Alert as devastating Wind And Rains and Tornado And Storm surge ripping through my free state of Florida Tonight and its rough as many people in the state our prayers are with them at the worst yet to come. The Hurricane Made Landfall on the Gulf Coast as we take you live on the ground. We will check in with Kamala Harris who is pretending to care about hurricanes for the first time ever. With 27 days until an Inflection Point in the country be an Election Day after two weeks of being missing in max missing in action in politics at its worst while blaming Donald Trump for being missing in action. We go live to the Fox Weather Center with the very latest. Brian, it just made landfall a little south of tampa, more so than we thought. Its not good news for Tampa Or Sarasota or Fort Myers and the southWest Coast. You see a pushing south of the Landfall Point right near sarasota. Landfall was declared at 8 30 and the circulation is coming around. So this Gulf Water has been pushed to South
Bill thank you sean we are live here as milton is a major storm here in central and western and Eastern Florida tonight. Hurricane milton battering florida moving on shore making landfall as a category three storm 90 minutes ago downgraded earlier from a category five in the Gulf Of Mexico. Lifethreatening storm with a surge upwards of 10 feet expected in several areas of the West Coast. And its a very fierce. Weve got live coverage we will get to it right now. Steve has been in tampa all Day Adam is live in the Weather Centre. What are you seeing right now tonight cree. A sideways rain with heavy Wind Gust. The wind has been strong enough to snap small trees here with those being pushed down so you can imagine how difficult it will be for people to get around and rescuers to move around. With major distraction we arent seeing it in the buildings. We arent seeing Street Signs and is interesting to hear the mayor of Tampa Bay and Governor Desantis says going to be a few hours on your ow
todd: hurricane ian plowing through western cuba yesterday knocking out power to the entire country and devastating the most important tobacco farms in the country used to produce cuba s iconic cigars. you are watching fox and friends first, i m todd piro. carley: i m carley shimkus, our reporters are live across florida this morning, we begin with senior meteorologist, janice dean who is tracking it from our studio. janice: they just upped the winds, that is a strong category four storm, the pressure has dropped by 10 millibars. it is strengthen as it approaches the coast, we r expecting landfall this afternoon. heightened awareness to the storm surge and for hours it will batter the coast and interior sections of florida. rain and wind and storm surge will impact coast of florida and inland will flood two-story homes at the coast. you don t have time, you can hide from the wind, you have to run from the storm surge. wind gusts in excess of 100 mile per hour for dura
hearing, the last of this nature. member have been tight lipped about the exact theme but suggest it will include brand-new information as they continue to fill in the pieces of the puzzle surrounding the insurrection. i think it will be potentially more sweeping than some of the other hearings. but it will be very thematic. it will tell the story about a key element of donald trump s plat to overturn the election. and the public will certainly learn things it hasn t seen before. but it will also understand information it already has in a different context by seeing how it relates to other elements of this plot. none of the members would go any further in terms of exactly what we will see on wednesday. one of the biggest unanswered questions for the committee is what happens after wednesday s hearing. both adam schiff and liz cheney said if they decide to issue criminal referrals, the vote would likely be unanimous. cheney also said she will keep pushing to hold election
we have not seen a category 4 storm at least in my lifetime from what my parents can remember. we had erma a couple years ago that was only a category 2. this is a category 4. that is going to direct hit sarasota, south of sarasota. a little south of north port will heart land of my district through the heartland of florida. we have not seen a storm with this power and strentd and added on top of that is the storm surge. when erma came we didn t experience that in southwest florida. we are going to see 8 to 10 feet of storm surge. those coastal communities evacuation orders yesterday and the day before. hopefully those people heeded those evacuation orders and got out because 10-foot of storm surge is going to take out the first floor of any of those buildings that are on the coast line and in those barrier islands. hopefully we don t have rescuers who are going to have to go out there after the storm goes past people have heeded the calls of local government to evacuate. carley: a l