Good morning. A fairly cloudy start with rain across the North And East but later it will brighten up in the Far North of the Country And North of the far south with a few showers but it will turn Colder for us all. All the details shortly. Its Wednesday 9th october. Millions of americans have been urged to evacuate parts of florida Ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Milton. It strengthened again overnight to become a category 5 Storm the highest rating and is expected to make landfall in the next 2a hours. Forecasters say milton has the potential to be One of the most destructive hurricanes ever recorded in the Region And President Joe Biden has described the situation in florida as a matter of Life And Death. Our reporter Steve Knibbs has more. Siren. An Evacuation Siren on the streets of Redington Shores in florida. Debris is still piled up after Storm Helene two weeks ago, and now people are being told they have to leave again. Mandatory Evacuation Orders are in place for nearly Six
Rachel welcome back. Pump is making heroic return to butler, pennsylvania. People lining up to get a spot in line. Will survivors of helene and many without power say they feel forgotten by the government. The leadership of the Biden Harris Admin vagues is under scrutiny and revealing they have to ask congress for more money after pima spent more than a bill on relocated immigrants. Hider hour of fox Friends Weekend starts right now. Reporter good morning. This is a heck of a scene. Will sounds like it. Reporter its a sea of humanity as far as you can see. Around the corner in front of us and the cranes and the flag you remember from July 13th, theres a lot of memory in the crowd from July 13th in the 6 00 hour we talked to the gentleman first in line since 11 00 a. M. Yesterday. Last hour we were talking about cars coming in and seemingly coming in and barely 8 00 a. M. In butler, pennsylvania. You keep hearing from folks is resolve, spirit, the miracle of what happened on July 13th a
Record 30inches of rainfall. More than 32,000 people are still without power at this hour. Retired u. S. Army lieutenant general Russell Honore is joining us. Let me get your assessment as someone who knows what an operation like this looks like. The damage youre sering right now. What do you make of the damage were seeing across the south . Well i think you clarified that it was a storm that attacked florida, and made its way through georgia, tennessee to new mexico. It dropped an awful lot of water. Not measured in inches but foot. It overmatched the terrain and when you drop water in those mountains, ayman as we all know it started going to the valleys. The community had not seen or experienced that and overtime, development happened in the deeper part of those valleys. And what we have seen is and with condolences to all those who have lost their lives that Flash Flooding that has occurred. The good news, theres a lot of people working to get to them. Lets talk about the operations
We start this hour with some breaking news. The death toll from hurricane helene has now risen to 89. 30 of those deaths were in north carolina which has seen a record 30inches of rainfall. Nearly 2 million people are without power. And joining general honore. Good to have you on the show. Let me get your assessment from someone like you who knows the damage you re seeing right now. What do you make of the damage we re seeing across the south. Well i think you clarified the point. This was amongst the storm that attacked florida. Made its way through georgia and into north carolina and tennessee. And even parts of virginia. It s a massive storm. I dropped enormous amount of water. Not measured in inches but by a foot in some places 2foot of water dropped. It overdropped the terrain. And when you do that it s going go into the valleys. A lot of commune tips had not experienced that. And what we have seen, with condolences to everyone who lost their lives the impact of the flash flooding
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