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everyone for joining us i m eric shawn. the infrastructure in some area of florida have been completely destroyed and washed away. just take a look at that. tens of billions of dollars will be needed to rebuild according to the initial estimates and the storm recovery just one of the top stories we are following for you at this hour. also i had her in foxley in the southern border of the humanitarian crisis continues they are as slow. fox news learning some new details about the jaw-dropping number of got away so far this year as some migrants are pulled from the raging waters to safety. and as the countdown to the midterms is on the balance of power in the u.s. senate expected to come down to just a few states. we will look at that. but first steve harrigan is standing by in northport, florida on the recovery efforts they are in the wake of ian. hey steve. eric, we ve been driving up and down highway 75. stopping along the way, so many communities pretty much flooded ....
collier or county, florida, where 911 services are down as search and rescue efforts continue across the state. rachel: search and rescue efforts still underway across the state as 30 people have been confirmed dead with 27 deaths in florida alone. more than 1 million people many florida still without power. here with us today is representative greg steube, he s from the house foreign affairs committee, and, of course, he is from florida. what do you know about this leveesome because we ve been getting conflicting reports, congressman. so i talked to the sheriff and, unfortunately, he couldn t join you because he could give you an update. if they were trying, northport from police and the sarasota sheriff s department has been trying to get people out on boats and and airboats, and they were actually using that intersate area to go back and forth and bring individuals from their homes to the interstate because that was the only way to get them in and out either by air ....
Trail went cold. and he was working for, my understanding, a water treatment facility. which was quite alarming. by this time we had learned that he had an intense interest in poisoning that he had previously been arrested for poisoning co-workers, and he was suspected of poisoning and killing patients in several hospitals. anybody with that history would look upon a water treatment facility as, in our estimation, a potential opportunity. then they went looking for him, and he was gone. and he disappeared. and then we lost track of him. at that point, he s a fugitive. we consulted with the bau, the behavioral science unit. they were of this opinion this offender would still be in the medical field somewhere. ease going to be using some of those skills, and he s going to be killing people. so we started really doing a pretty robust investigation of his time at the va hospital in ....
Everyone for joining us i m eric shawn. the infrastructure in some area of florida have been completely destroyed and washed away. just take a look at that. tens of billions of dollars will be needed to rebuild according to the initial estimates and the storm recovery just one of the top stories we are following for you at this hour. also i had her in foxley in the southern border of the humanitarian crisis continues they are as slow. fox news learning some new details about the jaw-dropping number of got away so far this year as some migrants are pulled from the raging waters to safety. and as the countdown to the midterms is on the balance of power in the u.s. senate expected to come down to just a few states. we will look at that. but first steve harrigan is standing by in northport, florida on the recovery efforts they are in the wake of ian. hey steve. eric, we ve been driving up and down highway 75. stopping along the way, so many communities pretty much flooded ....
Pete: we re staying on top of the aftermath of hurricane ian, not all of which at this point is aftermath. there s been reports of a possible, we repeat, possible levee break in sarasota county. the governor s office says there is no confirmed break at this time. and moments ago a sarasota county official also told us reports of a dam break near northport are false. as we continue to monitor the situation, our next guest is hard at work leading rescue teams. rear admiral brendan mcpherson, u.s. coast guard district commander. commander, thank you so much for being with us. just what i just read underunderscores the changing environment you re operating in right now. describe your search and rescue efforts if you would, sir. yeah, good morning, pete. and you re exactly right, it s a very dynamic situation and a dangerous environment. so we ve gotten through the worst of it, right, as the storm came ashore. since then the coast guard has been working with other first ....