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be felt nearly 300 miles from the center, which means that millions of people across the south from georgia to virginia will be affected. this is the scene in the towns of myrtle beach and south port, south carolina. they are facing life threatening storm surge from hurricane ian. we are also getting a fuller picture of the devastation on the ground now in towns across florida. "the new york times" describing it this way. quote, the scale of the wreckage was staggering. even to florida...

have our fox news chief meteorologist rick reichmuth with us. rick this has been rough so far. >> really has. three things, the storm surge that broke records in fort myers and naples as well by a lot by the way, three feet higher than we had ever seen from any kind of storm surge in the past. that obviously causing all that flooding right along the immediate coast. then we have the winds, actual verified winds of 140 miles an hour in cape corral. a lot of this wind was really prolonge...

Windows. gas stations, unfortunately we cant show them to you very well because the powers out all around us. we have a couple of street lights that have managed to stay on. but, you know, the roofs of these buildings are coming apart. we hear the tin slap the street here behind us and just take off as debris in the wind. also the traffic lights over us here, we have constant emergency alerts going off on our phones from rescuers basically saying we cant get to you. we know that there are people...

Legal aspect, historians, and scholars i want to focus in on one of those experts cited by alito. some matthew hail, a 17th century jurist, illegal senate hail more than 100 times and for him as one of the eminent common law authorities, that is quite the recommendation it sounds like we should look at his resume to see why hail is so chair midas alito. michael hit -- includes having at least two women executed for witchcraft. -- marital rape exemptions, and populating capital punishment for chi...

American political system into that indispensable leader of that movement. for both of those reasons it will be hard to recapture that. thats what jonathan martin and our paper were trying to point out. that may be missing. >> a lot of folks met in the senate who were lying for a lot of that energy in 2016. elizabeth warren among them. kamala harris and cory booker and all of those in the senate with bernie sanders. >> part of his rise is he was not hillary clinton. in that primary, you had two ...

Hardest-hit areas where crews have begun massive cleanup efforts on the ground. were live in mexico beach, florida. almost a week, hard to believe, since michael hit. how is the recovery going there? >> some of the families are just getting back and getting a look at what remains of their belongings. going through the battered remains of their houses. this family is getting a first look at their battered vacation house. we saw this truck looked like it was parked downstairs. it is not their truc...

Hours. the track across the carolinas. that shifts the heaviest rainfall. that is good because eastern south carolina and north carolina are regions with the heaviest rainfall with 3 to 4 foot totals in florence and now they can expect 1 to 2 rather than 3 to 5 inches of rainfall. >> some good news. ryan, we are seeing stunning video of the storm. michael hit panama city as it hit parts of florida and mexico beach including. what to you made this a devastating and now deadly storm? >> the fact t...

Decided to ride out the storm to perhaps get in contact with emergency officials. reporting from apalachicola. im derek van dam. back to you, dave. >> derek, thank you. michael punished georgia with destructive rain and winds arriving as a category three hurricane as it moved across the state. making it the most powerful storm to hit the area in 120 years. our meteorologist pedram javaheri tracking michael live from the cnn weather center as it moves into the carolinas. what can folks expect? ...

South carolina. the still very dangerous tropical storm at this hour as officials in three states say more than half a million people are without power. nearly 6,600 people in shelters. two people died in separate incidents. a florida man and 11-year-old boy in georgia killed when trees fell on their homes. no telling what first responders will find today. they are beginning to search through homes as conditions improve. >> just about two hours until sunrise. michael made landfall near mexico be...

The death toll from hurricane michael climbed to five. michael hit the panhandle 25 hours ago and were starting to see the pictures from the devastation. one of the hardest hit spots is mexico beach, where michael crashed ashore as a cat 4 storm. these new drone pictures capturing the aftermath across the town of about a thousand people. 20 people were rescued overnight. entire blocks of homes near the beach were washed away. a day later, the town remained difficult to reach by land with roads c...