For months he s been teeing the possibility of making another white house bid, and it s certainly causing other high profile republicans to tread carefully among growing speculation over who could potentially pick up the mantel if the former president decides against running in 2024. Casey stegall is live at cpac in dallas with a look at all the action going on this weekend so far. Casey? reporter: yeah, eric. And there is an awful lot of it. You know, this is really a who s who of prominent conservatives. You really never know who you going to bump into when you re walking out in the hallways here. We want to now take you inside one of the ballrooms and show you live pictures of a session that just got underway, one of the many special workshops planned here. It s called are the leftovers from the pandemic here to stay, and it is being led by congresswoman jody hice of georgia. Former national security adviser ambassador robert o brien is on deck giving remarks in about 45 minutes or
Tonight, questions about how this could have happened are increasing and we have just lerped that owners were facing $15 million in assessments for building repairs. We re watchi ing all of this unfold. Let s go straight to cnn bryan todd. You re in the sunny isles beach not far away from here. You had an opportunity for the exclusive look at the urgent building inspections that have been prompted by this disaster. Reporter: right. We re just north of surfside. This comes as we re getting new information on the rescue effort in surfside. Tonight rescuers here say they are shifting from by hand, bucket brigade style from using huge machinery. The process is called delayering but it s not all large pieces. We re digging through rubbles of concrete, the size of basketballs, baseballs. Reporter: family members were allowed to visit the site, see tunnel and the constant threat to rescue workers. They witnessed a rescuer tumble 25 feet down the mound. Reporter: the cause of the collapse stil
the poles. i was curious. some power companies have talked about potentially shutting off power when there s high wind incidents. i wonder if you think this is an appropriate response or if you think they should be working to harden the structure more than just ending power i think both. look, i can it s very expensive to secure these power lines. in terms of actual structure. we look out there. you see these large towers carrying multiple wires. the wires are like that thick. they re carrying a lot of energy. sometimes those entire towers come down. i am not expert enough to know when it is appropriate to shut down that line. that s one of the reasons why i think having the technology to have these meters on each of these facilities tells you where the danger is. so i can picture i m getting out of my expertise here. you re talking about huge numbers of americans suddenly not having power because the company makes a determination that the we also know how man
doing hard work. thank you. the residents of florida getting the job done. we ve seen state troopers out big time in force helping out the residents. neil: this is what you call fox team coverage, fox weather, fox news all at hand as hurricane idalia ripped through florida. now officials are assessing the damage as the state begins to try to pick up the pieces. the storm is still a threat as it makes its way through georgia and south carolina. president biden says he met with all three states governors. coming up, we ll talk to florida s director of emergency management on what s being done right now. i m neil cavuto. let s get to it with steve harrigan in tarpon springs, florida where sets say they got hit hard. how are things now, my friend? hit hard, neil. certainly a huge mess left behind. a big step up from where we were at dawn. there was three feet of water on the streets. fire trucks couldn t get through, electric power trucks couldn t get through. now you can see
then the landfall about 20 miles farther west than it was forecast to be. the cone shifted about 20 miles farther to the west, closer to tallahassee, making significantly more wind damage there as you shift that cone farther and farther to the left. something else i ve noticed there, seeing lightning now around the eye. that means the storms are getting stronger, getting bigger around the eye itself which means the storm is not losing strength. in fact, it s going the other way. when you see lightning in the eye, it s getting stronger. wind gusts around 30. sarasota, every time you see one of these cells head over your home, that s when the wind is going to pick up. the cell goes by and the wind will be gone. what the deal is with this whole storm is as it moves up into this big bend area, that s where the catcher s mitt effect is going to happen and we ll see all that water get caught with the storm surge that. surge is going to be 15 feet high. if you re on land and right t