and is expected to make landfall in the coming hours. forecasters say it will be a once-in-a-lifetime event for the residents of the gulf coast. idalia is currently a category 3 storm forecast to become a category 4 when it makes landfall. that means maximum sustained winds of at least 130 miles an hour. authorities warn the storm surge could reach 12 to 16 feet in some areas and will likely not be survivable. low-lying areas are already seeing flooding further down florida s west coast including pinellas county. more than 7 million people are under tornado watches. cedar key could be completely cut off by flooding. officials have been going door to door there to make sure residents evacuate. but not everyone is heeding the warnings. this is crunch time right now. we re going get hit with a major hurricane. it will be some time the eye will arrive on shore some time tomorrow morning most likely. and it is going to have major impacts. so it s likely to cause a lot of damage.
hurricane idalia, which is a category 2 hurricane which has just strengthened. the wind speeds are now at 105 miles per hour, and they are gaining. but it is not the wind that has people the most worried about this hurricane. it s the water. it is the storm surge, predicted to be 10 to 15 feet right where i m standing in steinhatchee. the steinhatchee river right now sat low tide. at high tide, it s another 5, 6 feet higher than where it is. add 10 to 15 feet on top of that, and the area where i am standing right now is feared to be just completely covered in water about eight hours from now. that is the concern along the florida gulf coast. about 45 minutes south of where i am in the town of cedar key, the mayor there issued his town and his people a stern warning. we re here to beg our citizens to heed this warning. this storm is worse than we ve ever seen. it is worse than we have ever seen, he said. a storm like this has not passed in this direction in over 100 years.
white house was willing and able to censor the truth on social media. republican presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy will join us in moments but first to ashley strohmier live in the new york city news room with the very latest on this. ashley, good evening. reporter: hi, trace. yeah, the biden white house has routinely denied involvement in suppressing negative information about covid-19 vaccines on social media. you might recall this exchange with our own peter doocy and then white house press secretary jen psaki during the summer of 2021. take a listen. is there any concern the things you re trying to block or taken down might some day turn out to be we don t take anything down. we don t block anything. facebook and any private sector company makes decisions about what information should be on their platform. reporter: but internal communication between top white house officials and facebook employees obtained by fox business appears to paint a vastly differen
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more details for you as they come in. i have mike emmanuel in for jon scott and this is the fox re report. now here to washington d.c. the secret service is expected to wrap up the investigation into a bag of cocaine found at the white house last sunday. the white house press secretary snapped recently at reporters asking if the drug belonged to a member of the biden family. some republicans are wondering if the person who left the cocaine will ever be found. lucas tomlinson is live at the white house with more. might come officials say that investigation into who brought cocaine here to the white house can be wrapped up as soon as early next week. some officials say the suspect might not ever be found here is exchange with karine jean-pierre and reporter from the new york post got a little heated yesterday. and just ask again and said can you say once and for all whether or not the cocaine belong to the biden family? i have been very clear i was cleared two days ag