Iran looks to relax its lock down some fairly our break there may be far worse than reported. And a critically ill patient turned away from 6 hospitals a bag with its fears grow over an escalating outbreak. Now have all the schools including us the president dana white says that hes close to securing a private island to make sure he can keep staging events to the core of our spending but. We begin in the u. K. Where foreign secretary dominic robb is stepping in to lead the government thats after Prime Minister baraks johnson was moved to intensive care in london he was transferred to hospital after his covert 900 symptoms got worse on monday night the father with this report. This is where the most powerful man in britain is under close observation every branch of government was already under strain and now this downing street say the Prime Minister who is 55 was moved to the intensive care unit on the advice of his medical team hes been given oxygen but hasnt been put on a ventilator
coast. here is what we know right now. you re looking live at key west, florida where rough surf from ian has churned up. soon the national hurricane center will provide an update on ian s strength and path. it seems to be changing. right now projected to hit florida as at least a category three storm. major airports are closing. tampa international will suspend operations in about an hour. orlando will be doing the same tomorrow. the city of tampa will be issuing a curfew soon when winds hit 40 miles an hour. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. they are battening down the hatches as they say and preparing for the worst hoping it won t be that bad. right now this storm, well, it looks very bad. doesn t max gordon know it. he s in st. pete with more. max? neil, mandatory evacuations are underway in pinellas county. we re talking about zones a, b and c and for folks in mobile homes. all of those people need to get out as soon as they can. right now we re standing in evacuati
bret: hi, sandra. the pentagon now taking action in response to the gop lawmakers. their concerns. we ll have that for you ahead. also new at 2:00, we ll be watching florida where the storm that tore communities apart will bring bitter political rivals together. ron desantis putting politics aside, meeting with president biden. we believe both saying their focus is on helping families devastated by hurricane ian. sandra: and we ll see them coming together as they survey the damage there. we ll bring that meeting to you live as it happens and we begin with this fox news alert. americans in for a rude awakening at the pump, and energy analyst says president biden s only choice is to stop it is one he says is clear, and he s not going to make it. those warnings coming after major oil producing nations decided to slash 2 million barrels a day. bret: the move coming months after president biden asked the saudis for help to increase production. the white house now calling out
florida and will meeting with governor desantis to put their differences to help hurricane ian victims get back on their feet. we have you covered with a void in fort myers with the latest on that meeting. steve, the recovery is just beginning. the white house john kirby and where these recovery efforts are going. welcome, everybody, a very, very busy news day and something rare you seek cooperation from both sides of the aisle because the people in florida demanded it but more to the point, the leaders offered it. momentarily. let s go to nate boyd in fort myers with more. good afternoon, neil a cordial vision cor to mike visit between president biden and governor ron desantis and over s over into fort myers beach. they were there recently and the president just left under an hour ago at this point and you mentioned it was cordial. the president said he has done a good job responding to this hurricane but governor desantis is very thankful of the government assistance he r
t minus 15. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, ignition. full power. and liftoff. go crew 5. stage one alpha. copy, one alpha. equal is pitching down range. stage one propulsion is nominal. nominal power and telemetry. stage one throttle down. stage one throttle up. stage one bravo. copy, one bravo. you have seen the space launch. tom costello is is standing by. it looked like it was picture perfect. spacex is pulling it off. this is crew 5 on board. four astronauts, including one russian cosmonaut on their way to the international space station. this is the sixth spacex flight. as we look at all things are perfect. the crew members here are the commander [ no audio ] the first female native american ever to go into space. we have got anna, the first russian to go on an american spacecraft in 20 years and russia s only female cosmonaut. we have the pilot and a japanese astronaut on his way to the station. this is going to be a five-month mission. they are go