grossman has been following ida s path and sam brock is in louisiana preparing for the storm surge. how are things looking where you are and how are people preparing? lindsey good morning, joe good morning. it s calm, there s a slight breeze. we re expecting rain to fall here early this afternoon and the winds to pick up as well. lindsey, to your point about rapid intensification, that means 35 miles per hour or more increase in wind speeds over the course of 24 hours. 80 miles per hour to 145 miles per hour now is a 65 mile per hour increase over the time span which is roughly double the threshold for rapid intensification. the question right now, is ida going to run out of real estate before it actually reaches landfall or will we see another increase in wind speeds because at the moment 150 miles per hour is the record for the state of louisiana with hurricane laura, and as you mentioned back in the mid 1880s that is the historical precedent we re up against right now. t
going on here, but we ll see. right now we re seeing millions of holiday travelers desperate to get out this weekend no matter the price. wallets are taking a big hit as americans hit the road, the skies and stores. welcome, everybody. glad to have you, happy weekend. i m neil cavuto. obviously, we re all over the fallout of this presidential visit to florida, the ramifications of that storm. we ve got fox team coverage with lucas tomlinson following developments at the white house where the president will soon be departing, max gorden in cedar key, florida, where emergency workers are still digging out. let s start with lucas. reporter: hey, neil. what s going on here is hurricane and disaster politics, as you mentioned. president biden and the first lady expected to leave the white house in the next hour to go to live oak, florida, located halfway between tallahassee and jacksonville. and as you mentioned, he will not be meeting governor desantis. here s a statement the f
eventually north-northeast is expected to happen in the next couple of hours. ian: if you to want welcome folks, what we continue to track what is now major hurricane idalia. if you re watching us here on fox weather, if you re watching us during the overnight hours on fox news and on a number of fox affiliates across the country, we re here because we re tracking a very dangerous scenario, a major hurricane in a portion of the florida coastline that almost never seas storms like this sees storms like this, especially when in the summertime proper still this is an overnight scenario would that make a lot more sense if it was october. jane: and this storm nvery vulnerable spots along the florida coastline. you hit the big bend here and you have the storm surge potential that s so incredible, up to 16 feet in the worst case scenario and as we continue in time with the slower movement, the strengthening of the storm could that look more and more possible as the morni
we ve also got more on the three victims including the mother who was killed, quote, for nothing, and the 19-year-old whose father said he hadn t even lived his life yet. a storm taking aim at millions of americans along the atlantic and the gulf coast. tropical storm idalia is expected to swell to a category 3 hurricane before it slams into florida roughly 36 hours from now. we have the very latest coming up. we start with the big breaking news out of washington, d.c. the judge in donald trump s election conspiracy case scheduling the start of his trial for march 4th of next year. that s the day before super tuesday, a move that appears to put this trial at the front of the pack, meaning it theoretically could be divided before republican voters settle on their nominee. the government previously estimated the whole trial would take 4-6 weeks, meaning on the outside it would be done by mid april. for perspective, trump didn t clinch the republican nomination in 2016 until
tornado on the ground! norah: tonight come across country whether threats. tens of millions in the path of a dangerous storm, from the midwest of the south, with so-called guerrilla hail and tornadoes. plus, heavy snow in colorado leaves people stranded. i was crying all day yesterday because i wanted to be home. and i can t. norah: the cbs evening news starts now. good evening. i m norah o donnell, and thank you for being with us. we begin tonight with more than 40 million americans under threat from two major storm system spirit heavy snow is falling across the rockies with 3 feet already on the ground and parts of colorado, causing travel night nightmares in the e roads. hundreds of flight to denver international airport canceled today and more severe and dangerous weather is sweeping across the middle of the country today, with several tornadoes touching down in kentucky and indiana. this funnel cloud was spotted over a small town in kentucky. communitie