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An hour ago to a category 4 but a serious and deadly storm that will have the target of the west coast of florida in its sights sometime later tonight and early tomorrow morning. I'm bill hemmer in orlando. We do a split show today. Dana: you are missed but glad you're there. This is america's newsroom, i'm dana perino. You have covered many of these hurricanes, bill. I think that even you are saying wow, this one is big and monster by comparison even. Bill: you know, i think it is storm 21. I'm back at a hotel where i was five years ago. Florida will take a wallop here. They were predicting e...

n ordered to evacuate as hurricane rita now is bearing down on the state'shr gulf coast in just a moment.t. florida governor rhonda santos will join us first herest with the very latest from thisrs category three storm weather. in meteorologist ian oliver is with us in thisoliver. looks like it's going to be a direct hit right over. looks like somewhereoks li nortr fort myers, right towards tampa. >> yeah, anywhere from naples. igto the southern part of tampa bay, the mouth of tampa bay: stl still a reasonable scenaril o ao here. this is a monster of a storm, still a category three ,...

get onto the next day, many don't even have usable drinking water, many don't have a place to call home but they listen to our vice president who thought it was a good time to say this. >> vice president harris: our lowest income communities and communities of color that are most impacted by these extreme conditions and impacted by issues not of their own making, absolutely. we have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity. >> kayleigh: i cannot believe when i heard this, harris. when those floodwaters are rising, when your home is destroyed, when you p...

LUFKIN, Texas -- U.S. Highway 59, a major evacuation route from Houston, has been a problem for East Texas for decades. And as flooding rivaling that of Hurricane Harvey inundated the region in April, the highway closed in several places, cutting off a major evacuation route for countless people seeking shelter from the floods.

Proposals to overhaul U.S. Highway 59, a major Houston evacuation route, may not sufficiently address its predisposition for flooding, the Texas Department of Transportation says.