Brian 7 00 a. M. On the east coast, wednesday, october 9th, this is Fox Friends. Steve it is. We start this hour of Fox Friends with a fox weather alert. Look at those live images right now from Tampa And Fort myers. Rain and wind picking up in florida as a Category 5 Hurricane Named Milton is barreling toward the state. Florida congressman Byron Donalds is standing by with an urgent warning. He is with us in two minutes. Lawrence while americans are scrambling to find safety, the White House is brushing off criticism of their Emergency Response as misinformation. A lot of misinformation. Misleads people. Im going to divorce the disinformation that is being spread. Your whole premise of the question is misinformation. Ainsley fbi foils an afghan Nationals Plot to launch an Election Day Terror attack. How he got here under the bidenharris administration. Brian second hour of Fox Friends starts right now. Hurricane milton expected to make landfall along floridas gulf coast. Lawrence comm
This is Fox Friends. Fox weather alert. Mandatory evacuations now underway as florida braces for another hurricane. This one milton, Florida Governor Ron Desantis standing by. He will join us in minutes. There he is. Good morning, governor. Steve North Carolina getting helping help of two americas biggest stars as residents pick up the pieces from Hurricane Helene. Luke combs and Eric Church will join us live on this Fox Friends. Ainsley plus with exactly four weeks until election day, Kamala Harris struggles to answer for all of her flipflops. Listen. Against tracking now for it. You were for medicare for all, now youre not. People dont truly know what you believe or what you stand for. Lawrence the second hour of Fox Friends starts right now. Lawrence so we have a Fox Weather alert. Millions across Floridas Gulf Coast are bracing for Hurricane Milton as it heads toward Tampa Bay bringing lifethreatening Storm Surge. Milton could be the strongest storm to Hit Tampa in more than 100 ye
Hassan nasrallah was killed in an israeli strike in beirut. Nasrallah who led hezbollah for more than 30 years is the most powerful target to be killed by israel in weeks of intensified fighting with hezbollah. Welcome to knocks fuse live, everyone, im aneato anita vogel. Great to be with you. Griff the general staff indicated earlier today that more strikes are planned on friday. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin saying the United States was not involved in Israels Operation or given advance warning. Senior correspondent Mike Tobin is live in haifa, israel kicking things off. Griff, a few developments in the last few moments. Irans Supreme Leader says the blood of Hassan Nasrallah will not go unavenged. A rocket was sent, but alarms were all over central israel. There was a fresh Israeli Air Strike into the beirut neighborhood, the same neighborhood where Hassan Nasrallah was killed yesterday. It was a massive air strike, so large that Collateral Damage is certain. The idf says that h
path the danger is real to state the obvious. please obey all warnings. brian in florida desperate search and rescue efforts underway this morning. at least 10 confirmed dead. officials warn that number likely to climb. significant damage that i saw was on fort myers beach there have been more than 700 confirmed rescues and there is likely many more than that. brian: there you go. before and after photos showing the extent of the damage in fort myers. curfew being enforced there to prevent looting. more than 2 million people across florida still have no power. we have live team coverage this morning. meteorologist adam klotz is standing by with ian s latest track. but, first, fox weather correspondent robert wray is live in fort myers with a look at the damage. robert? yeah, it s tremendous. it s really everywhere you look. and especially when you start heading down to fort myers beach where all those rescues have occurred and where governor antioxidant just talked ab
showing a line of cars not trying to get out of town but to trying to get into a parking structure because they want to get them above sea level. so they don t get caught in a flood. you know, this is a part of south carolina that floods during high tide. and if you combine high tide with an incoming hurricane, i mean, that really could spell disaster. everyone here is kind of bracing for what ian is going to bring with it when it comes ashore a little later today. back to you guys. brian: good news, doug, you can t rationalize not taking action after what we just saw in fort myers. you can t say well, it s not going to be bad. forget it, consider it s going to be bad and look out. you have no excuse. ainsley: you are right, doug, my sister-in-law lost her car just years ago driving through downtown charleston in a normal storm it. does flood down there. if you are in downtown charleston get out and move your cars to a higher ground. links i have lost a car in a hurricane before.