be felt nearly 300 miles from the center, which means that millions of people across the south from georgia to virginia will be affected. this is the scene in the towns of myrtle beach and south port, south carolina. they are facing life threatening storm surge from hurricane ian. we are also getting a fuller picture of the devastation on the ground now in towns across florida. the new york times describing it this way. quote, the scale of the wreckage was staggering. even to florida residents who had survived and rebuilt after other powerful hurricanes, this storm pulverized roads. it toppled trees, gutted downtown store fronts and set cars afloat, leaving a soggy scar of ruined homes and businesses from the coastal cities of naples and fort myers to inland communities across the state including orlando. at least 14 deaths have been linked to the storm. more than 1.8 million people are now without power. more than 700 rescues have taken place including these from sanibel i
have our fox news chief meteorologist rick reichmuth with us. rick this has been rough so far. really has. three things, the storm surge that broke records in fort myers and naples as well by a lot by the way, three feet higher than we had ever seen from any kind of storm surge in the past. that obviously causing all that flooding right along the immediate coast. then we have the winds, actual verified winds of 140 miles an hour in cape corral. a lot of this wind was really prolonged because it s such a slow-moving storm and then you have the rainfall. because it s so slow we get rainfall that just continues to batter the state and we ll see big time inland flooding concerns. this made land fall in the exact same space that hurricane charlie came on shore in 2004 which is amazing to have two massive hurricanes or two strong hurricanes like this come on shore in the exact same spot, hard to imagine, because it came on so strong, it s still a category 2 hurricane after having
windows. gas stations, unfortunately we can t show them to you very well because the power s out all around us. we have a couple of street lights that have managed to stay on. but, you know, the roofs of these buildings are coming apart. we hear the tin slap the street here behind us and just take off as debris in the wind. also the traffic lights over us here, we have constant emergency alerts going off on our phones from rescuers basically saying we can t get to you. we know that there are people needing help but rescuers are not responding and not making rescue calls at this time because the wind has not died down enough. so we talk about the massive size of this storm, how much of the state of florida is wrapped up in this emergency and it s an incredible thing to think about. last time i was on with you, sean, i was a local reporter at waga in atlanta, it was just after michael hit mexico beach and i was trying to find the words then to describe what we were seeing and i m in that
legal aspect, historians, and scholars i want to focus in on one of those experts cited by alito. some matthew hail, a 17th century jurist, illegal senate hail more than 100 times and for him as one of the eminent common law authorities, that is quite the recommendation it sounds like we should look at his resume to see why hail is so chair midas alito. michael hit includes having at least two women executed for witchcraft. marital rape exemptions, and populating capital punishment for children as young as 14. that s if that s not bad illegal thought would help bolster his argument, his what lies ahead showed roe form in june. we don t have to look all the way back to the 17th century before 1973 women in america struggle to obtain a legal abortion, and one president knows the reality of pre-roe america all too well is california democratic congresswoman barbara lee who
american political system into that indispensable leader of that movement. for both of those reasons it will be hard to recapture that. that s what jonathan martin and our paper were trying to point out. that may be missing. a lot of folks met in the senate who were lying for a lot of that energy in 2016. elizabeth warren among them. kamala harris and cory booker and all of those in the senate with bernie sanders. part of his rise is he was not hillary clinton. in that primary, you had two people to choose from basically. i think that s going to be much different. michael hit upon it. you have elizabeth warren now soaking up some of that energy. sherrod brown and beto o rourke people are looking at a progressive. bernie can claim he moved the party and changed the discussion among democrats.