completely blown over by the wind. but what s completely striking about this spot is the boats that have been tossed across the street here. we have a bit of a bottleneck of human activity because this is the road to fort myers beach, and the sheriff s department is not letting anybody on. if you haven t seen any pictures of fort myers beach, this is why. there is a first and former law in florida that s suppose today give us access when there s a state of emergency, but you got to feel for the sheriff s deputies just trying to manage the crowds here that are piling in. you ve got journalists, you ve got first responders, you have residents who are just curious coming by. but this is what i wanted to show you. this is across san carlos boulevard. and just get a load of this. just wanton, indiscriminate destruction. but that is nothing compared to what we saw then when we came back here to fort myers and put the drawn up over the yacht base here. this is around joe s crab shac
it s tight for sure. and today some signs that the momentum is shifting toward republican voters pushing lee zeldin closer to the line. maybe even over it. the hot issue here crime. and democrat governor kathy hochul appears to be in trouble. fox power rankings show houck hochul s lead is shrinking mightily. as that is happening, the race projection has moved from a solid win for democrats to a likely win. you don t get any bluer than the blue state of new york. republicans and democrats across america are both paying attention to this race. and the u.s. house of representatives republicans are projected to win 233 seats. a 16-seat majority. that actually is a pickup of a seat from just a week ago with four races in the northeast moving closer to favoring republicans. karl rove says the president is not helping his party. since we created american political parties between the years of 1818 and 1824 two first mid-term elections which the white house party gained seats in
cone. one-sixth of the cone off to the right, and another sixth of the cone off to the left. this is how the hurricane center actually draws the cone. they just want to look at the middle, but then you have to think on the outside of the cone you re not out of the woods just yet. look at the water here. around 90 degrees in the gulf of mexico. and i feel like we ve talked so much this summer about the temperature of the water and how concerning it is as storm season really ramps up. i know it goes through november. but, still, at this point, and your point, chad, you and i have covered a lot of storms in the 20 years that we ve known one another, and talked to people in those areas like tampa who have been told multiple times to evacuate, then it wasn t as bad. what do you think can be said, then, tonight, in terms of those concerns to say, hey, you have to take this one seriously? we already have mandatory evacuations for many zone a people. and those people should be gone tonight
then when you have laura, the coach of the dolphins saying well, there is nothing serious except for a concussion, have they learned nothing? this is it s you know, as you said, it was just really four days between these two videos that people have seen over and over again and thank goodness for the video. thank goodness we can see this and see how badly the n frks ll handled this. this young man has his whole life of football and a life afterwards. many wonder my goodness what does it take to have someone off the field. he should have been off the field the first time. donte, you played in the league. i m wondering when you saw that, what is your reaction to what we saw last night? they re playing it again. the curling of the hands is so uncomfortable to watch. what is your reaction looking at it? yeah, it s a dangerous thing. being a former player, i have the ability to be able to look back and think about the times when i felt like i may have had
community. thank you so much. unbelievable what we re seeing and just the continuation of the power of this storm and hurricane. i want to bring in now, the sheriff of charleston county, south carolina. sheriff, thank you for being here. i mean, we are getting video right now into cnn of some of the streets, and they are completely flooded in places like charleston. can you help give us a sense of what things are like there now? yeah. thank you. first i want to just offer our thoughts and prayers continue to go out to our neighbors and friends to the south in florida who suffered much more devastating effects from ian. we re used to water here. we have been called the low country for a reason. we did get some water on the streets downtown and a lot of the lower places, but it was not nearly as bad as it could have been. i mean, i m so glad to think about the fact that it wasn t as bad. but from everyone looking at