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have our fox news chief meteorologist rick reichmuth with us. rick this has been rough so far. >> really has. three things, the storm surge that broke records in fort myers and naples as well by a lot by the way, three feet higher than we had ever seen from any kind of storm surge in the past. that obviously causing all that flooding right along the immediate coast. then we have the winds, actual verified winds of 140 miles an hour in cape corral. a lot of this wind was really prolonged because it's such a slow-moving storm and then you have the rainfall. because it's so slow we get ...

the homeowner's policy will cover somebody things but the flood policy covers probably the most significant risk for most homeowners in florida given the risk of flooding we have in our state. we are sensitive to that obviously going to be some folks that are in need of support and relief we will work as best we can i will say people have been asking about some of the overall homeowner's insurance with like citizens. citizens, i think right now they are between 6 and 700 billion of surplus. modeling in terms of paying out a lot of money in claims still have 4 and 5 billion in surplus...

before seen. >> reporter: in a matter of seconds a country music festival turned tragic with a storm of gunfire raining down on an innocent crowd. >> he was shooting everybody and there was dead people everywhere and i don't even know what was happening. it was just shooting, randomly. >> reporter: it began a massive loss of life and hundred injured in the worst mass shooting in modern american history. >> the 2017 las vegas shooting was the worst mass shooting in modern american history. 58 people were killed, several hundred were wounded and two victims later died from their injuri...

St. petersburg, florida tonight with the latest there. good evening, max. >> good evening, bret. we are about even though we are not getting a direct hit. we are still being pummeled by window and rain. hurricane force winds still expected here in the st. petersburg area. the big concern for folks is the amount of rain. up to 2 feet of rain according to the national weather service. now, we are seeing these winds whipping these palm trees right here. but i want to show you this as well. because power outages is a big concern here. more than a million people currently without power all across f...

Evacuation orders. paul womble is the emergency management director for polk county, florida. sir, thank you for joining us to tell us what you're doing on your end there. how are you preparing? >> thank you, brianna. we've had our team meeting with eoc here, bringing in all of our stakeholders, plan out our sheltering strategy, our emergency services strategy for responding to either a wind event or rain event or what looks like it could be both for us. we've convened our board of downy commissioners this morning and they declared a local state of emergency here in polk county. we've talked a...