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n ordered to evacuate as hurricane rita now is bearing down on the state shr gulf coast in just a moment.t. florida governor rhonda santos will join us first herest with the very latest from thisrs category three storm weather. in meteorologist ian oliver is with us in thisoliver. looks like it s going to be a direct hit right over. looks like somewhereoks li nortr fort myers, right towards tampa. yeah, anywhere from naples. igto the southern part of tampa bay, the mouth of tampa bay: stl still a reasonable scenaril o ao here. this is a monster of a storm, still a category three , as your mentioned,ee max, winds at 120we miles per hour. we actually had this inner eye wall that s been degrading, but there s an outer one that s forming. what that does is it spreads out the wind field overh a much larger area. we ve seen these impacts starttw already. tornado warnings throughouarnint the afternoon and evening across much of south florida. we ve got some active onesh flom ....
on tuesday. . and frankly, the more we learn about it, the more enraging it is.becomi it sng c becomingle clear by the second that lives likelyen could have been saved. as a fatherll youou and a grandfather, my heart breaks for the parents of these victims. i can t even ev imagineen the ones who will never see. their children again, the ones wondering if their son or daughter could have been saved, the ones pleading outside tsid for someone anyone to do something like. and then there s the kidsiv who did survive, like the ones who covered herself in hersh friend s blood so she could play dead and the one who called 911 one multiple timesin begging for the policeg to help from eleven thirty three a.m. to nearly one p.m. salvador ramos was inside that school before being killed by law enforcement. joining me now from the de texas is fox news s jeff paul. jeff te, what can you tell us about this latest timeline? off, jason , right the bat, what are the most disturbin ....
yeah. yeah. a memory. so whenever a huge ugly story m unfolds, the media has toed do its thing. and like brian stelter at a pie eating contest , they never seem to know when to quit.qu soit you sultani 15% they don t show up one more day. so i know it s natural after a tragedy, i suppose to report and report it s necessary. but thenn what ifthat s there st enough news to do more reporting with that you repeat it and repeat it again. it s like that car s for kidsnt ad that makes me want to puncture my eardrum qunol. they really are talented though but it s everything but facts. youyo call in talking headsn and experts or angles and emotional testimony. they are the hamburger helper of news if you will, adding volume to the main course and when the reporting runs dry, which is fast, the speculation begins and like me calling my pharmacist, it sis relentless. o itea won t stop. everyone tries to outdo each other and i m more perceptive than you. are you more emotionally af ....
Cycle, you re talking aboutr ont nine feet of water on top ofop normally dry ground across that entire barrier island.le e the whole area there irrn fortos myers beach, that s one threat ,the storm surge. we ve also got the hurricane conditions that will spread far inland. at dad then look at look this, ths darkrk red , including perhapsea the tampa bay area. that s 15 to as much as 20 aroun inches of rain. if you ve been around the tampa- bay area that amount of water will lead to catastrophic flooding. those are all the threats that we re watchingg. thwatching as we moveple of through the next couple of days. days. back to you in al ean: t our thank you for that. hatreport. we re going to more also with joe bastardi later on in the show. joining us now joining with moreh mo on this looming storm , floridae governor rhonda santurce,are bu governor , i know you re up.sy i know you re busy.i hear i heard your press conferencd e earlier two 1/2 million people have been ordered to ev ....
Thank you for watchingg tonight . i m jasonn chaffetz in for laura ingraham. thanks to laura for sitting me in the seat. not many people get to do it but she lets me thank you . think of memorial day. of the millions of people who sacrificed their lives for this country and remember not just on fourth of july, notst just memorial day.nd every remember it on monday and every day i genuinely stupid happy friday. i sincerely hope you re excitedm for your three day weekend. i know i am. this is what i did last year different from what you know. ....