Power now. The winds are extremely high. And water is rising. Just clinging to i dont know what that is. Theyre flying around the streets. A cinder block wall that was the entire width of this area came down. Theyre coming through. We had some of the strongest winds here so far. Good to be with you this morning. Im francis rivera. And im philip mena. It is 4 30 in the east. Thank you for joining us for this Special Edition of early today. The strong winds of ian already impacting Daytona Beach along the western coast as it slowly moves towards orlando. The storm has been downgraded to a category one. It is still packing a powerful punch. There are nearly 2 1 2 million power outage as cross the state. Ian made land fall in Southwest Florida in the ft. Myers area where the storm surge submerged buildings. It could take days or weeks to know the full impact. The County Manager tells nbc news overnight they are getting a sense that the community has been decimated. And in port charlotte, n
power now. the winds are extremely high. and water is rising. just clinging to i don t know what that is. they re flying around the streets. a cinder block wall that was the entire width of this area came down. they re coming through. we had some of the strongest winds here so far. good to be with you this morning. i m francis rivera. and i m philip mena. it is 4:30 in the east. thank you for joining us for this special edition of early today. the strong winds of ian already impacting daytona beach along the western coast as it slowly moves towards orlando. the storm has been downgraded to a category one. it is still packing a powerful punch. there are nearly 2 1/2 million power outage as cross the state. ian made land fall in southwest florida in the ft. myers area where the storm surge submerged buildings. it could take days or weeks to know the full impact. the county manager tells nbc news overnight they are getting a sense that the community has been decima
the weather outside is still frightful and in places still potentially deadly. pamela brown here in for anderson. it s hard to imagine that some parts of western new york could see another foot or more of snow on top of the nearly four feet you see in these pictures on your screen. winter storm warnings there and elsewhere still in effect. buffalo s airport still closed. the entire eastern part of the country still in a deep freeze. almost 4,000 flights canceled today and nearly 2600 tomorrow. nationwide, at least 49 people have lost their lives in this massive storm. 27 and the buffalo area alone. we have wide reporting tonight from buffalo and denver international airport. let s start tonight with paula who has been right there in the works of it from day one. what is the latest on the ground? today those rescues also continue. in fact, new york governor saying that state police officers carried out some 550 rescues at least over the weekend. but we also learned about wha
power from our national grid provider. we re working on. that there is substantial doamae to a number of the substations. wires down. it s across our entour area. all parts of the city were affected with that storm. and the power outages are scattered throughout the city. so what is your message in closing to people in it buffalo about what they should and should not be doing right now? well, i mean, for from our standpoint weeshgs focused on getting each and everybody that has a need. so the emergency personnel, search and rescue teams across the city, state and county resource ands our first responders, you know, we re still coming to those that are in need. so if you re in need, call that in and we ll collaborate tough will you work our way you to. but importantly, you know, if anyone who is here and is safe, we just need you to stay home and stay off the roads. from our standpoint, we need to get in and get our equipment in
people s homes, with right-wingers bringing assault rifles into the state capitol last year. with the kind of thing that we saw today at the with the 3% militia flags and the, you know, threatening to lock you up and the threats of violence at this event today. is the entour republican party radicalizing in this direction? or do you think that this is turning off some people who are otherwise sort of common sense republican voters who may feel like they don t have a home in michigan politics. they may not identify as a democrat but things are getting weird enough in michigan republican politics. it s isolate something people who previously been their supporters. i think certainly there are a lot of voters that are turned off. but if you look at highly populated areas like oakland county or kemp county, i think a lot of the voters there that traditionally voted republican,