rising causing residents to track towards higher ground. absolutely nuts. brian: more than 70,000 floridians are without power this morning. governor ron desantis urging residents to get out. time to evacuate is come to an end. you need to evacuate now. the governor will give another update in just about 30 minutes. we will bring that to you live. first, we have live fox team coverage janice dean tracking the storm s latest path. fox news weather we start with robert ray in fort myers. robert? good morning. you know, as light is about to come up here and these rain bands and window really intensify, conditions are deteriorating here in fort myers beach. the gulf of mexico, just a football field over there. churning up. i was just over there. when it gets light, we will show you that. you can see right now, these heavy bands as hurricane ian is right out there. the eye center is about 70 miles from where i m standing it s 30 miles wide and the window fell well over 300
the free app now cnn saturday mornings starting cnn good morning. welcome to cnn this morning, it is well and i was able resolve this. and for amara walker, thank you. so much for joining us this morning and victor, good to be here. the hours not so much good to have you back though. it s good. that s the trade-off, right? you got it to be here, know that, but it s good. it s good. all right. so president biden is back on the campaign trail today. he s a new york for several campaign appearances this morning. and he ll make stops in new jersey this afternoon. his team is scrambling to do damage control. of course, after the op-ed from the new york times editorial board, the board joined a chorus of voices calling on the president to step aside after his campaign performance. certainly in cnn s presidential debate in the outbid, the board called the president a quote shadow of a great public servant. and said dropping out would be the greatest public service he could now per
as long as you use them by the end of next september. universal they are working with you, too. they say mickey is not so scary halloween party and disney halloween horror night is closed and the park is closed. brian: we will see where that goes. i also know if you are living paycheck to paycheck the last thing you want to do is go pay for a hotel. got to lee my house, buy gas and go to a hotel. ainsley: some are offering discounts which is nice. brian: senior meteorologist is tracking the path. janice: ainsley talking about the category 5s that have hit the u.s. there have been four. labor day 1935 camille. 1969 andrew. in 1992 and michael in 2018 that hit the panhandle as a category 5. there is a good chance this will be upgraded to a category 5 storm. hurricane hunters found window of 158 miles per hour. you know, 157 is when we start category 5. and there is a good chance of that here we are, 155 just a
tindall s rescue. i saw the devastating effects of that category 5 hurricane. category 5. never heard of a category 5s before. we re rebuilding the whole place. and we re doing a job. reporter: one of the president s top homeland security advisers appears to be taking the blame for the altered map. an official saying that the president s comments were based on a briefing that included the possibility of tropical storm-force winds in southeastern alabama. the statement from the white house does not say who altered the map. jim acosta, cnn, the white house. all right. back to what really matters here, of course, the devastation that so many people are dealing with. if you would like to help the victims of this hurricane, dorian, head over to our special impact your world website. that s where you will find a list of organizations that are helping to reach those who are in need.
category 5. never heard about category 5s before. we re rebuilding the whole place. and we re doing a job. now, we should point out, just in the last several minutes, wolf, a top homeland security adviser to the president has just put out a statement, the white house has just released this statement. it does not say in this statement who drew on the map, but this top homeland security official appears to be taking some responsibility for presenting the president with information that resulted in that erroneous tweet on sunday. but, wolf, the bottom line in the statement coming out of the white house in just the last couple of minutes is that nobody really seems to be taking responsibility for the president putting out a tweet based on old information on sunday. and wolf, we should point out, the fact that the president is admitting a mistake this evening should come as no surprise. that has been a recurring theme throughout the trump presidency. as one trump adviser put it to me earl