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hurricane center. major update comes at 2:00 a.m. the reason why we re getting hourly updates now is because the national hurricane center can see this storm on doppler radar so these are position and intensity updates. we also have the air force reserve hurricane hunters en route to the storm that will give us critical new information. not a major just yet. i think the nac is likely waiting for what the hurricane hunters have to say. jane: that s right. the information coming in from the flights has been peniche seeing the upgrades in the last beneficial in seeing the upgrades in the last couple of days. ian: each pass through the eye, they were finding lower pressure and higher winds. we ll see what they find when they get there. they re likely less than an hour out at this point. welcome back in to fox weather. we d like to welcome all of our fox viewers tonight. i m ian oliver. jane: i m jane minar. we re expecting idalia to reach the major hurricane status ....
major hurricane. any upgrade from here and we re talking about a category 3. the issue is that the storm has really got its structure together over the last several hours which is allowing it to continue to rapidly intensify. so welcome into fox weather. we d like to offer a special welcome here at the top of the hour to our viewers on fox news channel. i m ian oliver and i m jane minar fox news is your hurricane head coaches and so many of you watching the development of idalia fox weather with you have every step of the way on every connected tv device, also on your phone 24/7 with the free fox weather app. again idalia to reach category 4 intensity at land fall. we have you covered with our extensive team coverage on the ground tonight folks in place across the southeast as the faster forward motion of this storm is expected to bring hurricane conditions well inland but as we mentioned, idalia is expected to reach major hurricane status tonight. it could be at any ....
don t want a bunch of guests, i don t want everything to be based on news cycle. and i want to take one hour i have on sundays 40 minutes, and spend time talking about what is happening to the country. might involve philosophy or history, i m concerned about where we re headed. this is certainly one of those programs. i want to take time talk to but what happening to america. not good enough to have legal analysts, not good enough to have political p operatives. that is not what i m going tonight. that is not what i ever want to do. let s step back, and talk a look at what is going on. first we have to recognize that we have a growing police state in america. that police state is controlled by one party, the democrat party. and they are using all of the instrumentalities of culture and of government. to basically monopolize society, that is what autocratic parties do, they can call themselves whatever they want. the democrat party has a very horrific history, never real ....
that number could rise even higher as search and rescue crews work to reach cutoff areas, removing debris from destroyed homes and businesses along florida s southwest coastline and we re learning that miami-dade fire rescue crews are conducting helicopter evacuations on sanibel island. boris sanchez is there in fort myers, florida. boris, you just spoke with the lee county sheriff a few moments ago. what was said? reporter: fred, there have been a lot of questions today about the timing of when lee county ordered evacuations. we re in lee county right now in fort myers. what we ve learned is lee county ordered its first evacuations more than a day after forecasts met the county s criteria despite the fact the county has an emergency plan that suggests evacuations should have happened earlier. the county s comprehensive emergency ma or more of water would indicate the need for hurricane evacuations in the most vulnerable areas. a lot of lee county is a vulnerable area ....
this election comes down to really two positions. do you love america or do you hate america. the democrat party made it clear, not being provocative, i just listen, they hate america. tell me how they support it. i m not special leader for republican party but that is the nature of the beast. you vote for one or the other. if you vote for a third party, you are voting for a democrat. in my view, vote for all the republicans. we will deal with them later. we have got to stop what is going on in can this country, you either love america or hate america. you have to vote against the democrats. and for the republicans. again, i m not special pleader. ladies and gentlemen we re in a recession. i don t care how they try to spin it. two quarters of negative growth. that is what they call it. we re in a recession. we also have inflation teetering on double digits, we had massive deficit spending, borrowing, the printing of money, and even with inflation through the roof, democ ....