1000 are still missing after wildfires raise the Historic Town of lahaina to the ground. Hawaii governor is calling this the worst Natural Disaster in the states history. Survivors say it looks like the apocalypse. This is outnumbered, im Emily Compagno here with my cohost Kayleigh Mcenany and Harris Faulkner and joining us fox news contr contributor tammy bruce and david webb. Shocking video out of lahaina show houses engulfed in flames, as strong winds and Dry Conditions pushed the fire into urban neighborhoods. Some residents had no choice but to jump into the ocean to escape the flames. Shocking photos show this 200yearold church reduced to ash during the wildfire. Satellite shots reveal the full destruction in lahaina. The image on left june 25th and the one on right is from wednesday, showing almost nothing left standing. Mayor of maui claims the coastal town is gone and thousands will not be able to return to their homes for the foreseeable future. The mayor is likening lahaina
fort myers beach, florida, one of the cities that was hardest hit by hurricane ian, hurricane ian made landfall on wednesday afternoon in florida as a category four hurricane. it was just a few miles shy, two miles per hour shy of being a category five storm, the likes of which have only been experienced four times in u.s. history. at this hour, more than 1.2 million people across florida are still without power, and as of late yesterday parts of the county where i am now, where ian did make landfall, did not have access to clean drinking water. in fact, much of where i am now has no access to power either. hard to know exactly how many people are displaced this time, officials are estimating it is in the thousands, possibly tens of thousands, at least 34 people have been confirmed dead so far, 12 of them here in lee county. after hitting florida eons rain grain strength over the atlantic ocean. what across florida, went out in the atlantic, and made a second landfall as a ca
sweeping pieces of legislation in most recent history, set to impact american life on many, many levels. by now you probably heard about the $1,400 stimulus checks, which could start going out via direct deposit next week but the bill is also expected to add 7 million jobs to the economy. it s designed to cut child poverty in half, specifically helping black and hispanic families through the tax credits and family aid and it will fund nationwide vaccine distribution that should help bring an end to this covid pandemic. to underscore that, we just learned in the last hour, the biden administration will announce plans to buy 100 million additional vaccines from johnson & johnson. we should make it clear, that while there is a lot of hope and a lot of potential surrounding the new covid bill, we will not be sure how effective it s going to actually be until it s put into action. i want to bring in garrett haake on capitol hill. also with us, chief white house correspondent for n
response team. so our recovery team has been working for several days getting red did for this. they are conducting assessments throughout the state of florida. we ll go into the next phase of this will be individual damage assessments. where those are done at the local county level in a little more detail to get numbers. they will roll up with us. we already have fema that is standing by ready to do what we call joint damage assessments. so they have teams here already ready to go for that. so you re going to see a very, very quick response on the recovery side of the house to do vilk damage assessments and what s also referred to as public assistance. that s where we check public infrastructure, city and county buildings and things of that nature. so all of that stuff will be unfolding most likely as soon as tomorrow so we can get the recovery process jump start ed
where those are done at local and county level to get numbers that will roll up with us, we have fema that is standing by ready to do what we call join damage assessment. they have teams here ready to go for that. you will see a very quick response on the recovery side of the house to do individual damage assessment and public assistance damage assessment to check infrastructure, city and county buildings. that will unfold likely as soon as tomorrow so we can get recovery pros jump started here in the state of florida. we could not do that without leadership of the governor and objectives, he sets. thank you so much. general. good morning and thank you,