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Bar bouncer standing with a clicker in areas cartels are sending thousands across. we dont even have the manpower to do it. numbers are averaging 5500 per day. how will you know when you meet 2500 across nine sectors. >> brian: white house, if you are watching, things you will not hear it. open up questions, griff jenkins, what do you think of my executive order? it is implausible to implement if it says passes the court, that is twbetween the lines. >> griff: it will be challenged legally, aclu...

That are themselves, give us a bit more detail, if you can, about what you expect to see happening and given this sort of threshold number of 2,500. yeah, so we havent... i guess for it to turn off, it has to go below 1,500, which it hasnt been below 5,500 since 2020. so its probably not something thats going to get turned off, so to speak, any time soon. whats ironic with speaker johnson and other republicans, you know, jumping up and down saying, oh, you know, this is a political stunt, a lot ...

A victim says she suffers emotionally and psychologically, and had to get counselling.

Of up to 15 feet high. like cedar key. a coastal city of honored that emails north of tampa and dead center of hurricane expected. several homes and businesses there are now boarded up. >> a lot of older structures may have some issues standing up to the islands. and of course this tidal surge that we are hearing. >> tampa international airport has shut down. crews are securing boarding bridges. 5500 members of the national guard are standing by, ready to help those in the. >> so there is severa...

The governor there makes a good point. this is not an area used to dealing with severe conditions. right now a bit of a break. what weve seen is the outer bands of the storm moving through. so well get heavy rain at times and then a bit of break like were experiencing right now. its going to continue to grow. were going to see the wind pick up dramatically and no breaks in that rain. once we get into the main part of this storm, its going to be constant driving rain with those heavy winds. well ...

Florida governor ron desantis warning earlier saying it will be felt far and wide. >> wherever you are, hunker down and dont take anything for granted here. this is a very powerful storm. there will be impacts far beyond the eyewall. those will extend to places like tallahassee as well as places like northeast florida. when the winds die down to a sufficient level, search and rescue efforts will begin. we have eight urban search and rescue teams staged ready to go. 33 ambulance strike teams. 550...

I think were worried about the surge, the ocean surge. we dont know exactly yet. hour to hour were watching this but i told the governor that and the mayor in the regions likely to be hit first were there as long as it takes and make sure they have everything they need. >> looking at a live picture of tampa. that was president biden yesterday on the federal response. 49 of floridas 67 counties are currently under state of emergency. at least 30 have issued evacuation orders. governor ron desanti...

Governor, for your leadership and support of your florida national guard and mr. guthrie, thank you for protecting citizens. we are assessing damage and our thoughts and prayers are with the impact of the storm on folks. florida national guard is fully mobilized with 5500 supporting the efforts post landfall. guard elements have been providing support to state and local partners with reconnaissance, search and rescue, damage assessment. 53rd combat team is engaged in florida coastal counties, co...

Was expected? >> we have been coordinating very closely with the weather service and making sure we alerted people for the potential for a major catastrophic storm. that was communicated in the past several days. what well be doing is ascertaining what the damage is like. helping individuals rebuild. we know that the storm surge was significant. we know the winds and the rain significant as it continues to go through the state and go on up to georgia and the carolinas. but this is a process that...

Coordinating, he have resource request weve received has either been filled or will be filled by the end of this morning. we do have 420,000 gallons of fuel staged and ready to deploy and additional assets are expected over the next few days. and the gas stations that will be prioritized will be the ones along the heavy evacuation routes. we have 8 urban search and rescue teams activated and over 580 rescue personnel ready right now. we have delivered 431 pallets of water, 303 pallets of mre and...