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>> welcome back. hurricane ian making landfall and wreaking havoc, tampa, florida, battling a storm we've not seen for a century. let's check with fox weather's max gorden from st. petersburg, florida. how has the situation changed, max? >> more than 100,000 customers without power in piniella county, and more than a million customers across florida are in the dark. help will be on the way once this storm subsides. the bucket trucks in the hotel parking lot, there are more than 33,000 utility workers from across the country, from 31 different states, here in florida right now, essentially wait...

Louisiana. the storm is still powerful, moving very slowly across the state. right now the flash flood emergency has been declared in new orleans. all of new orleans parish is without power after catastrophic transmission damage. that is according to the city. but major relief is on the way once the storm subsides. as one group is on the ground with enough food to serve more than 100,000 meals. chef jose andres joins me now. he is the founder of world central kitchen organization and has been a very busy man. he went from haiti to there to new orleans and louisiana. chef, thanks for joining us...

So much of fema's job is figure out a strategy of how to move when the storm subsides. it's an amazing thing to be on the northern edge of the eyewall. the winds have died down slightly. the rain has stopped. you get the bands but it wasn't the relentless rain we experienced for hours and hours before the sun came up earlier today. the sky starts to lighten a little bit. that's no way to define what we're about to get over the coming hours. we'll get the back side of the storm and we'll see that live here as our show continues from wilmington, north carolina. more briefings on the way. we'll h...

Shared with the citizens in this community is that once this storm is under way, there is no way we're going to be able to get our first responders out there to get to emergencies. we're going to have to wait for the storm to subside before we get to you. a lot of people heeded that advice and got out. people that couldn't get out, we've got shelters that we've got folks in here in the community. and, you know, we're doing the best we can, but we're not going to be able to get out in this kind of weather to help anybody until this storm subsides. we're already starting to see the bands getting...

Island. this is an island territory that is some distance from the united states. the constraints and limitations are different from a contiguous state here in the united states. we can position hundreds of trucks in florida or texas for line services. we can't do that in puerto rico. we have to bring them in the moment the storm subsides. that's what we are doing. a lot of the reporting is not wrong, but dated. for instance i saw that only 11 hospitals were assessed and opened. that was probably accurate, but wrong at the time it was reported. we assessed most of the hospitals at this point o...