ian will go down as one of the most powerful hurricanes to ever hit the u.s. the storm turning coastal communities into open ocean winds as high as 150 miles per hour shredding everything in their path. fema says 1500 people have been rescued since ian came to shore, the worst natural disaster in state history. fox team coverage start right now. steve harrigan is near sarasota county, chad pergram at the white house on federal response but first to alexandria hoff to pine island, florida. alexandria. reporter: arthel, we are in an area that s called mat lachet, it s complicated what s happening behind me. rescue effort being led by the u.s. coast guard to rescue people who will be stranded on pine island ever since this storm hit and this has been a large-scale operation. what ends up happening here those stranded on pine island have to get on boat to mount lachet and plenty of people have been rescued by helicopter as well. a couple of minutes we know that ems personnel was
i don t think they would be so eager to die house of the dragon, streaming exclusively on macs hello everyone. you re on cnn newsroom. i m alice and camerota in new york and we do begin with breaking news president biden is back at camp david tonight he survived founded were told by his family this meeting had been planned for months, but it is fair to say that there are serious conversations we can imagine happening there tonight we do have new reporting this hour at what is taking place at camp david and what the president is being urged to do. cnn s priscilla alvarez and isaac we re are here with us. priscilla, let me start with you. what have you learned while the president has been huddling with his family? i can t david for this previously scheduled visit, but of course it came at a critical juncture and senior biden advisers are telling cnn that he has been encouraged by his family to stay in the race and that they are often bring their support. now we know the presi
You know, we are focused now like i said on the evacuation of people who got left behind who didn t want to evacuate, there s active search and rescue going on and listen, there s absolutely an element of criticism that goes both ways but i believe because i know him governor desantis, he is putting our floridans first. he s doing what he needs to make sure that they are taken care of and it shouldn t be about politics in this situation it should be like i said about the people and i do think that they will be able to come together and be professionals in this and really focus on what needs to get done. arthel: i agree. as governor desantis has shown great leadership there and as the president, president biden has shown great leadership. we are all good with that. let s talk about the folks in florida need, is that help on the way and will the aid continue to flow? you know, i can t tell you how heartwarming it has been down the highway, down i75 just