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today. authorities first responders and volunteers awaiting opportunity to rescue those in need and we are told there's many who need need. more than 2 million people without power as the damage assessments either are beginning or are about to begin. we've got team coverage with fox contributor -- beginning west where hurricane ian is headed. good evening. >> hickam a trace. since we last spoke, the amount of people without power in orange county is more than double. overy 69,000 without power are in orange county and we are still waiting for the worst of what hurricane ian has to of...

without power now. the winds are extremely high. and the water is rising. >> you can see forces of trees just clinging to -- i just don't know what they are -- they been flying through the streets. >> it's a center block wall that was the entire width of this area came down. >> no word on the back and now, and the great eye wall is coming through. we've had some of the strongest winds here so far. >> good morning, i'm philip mena. >> good to be with you at this hour, i'm frances rivera. it's 3 am in the east, midnight out west. thank you for joining us for a special edition of early ...

Track of who's going to be experiencing the worst flooding. >> to reiterate, you say until the end of the week to the northeast this storm is going to continue? >> well, the storm itself, we'll stop calling it a tropical storm by sometime tomorrow and then it will mofr into a regular event storm across the country, but it's still going to have this tropical moisture with it. it's going to be a big heavy rain event. it will not be an issue for other areas. it will be a wet summer. a lot of the rivers are running high. it will be very easy to get flash flooding. >> bill karins, thanks very much....

Starting to get some of the dangerous outer bands into place. here's a look at the forecast rainfall. it is not out of the question, some of these areas, to pick up in excess of a fotot of rain. further inland, nashville, memphis, louisville, kentucky, likely to get several inches from this storm, even though they are miles from the coast. >> when they say, allison, that this storm and the 10 to 15 feet it potentially could produce is extremely life-threatening, explain exactly, once again, what that means. because people don't appreciate how dangerous what is about to happen will be. >> right...

We talked about this earlier, beto o'rourke, your former colleague there, presidential candidate, we say this was an ar 15 type weapon used in odessa. take every ar 15, every ak 47 and make them subject to a mandatory buy back. what do you think of that idea? >> i think what we ought to do is have an assault weapons ban, and we are on bills that would have a voluntary buy back. the first thing we need is a ban on the assault weapons, and we haven't had a vote. for one year, we haven't had a vote on the actual ban. we know this works. how do we know, president clinton had it in 1994 and mass sh...