off of the gulf coast there. we re not going to get a sense of it until tomorrow. but yes, it looks pretty path down in. and we ll be talking about this later in the hour. thanks, chris. and thank you for joining us. hurricane ian continues to create a swath of in made landfall just after 3:00 this afternoon in southwestern florida, near k o connor, a island off of the coast of fort myers. ian came ashore as a category four hurricane with 150 mile per hour winds. just a few miles per hour shy of a category five. only for hurricane stronger than that have made landfall in the united states ever. but it is not just the strength of the storm, it is the size. this is the view of hurricane in from the international space station this afternoon. just showing how massive the storm is. the national river describes in as battering the florida peninsula with tied and winds, and flooding. ian has just now weakened to a category two storm with maximum sustained winds of 105 miles
to make land fall in just a matter of hours. and flooding already reported tonight ahead of the hurricane. this video just coming into us from key west florida. as you can see, one resident s basement is already flooded and there obviously many more just like it. plus, we showed you video last night of a wawa just outside philadelphia being ransacked and now we have brand new video giving us a much clearer picture of the roughly 100 juveniles some as young as ten years old causing thousands of dollars of damage. tonight how other area stores are looking to confront the increasingly rise in crime. it is a real problem across the country. and as you know we re also just days away from online applications being made available for president biden s student loan handout that could be put on hold, frankly, as there is a new legal challenge to tell you about tonight. we re going to talk to the group that has filed a lawsuit later in the show. but we begin this hour with hurricane
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Coverage. Adam is then fox extreme Weather Center. We begin with Steve Harrigan who is in san juan, puerto rico, right now. We speak of the rain is heavier than it has been all morning and thats creating Flash Flooding with some River Gates Being opened up. The winds have gusted here on the back end of this storm to over 100 Miles Per Hour. The worst of the wins came at about 9 00 in the morning with sustained gusts of more than 104 to 5 Miles Per Hour. Those were winds enough to tear the sides of some buildings. We just saw bits and pieces of buildings fly through the air and tops of trees have also snapped off. This island now according to the governor is almost 90 without electric power. It may be 100 soon, that means people in this storm for writing it out around their own. No electric power, no Emergency Rescue services, if they have a portable radio, thats what theyre hearing. Otherwise theyre hearing the
balconies torn off. Its still too hard for the First Responders to go out a
Details about payments mr. Cohen arranged with woman who alleged sexual encounters with President Trump, including mr. Trumps knowledge of those deals. The journal report which cited people close to cohen and others familiar with prosecutors discussions posted late last night. It preceded a tweet from the president at 1 10 in the morning washington time, trump writing in all caps, no collusion, rigged witch hunt. And Republican Leaders remain silent but the rank and file did weigh in. Former president ial candidate mitt romney tweeted yesterday, the events of the last 24 hours confirm that conduct by highplaced individuals was both dishonorable and illegal. Also confirmed is my faith is our Justice System and my conviction that we are a nation committed to the rule of law. Senator ben sasse released a statement writing, quote, Paul Manafort is a Founding Member of the dc swamp and Michael Cohen is the goth am version of the
Updates of the days news. Manafort, well, thats an issue that