so president biden has declared and ukrainian is president zelensky accepting. but there s fractures between the two. very apparent. if leon panetta with nato itself. where does this duo stand in the senate on this? we ll ask kirsten gillibrand and wyoming republican cynthia loomis, what they re doing together showing two sides can work together. they ve been a good example of that. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. so glad to have you. all right. let s get to it, everybody. happy to have you here. let s go to adam klotz on where the heat is on and how bad it could get. what s the latest? the heat is on for a lot of folks. 156 million americans will be experiencing temperatures today that at least are in the 90s. some folks will see it higher than that. heat alerts stretching from california, texas, florida. the hottest temperature out there, heat index, the heat plus the humid. it s the sticky air. we re up to 115 in the middle of the country. that s in oklahoma. today
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
of ian s destruction. look at the pictures in front of you. this is what it looks like, including in lee county, where rescue crews, this is a live look now, a live look at that location, rescue crews are trying to get to people, with millions of floridians without power and water. we re going to take you live to the hardest-hit areas including lee county, which you re looking at now, for what is expected to be obviously a years-long recovery. i m halle jackson in washington. let s get to shaq brewster live for us in charleston, south carolina, nbc news meteorologist janice is with us today. shaq ian has made landfall in the last 40 minutes. tell us what you re seeing. the landfall was several miles up here from charleston, and that does not mean that charles was not impacted by this storm. throughout the afternoon and into the morning, and throughout the afternoon, we saw heavy rain bands, heavy wind bands. that tropical storm weather, that was expected for many people her
is only beginning. sandra: for those of us who have lived through hurricanes we know how scary they can be. chief meteorologist is with us tracking the storm and the latest tally on some of the winds that are being reported across that state. what are we seeing, rick? so far, john, i m glad we had the video that popped up from 2017 up in jacksonville, because jacksonville is going to get storm surge again from this storm, which is pretty hard to imagine. this is a look at the winds recorded so far, verified naples, 112 miles an hour, still with kinds of the worst of the wind offshore, it has not made its way there just yet. so we have a long road ahead. all right, every hour now we are getting an update here, so this is the 2:00 p.m. update. no changes in the last three hours, pressure still at 937 millibars, moving north/northeast at nine miles an hour. we are looking at that every hour. often times when you have a storm making landfall it starts to weaken a bit, interac
desantis. the massive search-and-rescue effort entering a grim new chapter. it s possible there are still people out there, possible. but most likely we re on recovery now and, you know, that s very difficult. we are live this morning at a minor league hockey arena serving as an emergency shelter. former president trump taking the legal fight to the highest point that it can go. the supreme court. his emergency request and how justice clarence thomas could be instrumental in deciding what exactly happens next. and then we got georgia. hershel walker doubling down on his denial of a major daily because report that he paid a girlfriend to have an abortion back in 2009. republicans now circling the wagons around the staunchly antiabortion candidate. will that be enough for the gop to flip that crucial senate seat from blue to red. we want to begin in florida this morning where president biden is on his way as we speak. starting us off is shaq brewster, and also dasha b