Page 2 - Post Storm News Today

Storm barrels towards the course. property loss could be in the billions, human cost still unknown. as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. >> good evening once again. im stephanie ruhle. we are tracking hurricane ian tonight as it closes in on floridas west coast. we just got the 11 pm forecast from the national hurricane center, and well bring you the latest on the huge storms path in just a moment. meanwhile, the january six committee has postpone tomorrows hearing because of th...

Him we think it creates high paying jobs in our community in addition to protecting our environment. >> you might be but other florida lawmakers including her government laugh about the idea of green jobs. how do you work with them? >> well, i think you have two to the best of your ability to try to de politicize the issue, and to make it about the things that we see. the person right before me was talking about 8 to 12 foot storm surge. that is catastrophic. we had 46 foot storm surge during ir...

Severe Weather Awareness Week is in full swing across the Palmetto state, and each day is dedicated to a facet of hazardous weather.

>> reporter: and the storm surge of 2 to 4 feet, it could be problematic, certainly where im standing right now, as you see the water splashing over my head, but certainly problematic in cities on the coast that have the rivers pass through them. how do you deal with that, how do you deal with a 4 foot storm surge? >> absolutely. well, the first step that we do as the army corps of engineers in jacksonville, we are focused post-storm on basically two areas with a storm like this. its ensuring th...

Moved hundreds of utility trucks, some from as far away as illinois to numerous locations including the daytona international speedway, where they will be dispatched from post storm, if needed to repair lines and restore power. i know were waiting on the governor to speak. he spoke earlier today about how rare and historic dorian is. >> this is a cat 5 plus right now. and you would really have to go back to 1935 in the state of florida, when the labor day hurricane came through and just oblitera...

Next weve kind of moved our stations to a protective posture along the low-lying areas of south carolina, actually closing a couple of the stations and moving those assets upriver, which has severely degraded our ability to currently respond to search and rescue inland and offshore. still able to conduct those rescues, but it is hampered, and those responses now will be delayed up until the storm and then after until we assess the ability to get back out has been achieved. >> another question fo...

Whats the plan for emergency response post-storm? i mean youre deploying helicopter crews to savannah, georgia, post-storm response, right? what are you doing? >> yes, thats right, don. we have crews, not just our aviation assets from air station savannah, but we have environmental response teams coming from the gulf strike team in mobile, alabama. we have flood pump teams, which are shallow water rescue capabilities that are staged for both north carolina and south carolina. the coast guard is ...

Power. 58% of its residents without power this morning. just astounding and really miami may not have been as hard hit or close to the eye. but we got hit hard despite the fact that the eye did not go through here. again, we had power lines down. water 3 feet high in brickell avenue. cranes two collapsed in miami another in fort lauderdale. we also had panels flying off of buildings. post storm. and on top of all of that we have seen police patrols in neighborhoods to try to stop looters. looter...

Whats going on. many shelters have plenty of room so thats what we want to see, is people at least taking time to go to a shelter if they dont evacuate. the charleston harbor will be closed at 10:00 a.m. national guard, yes, 2,000 on duty, 3,000 on standby. we are receiving like i said multiple resources from other states who have offered help but also fema is really stepping up and making sure we have the pre-storm supplies that we need going forward to man the shelters and do all the things th...

Into the station. it gives you the extent of the flooding issues post-sandy. >> remember tweeting a photo of it coming through the elevator door. fascinating to see the sheer devastation of that. >> oh, yeah. >> kudos to everybody working around the clock to get everything up and running here in the city. >> and the shutdown for several days, not a few weeks, post-storm. they have gotten it back up, which is great. you can see the extent of the damage. slowly but surely getting there. surely sta...