collapse. final word. >> you know, the proof is always in the record, and governor newsom has often complained about how the narrative doesn't work for him. elizabeth: okay. >> at the end of the day, the facts for both him and above den sanities are going to have to speak for themselves. elizabeth: thank you for watching, live coverage of hurricane ian tonight. watch us tomorrow night. have a good evening. ♪ ♪ >> it is being called a worst case she far i owe in florida. -- scenario in florida. hurricane each, category four storm blasting across florida, sustained winds up to 150 miles per hour coupled with a catastrophic 18-foot storm surge in some places. already devastating major population centers on florida's gulf coast like fort myers and names, and the direction is far from over. i'm david asman, in for kennedy. let's take take a live look at

punta gore da, near where ian made landfall. this is a very slow moving storm which makes it even worse. first, it stalked the keys and then the southwest coastline before making a right turn towards the mainland, and this is the scene in port charlotte just north of fort myers. the storm passing just north of there. here's the current radar. you can see just how enormous this thing is. it's almost twice as wide as the state itself. the eye of the storm is enormous as well. the darker red around it, stronger the winds. and as it moves east, the so-called cone of uncertainty suggesting orlando and the space coast could be next. if about an hour ago florida governor ron desantis said this one will likely go down in the record look books. -- record books. listen. >> hurricane ian made landfall this afternoon in southwest florida, and it is battering areas in southwest florida. lee, charlotte and counties even beyond that, major flooding in

places like collier county, san bell, fort myers beach. it's going to be behind only the labor day hurricane, hurricane andrew, hurricane michael, in term es of intensity. it's going to rank as one of the top five hurricanes to ever hit the florida peninsula. david: wow. here is a live look at orlando where the hurricane is now heading, about 1.5 million if floridians are now without power all over the astronaut. -- state. even rescue personnel don't feel safe to eventture out, so we won't know the full extent of the damage perhaps until daylight. joining me now is fox weather correspondent max gorden. what is the extent of the damage from your perspective? >> reporter: so right now we are, as you mentioned, along old tampa bay. the wind is whipping, the rain is coming down where we are. but really we are just on the edge of this storm. originally, it was thought that this storm was going to make a direct impact into the tampa/st.

petersburg area, but it did move south. we're about 60 miles or so from the if eye of the storm, but you can still see that it is ferocious where we are. now, an interesting thing happened here on old tampa bay. the wind actually pushed the water out of the bay. that's because we are on the north side of this storm. so what occurred is that the wind actually moved the water out of the bay, what's known as a reverse storm surge where we actually had -6 feet of storm surge this afternoon here in tampa bay. you had people walking out on the mud flats and things like that, not advised because this water is going to be coming rushing back eventually. now, as you can see, the wind very powerful even here on the edge of this storm. that means we're going to be seeing lots of power outages. we've had more than 140,000 power outages here in pinellas county, more than a million people throughout florida out in

the dark as we speak. now, there are crews here staged, ready to restore power when it is safe to do so. more than 33,000 utility workers from across the country have come here to florida from 31 different states, and they're going to be ready to start restoring power when it is safe. but, unfortunately, the winds are so powerful right now that a lot of people are going to have to be in the dark for maybe a few days to come as that power restoration is ongoing. now, we also have the national guard, 5,000 florida national guard troops here ready to go as well as 2,000 national guard troops from other parts of the country. but again, as you mentioned at the top of this hit, really conditions are so bad right now that many emergency workers cannot go out in the storm, and for many people who chose to ride it out, they are on their own. back to you. david: yeah. hey, max, you mentioned it's going to get dark, and that is when this storm surge is expected to come in -- >> reporter: yes.

david: that's the one that could really float people out of their homes, right? this could happen in the dark without power on. >> reporter: yes. that could be a presidentially catastrophic if situation -- can potentially catastrophic situation for a lot of people. it's important for folks who chose to ride out this storm that they pay attention to all local media, pay attention to the fox weather app and just keep their head on a swil. and unfortunately, for a lot of these folks who chose to ride out the storm, first responders have to hunker down themselves because it's simply e too dangerous. so we are really not going to know the full damage, the full impact of this storm until daylight tomorrow after the storm is done wreaking havoc on the west coast of florida. david: max gorden, stay safe, my friend. thank you very much. as hurricane ian expands and moves north and east, this is going to be a big problem not just for large parts of florida, but northward into georgia, the carolinas and even beyond. with no sign of slowing down, ian is still, quote, extremely dangerous. hurricane hunter and air force

reserve pilot major kendall dunn said ian is unlike anything he has ever seen before. watch. >> our radar was showing massive turbulence. the lightning, the hail -- the hail itself was unbelievable. to me, it sounded like rocks being poured out of a dump truck, you know? we had paint peeling off of the aircraft when we cot9 -- can got back. yes, sir, it was the strongest storm i've ever been in. david: so what can we expect if ian next? here with the9 very late is fox weather meteorologist marisa torres. marisa, this is still a slow moving monster. how much longer is it going to be over florida? >> reporter: that's the big question, right? it's been already a brutal 12-24 hours beginning with tornadoes and heavy rain and continuing up the coast with the worst of the hurricane. i do want to bring you the latest advisory. we get these now every hour, so this is the 7:00 advisory. notice it was downgraded to a category three, so there is the

sign that it's weakening, pressure going up to 955 millibars. and when you talk about moving slow, it's only moving at 8 miles per hour. landfall took forever, so the coast areas continuing to get battered by very strong winds. make no mistake, when we talk about this storm weakennenning and dry air pushing in, this is still a monster of a hurricane. this is still not something you want to contend with. anybody who didn't evacuate, it's all about continuing to hunker down and making sure you're watching for flood situations. pretty rare to see only associated with hurricane or -- hushes or tropical storms, a dangerous, life-threatening situation to be in. treat it as if a tornado is approaching. the winds are dangerous, yes, they're tearing roofs off and battering, you know, just everything they come in contact with. but it's also contributing to that dangerous storm surgery. you still have the tropical storm and at times hurricane-force winds impacting

these areas. impressive wind gust reports, cape coral, 140 mile-per-hour gusts. that is incredibly strong. across the board here, you know, punta gorda was another area that continues to see some strong winds and just the devastating flooding that's now taking over west-central florida. fort myers, you have the caloosahatchee river there, downtown fort myers not seeing a ton of rain, but also the surge. 7.2 feet of storm surge. fort myers pretty much at major flood stage at this point. it is record breaking. in fact, more than double what the prior record was from 2001 when gabriel hit. we're not done yet. a lot of these areas within the naples to fort myers area, we're talking about a storm surge of up to 12 feet. so as you were discussing with max, the winds aren't done yet. they're going to continue that push slamming all that water up against theline. hurricane warnings through

maples, fort meyers, into orlando, and tropical storm watches and pretty much everybody in florida through the peninsula in that warning as well. this is a look at the forecast track. relief is coming, but it's going to take only time. here's the center of each. it's going to navigate up towards orlando, daytona beach, and by thursday and friday jumping into the western atlantic by a strong tropical storm and then extending to savannah, georgia, in through saturday. a lot of these warnings stretching all the way past the florida-georgia line and into the carolinas. being able to pay attention to this, the winds and the storm surge, are all things we now also have to look ahead to. david: very quickly, we don't have much time, but as it goes over the atlantic before it hits the carolinas, could it gain more steam over water in. >> reporter: it is expected to stay a strong tropical storm, but it's interacting with a trough, so that's going. to help maintain the strength, bringing that surge of wind and also all of that rain. david: marisa torres, thank you

very much, appreciate it joo. coming up, with so many businesses right on the coast, owners are bracing for the worst. what will the hurricane mean for the restaurants and the hotels in a tourism-heavy state like florida? and will rising costs devastate some of the small businesses? we'll be talking to the owner of one, i'm going. to discuss it with florida restaurant owner and food network star buddy foy jr. he's next. ♪ ♪ another busy day? of course - you're a cio in 2022. but you're ready. because you've got the next generation in global secure networking from comcast business. with fully integrated security solutions all in one place. so you're covered. on-premise and in the cloud. you can run things the way you want - your team, ours or a mix of both. with the nation's largest ip converged network. from the most innovative company.

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network star, buddy foy jr. i understand you evacuated to boca, but you've got your contacts out west strug reporting to you. did your restaurants make it okay? >> it looks like ann a ma -- anna maria may make it here. praise god. sarasota, we don't have any feedback yet. that that's a little closer to the fort myers border, and so we're still looking -- we're looking okay there, but we're not positive yet. david: now, you're on sort of a barrier island, i guess you can call it a barrier peninsula. i understand your restaurant is right next to a marina. have you heard anything about the marinas themselves and whether or not the boats around them were destroyed or what their condition is? >> yeah, in fact, dolphin rental, they operate out of our hotel, they stayed at the hotel we're in because that's where their boats are. i spoke to j.d. about an hour ago, and he said the water all

went out. so kind of the same effect as tampa bay. anna maria island is a barrier island, so the water all went out, and we'll see what happens when it comes back in. right now there's no flooding as we speak. david: now, you haven't heard about the restaurant you're building in share -- sarasota, but we've already been having trouble getting supplies. i know the price of lumber has come down, but it's still hard. i can only imagine it's going to be close to impossible with the rebuilding that's going to be done in florida. how are you going to manage to complete the sarasota restaurant with all of the supply troubles that we have? >> david, we're so close. we're six weeks from opening -- david: oh, my goodness. >> we have some more work to do. the supplies, we have. the challenge is going to be -- unless we lose them. the challenge is going to be getting the supply of labor. there's going to be a lot more, let's call it, emergency building needs than opening a restaurant. people have lost their homes,

you know, and we pray for those people. chances are that's where the construction resources are going to go. so we don't know. i don't have the skills to build it or to finish the next six weeks. it remains to be seen. david: now, buddy, i haven't been to your restaurant, i have to admit. but you specialize, obviously, in seafood. if those boats, some of those fishing boats have been damaged, you might have trouble getting supplies for your tables for quite some time. have you factored that? >> yes, we have. we're probably going to have to go to more national producers or suppliers. the local conversation of local food is most likely going to be an issue for the next 90 days to 4 months, no tout about it. -- no doubt about it. david: you come from a restaurant family. you have your own tv show, you have your own web site with the tv show. it's a restaurant family, but i think of all the ways you guys have been beaten down, first by the pandemic and all of the lockdowns. crime is an issue, supply

chains, we talked about. inflation is another issue. labor shortages. i mean, you, you have had more adversity than job in the bible. i mean, how do you keep your faith in. >> well, we have faith, you know? god guides us. we march forward, and we figure it out. i can tell you this, i had jessie waters' hair when this all started -- [laughter] david: but no signs of quitting. you're not going to quit, you're going to stick with it. >> i have two young girls. my parents showed us you work through adversity, and if i can pass that on to one more generation, i've done my job as a father and as a parent. david: a lot of guts. buddy foy jr., great to see you. our prayers go with you, my friend. >> dave, appreciate you. thank you. david: absolutely. coming up, a live report from fort myers, florida, parts of which are underwater. analysts predicting ian is going

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we're going to experience impacts into tomorrow. the storm surge, we're still at the very beginning. we will see it continue throughout the afternoon, into the evening. it's going to bin to fill up canals, potentially into homes. aide david as they say in florida, you hide from the wind, but you run from the water. that's because only 1 out of 10 hurricane deaths are caused directly by hurricane winds. 9 out of 10 are killed by the storm surge and flooding afterwards. joining me now live from fort myers, florida, is fox weather multimedia journalist will moneyly who's been doing terrific work -- will nunley. videos that i've seen from fort myers look really bad. it looks like there are homes that are completely covered by water9 now. >> reporter: unfortunately, there are. and let's hope that we are only talking about infrastructure loss here and not loss of life. but we can imagine that over the coming 12-24 hours we're going to have some startling reports from from if both aspects of that come in here.

and let me kind of tell you what's happening this hour from where we are in fort myers. we are, clearly, not out of the wind yet. we are not out of this storm. yes, the height of this event may have passed us, but it continues to deal a reblow here to this area. -- tremendous blow. surprisingly, you may see we do have a streetlight or two on. the businesses around us are dark. we have numerous of these gas stations, service station, signs have been ripped down,. canopies long gone. every few minutes we hear the snap of more tin coming off of a roof, we're under a big old concrete building, but it has terra cotta tiles, those are crashing down. meanwhile, we have ls millions of people in the dark, and i have big concerns for what the next 12 hours is going to hold here because right now, in addition to the electrical system offline in so many areas, we're now starting to have failure of cell phones.

and we have for the past two or three hours. of course, those cell towers are taking the same beating, and les only so much they can stand. now you have people trying to make 911 calls or calls to friends and family possibly wanting rescue, and it's going to be harder to get through. we have a very terrifying night ahead from the human aspect of this. and tomorrow when we start to see maybe more of these large scale aerial photos and the drone video come in of the devastation, i think we're going to see some remarkable sites. and this is a statewide emergency. i know that we continue to try to paint that picture of how large scale we're talking the here with this emergency. this is not one or two cities that are facing trouble. this is the entire state of florida, a lot to comprehend tonight. back to you. david: will, i understand that the rescuers can't -- don't feel safe to go out yet. they think it's too early. so those people who are many trouble are not going -- in trouble, are not going to be finding rescuers to get them out

of trouble at least for the night, correct? >> reporter: that's correct. we even are getting alerts on our phones with the emergency operations center saying we can't get out right now. we're not sure when we can get out because they simply cannot dispatch rescue crews in conditions lightening this. we are -- like this. we are still in this storm. david: are you seeing any linemen at all for those power lines that are out, or is it too dangerous for them to be out? >> reporter: it is way too out r -- too dangerous. we still have gusts 60-70 miles an hour. they are needing to shelter in place. we are seeing very few cars on road, and it needs to stay that way. it's just finish we're not over it -- david: you can't get up on a pole to fix a line when it's 60 mile-per-hour -- >> reporter: no. you can imagine they want to get out there. david: absolutely. they're brave people, and we wish them well, but they probably won't get to it until tomorrow morning.

will, stay safe, please, my friend. appreciate your work. hurricane ian predicted to be one of the most destructive in u.s. history. here's a look at the list. analysts are expecting $70 billion worth of damage from this hurricane. that would put it in sixth place just below ida's near $79 billion in damage last year. millions of homes and businesses are at risk not to mention cars, boats, infrastructure, so much more. huge economic losses like these take years to recover from. so how can home and property owners mitigate the damage? here with me now is associate professor of risk and insurance at florida state university, dr. professor, great to see you. thank you for being here. let me, first, talk if i can about the insurance business itself in florida. there have been several businesses that have gone out of business because of problems they've had. is, are people who have insurance going to be able to be covered with some of their companies going out of business?

>> so the short answer is, yes. we've had six companies so far this year in the state of florida go insolvent. florida has a protection system in place, it's referred to as figa, the florida insurance guarantee associate. and if you have a -- association. if you have a claim with that company, figa guarantees tees they will pay that. it's the up to $500,000 for a home. so there are some coverages available. i think the bigger concern is as we see more insolvencies is where future customers are going to get coverage. david: what about businesses? specifically businesses. we know homeowners have that cap. do businesses have caps as well? >> no. actually, the businesses do not have the same kind of protections that homeowners do, so they will be -- if their insurance companies were to go bankrupt, they would have a bigger issue. but i will say businesses tend to buy from better rated companies than some of the homeowners insurance companies in the state of florida.

so we haven't seen very much of the business insurance companies going bankrupt like we have seen with the florida homeowners insurance companies. david: now, we still don't know the degree to which the federal government will come in. we know that governor desantis has talked to the president about that. but will, could the federal government be able to fill those gaps whether it's for homeowners or for business owners? >> so, yes, they can, but they typically do that through the small business administration after fema declares a state of emergency. and those are typically done with loans, not grants. so your best bet as a homeowner or a business owner is to buy insurance ahead of time. you'll be able to do what we call post-loss funding by getting some of those loans through the federal government, but they are relatively small compared to the exposure we see in places like florida. david: and, by the way, with interest rates going up, i mean, a loan these days, you pay a high premium for that loan as

well. what about renters? a lot of people are still renting properties particularly in this environment where it's been difficult to get properties because of the inventory. is there anything that they can do, any help for them? >> they're going to face issues on two fronts. there is representers -- renters insurance that covers personal belongings. however, if there is significant property destruction, which we are anticipating from this hurricane, the problem for them is going to be if they get displaced, finding a new place to live. we have seen that rentals are hard to come by in certain area, and with property destruction and rising cost to rebuild because rents going higher, we could see placements being even more difficult for renters in the market. david: now, it is early days -- it's early hours, actually, that the storm is still right over florida, right over central florida right now. but is there -- it looks as though the state was pretty well prepared. i mean, compared to other states

that faced an emergency like this. is that true or is that just political rhetoric? >> no, actually, i would argue that florida is probably one of the best prepared states when it comes to the emergency management. and it comes from having a long history of experience in this area, unfortunately. if you look back historically, we've had a lot of hurricanes make landfall, far more than any state in the united states. it's not even close with how exposed florida has been. we've gotten very good at the emergency management side. the struggles we've seen over the last couple of years have been on the insurance side with companies going bankrupt and the state of florida through citizens taking a larger and larger share of the risk. dave: yeah. professor chuck nice, great to see you. thank you very much. best of luck to you in your state. we really appreciate you being here. >> appreciate it, thank you. david: the hurricane's seriously affecting the energy i have, as you can imagine. the feds say roughly 11% of the

gulf's daily production is affected. today president biden attempted to seek cover9 from the political storm that could come with higher gas prices. watch. >> and if you'll forgive me, i want to add one more warning, that's a warning to the oil and gas industry executives. do not -- let me repeat, do not -- do not use this as an excuse to raise gasoline price or gouge the american people. david: well, a spokesperson with the american petroleum institute responded to that saying, quote: in an unfolding weather event are, our industry is focused on keeping the energy market well supplied and delivering fuels where they are needed most while end suring the safety of our work forforce. gasoline prices are determined by market forces, not by individual companies. and claims that the price at the pump is anything but a function of supply and demand are false. the president then went out to say without a shred of evidence that gas companies were already trying to use the storm as an excuse to raise prices at the

pump. is that really the kind of rhetoric at this moment that's helpful? here with me now is fox news contributor and price futures group senior market analyst phil flynn. phil, good to see you. we've heard this rhetoric before from the president, but now? now, in the middle of the storm, even before there's any evidence that any price gouging is going on? i just think that's very inappropriate. what do you think? >> i think you're absolutely right. you know, people's lives are in danger right now, dave. and to go after, you know, the mom and pop, you know, retail gasoline station right now is really many bad form, you know? a lot of these people kept their stores open late, you know, there was incredible demand before the storm, and they went out of their way to serve the people. and, yes, have gasoline prices gone up? yes, but they were going up before the storm came by. there's refinery outages in different parts of the country.

yeah, this is the worst type of political grandstanding, it really is. he has to get off the backs of u.s. companies and u.s. oil companies, you know, and start to talk about the benefits that they bring to the economy. and i think right now people realize in these type of emergencies how much the oil and gas industry really mean to us. david: don't get me wrong, look, if there are any signs of profiteering going on, people should be prosecuted on the basis of state laws. states usually handle that in an emergency. but there's no evidence, i mean, the storm hadn't even really hit the shore yet when the president said, and i'm quoting him now, he said the gas companies try to use this storm to raise prices at the pump. i mean, zero evidence for that if there ever has been. >> there never has been, dave. and i'll tell you this, you know, there's already laws in place that define price gouging, and there's no stations at this point that came even close to doing that.

once a state of emergency is declared, you know, any increase in the gasoline price more than 10% is considered gouging. i mean, those are the rules k. can that hasn't happened, right in and most of these gas stations probably couldn't even reopen at this point. so to use this is terrible. and you know what? i'll tell you this, i mean, the biden administration is very lucky in a way that the gulf of mexico and major refineries were out of the path of this storm. and i'll tell you why, dave, because he's drained the strategic petroleum reserve, right? they'd david that's right. >> and that would have been a real challenge. you know, if we get hit from one or two storms, what's going to happen when our refiners really need that oil? it's already been exported to europe and other places, that's what's going to happen -- david: well, one could make the case, by the way, phil, if anybody's profiteering, it's the president prof profiteer -- profiteering on oil that we bought much cheaper by selling it to the europeans and to the chinese as well.

the bottom line is we are still producing a million barrels a day less than what we were this january 2020, just before the pandemic hit. this is not going to help, but is it just a small blip on the road to recovering energy production in this country? >> i sure hope so so, you know? i hope the biden administration looks at the damage that he's doing to the average american with these anti-energy policies, right? you know, i don't understand why he continues to go after u.s. oil and gas companies time and time again but yet continues to look towards opec to raise oil production. i mean, we have to have another meeting with the biden administration. i know he met with their press secretary, but the oil and gas industry needs to sit down and basically, you know, declare a truce. let's work together for the good of the american people. and only then are we going to have a sound energy policy. until then we're going to --

david: it sounds goods but it ain't gonna happen. not based on what happened today. in the middle of an emergency where lives are likely going to be lost and where destruction is widespread, the first thing that comes out of his mouth is to talk about oil companies taking advantage of the situation when there's no evidence for that. i mean, if he can't make amends now, he never will. i mean, that's my opinion at any if rate. we've got to leave it there, phil. great to see you, my friend. thank you very much. >> thank you, sir. david: phil flynn. coming up, hospitals have been evacuated and surgeries canceled up and down florida's west coast. on top of that, the state is home to millions of elderly residents who could be without power for some time. so how are doctors and caregivers handling a challenge like this? dr. jeanette nesheiwat is here to discuss all of this coming next. ♪ it's easy to think that all money managers are pretty much the same, but at fisher investments we're clearly different. (other money manager) different how?

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♪ if. david: well, understandably, florida's governor ron desantis has declare a state of emergency, hospitals evacuating, transferring patients, canceling elective searchings. it's important to remember florida has a huge elderly population, so evacuating and relocating can be very difficult. how can you best protect your family and older neighbors in during an emergency like this? here with me now is dr. jeanette if nesheiwat. great to see you, dr.. thanks for being here. i'm told, by the way, that you survived at cat five hurricane, that was hurricane andrew, back in the '90s. during that horrible hurricane, 15 people died from the immediate effects, but dozens and dozens of others died9 with the after he -- after-effects. those are most dangerous, no? >> yeah, you're absolutely right, david. most of the fatalities after a natural disaster happen after a natural disaster. and this is because fatigue sets in, stress sets in.

sometimes there's lack of resources or even lack of access to resources. and that's when we start to see things like infections set in and the ptsd set in. but, you know, it's very important if if we understand what happens in the aftermath, we can be better prepared. just like we see in florida, they have such incredible contingency plans to know what to do because of their experience with hurricanes. one of the most common things that we have to keep in consideration is the flooding. the flood waters. david: yes. >> they are a breeding ground for bacteria, for fungus, for viruses. you know, you may be just walking through the water, but if you have cuts, scrapes or lacerations, if it's not cleaned very properly with soap and water, you can develop cellulites, staph infections, things like tetanus or what we call trench foot, something that should be very minor can really become life threatening. and then on top of that, you know, sewage and chemicals and

debris in the flood waters. you can really injure yourself. you can become nauseous, vomit ising, diarrhea, outbreaks of hepatitis the, these g. i. upsets, and let's not forget about the mold and the mildew. we see a lot of upper respiratory tract infections and especially important if you have asthma or a lung condition like emphysema, you know? we have to be careful. it's always so important to make sure you've got your medications on hand and in a plastic bag -- david: and, by the way with, as if all that wasn't i enough, you also have the problem with snakes, even alligators, by the way. that's why governor desantis was so careful in evacuating so many facilities. there were a total of 15 hospitals that were evacuate9, 40 nursing homes, about an equal number of elderly care facilities. so there was a lot of evacuation went on. but what do we do about the people now who are stranded, the older people, not to mention the

disabled? there are a lot of disabled vets that i know who go to florida to retire. i mean, there the has to be almost a house to house search for people who need help. >> yeah. and that's the thing, you know, there's actually a florida law that requires a management policy, protocol, safety protocols that have to be in place in order to help. what does that include? making sure that they have good transportation, making sure that they have generators and fuel and food and also making sure you have a backup group of health care providers and first responders. hopefully, you know, the key is taking precautions in advance and heeding the warnings of hoping officials when they tell you to evacuate, but it is hard, it is difficult. there are some seniors that are on fixed budgets. they can't just get up and leave, you know? that requires hotel and gas and food and reasons and money. and that's hard. so the best thing to do is if you are stranded, of course, try to call 911.

don't leave your house because of concern for fallen trees and and power lines. you can get electrocuted. you should stay indoors. make sure you have your medications, 60% of older americans have at least one chronic medical condition. so you want to make sure, number one, you have your medications in a safe place, you have your blood pressure medicines. i remember when i took care of victims of hurricane katrina, we were triaging, i had a president who hadn't taken his blood pressure medicine in days. his blood pressure was 240 over 150. i had another patient who had ulcers on her legs because she wasn't able to take her medications. these little things, make sure also that your batteries don't, you know, run down your batteries, and if you need help, call 911. they will get to you when they can. david: doctor, we only have 5 seconds, literally, but you went to ukraine to help the refugees, you mentioned katrina. are you going down to florida in i know you've got a

brother-in-law who's a congressman down there. >> yes, congressman malts, he's, you know, doing all he can to help protect his constituents in his district and, yes, i will will be going down in contact with samaritan's purse. david: take good care. doctor, appreciate it. >> thank you. david: more than one million floridians already without power as ian continues to batter florida. what will the state and federal response look like? that's next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ all-electric with room for up to seven. it's the suv electric has been waiting for. the all-new eqb from mercedes-benz. ♪ ♪

♪ david: of course, tonight's landfall is just the beginning of florida's troubles. next comes a recovery effort that could last for months. more than 33,000 workers from at least 31 states have reportedly been mobilized to help restore electricity. this afternoon reporters asked governor desantis if he'd spoken to president biden about getting help from the federal government. listen. >> when we spoke yesterday, i mean, he said, you know, all hands on deck, that he wants to be helpful. and he said, you know, whatever you need, ask us, you know? so he was inviting us to request support. david: so will florida get the help it needs from the feds to build back? joining me now is congressman daniel webster whose is 11th district is on the gulf side of the state. our heart goes out to you,

congressman, and your constituents. by the way, we should mention you're in d.c. because they had a lot of votes in the house. when do you hope to get down to see your state? >> i think by the weekend i can go down. david: okay. well, what are you and the governor and other florida congressmen and representatives trying to get from the federal government specifically? >> everything they have to offer, that's what we're trying to get. senator rubio and myself and others have done a letter that's going to ask for us to just be considered for whatever available funds there are to get this cleared up. it's going to be a major, major undertaking. it affects the whole state. this is like a charley, which was a pretty powerful storm, except it's three times larger. david: unbelievable. >> and so we, we want to be ready, we want to do it, and that letter will go out. i'm sure we've gotten it, but this'll just be a little more

oomph so we can get it. david: i have to ask, governor desantis may be a political rival of the president come 2024. is there any sign of any political animus that could get in the way of cooperation? is. >> no, i don't think so. i think these kind of make things just fall aside, and we've got to get people back to work, back together, get their homes together, get their lives back together. so i think we'll be working as hard as we can to do those things. i don't think there's going to be a big political -- david: now, as we've been mentioning, this, the storm itself is only the beginning. the worst part of death and destruction very often comes after the storm itself. are you prepared for that? i mean, have the preparations been made? i know your governor's a military guy, so he knows logistics. do you think there's been enough preparation for that? >> yes. i've called in to our emergency operations center in lee county which is just one of the four or phi that we have -- five that we

have, but just to see what's going on. they are prepared, they're set. they've got it staged, they're going to take care of the first part, the second part, the third part. they've got it all set up, and it's really clicking. but it's going to be a difficult thing. there's going to be a lot of effort after the storm. for us in florida, i have rivers and headaches, we have -- i've got a county called lake county that have 1200 named lakes, but there's just that much more unnamed lakes and waters, waterways. so those, what happens is after storm goes by and after the eye goes through, they're still left over. and those sometimes don't surge for a couple weeks. and so we're all prepared for that too. so it's difficult to figure out what the damages are until that last summer of water comes through. and so we'll, we'll see what happens. david: yeah. and these sea water canals, some

cities and towns have hundreds, literally hundreds of miles of sea water canals that could be overgrown by this, these storm surges. >> yes. and the storm surges, that's another part of it. that's a separate issue that, where the storm surgeries -- surges, comes in, and it doesn't have anywhere to go. florida's flat. we don't have mountains, so the water's going to spread across the state. david: well, copp bank -- congressman, our prayers go to you and your state and all of your constituents. it's a very rough time, but we hope everyone chips in to help out. best of luck to you and yours. and thank you for you folks for watching tonight. for all the latest, download the fox weather app at foxweather.com right now. i'm david asman in tonight for(c kennedy.t goodi night from new york. (cecily) iphone 14 pro, on them. you should get one!

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