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♪ brian: 7:00 a. M. On the east coast, wednesday, october 9th, this is fox & friends. Steve: it is. We start this hour of fox & friends with a fox weather alert. Look at those live images right now from tampa and fort myers. Rain and wind picking up in florida as a category 5 hurricane named milton is barreling toward the state. Florida congressman byron donalds is standing by with an urgent warning. He is with us in two minutes. Lawrence: while americans are scrambling to find safety, the whi...

parts of the state on a slow, this is really an issue, its churning on the destructive crawl north. orlando now in the crosshairs of this historic storm thats produced record rainfall and storm surge. power outages are a major problem with more than 2 million customers in the dark across florida. water is just everywhere in many communities. in port charlotte, the storm blew the roof off of a hospital and it flooded the intensive care unit. ahead, were going to speak to a doctor there,...

millions of floridians in this storms path. those who have not evacuated are urged to shelter in place immediately. almost 800,000 people are already without power. thats according to florida utilities. the director of fema has warned that recovery from hurricane ian will be a very long road. that agency has already begun to pour resources into the state. in an event earlier today, president joe biden said he spoke with florida governor ron desantis and added he already requested aid s...

My house. i have a home command center set up here. i have walkie-talkies, ive been talking to key citizens and leaders and first responders. the water in my canal is about an inch from spilling over the edge and coming into my house from the back. the water is already lapping up against my garage door and my front door. while im talking to you, although my feet are dry right now, we expect in the next 30 minutes that my house is going to be severely flooded, not unlike a lot of other people. as...

Necessarily even be the wind that does it, it could be the cascading effect of flooding, nicolle, which obviously is quite unpredictable. >> jesse, we dont know each other well enough for me to tell you where to sleep, but please do not sleep or spend time on the ground floor. get to higher ground. stay safe. thank you so much for your reporting. were really grateful. >> thank you. lets bring into our coverage our friend, nbc news meteorologist bill karins. hes here with the latest on the path...

Commissioner. the roads and bridges have been impossible for several hours. tell us how youre doing? >> nicole, your correspondents have been talking about where the storm is. let me tell you where it was and its still here. my district makes up a big chunk of naples, marco island, a lot of those picturesque beautiful low lying areas. in times of hurricane, these are horrific locations. im a retired air force colonel, served for 24 years. this is a very serious storm. i chose not to jump in the ...

West of fort myers, is pummeling the sunshine state. wind speeds reached up to 155 miles per hour. it was just two miles per hour shy of being officially a category 5 storm. the water level in naples has reached six feet above normal tide and continues to rise. noaa has warned some areas could see surges of up to 18 feet. 2.5 million floridians are under evacuation orders. according to florida utilities, more than 1 million floridians are already without power. in another demonstration of the st...

You all have broadcast down in naples and fort myers area, very disturbing to see whats happening with the water, the flooding. and then the sheer fact that this storm is so slow. i mean, its just sort of squatting right on florida. and, you know, its going to be with us for a few days, it looks like. that just adds to the water saturation. were already sach waited. were just getting to the conclusion of our rainy season, which is the summer, and so weve had an awful lot of rain and a lot of wat...

Florida, its not all that serious, you dont need air conditioning, you dont need heating, but a lot of critical things run off power. fridges and food and dialysis and, you know, things like that. hospitals still have power, police stations have power, but thats the kind of thing that theyre thinking about right now. how to restore the power really quickly. 40,000 people standing by to repair the power lines. thats the most important thing. i saw one report about a waste water plant thats about ...

Fearful of seeking government aid in a moment of life and death in houston. but i think the president was up to something. i think the timing was significant. i think he did this for the reason you articulated. the fifth circuit court of appeals has found it unconstitutional, basically saying you want these people who are americanized to stay here. i want something in return. thats what hes going to try to get. >> bret: we will see where it goes. thank you. president trump says the disaster from...