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be there. thats my commitment to. >> neil: heres the thing. ian is not leaving. its down but not out. ian now a tropical storm is expected to make its way back to a category one hurricane after devastating the sunshine state. south carolinas governor will hold a news conference shortly. heres what we know right now. a storm surge up to seven feet predicted for charleston, south carolina as of tomorrow. in florida today, more than 2.6 million people are still without power across the st...

florida as well as tens of thousands of electric crews from all over the country. we do not have a complete picture of fatalities or injuries across florida as of yet. one death has officially been reported so far. we expect to hear more from authorities soon. almost 3 million people are still without power. it weakened to a tropical storm ian but back to a hurricane this afternoon as it heads for south carolina. the mayor of charleston, south carolina, is asking his city to shut down ...

Pete: those are your headlines. i will go find and exact spot, post it for $49,000. why not? turn now to chief meteorologist rick reichmuth for the fox weather forecast. good morning. >> good morning, there are a lot of ways to better spend your $99,000. let me tell you that. talk a little weather. im standing outside without a coat on compared to yesterday. absolutely unbelievable. january was the warmest january on record. all the locations across the northeast. we had 1 1/2 day shot of cold a...

Part of the reason well see so much rain and flooding potential. we are moving to the northwest at 7 miles per hour. it was anywhere from 3 to 5 miles an hour. so just a little bit of speeding up. that will be good news. what we were paying attention to, we are waiting for the worst of the rain to work its way onshore. you see deep, dark colors hanging 50 miles offshore. that is going to be something we have to pay close attention to. this is kind of interesting. you can see the center of circul...

We seen along the mississippi river. we will take a look at this, flood warnings that are still the case along the mississippi river. the mississippi river is at around 16 feet -- the 16-foot level, around new orleans. 20 feet is where the water would start to go over the levy. so it wont take a lot of water here to cause some really significant flooding. up the center of the storm, you can see it on these little wind barbs are out there. very far apart from where you see most of the action. tha...

Looking at the wind barbs that is the motion of the wind grabbing the wind grabby night, pushing it toward san francisco where theyve been battling that the wildfire but the smoke from that stretched across a large portion of the state. what ends up happening with the winds come the sierra nevada off to the east to smoke inside funneling down in the valley getting back in folks from sacramento further south battling day after day heavy smoke tough to get outside. there are some improvement in th...

Hour. one. two, its saturday. tuesday is four days away. you can think about how a saturated ground is going to have to handle all that rain thats coming with this slow-moving storm. grankted not a hurricane anymore only a tropical storm. keep that in mind with the rain still coming and with the wind still around, although not as bad but still around, when are these crews going to be getting out and fix the power. the concern is we will be without power for a while now. katie: thats always the b...

Those little wind barbs you see right there, were probably going to have a 48 hour period of onshore winds -- it means storm surge you see go in that doesnt have any time to move back out. the wind will keep all that water piled up into shore, piled up in the inlets in the streams and then on top of that, 20-40 inches of rain. rain that falls, gravity is what takes water off of our continent, it goes down to the shore -- gravity isnt going to be able to do that because it wants to go down to a l...

Around a cluster of storms or heavy rain. they should be able to make their way around that and get close to the debris field and make sense of whats going on there. >> how much do you think the progress that can be made on the search is dependent on the vagueries of weather? >> its huge because heres the thing. all of this youre looking at, these arrows, those are wind barbs, going from west to east. these are westerlies, big area of high pressure. those westerlies are key. with the debris fiel...