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you have trees that are down, you have a lot of hazards right now. we do anticipate a lot of the water will subside in some of the barrier islands and some of the coasts but some of those inland places of rivers and these inlets, you are likely to have standing water there throughout all of today and even in the days ahead, so that is a hazard and just please be aware that that is something that if you have weathered the storm to this point, going on doing and getting involved in that is totally not worth it and we want to minimise any harm to anybody as a result of what we are seeing right now in the streets. it s gonna be put to use, i don t think we ve seen in effort mobilise for this minutes rate rescues this quickly, but we appreciate and we will make good use of it. we want people to be safe, those people who are in need of life supports, health is on the way help. they are able to see the areas that were hardest hit, and they are focusing assets there. obvious ....
washington. president biden is about to arrive at fema headquarters. the president approved a major disaster declaration for florida and spoke with governor ron desantis. you have power lines that are down. you have trees that are down. you have a lot of hazards right now. today is about identifying the people that need help, who may still be in harm s way, but also beginning the process of rebuilding some of the things that we need. the tropical storm continues to barrel towards the atlantic ocean where it s expected to regain strength and make a second landfall tomorrow along the south carolina coast. right now, tropical storm winds can be felt as far as 830 miles out from the storm. let s go to bring in meteorologist bill karins. this is not over yet. the focus is northeast florida and the second landfall we are expecting in 24 hours. what are you seeing in the latest update? unfortunately, it looks like it s a hurricane when it make landfall when it hits charl ....
brian: florida governor ron desantis defending fired battalion chief davis after he was fired for refusing to discipline employees who didn t comply with the county s covid vaccine mandate. i think the firing was totally inappropriate. i think it s ridiculous. and these are people that have served our communities. they re being tossed aside. it is illegal to do it. there is going to be response. i think ultimately he will prevail. brian: a governor that doesn t want to fire people. people under him firing people. davis had been with orange county fire and rescue since 2007. he joins us now with florida attorney general ashley moody. welcome to both of you. steven, for you, what exactly happened? good morning brian. yes, so is was terminated a few days ago i was trying to tell them that what they were doing, i was supposed to write people up and it was unlawful is ....
Serious, orange county fire and rescue, this is orange county, next to osceola county, overlapping. orange county is in charge of this. they say they have an extended event going on, which is fire rescue speak for something serious going down. we re waiting for pictures and when we get them, we ll bring them to you right away. first a student takedown caught on camera. police at the university of wisconsin at milwaukee arrest add 24-year-old student after her professor claims the woman became disruptive and threatened other students. you decide. i didn t [ bleep ] and i m not going anywhere. i paid for class just like everybody else did. [ bleep ]. what are you doing? get your hands off of me. i m not even fighting with you. ....
Solomon, did give some basic detail about the incident. here s what he had to say. basically, at about 2:00 today, orange county sheriff s office and orange county fire and rescue responded to a report of an injury at the shamu stadium. units got on scene and realized that the victim in this case was deceased. what apparently happened is we had a female trainer back in the whale holding area. she apparently slipped or fell into the tank and was fatally injured by one of the whales. we re on scene along with forensics, our homicide investigators and we re conducting a death investigation. some of the details are going to be forth coming in the minutes ahead, but we did learn from dan browne, the president of orlando parks, just after that, that the victim apparently did drown. so not quite clear whether the whale might have inflicted some harm on the trainer or maybe dragged her into the water and thrashed around a little bit and she drowned. there was an eyewitness to this. ....