Yet been released. The question is when will they come home, and what are we giving iran in return. Joining me now, National Security counsel coordinator for strategic communications, john kirby. Admiral, thank you very much for being with us. I know that we believe, the United States believes those imprisonments and trials and charges were not true. And were happy to have these individuals back. When will they be on a plane back and out of iran . I dont really know right now. Were still working out the details and parameters here about eventually securing their freedom, and when that will be, what that will look like. But we dont really know right now. Were just really happy that theyre out of evan prison because the conditions there were just intolerable. Theyre in house arrest, but still in iran. Theyre not home yet, and we still have a lot of work to do to get them there. Have we been in touch with them directly . Do we know what condition theyre . We have been in touch with them t
they re great people, beautiful state. you know about their football team? bill: a little bit. dana: governor desantis will give a update any moment now and bring it live. florida is bracing for what could be a once in a century storm. bill: the current storm track shows landfall sometime on thursday, maybe in tampa. if that were a direct hit, it would be the first major storm to hit tampa in more than 100 years. dana: forecasters are predicting storm sturge. people are boarding up homes and businesses. the amount of water may simply be too much to overcome. bill: here is what we know. governor desantis declared a state of emergency. tampa s international airport will shut down at 5:00 east coast time. dana: evacuation orders affecting hundreds of thousands of people. folks there say supplies are running low. shelves are totally empty. people are starting to panic. it is crazy now. people are crazy, all the flights are insane. there is no flights. i would ho
Their release, it s going to fix all of our problems with iran. any update on paul wheeler in russia and what s going on with the negotiations there? sadly no, other than to say we are actively working on those two cases as well. paul whelan, admiral john kirby, thank you so much, we appreciate it. and it is a little after 9:00 a.m. in hawaii right now. and this morning s dawn did not bring good news. though the winds have died down, day break revealed massive devastation. lahaina town is basically gone. the flames raising hundreds of homes alongside businesses. nearly 11,000 people are still without power. cell and internet service is spotty at best. mandatory evacuations zones have expanded and at least 36 people are dead. at least. with devastation like this, officials fear it is only a matter of time before the death toll rises. joining me now from one of the shelters on maui is nbc news
Certainly when you talk about the concerns of major flooding here in the city of tampa. you talk about storm surge. they expect maybe 10-foot storm surge. a massive wall of water that ian could push inland if it s able to sit off the west coast of florida on top of maybe ten inches of rain that could fall across the city of tampa and 15 inchess in isolated areas. one gentleman got here two hours early to make the necessary preparations. he lives in one of those evacuations zones and will have to get out of here later today. listen to what he had to say. we had some pretty serious flooding during ada two years ago and that wasn t even half as bad as this is going to be. so a little nervous about what we ll come back to on friday after we evacuate today. folks are definitely going to have to make the preparations
You can see the rain. picking up periodically. 30 to 45 minutes. you have to think about what s happening. we re taking the energy from the center of the powerful category 4 hurricane. 100 miles to the east. transferring it to the coastline. taking the wind from the upper levels of the atmosphere and slamming into the coastline. we expect the conditions to continue to deteriorate. as hurricane dorian makes the closest approach to us by this time tomorrow. at least in the afternoon. the threats here going forward flash flooding. coastal storm surge as well as erosion. and we know that the evacuations zones here are in place. especially for the barrier island and the susceptible communities to storm surge and flooding. as you say, the wobble in many ways makes the difference between a major disaster or a near miss. that s why this is all still on a razors edge. thanks so much. coming up.