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You can see the debris, the fallen tree limbs where it struck a tree. as we make our way over here i will show you the exact spot where this car came to rest continuing past this slope right here and ending at this location right here in front of this apartment complex. georgia bulldogs football player devin willock, 20 years old, a recruiting staff member, and two other staff members were all inside the car at the time of the crash. willock died here at the scene. the recruiting staff member, c...

Through the next couple days. 72 miles per hour in buffalo. we have had a report from burlington, vermont, 70 miles per hour as well. so really strong winds, damaging winds that cause tree limbs to fall and power outages. we have already seen hundreds of thousands of people without power at this hour. and that number will likely go up. and we were looking at more than 60% of the country dealing with these winter weather alerts of some sort. that could be dangerous. 172 million people are in thos...

Wild winter systems brutal wrath barrels east. its multipronged path of destruction stretching from snow slammed dakotas to tornado ravaged texas leaving roughly 14 million americans across the upper midwest and great plains under winter alerts. in fort worth today, a heart-stopping scene. a funnel appearing to touch down. amid widespread tornado watches and warnings in oklahoma and arkansas. the tornado threat forcing travelers to shelter in place at dallas-fort worth airport. in suburban grape...

Huge, right? just if you think about all of the branches and all of the garbage that has washed up and is up against fences now, it is going to be messy. >> reporter: the daunting task of cleaning up also facing people on the greek island of crete, where flash flooding there caused similar devastation, leaving a tangle of toppled cars and tree limbs. in some places, the floods spilled over embankments like waterfalls. witnesses say it was terrifying how quickly the water rushed in. >> translator...

Moved out now. but, you know, these are also the concerning hours when its dark and you cant see the damage and the debris thats out there. and theres plenty of it out on the roadways. the good thing is that it looks like the worst of ians elements have lifted out of here. the rain and the wind has cleared out for the most part. the next hurdle will certainly be cleanup, clearing out a lot of this debris thats been tossed all over the place. you can see some of it here behind me, these large tre...

Want to get this out of the way fairly quickly, because when you can sitter that three quarters of sarasota county is without power, this debris is certainly going to cause some trouble for those utility crews that are standing by and trying to get through this this area so they can start restoring service. you know, youve got these these large tree limbs and other debris and the way its going to make it hard for those utility crews to get around this is this has been expected for days now. gove...

Make sure we were safe earlier in the day yesterday, we did go out into some of the neighborhoods, into the sarasota bay area to see what it was doing. it was still in good shape then ,but we dont know right now. so were hoping that we can get out there and sort of get a lay of the land to see what the damage is , if any. but right now, if tree limbs and things of that sort are the extent of it, i would say that folks here fared pretty well. >> all right. and , of course, you know, with with day...

As , you know, it could take power lines down again. so, again, folks are going to have to be patient. weve already seen some of these crews out here maybe surveying some of the damage. so there is work being done right now. you just got to pack your patience, guys. back , you boy. >> packing your patience. that is going to be , i think, a theme not only this evening, but really in the days to come. charles , real quick, you can still hear me. im curious. you know, im looking around you. theres ...

0 >> and i just want to send a quick thank you to our first responders. i mean, you see these images of them cutting down trees, trying to remove the debris so that we can get our days back to normal. but we still have quite some time to get through. >> and were going to do, you know, it is the firefighters, its the police officers. >> it is just everyone working behind the scenes. >> and hurricane ian water in parts of southwest florida, streets and buildings completely flooded, power knocked o...

0 with first cause of this surge right now. reporting in fort myers, robert ray fox. >> whether. all right. thank you so much for sticking with us. right here on fox weather. a hurricane in a water log in southwest florida. streets and buildings completely flooded, as you can see here. power knocked out to two million people. and one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the united states . the hurricane making landfall wednesday afternoon near jocasta. a protected barrier island just wes...