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♪ brian: 7:00 a. M. On the east coast, wednesday, october 9th, this is fox & friends. Steve: it is. We start this hour of fox & friends with a fox weather alert. Look at those live images right now from tampa and fort myers. Rain and wind picking up in florida as a category 5 hurricane named milton is barreling toward the state. Florida congressman byron donalds is standing by with an urgent warning. He is with us in two minutes. Lawrence: while americans are scrambling to find safety, the white house is brushing off criticism of their emergency response as misinformation. A lot of misinform...

parts of the state on a slow, this is really an issue, it's churning on the destructive crawl north. orlando now in the crosshairs of this historic storm that's produced record rainfall and storm surge. power outages are a major problem with more than 2 million customers in the dark across florida. water is just everywhere in many communities. in port charlotte, the storm blew the roof off of a hospital and it flooded the intensive care unit. ahead, we're going to speak to a doctor there, how they managed to protect patients and what the conditions now. fort myers has experienced som...

millions of floridians in this storm's path. those who have not evacuated are urged to shelter in place immediately. almost 800,000 people are already without power. that's according to florida utilities. the director of fema has warned that recovery from hurricane ian will be a very long road. that agency has already begun to pour resources into the state. in an event earlier today, president joe biden said he spoke with florida governor ron desantis and added he already requested aid saying, quote, the federal government is ready to help in every single way possible. ali velshi who...

My house. i have a home command center set up here. i have walkie-talkies, i've been talking to key citizens and leaders and first responders. the water in my canal is about an inch from spilling over the edge and coming into my house from the back. the water is already lapping up against my garage door and my front door. while i'm talking to you, although my feet are dry right now, we expect in the next 30 minutes that my house is going to be severely flooded, not unlike a lot of other people. as one of your correspondents said, these areas suffer from very low lying areas. this storm was tot...

Necessarily even be the wind that does it, it could be the cascading effect of flooding, nicolle, which obviously is quite unpredictable. >> jesse, we don't know each other well enough for me to tell you where to sleep, but please do not sleep or spend time on the ground floor. get to higher ground. stay safe. thank you so much for your reporting. we're really grateful. >> thank you. let's bring into our coverage our friend, nbc news meteorologist bill karins. he's here with the latest on the path of this storm. bill, i have to ask you, give us the path, but then put this storm into some con...