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got, less than a thousand power outages, but also just be prepared in case something turns or something happens this afternoon. ainsley: down in florida, desperate search and rescue efforts are underway this morning. at least ten are confirmed dead. but officials warn that number will likely be higher. the damage i saw was on fort myers beach. but they have been more than 700 confirmed rescues and is likely many more than that. ainsley: florida s governor will give a press conference, at 8:45 a.m., with an update on ian. we ll bring you that life. you will see some before-and-after shadows showing the intent of the damage fort myers. a crew is being sent down to prevent all the looting. can you believe that people would actually steal from other people when they are out of state? brian: more than 2 million people across florida still have no power. we have team coverage this morning. fox weather correspondent robert ray is live in fort myers with a look at the d ....
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 ....
we begin with our chief meteorologist rick reichmuth in the fox weather center. rick? yeah, landfall about 55 minutes ago just around the georgetown, south carolina area. that s where the worst of the storm surge is. the storm surge on shore already. winds sustained were 85 miles an hour. a category one storm. we look at the satellite picture. looks like a mess. it s turning into a more typical storm that you might see in the northern latitudes or at least a combination between those two kinds of storms. the rain field will stretch out. we ll see the wind field stretch out as well across a lot of areas. in general, a weakening wind trend now that we have the storm over land. the winds gusting 46 miles an hour. that s an offshore wind. that is pushing water, not allowing storm surge there to be coming on. we have rain here. some of the storms out across east earn north carolina will have a tornado thread there. there s one tornado warning out there to inside of the ....
Dead. the governor was saying it could be the most deadly storm in florida s history. death toll expected to be excessive. it hit there category 4. expected to hit charleston at lunch time at a category 1. yesterday it was a tropical storm. dana and bill will take it from here and have a press conference and watch for the radio. bill: good morning, it s friday morning. ian returning to hurricane strength as you wake up and join our coverage getting ready for another hit on the u.s. sights set on south carolina along the border with north carolina. here we go again. dana, good morning. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. enter we ll hear from governor ron desantis who saw the damage firsthand and it is unbearable to see. ian is bearing down on south carolina expected to make landfall today with storm surge up to seven feet. look at this scale of the devastation starting to come ....
Langley air force base in virginia as well. they are moving their warplanes inland because the storm is coming. ainsley: janice, don t focus where the landfall is. charleston even though it doesn t look like on the map it s going to hit charleston north of that they re still going to feel the effects. steve: they re right now. brian: meteorologist talked about the storm and the president talked about the storm and immigration. numbers down 30 percent from july. there is still a lot needs to be done at the border, especially building the wall. paul ryan didn t give him money for it. the democratic house didn t give him money for it. so he is re-purposing funds to do it. he talked about that yesterday. first of all, we are using much less here than we anticipated. we thought this was going to be a direct originally, this was going to be a direct hit into miami and we are we would have been satisfied anyway. we need help at the border. the wall is being built. it s going up rapidly. ....