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And unsurvivable about Helene Making Landfall Last Night in florida. Cat 4 hurricane. Big storm and really moving like a clipper, too. Im bill hemmer, welcome to our program. Dana im dana perino. This is americas newsroom. Another fast week. It was good that it moved fast but still means there is a lot of damage. Ron desantis was right on time yesterday and we expect to see him any moment. Lets get to Steve Harrigan outside of tampa. This is the scene a lot of people in florida and even georgia are waking up to today. Two feet of water on the ground. Gets deeper the closer you get to the water. Many houses under water. The challenge now for people is getting out of their homes. Getting to their cars trying to make sure theyre safe. Weve seen a number of Air Boats and water rescues, 80 in this county just ove ....
be there. that s my commitment to. neil: here s the thing. ian is not leaving. it s down but not out. ian now a tropical storm is expected to make its way back to a category one hurricane after devastating the sunshine state. south carolina s governor will hold a news conference shortly. here s what we know right now. a storm surge up to seven feet predicted for charleston, south carolina as of tomorrow. in florida today, more than 2.6 million people are still without power across the state. no indications when they will get that back. search and rescue operations underway in florida s barrier islands and other hard-hit areas. governor desantis calling it a 24/7 operation. moments from now, we ll talk to the mayor of fort myers florida particularly hard hit by the storm. first, fox team coverage with robert ray in fort myers and steve harrigan in charlotte county where they re trying to dig out. welcome. i m neil cavuto. let s go to robert ray in f fort myers that got ....
Hurricane earlier spent the afternoon passing over houston. the storm s forward progress has slowed and the rain keeps coming down. forecasters predict life-threatening flash floods across portions of the deep south over the next couple days, over 20 inches of rain are possible across central and southern louisiana if the storm stalls, as expected, in the coming days. southern mississippi, alabama, and the florida panhandle. we will obviously keep an eye on all of that for you. president biden is currently getting briefed on the storm. he s in colorado this afternoon to push for his economic plan which includes major provisions to try to deal with the climate crisis. cnn s jeremy diamond is in colorado. what is the president doing this afternoon? reporter: well, listen, jake, climate change and how president biden plans to combat it has been front and center during what has been his first trip out west as president. he was in california and idaho ....
The highway. h we have highway 23 on the west bank, that s the only way in and out. highway 39 on the east bank of the parish is the only way in and out. those waters inundate those highways, it gives us grave concern. if something like that happens, what is the what are the options for an emergency response should people still have not heeded the evacuations warnings? by then we have rocked the levies that will allow us to get emergency vehicles to transport on, which is the river levee. we feel confident that we will be able to handle that. the water that is coming in, you know, we all we can almost count on it, but the problem is this storm stalls, we will have more trouble. if it continues on its forward path that we think it is, we may catch a break in the window and that water can recede. now, louisiana governor said ....
2 feet of rain depending on where the storm sets up. there is also the possibility that the storm stalls and then kind of drifts northward. and does sort of like matthew did a few years ago where it scrapes the coast line and moves up towards georgia and the carolinas. so i don t want you to think you are out of the woods georgia and the carolinas, that potentially is a scenario and there is also a scenario where it comes into the gulf of mexico. this is one of the hardest storms to forecast when it comes to hurricane modeling. and as you can see the sea surface temperatures 85 degrees, 87 degrees. really nothing to say that this storm couldn t rapidly intensify over the next couple of days. here s one of the computer models. again, this is going to change forecast to forecast. this one brings it inland and then dropping over a foot or maybe two feet of rainfall as it continues northward. that s the gfs and the euro is very similar although the euro has it hugging the coast line a litt ....