State with their needs. what we have done prior to landfall, as we did stage a lot of search and rescue resources to support the great efforts happening here in the state of florida. we have those resources available as the state needs it. we ve also begun to move in food and water into those points of distribution to support what you just heard from director guthrie and the governor. what i want to say is we re here to support. fema is here to support these ongoing efforts right now to continue the life-saving missions that are still ongoing. but also to begin to support the recovery mission. as you heard the governor say, the president did declare a major disaster declaration for individual assistance as well as public assistance. public assistance will allow us to reimburse a lot of costs for the first responders doing an amazing job. allow us to reimburse overtime costs for all the work they re doing to establish illize this incident and on the individual assistance side there are
Administration. governor, thank you very much for your leadership, director guthrie, you as well. good afternoon. as the eye of hurricane ian makes landfall, all healthcare facilities have made the necessary preparations and stand ready for ian s impact. since the beginning of the emergency our agency has been focused on the safety and well-being of residents and patients and hospitals and long-term care facilities. we have activated the health facility reporting system and we have requested and still do request that all healthcare facilities continue to report their census, their availability beds, their evacuation status, and their generator status information. and that includes even facilities that might be outside of the impacted areas. because we need to be sure that we can provide the necessary resources to assist everyone
0 from the shoreline to the back bays and also to rivers inland. so, know your high tides. we are looking at the images, increasingly dire. stay inside as the storm approaches and wreaks havoc, pray for the charlotte county community and the rest of florida as we toss it over to america reports. john: any moment now we are expecting an update from florida governor ron desantis as the eyewall of hurricane ian begins to move on shore bringing with it the potential for catastrophic damage. hello, john roberts in washington. sandra, welcome back. sandra: good to be with you, sandra smith in new york. america reports, a quickly developing situation, ian expected to make landfall between 2 and 4:00 p.m. right now packing top winds of 155 miles an hour. that is just a couple miles shy of a category 5 hurricane. john: when you get that high it does not make much of a difference. forecasters warning of the storm surge could be as high as 18 feet as the eyewall comes on shore. sand