it all comes 24 hours after militants fired off 18 drones and three missiles towards ships in the red sea, their largest attack yet. american and british forces shooting them down. tonight, at this hour, the military action from the u.s. and the uk now. the white house tonight saying the u.s. will, quote, counter and defeat these mounting attacks from the iranian-backed houthi rebels. mary bruce standing by live with what she s learning right now. in new york city, donald trump lashing out during closing arguments in the $370 million civil fraud trial against him. trump blasting the judge in court. the judge telling the defense, control your client. what comes next now for trump? aaron katersky outside the courthouse. in the northeast, rivers dangerously high, with this new storm now set to sweep across the country and right into the northeast. the tornado threat right now in the south. how much snow will chicago get? and the east set to get hit again as it barrels right
this comes 24 hours after militants fired off 18 drones and three missiles toward ships in the red sea, their largest attack yet. american and british forces shooting them down. at this hour, the new signals tonight that significant military action could be coming. the white house tonight saying the u.s. will, quote, counter and defeat these mounting attacks from the iranian-backed houthi rebels. mary bruce standing by live with what she s learning right now. in new york city, donald trump lashing out during closing arguments in the 37 $0 million civil fraud trial against him. trump blasting the judge in court. the judge telling the defense, control your client. what comes next now? aaron katersky outside the courthouse. in the northeast, rivers dangerously high, with this new storm now set to sweep across the country, and right into the northeast. the tornado threat right now in the south. how much snow will chicago get? and the east set to get hit again as it barrels ri
the wo woods just yet. ten storm-related deaths after facing an overnight hammering across the peninsula. residents describing what it was like to ride out one of the worst storms to ever hit the u.s. i feared for my life. i went across the street, i got sticks and it didn t last enough for the big bad wolf that puffed away. i was just scared for my children. trace: rescue and recovery efforts underway in numerous cities that have seen historic flooding, fallen trees, downed power lines, and large gaps where a bridge once connected the mainland to the barrier islands. we ve got team coverage for you tonight, kevin corke with a look at how this biden administration is responding to the storm. will nunley still on the ground and we begin with steve harrigan live in florida just 9 miles away from where ian came a short period good evening, you heard from people who rode out the storm the fear as the storm was coming through and then later we are seeing people talking tod
counties. that s along the gulf of mexico, southwest corner we pointed out a moment ago. you have 40,000 linemen on the ground. they will need them in order to restore power. dana: they have restored power to a significant portion already. it is impressive the work they ve done. there is a long way to go. 14,000 people in shelters. also a call for everybody to make sure they are being very smart in using their generators in order to protect people from any problems there and from electrocution and also from carbon monoxide. follow those instructions very, very carefully. bill: we are tracking ian and get back to that in a moment. we listened to governor desantis. pine island, sanibel, those are going to be rebuild efforts. the sanibel bridge had breaks in multiple parts of it. it was not where the water and pylons were. those held up well. it is where you had it on the sandbar and it got washed out. dana: the scale of the wreckage is southwest florida is staggering. m
we begin with our chief meteorologist rick reichmuth in the fox weather center. rick? yeah, landfall about 55 minutes ago just around the georgetown, south carolina area. that s where the worst of the storm surge is. the storm surge on shore already. winds sustained were 85 miles an hour. a category one storm. we look at the satellite picture. looks like a mess. it s turning into a more typical storm that you might see in the northern latitudes or at least a combination between those two kinds of storms. the rain field will stretch out. we ll see the wind field stretch out as well across a lot of areas. in general, a weakening wind trend now that we have the storm over land. the winds gusting 46 miles an hour. that s an offshore wind. that is pushing water, not allowing storm surge there to be coming on. we have rain here. some of the storms out across east earn north carolina will have a tornado thread there. there s one tornado warning out there to inside of the outer