>> yes, that's on the west side of manhattan. the intrepid, the aircraft carrier. used to be a big tourist attraction when everything was open. right now the only thing open is us. we'll see you back here tomorrow. >> stay within yourself. >> sandra: hurricane sally is pounding the gulf coast at this hour after coming ashore a category 2 storm in alabama. good morning, everyone, i'm sandra smith. hello, trace. >> trace: i'm trace gallagher. the powerful storm made landfall near gulf shores, alabama. the national hurricane center is warning of catastrophic and life-threatening flooding as the storm creeps slowly inland at 2 miles per hour. it could bring up to 30 inches of rain over the next 24 hours and widespread flooding is already reported from the florida panhandle to

mississippi. hundreds of thousands in the dark as the storm hammers the gulf coast and people in low-lying areas now being urged to head for higher ground. >> we thought it was heading to new orleans and it made a right hand turn. >> hurricane sally is not to be taken for granted. we are looking at record flooding, perhaps breaking historic levels. >> a lot of people who live in low-lying areas and we've been in some instances mandatory evacuated the low-lying areas. >> don't take the storm for granted. you have time to make final preparations. heed the directions of your local and state emergency managers and keep your family safe. >> sandra: ashley is live in mobile, alabama for us this morning. what kind of conditions are you seeing as the sun comes up there? >> as far as the conditions the wind is not half bad but these

squalls come through and basically pushes you off to the side. the flooding, sandra, is what is so bad in these areas after this hurricane came through. catastrophic, deadly, historic in parts. pensacola and orange beach are under water. they've put a curfew. they had the curfew at noon and haven't extended it just yet but telling people not to go out of their homes and something police were saying earlier today. they were saying don't call them, just wait this out. do not go outside because people are going to assess the damage right in the thick of this and with that wind it was just beating everything around. they said wait it out. be patient if you can until they can actually get out with the conditions to allow for it so they can get out. this flooding. i heard trace say it was up to

30 inches of rain possible. i've heard that. the highest i've heard from fox report is up to 35 in parts. nearly 400,000 power outages by 6:00 a.m. local time today. i saw 25, 26, 27 transformers blow. there are homes and a marina behind us right now that the boats seem to be fine. they're pushed inland a little bit and a little room to where it is -- the shore is almost breaking up where this wind is, they're fine. but these areas over here, the homes and everything, this storm was so powerful it sucked up all the water. i will have our photographer pan over. it sucked the water out of the day. yesterday at 2:00 p.m. the waves and storm surge were hitting me in the face standing right where i am right now. that's a look how powerful that storm was and it sucked it out

and starting to fill up. it stalled out. the one thing everyone does want people in the area to be aware of, especially officials, bridges closed, standing water, trees and limbs down, boats are in the middle of roads. have no -- nowhere near where they were stationed at first. be aware of that. but the flooding is the biggest issue. >> sandra: you get the sense things are changing quickly there. please be safe as we can see the winds picking up on and behind you. thank you for your reporting there. much more on this coming up with white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany joining us in just moments with what the white house is now dealing -- doing to deal with this storm. emergency declared in the state of florida just last hour. >> trace: first let's get to our chief white house correspondent john roberts. how are fema and the white house ramping up their response to hurricane sally?

>> now that we're done to the ss in terms of hurricane in the season fema is used to getting a robust response out there. because of all the rain expected from hurricane sally they've adjusted their plan a little bit. they have pre-positioned 1.8 million meals in the area. 1.5 million bottles of water. in addition they have three high water rescue teams in the area ready to go with humvees and high water vehicles in case there need to be rescued. generators on hand as well. three disaster medical assistant teams in the area and in florida, mississippi and louisiana. the emergency making emergency declaration for florida yesterday and alabama on monday. and then the president tweeting yesterday my team and i are closely monitoring extremely dangerous hurricane sally engaged with local leaders to assist the people there. be ready and listen to state

and local leaders. we should point out the area that's being hit is heavy trump territory. these are areas he won big in 2016. not to say that in any way is going to shape the white house response. but those people are going to be looking to their president, trace, to help get them on their feet as quickly as possible. >> trace: they are. the president did a town hall with abc last night, john. what did he say about his covid-19 response? >> as he has for many months now we've seen him in the daily briefings and in other venues as well defending his response to coronavirus. listen to this exchange with george stephanopolous. >> president trump: i think we could have had two million deaths if we didn't close the country. i think we did a great job. we had the greatest economy ever and we have to close it. if i didn't close it i think you would have two million deaths instead of having the 185, 190. 1 is a terrible number.

>> president trump saying coronavirus has been the toughest thing in his presidency. biden mixed up iraq and iran yesterday when talking about america's war dead. listen here. >> there is always a black box that i have here that says daily troop updates. u.s. troops died in iran and afghanistan, 6,000 as of today, 923. >> joe biden got it correct later on when i talked about iraq and afghanistan and raised eyebrows when at a hispanic heritage event in consist imme he pulled out his eye phone and played the 2017 hit from fontis who introduced biden. listen here. ♪ >> i tell you what, if i had

the talent of any one of these people i would be -- i would be elected president by -- there are a lot of other lyrics in that song as well that joe biden might not have been aware of. >> trace: we should leave it there. john roberts live for us at the white house. john, thank you. >> sandra: for more on all this white house response to hurricane sally and more let's bring in press secretary kayleigh mcenany. great to have you top of the hour. a lot of news coming in starting off with the hurricane sally making landfall in alabama. you saw the conditions on the ground there, thousands without power. now florida emergency declaration declared by the president there. what is the president doing this morning to further prepare for the dangerous impact of this storm? >> the white house is fully engaged, fema is fully engaged. you heard john roberts list off all the various measures fema has taken to prepare for this.

the emergency declarations are key within 60 minutes. in fact, i believe one of them was done within 22 minutes. the president authorized these emergency declarations and he is on top of this as his tweet indicates and we're ready to help these states in every way possible. >> sandra: on the phone with the governors of those states? >> i don't know what calls the president has made this morning but they've been in contact with all the governors. >> sandra: last night the president in the town hall pressed on his response to the coronavirus pandemic. it happened late last night. here is a bit on the president talking about herd mentality, listen. >> president trump: it is going to disappear. it is going to disappear. >> not if we don't take action. >> president trump: i still say it will disappear and now go away a lot faster because of the vaccine. it would go away without the vaccine. >> it would go away without the

vaccine? >> president trump: sure, with time. you'll develop a herd mentality. it will be herd developed and that will happen. that will all happen. >> sandra: there you heard the president talking about the virus is going to disappear, he said. it would go away without a vaccine, he suggested. talking about herd mentality. we have not heard such forecasts from dr. birx, fauci and others, is the president going at it on his own or do the medical experts advising him agree with the forecasts? >> the term herd immunity is a medical term. when you have a certain percentage with a population you have herd immunity via vaccine or prior illness that you develop the antibodies. a medical term. what the president said clearly there a vaccine gets you there quickest. we are on pace to get a vaccine in record time for a novel

pathogen. he is achieving it at a faster rate than other president. he is tearing down barriers to make sure we have a safe, effective vaccine in record time. >> sandra: the president also took a question on masks from a person in the crowd. i should mention it was a crowd, we were told, of undecided voters, even some of them disclaimed that they voted for the president back in 2016. but he was pressed on mask wearing and here was his response. >> president trump: by the way, a lot of people don't want to wear masks. a lot of people think they're not good. there are a lot of people that as an example you have -- >> who are the people? >> president trump: i'll tell you, waiters. >> sandra: doesn't this give critics more room to go against

the science. fauci says mask wearing is a good thing. >> he was making the point that dr. fauci made in march. a mask doesn't provide perfect protection. unintended consequences. when he talks about the waiter if you touch the mask and go on to touch a plate he noted. he was merely pointing out some of the flaws that can come with it. the unintended consequences which even dr. fauci noted. >> sandra: the point is that dr. fauci today says wearing a mask is a good thing and couldn't that accidentally lead someone in the public to think the president says sometimes it is not a good thing to be wearing a mask, particularly a waiter at restaurants as restaurants try to reopen across the country? >> the president has said numerous time that wearing a mask is patriotic. he has done it himself when he can't socially distance and encouraged it but note the

unintended consequences as he ciebd to detail last night. >> sandra: the stimulus talks. a lot of debate over whether or not something will get done before election day and even the "wall street journal" editorial board is writing nancy pelosi's nervous majority. trump doesn't need a virus relief bill. democratic house back been muchers want one. the president says with time he will meet with nancy pelosi to hash something out. does the president want to get something done on coronavirus stimulus relief before election day? does he think it can happen? >> absolutely he wants to get something done. nancy pelosi here is disgraceful. we all know she left town to go on vacation. got a lot of criticism for going what to hair salon closed to the public and now she is saying we'll stay in town until we get the stimulus package. her own members are calling out against her saying come to the negotiating table. president trump did those to

helped unemployed americans and facing eviction. without nancy pelosi we can't have a deal with congress. right now she doesn't care about the american people. she cares about getting the perks in california as her hair salon. >> sandra: a big deal yesterday with the mideast peace deal. the president saying that five or six countries could come along very quickly and follow suit. what can you tell us about the potential timing of another announcement of further peace in the middle east? >> he thinks it is certainly possible that other countries could come into the fold. bahrain came just 29 days after the united arab emirates made this agreement. we could be seeing some other countries in short order and it is remarkable. three peace deals in 29 days. serbia and kosovo as well. two nobel peace prize nominations. the media said the middle east would be chaos when we moved

the embassy to jerusalem. quite the contrary. this president is the great peacemaker and achieved history. something that hasn't been seen in a quarter century. >> sandra: kayleigh mcenany, appreciate your time from the white house this morning. thank you. >> trace: speaking of that peace deal. israel launched retaliatory air strikes in the gaza strip. will the accords help bring the palestinians to the table. nikki haley joins us next with that. plus the ambush on two los angeles sheriffs' deputies. why ambassador haley argues the movement to defund the police is partly to blame.

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>> sandra: hurricane sally downgraded to a category 1 shore after landing as a category 2 storm this morning. sally will cause dangerous flooding from the florida panhandle to mississippi as it pushes inland and warning of life threatening storm surge and possible tornadoes. power outages are already reported across several states. >> trace: overnight israel launched air strikes on the gaza strip in retaliation for a rocket attack in southern

israel as the uae and bahrain signed peace deals with the white house angering palestinians. trey yengst is live in israel with the latest. what exactly happened last night? >> trace, good morning. right as that ceremony was taking place at the white house yesterday, the normalization deal militants inside gaza fired two rockets toward an israeli sound. one intercepted by the iron dome. the other one landing here and injuring six people. where we're standing one man was moderately injured and was taken to the hospital. we obtained tv footage showing the moment of the impact. to give you a sense of how powerful this rocket was. as you mentioned the israelis responded with air strikes inside the gaza strip overnight at which point militants fired more rockets, 13 in total from a second round into southern

israel. no injuries reported from that second round but tension does remain high as hamas the group that controls gaza tells fox news there will be no peace or stability until the needs of the palestinians are met. >> trace: trey yengst live in israel. thank you. >> sandra: president trump's middle east peace initiative brought two gulf arab nations on board to sign the historic accords with the state of israel. rush limbaugh reacted to that event. >> every president, i can start with jfk and every president going forward salivated over the ultimate peace deal in the middle east. who does it? donald trump. mr. bull in the china shop. mr. outsider, mr. stupid. has come along and achieved something every american president since the 1950s has been attempting to achieve.

>> sandra: let's bring in nikki haley former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. and former governor of south carolina. ambassador, great to have you on this morning. i was watching your reaction as you listened to rush limbaugh there. you have obvious inside knowledge of the president's strategy in the middle east. why was this president able to get what he has gotten done, something no other president before him was able to achieve? >> great to be with you. the interesting thing is regardless of what side of the politics you are on, this is no fluke. this is pretty remarkable and historic at best. the difference was go back to the first foreign policy speech the president gave. it was to the arab community and he said let us all work together in the name of peace. and he did something no other president has done. rather than focus on the palestinians, which is what every president thought they had to do was to negotiate peace, he focused on iran and

he brought all of the arab countries together and said let's all fight against terrorism. that's what this was. this was about the fact that this peace deal came together simply as a fact they trusted the president. they trusted him because he got out of the iran deal. they trusted him because he was honest with them. they trusted him because he showed strength in a time where we needed it. the stars were in alignment. it was effective. he started this from the second he started his presidency and what a way to wrap up the first term in a very, very historic peace deal. it was amazing to be there and an honor to watch. >> sandra: you don't have to look far to see the headlines praising the president. the "new york post" this morning. this is the "wall street journal." the art of a mideast deal. trump was willing to break with conventional wisdom. "new york post." dawn of a new middle east. i will read you a chunk from inside of the "wall street

journal" editorial piece that praises the president moving the embassy to jerusalem. it was a gesture said to be the death knell for peace but sent a signal israel will not be wished away. the wider recognition may cause the palestinians to come to the table in a realistic way. talk about that and what we might potentially see in the future and the lasting impact of a deal like this. >> well, i think you have to go back and look at the two administrations. under the obama and biden administration their idea of peace was giving plane loads of cash to iran under false narrative. the president's idea to peace was being honest, acknowledging truth which was moving the embassy to the capital of israel, which was jerusalem. it was getting out of the iran deal because it was a fake deal where iran was not in any way doing what it was supposed to

and everybody was turning a blind eye. it was bringing them together in the name of let's do away with terrorism. the number one sponsor of terrorism is iran and if we're going to all get together and do this, we have to start acknowledging the truth. that's what the president did. he didn't give them any niceties or false narratives. he was honest, blunt, straight forward. but he said if we go through this together you can trust me and we can get this done. i'm telling you, if you go back to my first year at the united nations and the start of this administration, the hurdles that it took to get from that moment where the arab country was condemning israel every other day to the idea that we're watching the leaders of israel, bahrain and the united arab emirates come together in the name of peace? absolutely monumental, historic. definitely a legacy point for president trump. >> sandra: ambassador, as you

very well know we're in an election year and the president speaking in the oval office yesterday when he was meeting with those leaders suggested why he is the right guy for the job when it comes to foreign policy, not joe biden. listen to this in an interview on fox yesterday. >> president trump: the man is shot, let's face it. we can't have a man who is shot. you know who is not shot? putin, xi, kim jong-un. this guy is shot. everyone knows it. >> sandra: it reminded me of your rnc speech where you took the moment to say biden is good for iran and isis, great for communist china, a godsend to everyone who wants america to apologize, abstain, and abandon our values. weigh in on the race and joe biden versus donald trump when it comes to foreign policy. >> there is a reason china wants biden to win. they see him as the nice guy. they see him as a pushover. they see him as the guy who

literally worked with obama and led an anti-israel resolution after they lost the election in december. they see them as sending planefuls of cash to iran, their number one threat. they see them as going along with any trade deal just to say they did it. they see them going along with the paris climate agreement that put burdens all on the united states and gave others a free pass. that's what they see in biden and they know it because they saw it under the obama/biden administration. you look at the trump administration, he doesn't give a pass. he doesn't give a pass to china on intellectual property or russia on their poisoning or a pass to iran saying if you give us money we'll be nice. he doesn't believe them. he is being honest with arab countries and saying look, i

respect and acknowledge you but we have to come together how to fight terrorism. i think strong leaders are fearful of the president. i think weak leaders appreciate the leadership and everybody knows what they get with a biden administration. exactly what they got under the obama administration. >> sandra: law and order has been a central focus of both campaigns as we head towards november. i know you have been speaking out about what you have been seeing as far as anti-police sentiment. speaking yesterday on this program i was to the los angeles sheriff who had the two deputies shot in their patrol cars. what is your message in this election year as far as that law and order message is concerned and the anti-police sentiment that we are seeing in cities across this nation today? >> sandra, as governor i saw my law enforcement exactly like i saw my military. they are true american patriots who put their lives on the line

and leave their families every day to keep total strangers safe. the idea that we would see killings of police officers and we he would see people in -- at the hospitals where they were taken cheering for them to die? it's disgusting, it's sick and on the hands of every mayor and every governor who is not allowing law and order. all you have to do is look at new york city. they defunded police by a billion dollars against aoc's wish to defund them by 1.5 billion and what have they seen? they have seen shootings go up, they have seen arrests go down, they have seen wait times go up and they have seen retirements go up. if you are in a community and you want to be safe, the democrats are not going to be there to save you. this is a time of law and order. this is a time when you see anyone trying to shoot a police officer you treat it like a terrorist shooting a military officer. you arrest them, charge them and hold them accountable.

if you see looting and damaging of businesses, you treat it like a burglar. you arrest them, put them in jail and show them as an example to the rest of the community. this is not happening. the president has offered every governor in the country assistance to get this in order. any governor who doesn't take it voters need to remember at the polls. any mayor who doesn't listen to it isn't for safety and security of their people. if you don't have the backs of law enforcement in your community it is hard to see that you're an american patriot. we were built on law and order, rules. having communities be responsible. >> sandra: i can't help but hear you. i think we're about to lose you. your presidential ambitions in 2024? are you run ?ng >> i want to see the president win in november. you'll see me fighting hard for him and that's what we should all be focused on. >> sandra: appreciate your time this morning. come back soon.

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>> trace: hurricane sally slamming into the gulf coast bringing high winds and torrential rain downgraded to a category 1. the storm's projected path shifting eastward. mississippi very much in danger, as much as 15 inches of rain and widespread flooding expected in places. the mayor from one of the cities is here. jackson county still expecting 10 to 15 inches of rain. what are you telling people who

live near rivers and creeks and bayous? >> that was our message the past several days is to move to higher ground if you're in areas of potential flooding or near a bayou or on the riverfront. but really that storm has moved so much further east it's really been blessed. we really missed this one. the poor folks on gulf shores, alabama are the ones taking the brunt of it now. >> trace: we know the storm. it is fortunate for you, not as fortunate for those in alabama and florida the panhandle. flash flooding was a big concern as you movies of your state. i want to put up what was said. dangerous life threatening situation with the rainfall. have a plan and don't be traveling. if water covers the road, turn around, don't drown. it is a dangerous situation to be on the road there even though much of the rain has

passed your area, we saw it in hurricane harvey in houston, the water can come down from these areas in a heartbeat. there is still a lot of concern about that, sir. >> yes, that's true. you know, we're surrounded by water on three sides in our little town and so we are very sensitive to that. of course, 80% of our city got flooded during hurricane katrina 15 years ago. we try to make good preparations here. we go door-to-door and have people evacuate low lying areas before the storm was projected to come our way. so we did all our preparations that we normally have in place and do it by protocol. more protocol driven for us. we rely on using good common sense. also following our protocols. >> trace: how was cooperation during this? you had a lot of run-up. we didn't know where the storm was going. have first responders been out

now taking a look around and seeing some of the damage and assessing things? >> yes. let me just say this, we have a great police force and we have a great fire and rescue teams and great first responders. and we all work very closely together. we have a really superb city management. our citizens appreciate each of those groups and they work closely with them. we're a community that works together and we are used to working together and resilient. and so when we thought we were going to be the direct hit on this we made our preparations, we put, you know, everything in place we needed to do and then we just, you know, pray and hope and hope and pray. >> trace: it worked this time, mayor. thank you for joining us. we appreciate it and move the storm east. your step missed it. we'll check on other areas.

appreciate it. thank you. >> you're welcome. >> sandra: football fans everywhere breaking news this hour. the big ten announcing its college football season will begin in late october after the conference suspended all fall sports in august. kevin warren met with the presidents and chancellors of the school for several hours this past sunday and the conference is planning on starting the season the last weekend of october. the conference joins the sec, big 12 and acc in playing. the pac-12 season is still on hold. that news just in. >> trace: pac-12 is looking around saying pressure is on. the president taking questions from uncommitted voters yesterday. the key takeaways from his answers are straight ahead. support for joe biden shrinking in the key state of florida especially among latino voters.

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former news contributor. former vice president biden knew the lyrics of the song he played he probably wouldn't have played it yesterday at the rally in florida. but i want to move on because the advisor for the biden campaign in florida was quoted as saying this. he says, what we know that the polsters don't appear to is florida's hispanic community is incredibly diverse and our robust microtargeted outreach is working except it is not because you look at these polls and back july 23 biden was up by 17 points with latinos in florida. you move ahead to september 8th. nbc maris polls has his down by 4 points. that's a 21 point swing in about 44 days. that's a big concern for the biden campaign. >> well, i would caution against comparing different polls to one another. quinnipiac looked like an outlier. throughout most of this campaign biden has had a

three-point lead or so in the state. now his average is about 1.6. that shouldn't surprise anybody, right? florida is an incredibly close state, it always is. 10 of the last statewide elections have been decided by 1%. of all the votes cast for president since 1992 in the state combined there is a 20,000 vote difference. both campaigns need to really drill down and microtarget in this state. the biden advisor is right. people make the mistake of looking at the latino community as a monolith. it is very diverse. there is a big difference between cuban voters in south florida and puerto rican voters

in central florida. >> trace: you make a good point about the difference in voters and latino voters there. political professor at florida international university who specializes in cuban politics said, quote being here. given the margins that hillary clinton won dade county by and given how close florida is, the democrats have to put real resources in the hispanic community and stop offending cuban voters. is that an indication to you, mo, this push by the trump campaign to label joe biden as a socialist, show pictures of him next to fidel castro and next to maduro, is that having an effect in south florida? >> we won't know for some time how effective it is. it is clearly where they're going. and we all know that the cuban vote has skewed right of center in south florida for a very, very long time. but on the flip side of that,

the orlando media market is oftentimes decided by the strength of the puerto rican community. a community still very, very raw because -- by the president's response to hurricane maria, for example. and the latino community as is the african-american community is disproportion naturally impacted by covid. so both sides have some vulnerabilities and both sides have some messaging that they can use to target each of these communities. >> trace: as you point out joe biden was up by 3 1/2 a month ago, now 1.6 getting much closer in florida. mo elleithee, good to see you. thank you. >> thank you. >> sandra: western wildfires now blamed for at least 34 deaths. are there any signs of progress as firefighters continue to battle those flames? an update on the conditions in california next. do you see me? though hidden, i am here

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>> sandra: authorities revising the death toll down to at least 34 as crews fight dozens of wildfires across oregon, washington and california. the fast-moving bobcat fire now threatening homes near los angeles. christina coleman is in arcadia, california. how many firefighters are on the ground there? >> hi, sandra. right now at least 16,000 firefighters are on the front lines of at least two dozen major fires burning in california right now. some of them forcing evacuations like here in this neighborhood where you can see one of these roads that is blocked off as firefighters try to get this fire under control. now at least 25 people have died from fires here in california. crews continue to battle the stubborn bobcat fire where i am northeast of los angeles

burning more than 40,000 acres. containment shrank from 6 to 3% this week and threatened the historic mount wilson observatory and cell towers. firefighters worked to protect the structure as flames came within 500 feet. >> to the history of science, this site is irreplaceable. there are very few places on the planet that have that much science history in one place. to me it would be catastrophic. >> the california national guard hard at work showing air fight with one of the fires. this thick plume of smoke contributing to the smoke pollution seen as far as new jersey and new york. satellite images show it reached as far as europe. this is some of the devastation in oregon where emergency officials say more than 1100 homes have been destroyed. death toll was reduced to eight

after two remains were later i.d.s as animals. 16 people are still reported as missing. also the weather is expected to be hot and dry again today so tough conditions for firefighters but they may get some relief in the coming days due to some scattered rain over the pacific northwest. sandra. >> sandra: christina coleman, thank you. >> trace: fox news alert. hurricane sally downgraded to a category 1 after lashing the gulf coast with powerful winds and rain. we'll go live to one of the hardest-hit areas next. an important message from medicare.

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guard your card. learn more at medicare.gov/fraud. >> sandra: fox news alert now a dangerous situation unfolding along the gulf coast. hurricane sally made landfall as a category 2 storm near gulf shores, alabama. and now it's moving inland with winds still topping 100 miles per hour. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." a lot of news this morning. trace, good morning, i'm sandra smith. >> trace: good morning, i'm trace gallagher. forecasters warn of catastrophic flooding with up to 35 inches of rain and thousands of people are now without power. >> sandra: weeks after hurricane laura caused so much damage to the region. grady trimble is live in mobile, alabama this morning with the damage. >> we're getting a break from the rain but the wind has been

relentless like this for hours. mobile, alabama the national weather service says wind gusts up to 82 miles per hour. we've been talking for several days as people have prepared for this storm about storm surge but what we're seeing here is actually the opposite of that. because of the way the storm made landfall about 40 miles east of here in gulf shores, alabama this wind is pushing the water from mobile bay away from the shoreline. they aren't dealing with issues like they are in gulf shores as well as pensacola. this has been a dangerous storm in mobile as well. if you look around just a short drive we made this morning we saw downed trees, downed power lines. across the south more than half a million people are without power right now. 130,000 of them right here in mobile and if you go over the bay, that's where gulf shores is. that's where they're seeing that historic flooding from the rivers and seeing storm surge and add to that roughly two

feet of rain from this storm in some areas. it is making for catastrophic situations along the gulf coast there. right now it is essentially impassable if you want to get on i-10 and go over mobile bay it is very hard to do. semi truck toppled over early this morning when we were seeing strong winds. so they've closed down that bridge. there is one other way to get there. authorities are urging people to stay in if you can because the storm has not passed just yet and it is not safe to go outside to look at the damage. sandra. >> sandra: grady, be safe. thank you for your reporting there. >> trace: former vice president joe biden will be focusing today on efforts to create a safe vaccine for coronavirus and revealing his plans for a fair and equitable distribution of the vaccine if he is elected. peter doocy is live for us in wilmington, delaware. peter, when do we expect to see the former vice president?

>> later on this afternoon, trace. biden is back home after a trip to florida yesterday. he is 15 minutes or so from downtown wilmington where we are. he will get a briefing from public health experts from a covid-19 vaccine and talk to us about it. late last night he said he is beginning to prepare with his meeting with donald trump and chris wallace in less than two weeks at the first debate. >> preparing for the debates? >> i've begun preparing yes. i haven't been doing very much but making sure that i understand all that he has said and hasn't said. >> biden went on to say he does not know who is going to play president trump when it is time for mock debate sessions before the trip to cleveland for their first showdown. the president has been making gains in polling trends with hispanic voters in florida.

lately that all preceded biden and harris traveling to florida within the last week. biden hosted a mostly virtual event. he did say he is not worried that his outreach to latino voters is coming too late. he told reporters before getting back on the plane to delaware he thinks that the undecided voters are just starting to move now. biden is keeping busy this week. he has delaware today and tomorrow heading to the states that the trump campaign is trying as hard as any other on the map to flip and that is minnesota. trace. >> trace: peter doocy live for us in wilmington. thank you. >> sandra: meanwhile the department of health and human services unveiling plans just moments ago to deliver covid vaccines to as many people as possible for free. now some are raising doubts over the safety and effectiveness of any potential vaccine developed so quickly. president trump saying last night in a town hall one could be just weeks away.

>> president trump: the previous administration would have taken perhaps years to have a vaccine because of the fda and all the approvals. we're within weeks of getting it. could be three weeks or four weeks. we think we have it. >> sandra: we're live in washington with more on the status of operation warp speed with some developments this morning. where do things stand right now? >> good morning to you. things are moving along nicely according to health and human services officials. they expect that many people will have to take two doses of a vaccine but they say a vaccine could be ready and distributed in the next several months in early 2021. i was at a news conference last week when president trump said he hopes to have a vaccine, quote, before a very special day hinting to the november 3 election. many scientists say it will be at least six months until we have a sustainable and safe vaccine. pfizer is the company contracted by the united states to produce about 100 million doses by january 21.

they agreed to enter this agreement, the government is behind operation warp speed to get a vaccine out as soon as possible. critics say operation warp speed is a great idea in principle but not being sold properly to the american people. >> i'm more worried about is this lapse in how we are communicating to the american people. that's not working well. we don't have a lot of time to fix it. i'll tell you why. the world is littered with good vaccines that never get used because of public misperceptions. >> that was peter hotez with baylor university working on a vaccine for low to middle income countries around the world. he warns if scientists communicate effectively to the american people or if not millions won't take the vaccine. history may repeat itself. in 1976 also during an election year then president gerald ford asked all americans to get the

swine flu vaccine. the outbreak began but there were multiple problems. people got sick and in some cases paralyzed because of the vaccine. scientists say that process was rushed. it was canned. the warp speed officials need to get in front of the camera. they held a conference call today. he said the messaging is crucial so all americans can feel safe about a vaccine when it is available. sandra. >> sandra: we'll stand by for more news on that. david, thank you. >> trace: democrat is calling for the resignation of health and human services secretary alex azar. >> it has become clear that the leadership of the department of health and human services has allowed the most important federal agency right now to

become subservient to the president's daily whims. today i'm calling on secretary azar to resign immediately. >> trace: he claims the trump administration is interfering for the release of coronavirus reports for the centers for disease control and prevention. a spokeswoman for hhs called his claims uninformed and an attempt to mislead the american people. >> i just off a kol with my colleagues. we're committed to staying here until we have an agreement. an agreement that meets the needs of the american people. >> sandra: house speaker nancy pelosi there putting lawmakers on notice saying they will stay put in the nation's capitol until a coronavirus relief bill is reached. pelosi is still not willing to budge on the 2.2 trillion dollar package. republicans have said that price tag is a non-starter. where does that leave us? chad pergram is live on capitol hill with more. good morning. chad. >> good morning. there is no new talks scheduled.

nothing is really changing here. we're at status quo and this is what is starting to worry rank and file democrats, especially those who are moderates and flipped districts from red to blue in 2018. they want to get something done and they're getting in the ear of the democratic leadership including max rose, a freshman from new york city. >> we have allegiance to our country. we do not have allegiance to our party leaders. >> hakeem jeffries says members want to stay in washington >> the overwhelming consensus among the members is we stick around until we get something done for the american people. >> it won't work that way. the house is here for two weeks to deal with unrelated bills. steny hoyer reiterated members will be on 24-hour notice to return to washington if there was a a coronavirus agreement. but the last thing that leaders will do is keep members waiting around on capitol hill during a

pandemic just before the election without a bill. that makes members cranky. they're already cranky about no deal. >> the pressures are mounting. when we go home and talk to our constituents and they are telling us heartbreaking stories of having electricity cut off or having to move out of their home and standing in food lines, those stories are heartbreaking. >> it's unclear if anything could pass the house of representatives right now as we always say on capitol hill, it is about the math, it's about the math. there is some chatter right now about trying to do individual bills. it is unclear if any of those can pass. sandra. >> sandra: i guess we'll have to keep on watching where this goes next. chad pergram. >> i'm hear every day. >> sandra: you're on it. thank you, chad. >> trace: hurricane sally slamming into the gulf coast coming ashore in alabama. we'll have live team coverage

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>> trace: fox news alert. a court security officer was wounded in a drive-by shooting outside the u.s. courthouse in downtown phoenix yesterday. city police say the officer was struck in his protective vest and is expected to recover. one person has been taken into custody. the f.b.i. continues to investigate the shooting. >> you are down playing the severity of the crisis. >> president trump: i didn't downplay it. i upplayed it in terms of action. >> could you have done more to stop it? >> president trump: i don't think so. i think by closing up the country, i think i saved maybe more than 2, 2 1/2. >> sandra: that was president trump at a town hall with undecided voters in pennsylvania covering a wide range of topics including his handling of covid-19, law and order in the u.s. and other problems that he blames on democrats. katie pavlich is the editor of

town hall.com and fox news contributor. i'll start with that chunk of the president's town hall. so many people missed this it was so late last night. in that moment he chose to say no, i'm not down playing it. i wasn't down playing it. i've up played it in terms of his actions, he said. was that a good idea considering he is clearly on tape in that bob woodward interview saying not only had he been down playing it but that he continued to say that he was going to keep downplaying it? >> it was the first time he has had this much of a forum to explain what he meant by what he talked about with bob woodward. and he did say and explain all of the things that his administration has done in response to the pandemic whether it was bringing that navy medical ship into new york city, building out the convention center there and talking about the things that they have done to try to move forward with the testing.

when he pulled out the abbott instant test hopefully available in over the counter pharmacies soon and the fda and regulations and distinguish himself from joe biden on things like the china travel ban, things like removing regulations to get that testing and to get a vaccine to the american people as quickly as possible. so he talked about winston churchill during world war ii and london being bombed out and him trying everyone to remain calm. he has likeened himself to a wartime president. he said he was down playing it in order not to panic the country. in terms of his actions he was doing a lot to fight the virus. >> sandra: a wide range of topics hit in that town hall. a lot of blame also that you saw the president lie on democrats specifically when it comes to bailing out democrat-led states. here is the president on that. >> you keep talking about

democrat cities. they're american states. >> president trump: democrat-run states are doing badly. they have things that the republicans don't have. they are. i don't want to -- i'm the president of everybody. i don't want to say it but they're democrat-run cities. it is what it is. >> sandra: what was your takeaway from that? >> president trump is on the ballot in november but senate and house republicans on the ballot and also republicans trying to take back democrat seats from democrats who won house seats in 2018. the president is making a contrast here looking at the policies of these cities, whether it's on the issue of covid or on the issue of crime and saying this is a distinction. the differences between the policy decisions that are made by republican leaders and democratic leaders. if you want the rest of the country to look like new york city, or chicago, or portland, vote for joe biden. and democrats on the ticket. if you want it to look more like cities that have the crime

under control and able to balance reopening with getting rid of covid-19, then vote for republicans. as we know, sandra, elections are all about contrasts. that's what the president is trying to do on a national and local level. >> sandra: as we know, the president was interviewed in this town hall while sitting in pennsylvania. apparently with undecided voters around him and asking him questions. some of which said they voted for him in 2016. the real clear politics average in that state. joe biden leading president trump by over 5 percentage points there. joe biden will head to pennsylvania tomorrow. so did president trump in that town hall leave some opportunity for joe biden to reach out to some of those undecided voters when he gets on the ground there tomorrow? >> it depends on what your definition of reaching out is. joe biden seems to be following president trump around the country when it comes to the places they are campaigning. the president went to florida, then joe biden went to florida

because he is losing ground there especially among florida hispanic voters in pennsylvania. president trump is putting himself out there in a town hall forum and taking questions that are not prescreened by his campaign. tough questions about his record on a number of issues. joe biden seems to go to these places and give speeches and not take any questions from the press and when he takes them from people in an audience they're pre-screened by his campaign. there is a difference here. there are always opportunities for campaigns to take advantages of weaknesses they see on the opposing side. the way joe biden has campaigned so far is following president trump around and not taking the heat and taking questions what he would have done during the covid-19 and what he would do for punishing china in unleashing the virus on the world. polling is one thing. president trump is also behind hillary clinton in 2016 in pennsylvania and ended up

winning that state. you have ivanka trump in arizona, mike pence campaigning around the country in places like wisconsin, florida, pennsylvania for months now. joe biden doesn't have that infrastructure around him to campaign on his behalf when he is not in the state. >> sandra: he has a lot of cash and ads out there playing right now. katie, joe biden raised eyebrows when he stepped onto a stage in florida and decided to -- he was trying to appeal to hispanic voters. i'll let the entire thing play out for our viewers and we'll chat on the other side. >> i just have one thing to say. hang on here. ♪ all right. there you go. dance a little bit. come on. i tell you what, if i had the talent of any one of these people i would be elected

president by acclimation. >> sandra: that was a 2017 hit song that he decided -- did it work? >> i love the song, but there is a big difference between trying to target certain voter demographics with policy proposals and real results and promises about what you are going to do for certain communities to make their lives better. this reminds me of in 2016 when hillary clinton went on a radio program in an effort to court african-american and black voters and said i always carry hot sauce in my purse. a similar moment here. a big difference between targeting voters and what their needs are based on their communities and pandering. this looks like a whole lot of pandering from joe biden as he tried to regain some support in florida among hispanic voters. >> sandra: the reactions were priceless. some called it a cringe moment. oh my, said a cbs news

correspondent as joe biden -- does he realize that it means slowly, from the trump campaign. katie pavlich. great to talk to you this morning. >> thank you. >> trace: fox news alert. hurricane sally making landfall near alabama's gulf shores. the national hurricane center warning the next 12 hours will be especially dangerous for the region. more on that is next. >> tech: when you've got auto glass damage...

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>> sandra: it is the bottom of the hour. time for the top stories. hurricane sally now downgraded to a category 1 storm after making landfall near gulf shores, alabama early this morning. catastrophic and life-threatening rainfall is likely. >> trace: 34 people have died in the wildfires burning across california, oregon and washington scientists say smoke from the fires is

reaching new york and even parts of europe. >> sandra: the big 10 announcing it will play football this fall after suspending all fall sports back in august. the conference joins the sec, big 12 and acc in resuming play. i know a lot of people are happy about that including you, trace. and of course me as well. you know, lsu tigers were playing all along. >> trace: they were. interesting. crossing the wires now president trump came out and supports the big ten decision to play eight games. notable that the big ten schools in wisconsin, minnesota, michigan, all battleground states, so interesting political tone on that decision as well. >> sandra: you're watching football, trace. >> trace: meantime sally downgraded to a category one storm moving through southeast alabama and moving inland with damaging winds and life-threatening flooding around the coast. live team coverage from janice dean who will bring us the

latest forecast and first to charles watson live on the banks of the mobile river in alabama. what are conditions like where you are right now? >> incredibly dangerous. the wind particularly is very strong. wind gusts have been coming through here and knocking things over. take a look at the mobile river. you can see the water out there just rough surf, man. this is normally you would see these big cargo ships out here going through the shipping channel. not today. dangerous. we've been out here for a half hour now and have seen a lot of large things being thrown into this river like it was nothing. so certainly not safe to be out here by the water today. out on the streets of mobile we've seen roofs torn off and thrown into the streets. large trees snapped in half

like they were nothing. power lines are down. dangerous situation out there for folks. more than 230,000 people throughout the state of alabama without power right now and that number could rise by the hour as this storm pushes through. obviously officials are asking folks to stay inside, stay out of these elements because this is a dangerous situation. they don't want folks out here by the river. they don't want folks out on the streets where flooding is starting to happen. they don't want folks touching those power lines which could be incredibly dangerous. so a very active situation out here right now, trace. >> trace: good advice down there. charles watson live in mobile, alabama. back to you as the news breaks. let's bring in janice dean tracking the storm in the fox weather center. j.d. >> we had a landfall of sally category 2. it strengthened overnight

before it made landfall 105 mile-per-hour sustained winds. the last time alabama had a hit was in 2004, ivan in the exact location. it is category 1 now. 85 mile-per-hour sustained winds. it will probably step down to a tropical storm in the next couple of hours. the damage is already done along this vulnerable coastline with over two feet of rain already reported. additional 10 to 12 inches. hurricane force winds in pensacola for 8 to 9 hours. mobile 68 miles per hour and we have tropical storm-force winds as the storm continues to crawl northwest ward around 3 miles per hour. there is the latest track. a new one coming out at 11:00 a.m. as the storm is now over land it will start to weaken. great news. we still have the potential for heavy rainfall not only for

alabama and florida, but into georgia and even the carolinas as we go through thursday and friday. there is a forecast rainfall moving very, very slowly and it will increase the threat for flash flooding. we didn't talk about the tornadoes. a tornado risk as well east of the center of this storm. tornado watch in effect for the florida panhandle, southeastern alabama and georgia. that threat will be ongoing this afternoon and evening. then the flooding risk. the legacy of the storm is the incredible amounts of rain. already two feet of rain upwards of three feet of rain will be possible along the coast and then stretching in towards the carolinas and even virginia as we get into friday and saturday. those are your additional rainfall. 6 to 8 inches on top of what we've already received is going to be catastrophic. the biggest killer from these storms is the water, the storm surge and freshwater flooding that is going to remain inland.

we're starting to see those pictures along the coast if you look at social media, they're all over the place. just terrible catastrophic damage already being reported as the storm moved inland this morning. i just want to make mention i will wrap up and tell you that we have a very active atlantic with several storms we're watching. paulette is moving out of the way. we won't worry about vickie. teddy will be a major hurricane and could potentially impact bermuda and the east coast needs to watch teddy as well. we'll keep you up to date. >> trace: going to be a long week. janice dean, thank you. >> sandra: a federal appeals court has ruled in favor of the trump administration's plan to end temporary protected status for some immigrants who came here because of natural disaster. hundreds of thousands of immigrants from haiti, el

salvador and sudan could face deportation. lawyers will appeal the ruling. >> trace: john bolton is facing a criminal investigation related to the recent publication of his tell-all memoir. justice department says the book contains classified information. his attorney says ambassador bolton rejects any claim that he acted improperly, let alone criminally in connection with the publication of his book and will cooperate fully as he has throughout with any official inquiry into his conduct. president trump had this to say about bolton during his town hall last night. >> president trump: the previous administration would have taken years to get the vaccine and we're within weeks of getting it. three weeks, four weeks, we think we have it. >> trace: a source has confirmed to fox news that a federal grand jury has issued subpoenas demanding all communications between bolton, his publisher and his literary agent.

>> sandra: a dangerous situation when crews fighting a house fire find bomb-making materials inside. the details on that ongoing investigation next. plus house speaker nancy pelosi and president donald trump at odds again over coronavirus relief. are politics stopping millions of americans from getting much-needed help? money man charles payne will weigh in on that next. >> the caucus remains unified, committed to getting something done that is meaningful and to remaining in town as long as it takes.

>> trace: new york city police made an arrest with possible bomb-making material found at the site of a house fire in queens. the man is charged with reckless endangerment but more charges are possible. the fire broke out tuesday after. firefighters told police they found chemicals, written bomb-making material and fuses

inside an apartment in the home. no live assembled explosive devices were found. >> sandra: president trump and nancy pelosi once again butting heads. she announced the house will return to vote on another aid package if a bipartisan deal can be made before election day. let's bring in charles payne host of making money on the fox business network. we're hearing so many things. pelosi said you're staying here until we get something done. does it happen? >> i would love to see that. i've been reading a lot of members of her own party said it's not going to happen. we started off way too far apart when they started negotiating this, 2 1/2 trillion was ridiculous. it has been impossible to find any sort of solution here.

i will say republicans did put forth what they called a skinny bill with a lot of things that everyone would normally agree on that could have been a stepping stone approach. it was rejected, of course. so we're back to square one. you have the so-called moderates on both sides who can come up with a 1 1/2, 1.6 in that area trillion dollar compromise which is where i thought it would be all the time. here is the thing, sandra. this amazing recovery. it has been amazing, is starting to peter out a little bit. i'm worried congress will wait until the evidence is irrefutable and going in the wrong direction and play catch-up. so this morning we got retail sales numbers out. they were up but less -- about half of what wall street anticipated. same thing with employment gains and consumption gains. one thing i want people who say charles, we don't want to pay people not to work.

i agree with you 1,000%. something to keep in mind, though. in february there were 1.1 million more job openings than there were unemployed people. right now there are 7 million more unemployed people than job openings. >> sandra: there is a lot of pain out there. i got it. we'll see where that goes. the president says he wants to get something done. we'll see what they can hash out. the president tweeted this seconds ago. democrats are heartless he just wrote. they don't want to give stimulus payments to people who desperately need the money and whose fault it wasn't that the plague came in from china. go for the much higher numbers, it all comes back to the usa anyway, one way or another. moving on to an axios report on the cost of the riots over the past several months. estimating they cost more than a billion dollars. the most expensive in insurance history. your reaction. >> you know what? a shocking number.

also that report said this number probably is going to go higher. axios said hurricanes have been worse. let's face it, that kind of destruction, self-destruction of american cities is horrifying. i don't even think i saw kenosha on there which is $50 million. i went over the list this morning. it is nuts. there is not only a rebuilding cost, there is an image cost. you go back to 1968. a lot of those places that were burned down never came back. i grew up in a neighborhood with abandoned buildings, rubble. giant swaths of abandoned buildings for decades. it can take a long time before these things come back. these are for the most part prosperous cities that were doing very well. there is the insurance cost and then the cost of truly rebuilding and image and the notion of safety that you can't quantify right now. >> sandra: let me get you to react to breaking news. we're learning the new york city mayor bill deblasio

planning now to furlough his staff and himself for a week beginning october 1st. so this includes the mayor himself, they will be furloughing to close a budget shortfall created by the pandemic. he just announced this. of course, the outbreak has caused the city to lose $9 billion in revenue. here is the mayor. >> i'm announcing that as of october 1st, every mayor's office employee will be taking a furlough and that includes myself. it was not a decision i made lightly to have to do this is painful for them and their families but it is the right thing to do at this moment in history. >> sandra: "the new york times" reacted saying this would affect 500 mayoral staff members and yield $860,000 in savings this year. remember the mayor was asked about his $250,000 salary saying that he had no plans --

i believe it was back in june -- to cut his own salary and now this, charles. >> yeah. and there are several commissions in the city that said this should have happened a long time ago. the mayor can't have it both ways. for any politician running a city or state trying to have it both ways this is part of the cautionary tale. you cannot shut down an entire city, stall the reopening, and then think you are not going to suffer massive economic consequences. the good news the garbage trucks will go back to work, you can't wooh people into the city when the restaurants can't open up. he can't have it both ways. he has stumbled through this in a foxhole. sometimes when you are in a fight you have to be a little more courageous. people want to live, eat and sustain themselves. this is a symbolic gesture but if i work for the city i get nervous. if he doesn't become more proactive it could become a

permanent gesture and spread beyond just his staff. >> sandra: the first five months of the pandemic this city lost more than a million jobs, charles. you still see it when you look down the empty streets all over the place. final final? >> yeah. listen. it's an amazing city. they can turn it around. deblasio has to be more aggressive in trying to bring the city back to life. >> sandra: charles payne, great to have you. thank you. >> trace: hurricane sally is now moving slowly inland after battering the alabama coast overnight. we'll speak to the state's deputy director of emergency management on its response to the storm and that's straight ahead. ood thinners. and if you're troubled by falls and bleeds, worry follows you everywhere. over 100,000 people have left blood thinners behind with watchman. it's a one-time, minimally invasive procedure

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engaged, fema is fully engaged. emergency declarations are key within 60 minutes. the president authorized these emergency declarations and he is on top of this as his tweet indicates. >> trace: press secretary kayleigh mcenany who spoke to us last hour about the white house response to hurricane sally. it made landfall near gulf shores, alabama earlier this morning as a category 2 storm with winds of 105 miles per hour. the deputy director of the alabama emergency management agency joins us now. sir, thank you for joining us. it took a turn, right? sally took a turn and good impact on your state. one, were you ready, two, what's the situation in alabama right now? >> good morning. absolutely. this is a storm that we were monitoring very closely when it entered the gulf. we were prepared fortunately for the unexpected change that did occur. we've been very grateful so far to have had really good support

from donald trump and the white house with the rapid approval of our emergency declaration. governor ivy in alabama has made the full resources available to coastal counties. while we've had a really busy night and expect to have a busy day today and a lot of impacts moving forward, i think right now local officials and the state have things well in hand. >> trace: the mayor of mobile, albuquerque -- alabama. the damage will be unbelievable as far as uprooting trees. he makes a great point. the rain is the big worry with the ground saturated and all the flooding. what are you telling people who live in places like mobile, sir? >> you are right with the rain threat. we'll see some of the trees down and leading to power outages. the real threat with this storm is definitely the flooding. we've had water rescues going on all night long and the thing

that people need to realize is that if you don't need to get out for a life-saving emergency you really need to try to stay where you are if you are in a safe place. don't get out and try to drive over the flooded roadways. that is a recipe -- >> trace: we talk about mobile, we talk about the river and so forth and what do you see going further inland when you look at birmingham and going up? what are they expecting in the hours ahead? >> over the southern and southeastern portions of the state we're posturing for some severe inland flooding. a lot of those communities are low lying and already have problems with rain events. this is definitely going to be historic with the massive quantities of rain we are expecting over the next several days. that message remains critical. don't drive over the flooded roadways. turn around and don't drown. >> trace: good advice. the question now everybody is wondering are you playing this

by ear? do you have a plan in place or do you have to wait and see hour by hour what happens? how much rain do you get before you react to what's going on in your state? >> the key there is to try to not have to react and that's why it's so critical for members of the public to understand the threat. if your car is swept off the roadway sometimes you may only have minutes. unfortunately first responders have trouble getting out there as well. while we have really great crews across the state and mobilized our mutual aid teams you don't want to put yourself in that situation. the event will last for several days and we have resources mobilized to respond wherever they're needed. people need to understand if are you in a car that gets swept off the roadway and dial 911 it may be too late. >> trace: when you say several days the follow-up and the cleanup, the kind of doing the reconnaissance of what happened in your state quickly?

>> we're looking at impacts from flooding over the next few days that will continue to grow and as those are happening we'll be doing the recon and trying to get additional assistance lined up. it will be an extended event for alabama. >> trace: jonathan, thank you. best of luck to the people in alabama. >> sandra: fox news alert. president trump trailing joe biden by five points in a new florida poll. a key state for the president's reelection. bret baier is here to weigh in on that and more straight ahead. an important message from medicare.

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>> sandra: fox news alert now on the scene unfolding on the gulf coast as we get an update on hurricane sally's next move. the storm now a category 1 but forecasters have warned it is not the number that's important with this storm. the real danger is how slow it is crawling over land meaning the drenching downpours will last even longer, possibly days. the warning from forecasters, look out for water rising to record levels. that could kill. >> trace: i'm trace gallagher. flooding is the biggest concern with this rain maker, wind is also causing damage. semi trucks toppled. power lines snapped. it means hundreds of thousands without vital tv or internet information during the storm's slow, brutal march. we have live team fox coverage

with our chief white house correspondent john roberts on the federal response. first to the chief correspondent jonathan hunt in the thick of the storm in mobile, alabama. jonathan. >> good morning. this storm is not letting up anytime soon. we have a break in the rain in mobile but the winds are still blowing very hard. they've brought down as you can see behind me here awnings of lots of stores in the heart of downtown mobile. there is widespread damage. we haven't had a chance to even comprehend the extent of it yet here and other places in alabama. of course, along the florida panhandle coast as well. this is a storm that has brought to mobile gusts of 70 miles per hour. those are expected to continue for several hours. then the rain is coming back. it will keep coming down and we've had rain now very heavily, trace, for more than 24 hours across this area.

so the kind of flooding that they're talking about as you've heard officials say is potentially historic and it is certainly life threatening. now that's the situation in mobile, alabama. take a look at pensacola, florida, which appears to be one of the worst-hit cities. it is suffering very badly right now from flooding. again, emergency services to some extent can't even get in there right now to survey the extent of it and to help people who did not evacuate from those low-lying areas. we've also seen along coastal alabama's gulf shores for instance there is extensive flooding there, too. this event is far from over. the rain is going to keep coming for many hours as we get another pretty intense gust here in mobile. it is going to keep coming. the gusts will keep coming. the rain is going to keep coming. the advice from every official

in alabama and along the florida panhandle is if you don't need to go outside, do not. stay inside. hunker down and wait for this thing to go through. but it will take a long time. as you rightly say, trace, it is still moving extremely slowly. trace. >> trace: very quickly we know we've covered a lot of these things and also tornado activity and flash flooding. any of those warnings being issued in and around the areas where you are? >> we just in the last two minutes got a flash flood warning right here in mobile. i have not personally heard of any tornado warnings. we haven't been issued any of those emergency alerts here, trace. but we're already without a lot of communications including tv here. so whether there have been tornado warnings in other areas in particular when you are going inland from pensacola, i can't tell you that for certain. certainly the flash flood

warnings are popping up everywhere consistently right now, trace. >> trace: that lack of information is a very dangerous point that's well made, jonathan hunt live for us in mobile. back to you as the news breaks. >> sandra: all right, this year's active hurricane season is on pace to set more records with at least three more named tropical systems. you can see them there swirling in the atlantic on the heels of sally. still weeks to go. so far 20 named storms out of a 21-name list. if the letters run out we'll have to spill over into the greek alphabet. that's how it works. the last time that happened was in 2005, the year of hurricane katrina. we'll have much more on this as we track the path of hurricane sally when ken graham joins us moments from now from the hurricane center. >> trace: in washington president trump has been in contact with governors in the states in the path of hurricane

sally. here is the white house press secretary on that earlier on this show. >> media said the middle east would be chaos, when the president came in quite the contrary. this president is a great peacemaker and achieved history here. something that hasn't been seen in a quarter century. >> trace: our chief white house correspondent is live on the north lawn. the president holding a press briefing on the administration's response to hurricane sally. >> we'll probably hear from the president later on this afternoon maybe in the 4:00 hour. sandra mentioned this has been the worst hurricane season in terms of the number of storms since 2005. hurricane katrina, which changed the federal response, the way the federal government fell on its face in katrina has led successive add min ition traess to get out ahead of it. pensacola now is really getting the brunt of this and they are

scrambling to address that situation. so far fema has pre-positioned 1.8 million meals and 1.5 million bottles of water, eight i-mat teams and surge units standing by. three high water rescue teams which is probably not enough given how widespread the flooding will be. generators are available to move to areas for sally response. the president approving an emergency declaration for florida yesterday. which is one of the reasons why fema is scrambling to get resources into the pensacola area and north and east of that. alabama had an emergency declaration approved on monday. the president tweeting my team and i are closely monitoring extremely dangerous hurricane sally and fully engaged with state and local leaders to assist the great people of louisiana, alabama and mississippi and add to that florida. listen to state and local

leaders. it has taken a jog to the east. i don't want to say they were caught flat footed by this but clearly they'll have to move all of those assets that were in louisiana, which is not getting anything really from this storm, east over into florida or start to leapfrog assets over there. what we see happening in pensacola now is very serious, streets where cars are under water. that will require quite a response. >> trace: tough to move assets when the roads are flooded. no campaign events scheduled today. that was after the town hall in pennsylvania last night. >> the president has a national republican congressional campaign committee dinner this evening. that's the only campaign-related thing. the president with the abc town hall in philadelphia defending his response to the coronavirus and insisted that the coronavirus one day is going to go away. listen here. >> president trump: probably going to go away a lot faster with the vaccine. it would go away without the

vaccine but a lot faster with it. >> go away without the vaccine? >> president trump: sure, with time it goes away. you will develop a herd mentality. it will be herd developed and that will all happen. >> the president's critics say he contradicted what he said to woodward. >> president trump: i didn't downplay it. i in many ways upplayed it in terms of action. we did a good job when we put the ban on. talent or luck it was very important. we saved a lot of lives when we did that. >> one to avoid panic it was a robust response behind the scenes. he was shutting down air travel and gengt the ppe up and running and building ventilators. in addition to the president's

briefing this afternoon we have a kayleigh mcenany briefing at one. we'll hear a lot from the white house today. >> trace: john roberts live at the white house. thank you. >> sandra: meanwhile, to those deadly wildfires out west crews battleing dozens of fires in california, oregon and washington smoke is increasing emergency room vision and n-95 masks are now running short. christina coleman is live for us this morning in monrovia, california. >> in addition to the huge amount of smoke pollution from these wildfires they've also forced hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate including here in this neighborhood. you can see one of these major roads is blocked off. now crews continue to battle the stubborn bobcat fire where i'm at now northeast of los angeles. burned more than 44,000 acres and threatened the mount wilson observatory and cell towers. crews fought the flames

yesterday. containment on this fast-moving fires shrank from 3 to 6% as the flames moved multiple directions this week. >> it's frustrating to see the flames shoot up and die back down and come back again. just watching it and the smoke level. you get tired of it. >> it has been very unreal. it looks like fog every morning when you leave. just the air quality has been horrible. >> speaking of horrible air quality it is compounding the coronavirus public health crisis. people aren't sure if they're coughing and having trouble breathing are symptoms of coronavirus or from the intense smoke pollution from the wildfires. it has the worst air quality in the world. san francisco bay area air

pollution was over three times. and 10% increase in hospitals for breathing issues. the wildfires so far have killed 34 people and destroyed thousands of homes. it is not even the peak of fire season yet. >> sandra: christina coleman. thank you for your reporting on that. smoke from the west coast fires now reaching europe. atmosphere monitoring service sharing these satellite images overnight. you can see the thick smoke stretching across north america, blowing across the ocean and into northern europe. wow. >> trace: fox news alert. hurricane sally dumping rain on the gulf coast. more storms pick up steam right behind it. the director of the national hurricane center joins us live in minutes. plus president trump now says he upplayed the coronavirus threat despite recordings where

he can be heard admitting i downplayed its serious necessary. how will voters we act? bret baier next. >> president trump: we had the greatest economy ever. we had to close it. if i didn't close it you would have 2 million deaths instead of having the 185, 190. it is a terrible number. rans. when i think of the veteran out there that needs to refi his home, he may want to purchase, we can help them and provide that financial solution for they and their families. it's a great rewarding feeling. everybody in the company, they have that deference and that respect and that love for the veteran that makes this company so unique.

>> trace: fox news weather alert on hurricane sally as the storm moves slowly inland unleashing heavy rain and strong winds on the gulf coast. people bracing for the worst. joining us now ken graham, the director of the national hurricane center. mr. graham, always great to see you. we've talked about how federal resources are now kind of scrambling to move down to the florida area. were you surprised, sir, by the vast -- pretty significant right turn that sally made in the last hours? >> trace, we were talking about it here in operations. the problem we've had is the slow movement. whenever you have the storms moving at 2 or 3 miles per hour they wobble around like crazy. every time there is a little wobble it can adjust the track. the slow ones are difficult to forecast the actual track. you look at the rainfall and storm surge that will be continuing to be is big issue.

the leading cause of fatalities is that water. >> trace: we're showing some of the video out of pensacola, florida hit very hard along with mobile, alabama. when you talk about the water, is it safe to assume that we are going to see more rain from this storm than we have seen likely since hurricane harvey a few years ago in texas? >> just so much rain here. you look at the rainfall totals we've been talking about. well over 30 inches of rain, some places 35 inches of rain or more, historic and a dangerous situation. the problem is there is more to come in some of these areas not just along the coast. you can see additional 6, 10, 15 inches in some coastal areas. inland through alabama and georgia, 6 to 10 inches of rain. the tropical moisture can cause flooding even inland. >> trace: go to the map behind you. is the orange area there, the significant flooding we're

talking about and yellow lessens and green less? give us an idea what you are talking about there. >> these are the amounts. if you look at the red area here in the florida panhandle additional 10 to 15 because of the slow movement. orange 6 to 10 inches of rain, poe,s of alabama and georgia. yellow, 4 to 6. 4 to 6 inches even in the orange you can get 6 to 10. that's dangerous. you start getting that rainfall. comes down quickly in the rain bands. that's what is dangerous. the rain bands, you can get tornado and torrential rainfall well away from the center. there is the center. look how far away some of that heavy rain can be. that's what we'll be tracing as we continue to go up in the future. that can be dangerous. people need to some out for the warnings when they come out and heed them and keep in a safe place. >> trace: i want to talk about what's in the waters yet. quickly you mentioned tornado warnings. do we have any tornado warnings right now, sir, that we're

aware of? >> there has been several this morning. we've been tracking those. it is interesting if you back out on the radar and look how far away. the danger zones. once they reach the shoreline become tornadoes. some are moving 60 to 70 miles per hour. >> trace: i want to put the map on the screen. only the second time on record the atlantic had five tropical cyclones at one time. look at the dots out there. what do you make of the frenetic activity coming to the united states from the atlantic? >> we were talking about when we were issuing five advisors. we have the forecasters behind me. yesterday when we were looking at five at once first time since 1971 we were issuing those five advisories. wilford is the last niem we have before we get to the greek

alphabet. a busy season and we're still in the busy part of the season. just to remind everybody stay prepared. we have a ways to go. >> trace: lastly this hurricane teddy, it looks like it will be a big one. possibility that it could come to the united states? bermuda is in its sights. this thing is looking pretty vicious. >> it gets real close. if you start looking at the map i think i actually might have it just to be able to show it here. gets close to bermuda. i want to call it up to see it. close to bermuda and the southeast coast. right now we have it recurving. when you get that far out the track forecast you have error there. something else we have to pay attention to in the southeast u.s. bermuda just got hit and could be hit again with a second one. >> trace: it's why they call it the cone of uncertainty. always good to talk to you. thank you. >> thank you.

>> president trump: i didn't downplay it. i actually in many ways upplayed it in terms of action. my action was very strong. what i did was with china i put a ban on, with europe i put a ban on. we would have lost thousands more people had i not put the ban on. that was called action. not with the mouth but in actual fact. >> sandra: the president defending his response to the coronavirus pandemic last night in the new town hall. joining us now bret baier special report. the president was defending that. good morning, bret. after he was on the tape with bob woodward saying he was down playing the virus and planned to downplay it more. >> the president is talking about it differently and basically his message i think is look at the actions, not my words. and you can say whatever you want to say clearly he said something different to bob woodward on those tapes to what

he was saying publicly at the podium in the white house briefing room. however, he is saying point to the actions. look to what the experts told me to do and look what i did. we'll see how it plays with voters. that is his pitch. judge me by actions and not by my words. there are a lot of words that come from president donald trump as we've seen over 3 1/2 years. and whether voters can get to separating the words from the actions is going to be a key part of this election. >> sandra: you jumped ahead to my next question. how does it play with voters? i'll put this on the screen to add to it. the fox news poll on whether you approve or disapprove of the president's handling of the pandemic. 29% say they strongly approve of it but an overwhelming 45% strongly disapprove of the president's handling of this pandemic. that town hall last night apparently was undecided voters and you had some stand up and say i voted to you in 2016.

here is my question about masks for whatever it was, bret. how do you think his handling of this does play with voters come election day? >> it is not his strongest area. the economy and how he handled it before coronavirus is still in most states where trump beats biden. and that i think is what you will see the trump campaign focus on. i think you will see the biden campaign focus on coronavirus and a lot is going to depend on do you get this vaccine that is safe and approved by the fda? what does it look like? i think we'll hear a lot about that in coming days about how it will be distributed. >> sandra: when it comes to some of the key states the president has to win for his reelection, a new monmouth poll. they also are looking at support among veterans and

military households. the president does maintain a lead there although just a four-point lead. is the president or should the president and his campaign be concerned about what they are seeing in florida? >> i think they are. you are seeing multiple stops to florida. you see the vice president and the president visit there. but i'll put this caveat on it. in 2016 hillary clinton was leading donald trump in florida by four points in september. so this is not a comfortable place for the biden campaign, either. it is more comfortable for the biden campaign because they don't need florida to do the race to 270 electoral votes. it is not necessary. for donald trump it is pretty much necessary. they can do it but it would be really tough as far as stringing together states. so i think we are where we were in september 2016 as far as the polling goes. the push comes to shove of how he moves, donald trump, the president, how he moves senior votes. he has already changed the

dynamic in latino votes and cuban american votes. but the seniors are the biggest pot in florida. >> sandra: absolutely. i know you will have much more on all that on special report tonight. bret, appreciate your time this morning. see you at 6:00. >> trace: hours-long stand-off near los angeles ends with a carjacking suspect in custody. what the sheriff's department is saying about a possible connection to the ambush of two deputies. plus president trump slamming democrats over anti-police rhetoric rising in some cities. and even spiraling into violence at some protests. reaction from former house oversight committee chairman trey gowdy is next. >> if you are in a community and you want to be safe, the democrats are not going to be there to save you. and if you're troubled by falls and bleeds, worry follows you everywhere.

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>> sandra: top headlines at the bottom of the hour. hurricane sally making landfall early this morning as a cat 2 storm in alabama now bringing extreme rain inland. the storm flooded areas along the gulf coast, fema and feds say they're ready with rescue crews standing by and nearly 2 million meals. >> people from paris the bucharest are seeing haze from the west coast wildfires. california is seeing its worst

fires on record. fire crews say they're trying to keep flames from spreading to paradise, california. the town just rebuilding after fires in 2018 left block after block in ashes and forced 9 out of 10 people there to find a new home. >> sandra: the search for the shooter of two los angeles deputies leading to an hour's long stand-off. in the end it appears police captured the wrong guy. the man is a carjacking suspect. no evidence he is connected to the shooting. jeff paul has that developing news and more on the manhunt live from los angeles this morning. hey, jeff. >> it was a long and chaotic night for l.a. sheriffs' deputies spent nine hours to arrest a man who shot someone with a high-powered rifle during a carjacking. with so many deputies swarming the scene there was some speculation that the person they were after might have been the shooter responsible for ambushing two deputies on

saturday. investigators say that's not a case. as the stand-off dragged on into the night many on social media fired off their own theories that it was the person who shot a 31-year-old female deputy and 24-year-old male deputy sitting in their patrol vehicle. police swarmed the area and people who lived near the scene weren't allowed to enter or leave at times and asked why there was so much attention and so many resources devoted to this particular arrest if it wasn't the person accused of shooting the two deputies? >> at the time because of the fact the suspect did use a high-powered rifle to commit this carjacking and the fact that they've been actively looking for the suspect in relation to everything going on there was a heightened sense of awareness and unknown when they found this suspect if the suspect was still carrying that high-powered rifle. >> eventually deputies fired off tear gas and used a police

canine to get the carjacking suspect away from the property. they put cuffs on him after finding him hiding inside a trash can. the search for the person who slot the two deputies continues, a $175,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest and conviction. >> sandra: thanks for the update. >> trace: the city manager of los angeles suburb is put on paid administrative leave after reacting to the shooting ambush of two deputies with appear controversial social media post. he have posted a motive of malcolm x with the words chickens come home to roost. a city council member says the man is gone and will not represent the city of lynnwood anymore. >> sandra: portland protestor charged with pointing a high-powered laser in an officer's eye. he is facing charges for pointing the laser into his eye at a protest last month.

the d.a. saying it was so powerful that it would burn through paper and could caught material to catch fire. >> trace: president trump continues trolling joe biden and democrats for not speaking out more forcefully against police violence. he tweeted a doctored interview of biden yesterday in florida. he appears to play the vulgar anti-police song by the rap group. here is what really happened at the event. watch. >> all right. ♪ there you go. >> trace: the 2017 "despacito" which has its own r-rated lyrics. he was introduced by the man who wrote the song. the biden campaign hasn't responded to the edited video

and some democrats are concerned the party isn't doing enough. there are protestors at the hospital shouting we hope they die after the deputies were shot in los angeles. recent attacks on police officers are bringing crime to the forefront to the race. is it fair to for the president to place the blame on democrats. trey gowdy is a fox news contributor. congressman, always good to see you. when you talk about these chants outside the hospital, the "wall street journal" writes the following here quoting democratic mayor of los angeles called the chants and protests at the hospital unacceptable and abhorrent but he and other democrats need to do more to condemn and ostracize these protestors. democrats may fear the wrath of black lives matter but the backlash elsewhere in america will be far greater if pleasure at cop killing becomes common on the left. what do you think about that? >> i hope that wasn't too hard

for him to say that chanting we hope you die and blocking access to emergency care for law enforcement officers is unacceptable. i hope that wasn't too tough for him to say that. i think republicans need to stick to the facts. we don't need to doctor videos or make things up. there has been an equivocation on the left about those who set things on fire and create other innocent victims. that equivocation will do well for republicans. the contrast between the two in november. >> trace: what i found striking is the fact the day after this in the "los angeles times" they covered the shooting of the deputies but there was no coverage of the protestors at all. a lot of other left-leaning organizations failed to cover that protest. it brings up the question yes, joe biden has come out and condemned the violence but the question remains he is not really condemning the violence of the far left groups which are by all accounts, you know,

propagating the majority, the lion's share of the violence. >> he is trying to have it both ways. the only reason he came out a couple of weeks ago is because the numbers are turning. most americans view public safety as the preeminent function of government. public safety and public health. that covers the pandemic and civil unrest. he thinks he is doing okay on the pandemic but not doing well on the dieotomy. peaceful protests? chanting we hope you die and blocking access to healthcare, most americans will tell you that is not a peaceful protest. you have the democrats but you also, trace, have the media. we had a sports star accusing the police of committing a genocide against people of color while a family member wore defund the police on the t-shirt at the us open. most americans don't think that police are engaged in a genocide and we don't want to defund the police. the media and democrats have

created this dichotomy. can the republicans take advantage of it in november? >> trace: the public appraisal of this has changed. you go back to when the george floyd killing happened and then you look to the polls now and there has been a shift of public opinion. i want to put this up. people concerned about crime and violence, concerned 64%. not concerned 35%. and then go on it's better describes unrest in new york. how would you describe the unrest in new york, kenosha and portland riots? 48% say and -- clearly the public is fed up with the violence and people down playing these as peaceful protests. >> trace, i think where most people are we recognize our justice system can be improved and perfected and we want it to be improved. it won't be improved by creating more innocent victims and looting shops and settings

things on fire. so whichever candidate can thread the needle between justice reform while not equivocating between violence and looters and people who chant we hope you die and the police, whoever can thread that, this is what the republicans need to talk about, i think, trace. we had police reform in our grasp this summer. we had it in our grasp and one u.s. senator looked scott in the eyes and said 75% is not good enough. i would rather have the issue than the solution. that was kamala harris. we had a good shot at it this past summer and she chose her own political ambition over what was best for the country. >> trace: former congressman trey gowdy. good to see you, sir. thank you. >> thank you, trace. >> sandra: president trump has been widely praised for the historic peace deal in the middle east but facing backlash from some democrats.

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>> we've been waiting for a very long time for the president's proposal for an

israeli/palestinian peace agreement that honored the two-state solution. it still hasn't come. good for him for having a distraction on a day when the numbers of people who are affected and the numbers of people who are dying from this virus only increases. >> sandra: house speaker nancy pelosi playing down the president's historic mideast agreement normalizing relations between israel and two arab nation, the uae and bahrain. the white house is hoping for a broader peace deal in the near future. israel's left leaning newspaper published an opinion piece calling it trump and netanyahu's big fat fake peace deal. the third way and former deputy assistant in the clinton white house. let's bring it back to the reaction at home, matt, speaker nancy pelosi calling the deal a destruction, what was your reaction to that? >> ?e is very frustrated. she has been trying for a long time to get the white house to

get serious providing aid to americans hurting. more than 20 million people out of work. 200,000 dead. the west is on fire. the southeast is under water. there is real work to be done at home. >> sandra: does this take awith a from this deal? >> no. that was probably a moment she probably would like that term back. it is not a distraction. it is a good deal. she is right that we were promised a real mideast peace deal which would involve the palestinians and that is very far from reality. but look, this is an accomplishment and we should be happy about it. but it does nothing to help the vast majority of americans really hurting right now. >> sandra: there was praise from unlikely sources because the president received such widespread praise for this deal. bret stevens in the new "new york times." giving the president credit. nikki haley the former

ambassador joined us earlier this morning. listen. >> regardless of what side of the politics you are on, this is no fluke. this is pretty remarkable and historic at best. this peace deal came together simply as a fact they trusted the president. they trusted him because he got out of the iran deal. they trusted him because he was honest with them. they trusted him because he showed strength in a time where we needed it. >> sandra: i mentioned the brett stevens article. he said this administration -- and you can call him a critic of the president as well -- has done more for regional piece that most predecessors including the obama administration that tried hard and failed badly. so why can't nancy pelosi and some of those other harsh critics of the president give him credit for getting this done? >> because it is a bit of a half measure. getting praise from your former u.n. ambassador and a conservative columnist in the

"new york times" isn't exactly a home run for the white house. look, it is a good deal. we should be happy about it. tom friedman a liberal columnist in the times said it was a good deal. but again what we were promised was a universal deal with the palestinians and that is farther from reality than it was when trump came into office. the biggest problem and the frustration you heard from the speaker is that the president isn't cutting the deal that americans need, which is to provide more stimulus to the economy and to help people in this time of crisis. >> sandra: here is chuck schumer's response to the deal as well. listen. >> does the president deserve credit for the abraham accord? >> look, normalization between the nations of israel and other countries is welcome news. i want to see the details of the agreement. >> sandra: matt, doesn't a response to a deal like this sort of play into the hand of those who say, you know, they aren't going to give this

president a victory no matter what? i hear you keep tying it to the coronavirus relief package and if fears that nancy pelosi doesn't want to get something done because it could help the president before election day? >> no, i don't think so. nancy pelosi wants to get something done desperately. she is frantic to help the people who are in terrible distress and state and local governments to start laying off firefighters and cops. she really wants a deal. what i think you are hearing from pelosi and schumer is, you know, praise in part because this president has been such a catastrophe on basically everything else and part because he hasn't gotten the palestinian deal done and part because we're two months out from an election. >> sandra: you said what you think, matt. we appreciate you coming on the program this morning. thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> trace: breaking news in a bizarre story coming into "america's newsroom" live pictures from austin, texas

where two cranes have reportedly crashed into each other leaving a lot of people hurt. it happened at a children's hospital and emergency officials say there has also been some sort of structural collapse. at least 22 people were hurt here. the pictures there. one crane into the other. it doesn't look dramatic. what we're not seeing is the fallout and damage from this. we know that several people have been taken to the hospital. the severity of injuries we don't know. local media reporters are saying rescuers are still trying to reach one of the crane operators. unclear if they are in the crane or not. we will keep you up to speed on the breaking news out of austin, texas coming into "america's newsroom."

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>> trace: an american with dual citizenship in the process is detained in belarus. his wife the u.s. state department diplomat is calling for her husband to be free. let's get to greg palkot following this from our london bureau. >> that's right, trace. the protest and crackdown in belarus hitting close to home for an american couple. those detained a 44-year-old. belarus born former washington-based political consultant was organizing an illegal rally critical of the regime said to be there visiting a sick mother. after more than six weeks in jail. this is an usual for a state department employee. the american diplomat says her husband is being held as a political prisoner deprived of

basic liberties and extreme psychological pressure and health in danger showing symptoms of covid. pompeo called on the belarus president to release him. a family friend and international lawyer told us about the political stakes. take a listen. she in fact said that she is an american citizen and in fact his wife is a state department employee. those two factors are really putting a lot of pressure on the belarus president. it's a sign of u.s. interference and he faces three years in prison according to belarus. >> trace: thank you. we'll be right back.

>> melissa: fox news alert, the gulf coast is on edge as slow-moving hurricane sally is now losing further inland after making landfall in the gulf shores of alabama earlier today as a category 2 storm, causing widespread flooding and packing sustained winds of 100 miles an hour. chief meteorologist rick american myth has more on where the storm is heading next. rick? >> hey, melissa. an incredible storm came online with 105-mile-an-hour winds. a category two can storm. another hurricane making landfall across parts of the gulf of mexico. the majority of the moisture, a little bit farther