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Alertmac now a category of four hurricane, boys to make landfall in florida and the next two hours. Things are getting very dicey, multiple states bracing for the worst, storm surge, heavy wind threatening the entire gulf coast and beyond. We will get to the monolog in moments but let s check in across city in florida, yeah, fox weather is robert rae, what is the latest? and things are deteriorating in a big way here, on the nature coast. And eminent landfall in the next two hours, the wind speeds just updated the national hurricane center to 140 miles per hour sustained. That is catastrophic, like you cannot even explain. It is coming in here in the dark night, we are beginning just the rain in the wind and it will just deteriorated more in the coming hours. Has already about 400,000 customers without power in the great state of florida, a state of emergency here across the entire peninsula, up into georgia. One of the biggest concerns after landfall is as a system tracks up into geor ....
Little bit to levy county. joining us is with the sheriffs office. thank you for joining us. you re in the northwest part of the florida peninsula. a mandatory evacuation order has been ordered in the coastal areas of the county. it s supposed to be completed by this hour, 4:00 p.m. eastern. the see dart key mayor says about 100 people are not complying. tell us what you re hearing and seeing. for the most part, we re seeing a lot of our citizens moving out of the way of this. we do have, like our other counties, hardened residents who aren t taking heed. don t stay. if there s any message i can send, don t stay. this is going to be an epic flood for our region. have things gone as smoothly as they could today? unfortunately, this is not our first time to prep for a storm. as far as our operations and ramping up and the safety of our ....
Me say before we talk flooding as a former mayor how my heart breaks for the people in virginia beach and our thoughts and prayers are with them as well. hearts are breaking for folks in virginia beach and across arkansas. you have been on the ground touring the damage. what are you seen? how can people help? it is an epic flood and you made a comment a minute ago about the dam in arkansas. that is an hour and a half down from the van buren and portsmouth area but to give you some context, before this particular flood, the fastest flow that we had reported in history was about 400,000 ft. per second and inputs within van buren we have been checking that every day. we peaked that 570,000 ft. per second so we peaked at about 40 feet, a little over that the ....
And he knew that there would be a narrative the next day that there had been a complete purge of all of steve bannon s people, and it would kill him with his base he thought. so what does he do? goes to the transgender ban. again, bad news. let s kick around people serving our country, and then of course joe arpaio, which is just an affront to the judiciary. heinous. he doesn t realize again, because he plays, he s a day trader, he doesn t realize when he did that, he enraged a federal judiciary and even state judiciaries that are already enraged at how little respect he shows the court system. well, i mean, the president has always been and remains an expert at manipulating the media, an expert at look at this shiny object over here and that s what we go to in the midst of the epic flood, a major ....
It. this story is an american story. it s an epic flood, it s a tragic, tragic situation for the residents of houston, but the pictures that you just referenced, joe, there was one in particular over the weekend of a group of people in a rest home, a nursing home, elderly people, sitting there, submerged up to their waists. the picture went viral once it was displayed. rescuers within hours were in that nursing home rescuing people. it didn t matter who they were. it didn t matter their income, their race, their religion. that s the picture. they were rescued by other americans, and this is who we are coming together. and some of them being asked on camera, after they saw this, where are you going? i m going to save some lives. yes. and it was everybody. there are people in new orleans putting their boats on trailers and driving to houston to help save people, and it s the best of the country. ....