don't come out. that is certainly the case as we wake up today. we haven't seen a single person. the roads are absolutely littered with trees. downed power lines and we have learned that 90% of collier county is without power this morning. it is as you can see the sign behind me just crushed. knocked down. every road is like it. we haven't seen any car or emergency management people out here. we yesterday talked to. so folks in and around the area where we were after the event who had ridden out that storm as the eye passed, which bass just terrifying between 4:00 and 5:00 yesterday. here's what one young man who stayed with his parents, it was his first hurricane ever, but he stayed with his parents to try to help them survive. his name is jack. here is what he had to say. >> there was a solid probably like 15 minutes where it was beating on the

window where me and my dad were just standing there. the only reason we stopped is because it got to the point we felt it beating so hard okay we are going to leave the room, close the door and hope nothing happens. >> they said it was going to be a worse case se scenario the officials and they were correct. as can you hear behind me it's still a wind event. it's still blowing. the flooding, waters are rising. we drove through areas that have flood. we are trying to get to others to see just how deep it is. but certainly these roads are treacherous. and you absolutely, if you are waking up and in some way are in the 10% that have power in this area and watching tv, don't go out of your car and drive for goodness sake, guys? heather: all right. we will heed those warnings. thank you, griff. todd: thanks, griff. heather: streets in the heart of miami mean time are now rirves after hurricane irma blasted through there. todd: the city under a lockdown over fears of looting. heather: so unfortunate.

bryan llenas is live for us with more on the chaos and destruction from the monster storm. brian? >> hi, guys. i need to apologize to the viewers a little bit. we is a little fog in our lens we have been in a hurricane for two, two and a half days here. apologize for that we are in a suburb of miami like some out here complete pitch darkness and it is dangerous. we have trees down over here. and you can see traffic light and a power line down and earlier, just about 20 minutes ago, we saw a bus that was supposed to go pick up utility workers to begin the restoration get stuck in those power lines. it just goes to show that you no one should be out. also goes to show you how this can maybe get in the way in terms of the amount of time it's going to take to get this going, to get people's power back. 41% of the state without power at this time. and, again, this storm really hitting miami hard. we were go where there was just water coming in 3 feet storm surge in brickle and miami beach. there was also flooding and different places throughout

south florida. we had panels flying off of the tallest building under construction in miami. 6-foot glass panels flying off onto the ground. an extremely dangerous situation. add to that the threat of looters. unbelievably video of a foot locker where looters got in there here in miami-dade, taking advantage of a serious situation. again, can't stress it enough. hundreds of thousands of people, millions of people trying to get home and can't and there is people taking advantage of this situation. lots of police patrols out here in the neighborhood to stop this guys. >> bryan llenas live for us in miami. amazing work down there. let's go down to janice dean 5:03 here in the east coast. where do we go from here? janice: new advisory has been posted from the national hurricane center on irma. we still have a hurricane but the winds have come down to 75 mile-per-hour sustained winds. the good news is the storm is weakening. we are also watching jose. that, too is weakening,

which is great. now a category 2 the problem with jose we don't quite know where the storm is going. we're going to have to keep you updated on that. there is our landfalls yesterday, around 9:00, 10:00 a.m. could see a second landfall at naples where griff jenkins is right now and the damage is extensive with wind gusts 142 miles per hour. marco island where we had second landfall 130 mile-per-hour sustained winds. this was a formidable event. still seeing the damage unfolding. category 1 right now. we are expecting it to weaken to a tropical storm in the next couple of hours. but, still, georgia needs to be on alert in towards alabama and even the tennessee river valley where we could see the potential for flooding. tornado threat ongoing for parts of northeast florida in towards georgia and the carolinas where we could see these weak tornadoes that could potentially cause structural damage and then the additional rainfall. we have seen over a foot of rainfall in south florida, certainly the keys. we could see upwards of 4 to 6, even 8 inches of rainfall

with this. still dealing with the potential for at least tropical storm force winds for much of the state of florida. hurricane force winds in the orange there and in the red. those are hurricane sustained winds. so, those will diminish but for the foreseeable future throughout the day today, hurricane force gusts are going to be possible. there is the models in pretty good agreement as we go through the next 24 to 48 hours. this potentially could stall. but the good news is it is going to weaken. power outage index here. we could see potentially more power outages as we go towards northeast florida, into georgia. and i believe close to 3 million people right now don't have power in the florida area and look at how extensive that's going to be, the potential for power outages moving up towards the southeast. and just to give you an idea of what we were looking at in terms of hurricanes in history that have made landfall close to irma, the laciousd hurricane was the

closest that we got made landfall in naples as a category 5 storm. essentially the damage is still yet to be determined from this hurricane. and as we watch jose out in the atlantic we will still watch the potential for more hurricane activity as the peak of the season was yesterday. back to you. todd: janice dean back for us in the weather center. back to you. as the hurricane bears down on florida, local residents will be left to rebuild. as we learn nearly 60% of those in the hazard zones did not have flood insurance. so, what are their options now? here to break it all down, chairperson of the program in business and finance at the kings college in new york city brian brenberg. brian, thanks for being here. >> good morning. todd: unfortunately that statement is true. it's not like you can go out tomorrow and get flood insurance. >> this is a problem, of course, when the hurricane hits. it's too late for you to buy that insurance. so you have to look forward if you are in those zones what can i do for the next one. right now you have to ask yourself what are your options today if you don't

have flood insurance? there are options. fema can help. the small business administration can help. ways to get help. best option is to have insurance on the front end. todd: let's talk about if you don't have insurance. let's break down some of those options you just mentioned. first, fema, how much money can you get? >> from fema you can get a grant up to $33,000. that's the maximum you can get. that's not the average that people get. typically the average is around 3,000 to $4,000. that's to help with things like temporary housing. other repairs to your homes and other things related to disasters. aside from that a loan from the small business administration. don't have to be a small business to get that the name something confusing. you can get a loan to rebuild your house up to $200,000. relatively low interest loan. a way to get capital to help rebuild if you don't have insurance. todd: go back to the fema number that you just mentioned. i don't care where you live in the country, that number in all likelihood not enough to rebuild your home. underscoring the reason why you really do need to get flood insurance if you live

in a flood prone area. >> for most people $33,000 is not going to cover the cost of their home. 3 to $4,000 will help ridge the gap a little bit. these are just stop gap measures. if you don't have flood insurance, your belongings are not going to be covered. your house is not going to be covered. you will be left in a very tough situation. unfortunately we are seeing that both request harvey and irma here. todd: grant it, flood insurance comes at a cost. explain the federal private dichotomy with relation to a flood insurance. to most part it's subsidized. >> most is underwritten by the national flood insurance program. if you are looking for flood insurance, you are going to get it ultimately from them. you buy it through your agent or through the insurance company you buy all your other insurance from. so, to you, as a consumer, it's going to look seemless with your other insurance. it's all federally guaranteed and federally backed. over the course of several years, people have been dropping that coverage because we haven't seen that many storms. thankfully we have had a lull over the past 10 years.

people felt comfortable. they moved away from that insurance. now we are starting to see the reason why you really need to have it in the first place. to have haded to as somebody whose family was hit by hurricane sandy. can i say part of of my family did have it and part did not. the ones who did have flood insurance we were back in the home by may of the following year. those who didn't it was a couple year recovery. >> you have to navigate to get assistance. it's great to have it there. much tougher than not having the insurance on the front end. get a quote. especially if you are in flood prone area. todd: put you on the spot. should flood insurance be mandatory for those who live along the coast and flood prone areas. >> funny thing is actually it is mandatory. if you have a federally backed mortgage, fannie mae, freddie maced, you are supposed to have it areas you are mandated. the problem is the follow-up on that is very good. many homeowners who are actually required to have flood insurance who don't carry it right now because fema, others, have not been checking up on them to make

sure they have it. if you are in those areas it makes sense for you to have flood insurance. if i are required to have it, it's going to be a problem for you at some point. it's important for you to find out does my mortgage require me to have it? if it does, you need to get a quote. todd: also not to be ages here, let's say senior citizen who has been in his home for 60 or 70 years and who owns the home outright. should that individual be forced to get flood insurance. >> it doesn't matter if you own it outright or have a mortgage, one of two things happens, either you insure the damage or taxpayers end up insuring it for you. i think we can all agree it's better for people to insure their own property. insurance system allows them to buy flood insurance with reasonable price. we have problems with that right now. something we have to address in the days ahead. right now it's just relief time. policy conversations have to happen when things calm down. todd: great insight as always. thank you so much heather, over to you.

heather: folks in texas still dealing with that as well. 10 minutes after the hour. rapid response, president trump promising to visit the flood-ranched state of florida and the first lady just weighed in as well. plus, change of plans. the national guard members deployed to help irma victims who traded in their beach wedding for a convention center ♪ ♪ due to afib, a type of irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. but no matter where i ride, i go for my best. so if there's something better than warfarin, i'll go for that too. eliquis. eliquis reduced the risk of stroke better than warfarin, plus had less major bleeding than warfarin. eliquis had both. don't stop taking eliquis unless your doctor tells you to, as stopping increases your risk of having a stroke. eliquis can cause serious and in rare cases fatal bleeding. don't take eliquis if you have an artificial heart valve

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heather: welcome back. tampa fire crews ready to hit the ground running this morning. todd: tampa fire chief joins us on the phone now to discuss. chief, i'm going to ask you the same question i asked the gentleman from the national guard. how are your crews doing at this hour? >> todd, right now, they are doing well. everybody is sitting on ready ready to get the directive to go ahead and start moving out. we have had units, obviously, up running since about 1:30 this morning.

picking up some routine calls from persons that were obviously hunkered down. but naturally the rest of the team is ready to go ahead and start responding. heather: chief, we had the mayor there bob buck horn who tweeted out this. he said be prepared for a storm we have never seen before. our offers of emergency management is working 24 hours to keep you safe. he also says, you know, be prepared ton punched in the face by this storm. so, it's been, what, 90 years since tampa has had to deal with something like this? >> that's right, heather, the system way it built out it appeared we were going to be up against a very, very difficult and strong system. todd: when the forecast shifted like we were just talking about, what did you and your operation do in

response? >> as it was shifting, todd, obviously we were closely monitoring it. all the crews were staying in a high state of readiness and literally preparing for the worse as it was shifting. as it was doing these slight shifts back and forth, we sure weren't sure exactly how it was going to impact us. and even with the shift, with respect to the amount of force that the winds was still pushing out, we was still expecting some wind damage as well as storm surge damage as well. heather: as we are talking with you, we are looking at some of the pictures as irma rolled into your area. how are your crews doing? because you were just helping out with recovery in texas with hurricane harvey. now you are back dealing with you know, your own families, your own communities. >> well, heather, they are doing very well to answer that. but this is what we prepare

to do. we prepare year in and year out. we train to do this response. so the crews are ready to do what they do best. that's protect this community and insure the health and safety of our -- of all our residents. todd: chief, have you long and intense day in front of you. we certainly thank you for sharing a few moments with us. chief from tampa, thank you, sir. >> thank you todd and heather. heather: they are also concerned about their own homes but throughout helping others. cleaning up coast after blasting through the florida keys. todd: storm so strong rescuers had to be called off the roads in some areas, leaving residents to fend for themselves. best live shot in the 4:00 hour not an honorable i'm sure he wanted but jeff flock picks up our coverage. heather: good morning. >> good morning, guys. here's your headline, as the chief was just saying we are not done with the storm surge yet. here is what you are seeing

out here. this is the storm surge coming. in we are on the back end of this. and the wind is still coming at us a little bit from the northwest. but eventually it will swing all the way around to the west. and i don't know if bob can see in the dark. if you can get up and see that's the bridge there that goes out to the gulf. you can't see the gulf but that's where it's headed. and eventually that water starts to push all the way back in here. the guys in the boat had been overnight in the fishing boat. they said i just went up to talk to them. they said they had been sitting on bottom when the water all got sucked out. as the storm came through with a counter rotation. counterclockwise rotation. now as you can see. maybe can you tell. as you can see, it's flooding again. his concern is when this surgeon comes all the way back, in we don't know what happens and how intense that is won't be as intense as they have got down in naples. but we're not done with it yet. we will keep watching. heather: i was watching jeff when he was with those guys

on the boat yesterday and they were getting ready to head out. you asked what happened to the number 1. that's number 2, right, jeff? i don't think he can hear me. >> they assured me that number 1 was not at the bottom of the gulf somewhere. so, that was a good sign, yes. heather: hopefully number 2 won't end up there either. thank you, jeff. >> thanks, guys. heather: time is 20 minutes after the top of the hour. commemorating the 16th anniversary of the terror attacks on 9/11. todd: coming up, talking to someone who responded to the world trade center on that day. here live next. thanks for loading, sweetie.

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monster, but i think we are very well coordinated. todd: president trump vowing to head to florida in the wake of hurricane irma. he spent this weekend at camp david meeting with his cabinet and monitoring the storm from there first lady melania trump saying hirm briefing. thank you to first responders. stay safe. it's unclear exactly when the president will head to the sunshine state. hurricane irma's wrath is causing the house to cancel voting today in case some are stuck in florida and can't make it rescheduling votes for tomorrow evening. the senate still plans to vote today. heather, over to you. heather: thank you, todd. today president trump attending his first 9/11 remembrance ceremony since being elected. on the heal heels of new stratey for afghanistan. with us is dr. darren

porcher. thank you so much for joining us. >> always a pleasure, heather. heather: discussing hard to believe it's been 16 years since 9/11. you were one of the first responders. you were working with some police recruits at the time. >> yes. i was a sergeant in the police academy at the time. and we mobilized a series of recruits for the search and recovery down at the world trade center. we look back at this. this was a watershed moment in terms of how the seismic shift in antiterrorism campaign has impacted on the united states. fortunately, we have a president as in donald trump who is a resident. he is a native new yorker. he looks at days like 9/11 as a historical place that we need to focus on as antiterrorism campaign and continue to rev it up in places like afghanistan and in iraq. heather: before we move on to that what about some of your personal thoughts on this day having been down there when it happened? >> well, it's interesting. because i wore two hats. at the time i was an officer in the army reserves as well

as being in the army -- as well as being a sergeant in the nypd. i had two different perspectives. the perspective of being a police officer, it was something that i was somewhat we cals trant to think that something like this would happen on the homeland. as an army officer i saw it as we need to seek retribution in afghanistan and fortunately we did that under george w. bush. heather: so talk a little bit more -- you were just beginning that, in terms of the strategy of president trump. do you think we are moving in the right direction? >> absolutely. one of the great things that president trump did was he appointed mattis as the head of the department of defense. so now we have a military tactician as opposed to a bureaucrat that heads the department of defense. because when we look back at the obama administration, he was very reluctant to trust the military. whereas here trump looked at it as, look, i'm not the subject matter expert on military tacticians as being a military tactician, therefore, i'm going to put someone in play that can deal with that coupled

with -- heather: why do you think that's important? because there are people who criticize the administration and they say that president trump had put too much military in place? >> well, i disagree with him implementing people that had too much military experience. as we look at the resounding effects of terrorism on a national level, i want to say an international level, we need someone in there that has are a strong pulse towards what's going on. we just take into consideration with general kelly as the chief of staff in the white house. he gives donald trump that information instantaneously as opposed to donald trump having to go through layers of his administration to gain that information. heather: also president trump giving more leeway tout decisions being made on the ground there where everything is happening. >> right. you have to respect the fact that donald trump knows he is not the subject matter expert at military affairs. heather: right. >> he is going to appoint the people necessary to make those decisions.

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rescue. that looks like a reporter from one of the fox affiliates there. are we going to toss to her, guys? we will get off of that, okay. heather: apparently there is water rescues going on in orlando right now. you are looking at a map right now where hurricane irma has now been downgraded to a category 1. but it continues to batter florida from coast to coast. todd: right now we are going to go live to griff jenkins. is he live in naples, florida, with the very latest from there. heather: wind and storm surge. griff, are you there? >> i am. i'm here. it's a mess. let me just pick up real quickly though. you were saying water rescues in orlando just moments ago i was doing an affiliate hit with our wofl affiliate 35. and just to give you a perspective on how huge this storm is, it was literally 12 hours ago that the eye wall was pretty much coming right for me. now it's pounding up there in water rescues. this is a monster that has hit the area. here in naples it is

carnage. 90% of collier county is without power. the roads are impassable. the water is rising. it's impossible to get an assessment this early on just how bad that is. and how much it's going to take if there are people that need to be rescued. we drove a little bit and we saw some. as can you seat wind is picking up. we haven't seen a single emergency crew, electrical power crew out here. nothing of that we are getting word from the officials asking people to literally shelter in place. stay in place because it's not safe out here. this, of course, is just a small part of the larger part of florida. more than 4 million without power. florida power and light has their work cut out. and it certainly feels like, at least in this area, the officials telling people it could be weeks before that power comes back: and the rain starting to fall again. something they certainly don't need here today. guys? heather: thank you very much, griff. moments ago rescuers in

hillsborough county in the tampa area given the all clear to go back out in the street. todd: first responders can look into hundreds of 9/11 calls made overnight. that does into the mean it is safe for everyone just yet. jillian mele picks up our live team coverage right now in tampa. jillian, good morning. jillian: okay. so we are in the car. good morning, guys. we want to show you the debris. if you drive slow here for a second, matt to get a good look at this. this is what a lot of the streets are looking like on davis island. we are on hudson avenue littered with branch after branch. we haven't seen any live wires down although we are seeing reports of that on twitter. bob buck horn just tweeted please stay off the roads. lots of downed power lines especially on the north end of town. city crews are fullly engaged. be safe. hillsborough county just tweeted that fire rescue and the sheriff have resumed 91 rescue responses. that's what we are dealing with right now. as we just turn up here and take a look, right down the road can you still see we are dealing with a lot of debris out here.

looks like some trees hanging pretty low at this point. that's why you have to really watch out for w. those power lines. then look, this is what have you come up upon. you have a palm tree just completely blocking the roadway. this is the situation right now. not a ton of flooding which, by the way, people are thrilled about. at this point it's just the the debris, it's the trees you have to worry about. back the to you. heather: one of the many reasons people are being told do not come out of your house until the sun is out. a lot of dangers on the roads. thank you, jillian. todd: go now to janice dean live in the weather center. janice, we have been following along with you all morning long. 34 minutes after the hour. how are we looking now? janice: the storm is weakening, which is great trend. we still have the potential for power outages. i just got a reporter of 5.5 million people without power in florida. not only watching irma but we're also keeping an eye on jose. we will be watching this over the next 5 to 7 days as it's got nothing to steer it and it comes very close to the bahamas. watching jose and obviously yesterday was the peak of

the season. we're not done yet. irma weakening. still potential for heavy rain and wind gusts in excess of hurricane force along the path of this. tropical storm warning for atlanta, georgia for the first time ever in their history. the storm is going to continue to make a northwestward track eventually just being downgraded to remnant low. but we still have very gusty winds here. we have the potential for several inches of rain and the tornadoes threat. looks like we have a tornado warn storm north of jacksonville. we have seen tornado warnings along the northeast quad drant and damage reports as well for very populated areas especially on the east coast of florida. hurricane warnings still in effect for central florida up towards georgia and, as i mentioned, atlanta, georgia for the first time ever a tropical storm warning for them. back to you. todd: unreal. tropical storm warning. janice, thanks. heather: that's where my sister is. i actually texted her to see

if anything was hitting them yet yesterday. it was not. but it's on the way. city under miami a lockdown under fears of looting. todd: bryan llenas with more on the chaos and destruction from this monster storm. brian? >> good morning, guys. all morning we have been reporting on the fact that there is a curfew and for good reason. this is just some of the debris we are seeing in the street. this is what is left of the traffic light. the traffic light has been run over about 4 times since we have been here by cars who he will either don't see it or just are trying to get out. here you see it actually one car right there. this is an individual who lives in this neighborhood just outside of downtown miami. it's a suburb. he doesn't know where to go. this is why they are telling people to stay in their homes until at least daylight so that the assessment crews can come out and start cleaning up. because it's dangerous out here. we saw a bus earlier today that was supposed to go pick up utility workers. also get stuck right where i'm standing. is he trying to get to fort lauderdale to pick up son-in-law of those 17,000

utility workers that are trying to restore power to 43% of florida's customers who are now without power. a staggering number. on top of all of that we saw all the damage, panels flying off the buildings, flooding on brickle avenue and miami beach. people are just trying to come home and those homes are vacant. so now police are dealing with, yeah, you guessed it, looters. and so now they are sending out video of looters going after a foot locker in miami-dade county here. there is also a tweet that miami police department sent out with a photo of some looters that they arrested, thankfully, 28 looters already arrested. i'm sure there is more. that was already a few hours old. they are just saying look we are going to come after you if you are trying. in the meantime, this is about restoring and cleaning up this city has been damaged pretty badly. lots of downed trees and power lines. it's really dangerous. most people who get hurt in a storm, they get hurt post

storm and so we can expect a very long clean up here in south florida from palm beach, broward and you know what, really, the entire state of florida, pretty unprecedented, guys. todd: bryan llenas live for us in miami. brian, stay safe. 38 minutes exactly after the hour. this morning we are commemorating the anniversary of 9/11. army veteran pete hegseth live at ground zero next. heather: plus the family who decided to ride out hurricane irma's wrath this video outside their home they join us live with a firsthand account up next ♪ ♪ i am totally blind. and non-24 can throw my days and nights out of sync, keeping me from the things i love to do. talk to your doctor, and call 844-214-2424. trusted battery for your son's favorite toy?t maybe not.

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heather: well, despite warnings to evacuate, many florida residents decided to stay put and ride out the storm, including our next guest who chose to ride it out from one of the hardest hit areas, actually.

todd: randy, a recreational fishing company in the florida keys. we have been in touch with him since saturday. he joining us now by phone with an update. randy, i've got to ask you, how you holding up? >> oh, guys, we're doing good. you know, we rode it out with no problems. the house stood strong. a lot of tree damage. that seems to be the biggest problem for us in the you were keys was a lot of downed trees. did i not see any structural damage. pretty good flooding on the oceanside, which was expected with those hard winds and the high tide. and then there was a tide surge on the bay side. all in all we faired very well and very pleased we didn't leave. heather: randy, people have different reasons for deciding to stay and hunker down. why did you decide to stay? did your family stay with you and how long have you been in that area? >> >> well, i have lived in the keys for 36 years. my family we all choose just

to ride it out here when we started looking at leaving and all the traffic and how difficult it was finding a place to stay. and we knew what we were going to be in for with the storm when it did finally hit. and we really didn't want to be somewhere else having to go through that. and we just felt that the safest place to be was at home. todd: as an owner of a recreational fishing company, boats are sort of your livelihood. any sense as to how your boats are doing? >> both boats did very well. i checked on them after the storm yesterday. and everything faired well. usualfully a storm you try to put them in the best safe haven you can in our case we put them in canals or man grove creeks with ropes on them. my boats faired pretty well and i heard most of the guys did well with their boats. heather: have you been there since 1984. that means you have been through hurricane andrew, wilma, charlie. how does this compare?

>> >> well, this was a little different in that it was really about a lot of wind and it did not hit us directly. the eye did not go over the up keys. it went down towards key west. which they really got the full force of it. will pretty standard as far as the tide surge on the ocean, the heavy wind. if you are in a sound house. we were in a big concrete house it wasn't a mobile home it wasn't something that was going to be, you know, scary to stay in as far as something happening to it. we were on high ground. so, it was really -- when you buy a house, you want to think of things if you have storms and if you're going to live there long term that you're going to be safe. todd: all right. randy, glad you and yours are doing well. thanks so much for sharing some time with us. >> thank you, guys. heather: thank you. todd: today marks 16 years since the 9/11 attack in new york city, washington, d.c. and, of course, shanksville,

pennsylvania. nearly 3,000 people died that day. heather: and this morning we honor those who lost their lives and those who sacrificed their own lives to save others. joining us now live from ground zero is "fox & friends weekend" co-host and u.s. army veteran pete hegseth. good morning, pete. >> good morning to you both. of course, we all remember that day. everyone remembers where they were a moment that changed our entire nation. and this morning we are here down at ground zero just outside the freedom tower where this tower stands today and two tawrsz fell 16 years ago there will be a memorial ceremony as there always is here on ground zero memorializing the lives that were lost and starting at 8:39 a.m. this morning, whether they begin reading the names of those 3,000 that were lost on that fateful day. they will fake six moments of silence when the north tower was struck. when the south tower was struck. when the pentagon was struck. when the events of flight 93

happened in shanksville and then, of course, when both towers fell, they will mark those with moments of silence. a moment that our nation will never forget. and what's so critical about remembering, we think about school kids today in high school. they were 1 or 2 years old when this event happened. if you don't memorialize it, then you forget it of course, a nation here in our country still at war with radical islamic terrorism. here on "fox & friends" this morning, we're going to be talking to rob o'neill, the man who killed usama bin laden, the man response sin foresponsiblefor those attacks t fateful day. something that continues to hit home and we're honored to be down here. first time i have been here on this actual day. and it hits me right here as someone who served this country and i'm glad that fox news channel is covering it. todd: it's always emotional and powerful. pete hegseth, thanks, pete. >> thanks, guys. heather: i would encourage anybody who hasn't been to the 9/11 memorial go down there.

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♪ heather: welcome back. a heroic rescue caught on camera, unbelievable footage showing deputies on a risky mission to rescue two people who decided to ride out the storm, of course, in a boat. todd: on a boat. come on. carley shimkus 24/7 sirius xm 115 is here with incredible details. >> good morning heather and todd. look no further than social

media inundated with pictures and video that shows what happens when a storm of this size rips through several major cities. as can you imagine it is not good. of course there are the inevitable rescue efforts. what you are looking at right nau is shocking video that shows a couple being rescued after they tried to ride out the storm on a boat. now, why they decided to do that beats the heck out of me. but rescue workers were forced to enter jensen beach just as the storm was making landfall. these rescue workers should have never been put in this situation. but that rescue attempt was successful. everybody is okay. good news on that front. one of the most surprising things about this storm was that the winds were so strong that it actually sucks the water away from the shoreline. but that left a lot of animals in a pretty tough spot like this manatee who was left stranded on the shoreline. a bunch of people got together and they tried to rescue that little guy.

they were successful in doing just that. so a lot of people are, you know, praising this rescue attempt on social media, trying to heal so many good souls. looking out for human and animal neighbors during irma. chimed in saying thank you to all who are helping the animals affected by hurricane irma. now, despite the storm's devastating side effects. some people are just determined to go on with their lives. like these two rescue workers who were supposed to get married next week. they were instead sent to florida so they decided to get married yesterday in a rushed ceremony in their uniforms. here is why they decided to make that sacrifice. take a listen. >> service before self. take care of the citizens first before ourselves. heather: amazing story there that is lauren dunham and michael davis of the international guard. a lot of people are praising and thanking them on social media. todd and heather, back to

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todd: welcome back. 3 minutes before the top of

the hour. we continue with a fox news alert. all eyes on hurricane irma. right there on the side of your screen. current track of the storm. right-hand side tampa, florida, one of the areas that with the new projections that we heard over the course of the last 48 hours is projected to get hit hard. you can see right there it did. heather: wind damage and storm surge, two of the things that everyone continues to watch. we heard our own janice dean mention the number of people who are now without power in the state of florida. ha t. has gone from 3.3 to 5.5 million people without power in that state. the impacts of irma being felt from coast to coast. todd: all of this as the storm itself was downgraded to a category 1. you've heard all of our meteorologists from adam klotz to. rick: mute to janice dean just a few moments ago saying just because you heard that words downgraded doesn't mean the folks there are out of the woods. as the sun does come up

there in florida. people are going to want to go out and survey the damage. every single meteorologist has said please be very careful. if you choose to do that. the best course of action is to stay inside until the storm fully gets out of the area. heather: stay at home it is dangerous. we know at this point at least 28 deaths across the caribbean, the u.s. virgin islands and puerto rico have been reported. and then there were two deaths, officers responding to the scenes there in monroe county. in the florida keys areas have also died as well as a result of irma. todd: tampa and st. petersburg in the crosshairs overnight. we have seen some tough images coming out of that area. and we spoke with griff general who is in naples. it seemed that naples really got hit with both the wind and that storm surge. it's a tough scene down there in naples. you can see the overhead shot right there. that clearly is the flooding and the storm surge damage. but then in griff's live

shots, we heard the wind picking um throughout the course of the morning. and griffed the situation there to houston. heather: he was in both places. todd: storm surge much worse in houston but the wind really bad there in florida. heather: naples being the second landfall of irma. the first landfall sunday morning happened in the florida keys as a cat 4. luckily it has been downgraded significantly. miami beach, miami itself, also on lockdown. unfortunately we have seen scenes coming out of miami of looters already impacting that area. todd: obviously storm coverage continues throughout the morning and throughout the day here on the fox news channel. but if you look at your calendar, you know today is a special day, nonetheless a day that will go down in american history will never be forgotten that day, of course is, september 11th. "fox & friends" will be live from ground zero for the next three hours bringing you coverage of the always somber but always very

important memorial from ground zero. heather: also a day that brought americans across the country together as we continue to be brought together dealing with hurricane harvey and hurricane irma as well. stay with us all morning long. todd: "fox & friends" starts right now. heather: bye-bye. ♪ >> hurricane irma battering florida bringing more wind, rain, and damage. todd: storm down downgraded to category 1 storm, but the danger is not over yet. >> we're still out here on the gulf, i will tell you the back side of this -- this is the back side of this storm. >> it is whipping off of it there now. whoa. this is pretty intense. >> wherever hurricane irma goes we will be there first. >> i want everybody to survive this storm. as you know we can't send out first responders to save you. everybody needs to be cautious. >> president trump vowing to head to florida in the wake of hurricane irma. >> we will go to