path the danger is real to state the obvious. please obey all warnings. brian in florida desperate search and rescue efforts underway this morning. at least 10 confirmed dead. officials warn that number likely to climb. significant damage that i saw was on fort myers beach there have been more than 700 confirmed rescues and there is likely many more than that. brian: there you go. before and after photos showing the extent of the damage in fort myers. curfew being enforced there to prevent looting. more than 2 million people across florida still have no power. we have live team coverage this morning. meteorologist adam klotz is standing by with ian s latest track. but, first, fox weather correspondent robert wray is live in fort myers with a look at the damage. robert? yeah, it s tremendous. it s really everywhere you look. and especially when you start heading down to fort myers beach where all those rescues have occurred and where governor antioxidant just talked ab
landfall as adam was telling us around lunchtime. that s right, you know. it kind of comes and goes. we have seen for the past few hours deep band of rain move through. probably see the rain moving behind me here, and the palm trees sways a little bit. again, we have seen it more intense and a bit more calm like we are seeing at the moment. buff the real concern here is that storm surge. not so of the winds. i mean, yeah, category 1 storm is nothing to sneeze at. but they are really concerned about the impact all this water can have. this is the low country here, this part of south carolina. and when you start talking about a 4 to 7-foot storm surge, you know, that goes awfully far inland. so, we have seen some sandbagging around here. we have not seen a mad rush to the exits. but, like parts of florida, i mean, people around here are kind of gristled veterans of storms. most people are going to try to weather this thing out. the concern continues to be the impact of the flooding. yo
me abforgiveness for that as well. with us opinion columnist for the new york times charles blow and former adviser to four u.s. presidents, republican and exact. david gergen. your response to what we heard from booker. magnanimous. and that s great. i do think his question about why it took so long is valid. i can t imagine something that could be handled worse than the way biden handled this. he hurt himself and didn t have to do that. it s perfectly normal to recognize a person s pain, empathize with that. apologize for it. and and move on from that. and that could have happened immediately. but biden almost felt gristled at the idea that you could have felt pain, which is such an odd response to that. and it is a fair criticism, because it did sound like he was