Storm Subsides News Today

>> welcome back. hurricane ian making landfall and wreaking havoc, tampa, florida, battling a storm weve not seen for a century. lets check with fox weathers max gorden from st. petersburg, florida. how has the situation changed, max? >> more than 100,000 customers without power in piniella county, and more than a million customers across florida are in the dark. help will be on the way once this storm subsides. the bucket trucks in the hotel parking lot, there are more than 33,000 utility worke...

Louisiana. the storm is still powerful, moving very slowly across the state. right now the flash flood emergency has been declared in new orleans. all of new orleans parish is without power after catastrophic transmission damage. that is according to the city. but major relief is on the way once the storm subsides. as one group is on the ground with enough food to serve more than 100,000 meals. chef jose andres joins me now. he is the founder of world central kitchen organization and has been a ...

So much of femas job is figure out a strategy of how to move when the storm subsides. its an amazing thing to be on the northern edge of the eyewall. the winds have died down slightly. the rain has stopped. you get the bands but it wasnt the relentless rain we experienced for hours and hours before the sun came up earlier today. the sky starts to lighten a little bit. thats no way to define what were about to get over the coming hours. well get the back side of the storm and well see that live h...

Shared with the citizens in this community is that once this storm is under way, there is no way were going to be able to get our first responders out there to get to emergencies. were going to have to wait for the storm to subside before we get to you. a lot of people heeded that advice and got out. people that couldnt get out, weve got shelters that weve got folks in here in the community. and, you know, were doing the best we can, but were not going to be able to get out in this kind of weath...

Island. this is an island territory that is some distance from the united states. the constraints and limitations are different from a contiguous state here in the united states. we can position hundreds of trucks in florida or texas for line services. we cant do that in puerto rico. we have to bring them in the moment the storm subsides. thats what we are doing. a lot of the reporting is not wrong, but dated. for instance i saw that only 11 hospitals were assessed and opened. that was probably ...

They could feasibly be stuck in a traffic jam when this thing hits if they decide to go too late? >> certainly, no one should be traveling anywhere at this point t. conditions here are getting worse. you can see the weather conditions moving in. no one should be traveling. you should be lunk u hunkered down. at this point few havent found the location, you could head to an immediate shelter and there are many throughout miami-dade county. at this point we told residents, continue with usually, y...

hurricane irene, now officially made landfall as a category 1 storm on the east coast of the united states. the most up-to-date satellite image we can show you now of re irene, showing wear and tear, described as sloppy, not very well organized but starting to get more disorganized. you can see it there, it was a more organized storm over the past couple of days but as its making landfall now and making its way up the east coast maybe not so much so. it has been lashing out at the caro...

Is suspend a lot of said sediment in the water. when the storm subsides, guess what, all that stuff settles out into the sea bed so theres a lot more oiling of the sea bed ecosystem after this. weve seen this in several large oil spills around the world. >> perfect. rick steiner, marine conservationist and one of the men helping us understand this as the nightmare continues. once again, great thanks for your time, rick. >> indeed, my pleasure. the gushers on capitol hill were at the kagan and ...

Up patches of oil, its not necessarily a bad thing at this time. is it likely to do that? is it likely to serve as a natural dispersant? >> sure. thats what will happen, and theres some good and bad to that. one, it will with all the turbulent mixing on the sea surface, the oil thats near the sea surface will break into smaller droplets, disperse down into the water column. the bad news is all of that will travel with the storm surge wherever that goes. if it goes up into the bayous, a lot of ar...

Russians. >> makes for good headlines here in new york city. great to have you with us. thanks for that. >> thank you, thomas. as weve been telling you this morning admiral thad allen was expected to be talking. he is now at the u.s. coast guard giving an update on the oil disaster in the gulf. >> coastal flooding is expected in some of the coastal areas of louisiana. what is the cleanup plans once the storm subsides? >> we expect if theres a storm surge we could see oil moving further inland ...