into sharper focus. this picture shows fort meyers beach one of the hardest-hit areas before the hurricane and here it is after. homes wiped out. sea of debris and rubble stretching to the horizon. there is this marina during normal times in fort myers. and then after. a scene of utter destruction. the damage throughout florida. 2 million still without power. it will continue for some time. ten people are confirmed dead thus far. the number may change as search and rescue teams work their way through the flooded neighborhoods. we re moments away as dana mentioned and get an update from the florida governor ron desantis back in tallahassee. team fox coverage. city manager marty lawing is standing by. robert ray is back with us today. we begin with track of ian. adam klotz is in our studio watching that. we still have a hurricane as we remember this storm left the coast of florida as a tropical storm but we ve spent a good chunk of time over the atlantic ocean. winds curren
have our fox news chief meteorologist rick reichmuth with us. rick this has been rough so far. really has. three things, the storm surge that broke records in fort myers and naples as well by a lot by the way, three feet higher than we had ever seen from any kind of storm surge in the past. that obviously causing all that flooding right along the immediate coast. then we have the winds, actual verified winds of 140 miles an hour in cape corral. a lot of this wind was really prolonged because it s such a slow-moving storm and then you have the rainfall. because it s so slow we get rainfall that just continues to batter the state and we ll see big time inland flooding concerns. this made land fall in the exact same space that hurricane charlie came on shore in 2004 which is amazing to have two massive hurricanes or two strong hurricanes like this come on shore in the exact same spot, hard to imagine, because it came on so strong, it s still a category 2 hurricane after having
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Be put out by authorities, there is a process. unconfirmed, i think unconfirmed report of traffic fatalities and that may be storm related, it was happening within the time the storm was approaching or on target in various parts of florida. we ll have more updates as the day goes on, we will visit some areas as soon as safe to do so and will be assessing on the ground and mobilizing additional resources. dagen: governor ron desantis giving the people of florida and the country an update on the aftermath of hurricane idalia, including kevin guthrie, florida division of emergency management chief there. we are waiting for a white house pres briefing that could start any moment from now.
Then they ll be able to resume operations, assuming all is well, which we anticipate it will be. there are as of now no confirmed fatalities, fatalities are things that are confirmed by law enforcement through medical examiner, we do not have confirmed fatalities yet. if you have questions about how things are unfolding go to florida disaster.org, for updates and emergency management will update that eb site with the latest information. we have good retail in terms of all counties other than big bend proper, tampa bay area and leon county doing well. we are assessing what is going on on the ground in the places that had initial impact.