. Two feet of water on the ground. Gets deeper the closer you get to the water. Many houses under water. The challenge now for people is getting out of their homes. Getting to their cars trying to make sure theyre safe. Weve seen a number of Air Boats and water rescues, 80 in this county just overnight. We see people really just stumbling around. More than A Million people in florida without Electric Power right now. More than 800,000 in georgia. So it will be a tough day a
administration and attempt to gather information on private citizens. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom. i m dana perino. bill: i m bill hemmer. emails sent by the white house reveal intense pressure on amazon to censor and suppress books that raise questions about covid-19 and the vaccine. happening now as biden s treasury department unable to refute accusations it put a target on the backs of maga republicans and tracked sensitive personal banking information as part of its investigation into january 6th. they searched for terms like maga, trump, cabella s. hillary vaughn from the hill. treasury secretary janet yell en did not deny the surveillance scheme to have banks snoop on their customers transactions as part of the investigation into january 6th. remember, fox news digital exclusively reported the federal government basically profiled who they thought would be a person of interest. it came down to people who love to shop at dick s sporting goods or ba
house to the standoff underway right now at our southern border. today is the deadline for texas governor greg abbott to allow federal agents access to shelby park in eagle pass. a hub for illegal border crossings. the biden administration wants the razor wire fencing there gone. but defiant texas officials now declaring that they will not comply. in fact, the national guard there is putting up more razor wire. matt finn is live on the ground with more. our panel is standing by. matt whitaker, tom homan and tomi lahren. first to peter doocy that was directly out of the white house briefing. peter, good afternoon. good afternoon, trace. we know half of this country s governors, 25 of them, all republicans, sent a letter to this president saying that they stand with governor abbott in this effort to secure the border on his own. it doesn t sound like this white house is putting any stock at all in that letter. instead, they keep directing people s attentions to the senate neg
damage to the south carolina coast where it struck today as a category 1 hurricane. this is the cherry grove pier in north myrtle beach, one of two that partially collapsed today. and just as on the florida gulf coast and later in orlando ian caused significant flooding in the charleston and myrtle beach areas and knocked out power to about a third of a million customers in south and north carolina. so we ve also just received some new video in of a high wave sweeping several people off a pier in miami. we have a big wave and about five people so that s in miami still from the high tide and the waves being kicked up by ian. six people were hurt in that. no one, thank goodness, was killed. state-wide, the death toll is now at least 42, and that is expected to rise. and the damage especially in places like fort meyers beach became even more apparent today. it is so severe that a coast guard commander told our wolf blitzer his chopper crews simply do not have monday landma
southwest florida as a category 4 hurricane, making it the most powerful storm to ever hit that area of the state. the death toll now standing at 45, but that number could rise as crews reach areas cut off by flooding. people who chose to ride out the storm describe their harrowing experiences. the water was up to my balcony here. it was just you could dive off the balcony. just water everywhere, stuff floating on it. i never stay again. they say evacuate, go. right now the remnants of ian are moving along the country s northeast after the storm hit georgetown county, south carolina, as a category 1 hurricane. let s send it down to boris sanchez anchoring our coverage from fort myers, florida. boris. fred, as the sun rises on another day here in fort myers and southwest florida, the scope of the damage from hurricane ian is becoming more clear. communities are reeling as many folks are getting back to their properties and seeing what was left behind by this near categor