Page 3 - Post Storm News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Storm barrels towards the course. property loss could be in the billions, human cost still unknown. as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. >> good evening once again. i'm stephanie ruhle. we are tracking hurricane ian tonight as it closes in on florida's west coast. we just got the 11 pm forecast from the national hurricane center, and we'll bring you the latest on the huge storms path in just a moment. meanwhile, the january six committee has postpone tomorrow's hearing because of the storm. so far the hearing has yet to be rescheduled. but we are getting more video from a roge...

Him we think it creates high paying jobs in our community in addition to protecting our environment. >> you might be but other florida lawmakers including her government laugh about the idea of green jobs. how do you work with them? >> well, i think you have two to the best of your ability to try to de politicize the issue, and to make it about the things that we see. the person right before me was talking about 8 to 12 foot storm surge. that is catastrophic. we had 46 foot storm surge during irma and that was incredible. things and three or four feet underwater. these are things that are unde...

Severe Weather Awareness Week is in full swing across the Palmetto state, and each day is dedicated to a facet of hazardous weather.

>> reporter: and the storm surge of 2 to 4 feet, it could be problematic, certainly where i'm standing right now, as you see the water splashing over my head, but certainly problematic in cities on the coast that have the rivers pass through them. how do you deal with that, how do you deal with a 4 foot storm surge? >> absolutely. well, the first step that we do as the army corps of engineers in jacksonville, we are focused post-storm on basically two areas with a storm like this. it's ensuring the ports are open and helping the port captains see the channel and be able to open those ports as ...

Moved hundreds of utility trucks, some from as far away as illinois to numerous locations including the daytona international speedway, where they will be dispatched from post storm, if needed to repair lines and restore power. i know we're waiting on the governor to speak. he spoke earlier today about how rare and historic dorian is. >> this is a cat 5 plus right now. and you would really have to go back to 1935 in the state of florida, when the labor day hurricane came through and just obliterated the keys to find anything that had reached this level of danger. >> palm beach international ai...