police cars. a giant mob forced a cruiser backward down the freeway. lauren has more from washington. good morning, these videos are just as wild as dangerous and dumb. this was a busy intersection saturday night. take a look. oh. [bleep] [engines revving] ashley: at police cars, a crowd swarming and forcing a police car back. one officer was injured, several police cars were damaged. the police department is understaffed from officers on the street and 911 operators. just 60% of calls is answered within seconds. they had to lower minimum job requirements to fill openings. in 2020 the austin city council defunded the police by $150 million. the austin police association tweeted austin policymakers are responsible for the overall safety of citizens and visitors, looked like the wrong decision and they continue to demoralize public safety. austin was one of the safest cities, not anymore. the police budget was reinstated, but not until after officers left. they are strugg
and trajectory. it s expected to bring a catastrophic storm surge with winds over 150 miles per hour. the wind speed right now at 155 miles per hour. just shy of a category five storm. the eye of the storm is expected to churn somewhere between 40 meyers and venice, just south of where i am right now. hurricane ian has spawned multiple tornados in southern florida. a wide swath of florida is on alert through 5:00 p.m. today. already, alread more than 100,000 people are without power. more than 2 million people are under evacuation orders. hurricane ian is roiling seas. a big clue for what hurricane ian is capable of, cuban authorities has said the entire island has lost power. urgency and anticipation of the storm has mounted as we expect a very busy hour ahead. we ll hear from tampa s mayor in 30 minutes. we ll be speaking with sarasota officials on their own storm preparations and fema s assistant administrator. 30 minutes ago we heard from president biden. this storm is
this. all the things go out the window. grab whatever can you get. humvees, mirnltd vehicles. obviously, too. you don t want to put the presidential seal on the presidential limo on cars. i don t know what they have. i am seeing the breaking news as you are. i m literally sitting here couple hours from going to the hospital. i have to call in and talk to the guys. grab whatever can you get. we typically only use our counters assault team in conjunction for tackle assets. this local swat teams on the ground. but, when you are i mean an active live war zone like you have in ukraine, ariel come barredment. drone picture you can t predict. you grab whatever tactical assets you can get. u.n. getting out is the issue. getting in by surprise, griff,
when it hit 39 miles per hour, the police and fire stopped responding to 911 calls. but we talk about the storm surge and, you know, it can be incredible powerful, incredibly strong. the force of mother nature with that water coming ashore, i was at a location where we had some storm surge once and i was right on it, and there were tree trunks moving there like twigs. i mean, that is the incredible power of water moving with winds from mother nature. and we re talking about winds of 140-plus miles per hour. let s take a look as we re standing here. and the reason we re taking a look at the drone picture of this area is because in a couple areas, it will not look like this. if that storm surge exceeds 7, 10, or predicted in some places to be as high as 18 feet, much