An hour ago to a category 4 but a serious and deadly storm that will have the target of the West Coast of florida in its sights sometime later tonight and early tomorrow morning. Im Bill Hemmer in orlando. We do a split show today. Dana you are missed but glad youre there. This is americas newsroom, im dana perino. You have covered many of these hurricanes, bill. I think that even you are saying wow, this one is big and monster by comparison even. Bill you know, i think it is storm 21. Im back at a hotel where i was five years ago. Florida will take a wallop here. They were predicting earlier today there will be a part of the West Coast of florida that will have a Storm Surge of eight to ten feet. Think about that now. Those low lying Barrier Islands that have been so built up over the past 50 years. The Population Increase on the West Coast of florida. This is going to be a doozy. Experts describe milton as a once in a Century Storm and folks in tampa are taking heed. Very tough. We r
In on them. Listen. I left and went to town. My wife called me, she said, we can see the fire way over there. You need to come and get me. I said im on my way. So i just throwed down everything, took off over there. I got on quartz hill and theres two or three or four lanes of traffic coming up, wouldnt let me down in in. So i just dropped everything and i took off running down there and i helped some guy that got burnt and was trying to get out of there. I got him and helped him out of there. And when i got back down there, the fire was just intense. But i still tried to get down in there and they come and stopped me, wouldnt let me down in there. I got my car and took off and passed everybody in the dirt and went all the way around to the other end of quartz hill and come up keswick, and my son was in there. He was up there, but i didnt see him. He was up there and then gary, my son, was on the other side of the house. And gary opened the door to go
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and i look back at the story i wrote in 1988. it was a big cover story in discover magazine. and it s essentially the same story. we were talking earlier, when you were with the weather channel you were on this beat too in the 2006-ish. and that was shortly after katrina and florida was hammered by a bunch of hurricanes. and then we headed like a hurricane drought for ten years. everyone kind of goes to sleep. in my new book one of the chapters is back then actually around 2006 all these climate scientists were arguing about hurricanes in a warming world. some were saying, we don t really know the things about hurricanes is they could get weaker in a warming world, blah, blah, blah. but the one thing they all agreed on, they wrote this one letter that s in this book, where they said you know the thing we re really worried about, all of us, is we re building way too fast in hurricane danger zones. and that s the thing that that s the message that gets lost too often. right. it s
nightmare. the fast-moving fires killed dozens and destroyed thousands of structure. in for him rage has erupted. santa ana winds spread these large fires. they embers fly toward houses that haven t burned yet. in the foothill areas of ventura, california, this home completely lost. 20 homes that we can count are burned to the ground. the thomas fire alone in ventura county scorched an area biggest than boston and new york city combined and will likely continue to burn into 2018. 2017 our hurricane drought ended abruptly. irma, maria, harvey brought death and destruction from the islands of the caribbean right through the florida keys, and up the gulf coast. it s not like we didn t have major hurricanes in the atlantic or the caribbean, they just never hit the u.s.
ventura county scorched an area bigger than boston and new york city combined and will likely continue to burn into 2018. in 2017, our hurricane drought ended abruptly. irma, maria, harvey brought death and destruction from the islands of the caribbean right through the florida keys and up the gulf coast. now, it s not like we didn t have major hurricanes in the atlantic or the caribbean. they just never hit the u.s. they were what we called fish storms. but with these, many are still picking up the pieces or even waiting for help. hurricane irma has made the turn. it is moving up the west coast. irma is number three on our list. the storm set many jaw-dropping records. it was the strongest atlantic basin hurricane ever recorded outside of the gulf of mexico and the caribbean. it spent three days as a cat 5, the highest category hurricane, with winds that approached at times 200 miles per hour.