>> keep an eye on the storm. ron desantis will hold a press conference in a few minutes live on "america's newsroom."enter >> we'll carry it live to give you all the information you need to know. >> bill: 9:00 in new york. 9:00 in florida. fox weather tracking hurricane ion. cat three storm on a collision course with florida. governor desantis will give us an update. i'm bill hemmer live in new york city. >> dana: i'm dana perino. this is "america's newsroom."enter it's great to be back. yesterday i was in west virginia with senator march capito and we went some 4th and 5th grade students and journalism students. a good day.

they're great people, beautiful state. you know about their football team? >> bill: a little bit. >> dana: governor desantis will give a update any moment now and bring it live. florida is bracing for what could be a once in a century storm. >> bill: the current storm track shows landfall sometime on thursday, maybe in tampa. if that were a direct hit, it would be the first major storm to hit tampa in more than 100 years. >> dana: forecasters are predicting storm sturge. people are boarding up homes and businesses. the amount of water may simply be too much to overcome. >> bill: here is what we know. governor desantis declared a state of emergency. tampa's international airport will shut down at 5:00 east coast time. >> dana: evacuation orders affecting hundreds of thousands of people. folks there say supplies are running low. >> shelves are totally empty.

people are starting to panic. >> it is crazy now. people are crazy, all the flights are insane. there is no flights. >> i would hope that everyone would think about evacuating if you do not have a place that's safe. >> we know it can turn at any second and take a different direction. not really where it's hit. it's more the storm surge. >> dana: we have our resources covering all angles of the storm. we begin the team fox hurricane coverage. >> bill: janice dean is on the storm path. a public information officer and let's start with fox weather correspondent live in tampa where the attention is now. good morning. >> good morning, bill and dana. florida attorney general ashley moody calling this the storm we all have feared focusing in on the threat of that storm surge. you mentioned 5 to 10.

some officials have estimated possibly seeing 15 feet of storm surge in areas across tampa bay and why we know there are hundreds of thousands of people now being told to get out of their homes in six counties all across florida's gulf coast. already we're seeing what hurricane ian is capable of. new video from the florida keys. flooding is happening there and that's where the concern is. with the rain, wind and the storm surge it could be detrimental to the tampa bay area. we're watching people listening and responding to those warnings to get out now. they are boarding up homes and making those lines for sandbags, water, food, medicine, batteries, everything they may need to last them the next 4 or 5 days after the hurricane hits knowing they need to get out of their homes and move at least 20 miles or so inland as the recommend from officials here.

there are a lot of moving parts still. we'll likely get a better idea from governor desantis whether or not those mandatory evacuation orders are going to be expanded further south. we're getting reports that may already be happening as we speak. absolutely a storm that you want to make sure you move for. the challenge is according to the attorney general, convincing those who have lived in the state for quite some time that this is not a storm to take lightly. they need to evacuate no matter how long they've lived here or other storms they have seen in their lifetime. >> bill: rely on you a lot in the coming days. >> dana: janice dean is tracking ian's path reporting from fox weather the hurricane headquarters. >> you talked about a storm of the century back then in the tampa bay area there was about 50,000 people that lived there and now 100 years later close to 400,000 people. so we're talking about a storm of a lifetime and if it does move over the tampa bay area it

is not about the heavy rainfall. even the small core of winds of over 100 miles per hour they can withstand it. it is the storm surge. ten feet of storm surge going over one of the most vulnerable coastlines on the planet will be devastating and potentially deadly and why ron desantis will say if you live in the tampa bay area you need to take this very seriously. a storm that is still strengthening. these are the milli bars. consistently rapidly intensifying even over cuba. we have all this warm water the storm will travel over in the next 12 to 24 hours and bill and dana if i can stress this. the storm will slow down. we'll deal with perhaps 48 hours of battering storm surge, hurricane-force winds and two feet of rainfall that adds salt to the wound for this very

vulnerable region. >> dana: thank you so much for that. >> bill: want to bring the rob herrin from the hillsborough fire rescue. at the moment where do you think your situation is? >> well, hillsborough county fire rescue and our county is ready and prepared for the storm. we want to urge as has been said this morning, those residents in evacuation zones to please heed that warning. as mentioned, floridians can become comfortable and complacent. we need to take the storm seriously. it is the storm surge and those rainwaters and flooding that will follow that is the true danger here. >> dana: how many people have gone ahead and evacuated? >> it's been a slow trickle into our shelters. we have 43 shelters available and open throughout different parts of hillsborough county. we have started to see a little

bit more of an influx today but i know that there is still probably a lot of residents who are either on -- trying to make that decision or have decided to not evacuate. we again are urging them to please evacuate if you're in one of those. >> bill: when we look at this stuff, i think it's two years since the u.s. mainland was hit by a hurricane. florida, you have been on a pretty good roll right now. you think about the word complacency for a lot of people who live there. a hard thing to push back on. how have you tried? >> it really is. all through messaging. i would further that, the tampa bay area hasn't been hit for over a century. that probably adds to the complacency. there is kind of a joke that we have a bubble. well, i'm not saying we're completely run out of luck but our bubble is greatly reducing tollly. >> dana: stand by. i believe governor desantis is

taking the podium. >> it is anticipated to exit land in cuba very soon. it is now a major hurricane. category 3 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 125 miles per hour. overnight and into this morning some of the modeling that has been done is now projecting a landfall south of tampa bay. i know we have talked about the cone of uncertainty where landfall was projected. we had it north florida and that has been consistently moved maurice into the florida peninsula. yesterday evening a lot of solutions bringing it into tampa bay. now it is bringing the landfall into the sarasota area. there is still uncertainty with where the exact landfall will be. just understand the impacts will be far, far broader than just from the eye of the storm happens to make landfall. in some areas, there will be

catastrophic flooding and life-threatening storm surge. if you are on florida's gulf coast from naples through the tampa bay area and counties north of that, that could be something that happens and will certainly happen in some parts of florida's gulf coast. i know there are folks in southwest florida who remember hurricane charley, was projected to make direct impact into tampa bay and then it turned and went into southwest florida. i would just say the track may end up doing something similar but this is a much different storm. charlie was smaller. it was a category 4, most of the damage from charlie was from wind and wind destruction. what we have here is really historic storm surge and flooding potential. so if you are looking at those places in fort myers, charlotte county, sarasota, the storm

surge that you will see generated from this will far eclipse what we saw there. so as you look to see what is going on with the local counties, there is evacuation orders in place on all these counties. heed those evacuation orders. what those he vac orders are doing is identifying people that live in areas that are vulnerable to major storm surge. that storm surge can be life threatening. there are certain things we can protect against in terms of the wind and the structures and we have great building codes but when you have 5 to 10 feet of storm surge, that is not something that you want to be a part of. mother nature is a very fierce adversary or please heed those warnings.

you do not need to evacuate to another state. you don't need to go hundreds of miles away. there are shelters that are open in all of these counties at this point. the important part is if you're under an evacuation order is evacuate to higher ground that is going to be safe from the type of surge and flooding that we are fearing with this storm. of course, there are certain floridians that may live in mobile homes or manufactured housing that would be vulnerable. if you're under an order, you want to be in a structure that will be able to withstand some of the hurricane winds. but by and large, we're looking at really, really major storm surge up and down the west coast of florida. there are people that, of course, are evacuating on different roadways. there has been traffic but there has not yet been the back-ups where fhp have opened the emergency shoulder lanes. they'll do that once sustained

speeds are at 40 miles per hour or less. so when that happens, they will make that call. people will be able to use those. but don't use it until then because that obviously carries some risk if people don't know that that's something that is going on. you also can use things like gas buddy to find gas stations in the area that have fuel. i would note if you look at these updated tracks that we've been getting this morning -- i think you'll probably see that reflected in the 11:00 a.m. advisory from the national hurricane center, you have potential paths of the storm entering florida's gulf coast cutting across the state and exiting into the atlantic ocean. that means some of those counties that are more interior, you could absolutely see power outages. you could see inland flooding. you could see various types of tree and damage from wind. so just be prepared for that. we were here 48 hours ago and

most of the solutions had iting up the west coast of florida. now most of them have it ramming into the state of florida and cutting across. so just be prepared for that and understand that that's something that could be happening. visit florida has -- any one who has been ordered to evacuate can use this page to find available accommodations in other areas of the state by visiting expedia .com/florida. expedia.com/florida. we have 2.5 million floridians under some type of evacuation order. make sure you know your evacuation zones so you can find that at florida dis disaster .org/plan prepare. and, of course, if you are called upon to evacuate, make sure you take care of your pets.

don't leave your pets behind when you are evacuating. there are pet-friendly shelters. we want to make sure. there is information about planning for your pet at florida disaster .org/plan prepare. we want to make sure we're taking care of our friends. to visit shelters florida disaster .org/shelters. most of these counties will have shelters within the county on higher ground. the buildings will be hurricane proof and able to withstand a category 3 hurricane in terms of the winds. it will put you in a situation where you won't be vulnerable to the effects of the storm surge and the effects of the flooding. we have, of course, suspended tolls starting yesterday to assist people who may be moving around the state and following evacuation orders. you can look at those facilities

at f .org that list them. we may add more if there is a need to do that as the storm impacts other parts of the state and we'll make that announcement at the appropriate time. we have 26 school districts with school closures. you may very well have more as the track becomes more certain. if you want the most updated school information, go to fldoe .org/storm info. we have 5,000 national guardsmen activated. 2,000 additional guardsmen from other state. jim has been talking with other states to help us with even more assets. we do have our urban search and rescue teams activated and three additional teams on stand by ready to deploy. the fwc has officers placed in every county in anticipation of heavy rains and flooding. and you will see heavy rains in

parts of the state that are not necessarily on florida's gulf coast. we also have high water vehicles and shallow draft boats that are ready for immediate deployment to the affected areas and fwc aviation section placed on stand by and it is ready. all appropriate aircraft are ready for search and rescue and post storm damage assessments as needed. fhp has implemented their 12-hour shifts and partners in the u.s. coast guard are standing by and are able and willing to assist. we do report today 100% of operating long-term care facilities do have a generator on site. of course we have a state of emergency for all 67 counties. we will keep that in place. if you look at the tracks that have come out this morning, the chance that you have major impacts in northwest florida have declined but we also

understand there will be people evacuating and we want to give every county flexibility to help their fellow floridians. we have issued the waivers of weights for commercial trucks. we've spoken with our partners there and they'll keep doing it until it's no longer safe to do so. they understand how important it is. we do have emergency refills of maintenance prescriptions. those are authorized for another 30 days and we now have 28,000 across the state between our investor utilities. municipal utilities and rural electric co-ops. 28,000 linemen are staged for power restoration across the state of florida. as the storm hits and passes we understand the need to restore power as soon as possible for as many floridians as possible. make sure you are executing your plan. this is imminent. we appreciate everybody in our

counties who worked very hard to execute their plans. kevin will talk a little bit more from the de mperspective but we have had 500 requests for assistance from our counties. the state has fulfilled 466. some others are on the way and some will be fulfilled. they just can't be fulfilled until the storm actually hits. we mentioned sending medical professionals to hillsborough county special needs shelters and another 120 to surrounding counties. we do have our logistical staging area in polk county and we'll have additional staging later today. 300 ambulances supporting special needs evacuations have been deployed. hundreds of generators and pumps staged in the tampa area and pre-landfall food and water has been stageed for tampa bay region. now as the track has moved a little bit more to where you have potentially greater

impacts, we knew you would get storm surge all along. just the nature of a storm this big. however, kevin will be mobileizing more resources to be able to assist those counties in the southwest portion of the state of florida. again, go to florida disaster .org/get a plan to make sure that you have what you need. you still have time today to execute what you need to do. if you're in an evacuation zone you have time to be able to heed those orders. if you're not, you have time to be able to get whatever supplies that you may need to deal with what is going to happen over the next few days. i would just tell all floridians who are in the path of this, there will be interruptions in things like power, fuel, maybe interruptions in communication. that is to be expected. just plan for that and all these resources are mobilized to try to restore the services as quickly as possible once it is safe to do so.

safety is paramount. when you are talking about storm surge like this and talking about historic flooding, that water is a very, very difficult adversary. you do not want to put yourself in harm's way unnecessarily. if you are ordered to evacuate that's a decision based off what we are seeing with this storm. what your local officials are seeing with the storm and the potential impact that could be on your part of the state of florida. doesn't mean you need to go across god's creation to evacuate. just get to the higher ground and get into a safe structure. we have shelters open in all those counties now at the county level and we would encourage people to do that. once the storm passes, you can be able to get back in your home and we'll be able assess whatever damage may have occurred and be able to make the necessary improvements and rebuild. but we can't unring the bell if you stay and you end up getting washed away with a historic

storm surge or get caught in significant flooding. kevin guthrie will say a few words and then an update on the traffic situation. >> bill: a lot of information there. a warning to the residents of florida to heed the warnings that are going out right now. you don't need to travel hundreds of miles because they have shelters set up for you to take cover. >> dana: rob herrin stayed with us and listened to all of that. interesting to think that 100 years ago the area was very lightly populated and now you have so many more people that as you said right before we saw the governor, that area of florida has escaped the wrath of hurricanes over the last 100 years. this is very serious and very different now with that many people living in the area. rob. >> yeah, you are exactly right, dana. the population of the bay area, tampa bay area has grown

tremendously just over the last few years. in a sense, that's a good thing because those newer residents haven't been through a hurricane and haven't been threatened by this so they are the ones that typically do heed the warnings and evacuate as necessary. but like we said before and what the governor said now is the time to execute your plan. we are past making a plan. it is time to execute that plan. >> bill: he had mentioned that storm hurricane charley, it was 2004, 18 years ago. that storm was on a path to hit tampa or parts south of it and it took a right-hand turn and really the force of that storm and the upper right-hand quad rant is what socked i believe it was the town of punt yeah gored yeah and the devastation was enormous. you don't know where this storm could make a decision.

>> exactly that. these storms have a mind of their own and charley is that great example. right now it is projected to come right through the tampa bay area. of course, we are standing by ready to respond and are ready for that. like the governor said, counties all the way seamount way to the south need to be prepared if something similar happened like what happened in 2004. >> dana: what can families expect to find when they get to a shelter? describe the shelters to them so they have a little more comfort in getting there. >> shelters are kind of a last resort. we would like you to try to evacuate inland 20 miles or more if you have friends and family to reach out to and seek that for evacuation. but these shelters are not a luxury hotel. they are not even a low-end

hotel. they are a space, small space for you, a cot so that you can be sheltered from wind and water and rain for whatever that duration is. >> bill: a storm this size moving pretty quickly 12 miles per hour. janice dean said it could slow down over the gulf of mexico. that's what you don't want, rob. gather more steam and energy. >> yeah. and that's the fear. we've seen that happen with other hurricanes. i think i recall one that hit houston a few years ago just camped out. so the real fear is that storm surge that comes from the storm itself and if it sits it is projected to camp out for up to 12 hours in the tampa bay area. it will dump rain during that part. i know your folks before me said a foot to two feet of rain. just that is a flooding event

locally. >> dana: all right rob herrin, thank you. we wish you the best and thank you for your expertise. fox weather is tracking the latest developments and we have continuing coverage all day. you can also -- i highly recommend this -- download the app at fox weather .com. and now the dow is continuing its slide falling more than 300 points on monday. the opening bell is moments away. investors wonder how bad it will get. david asman is here to weigh in. ♪ pop rock music ♪ >> tech: my customer enjoys time with her family. so when her windshield got a crack... she scheduled with safelite in just a few clicks. we came to her house... ...replaced the windshield... and installed new wipers. that's service on her time. >> grandkid: here you go! >> tech: wow, thank you! >> customer and grandkids: bye! >> tech: bye! don't wait, schedule now. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪

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>> bill: 9:30 new york, wall street. op than for trading. this is a rare sign, green arrows, up 200 points at the open. we were down 329 for the dow 30 yesterday for another point lower, which puts the dow in the bear market territory. so we're teetering around that area. want to bring in david asman to give a shake of where we're going today. what's the status? >> started with the stock market. it is good to remember what happened in january of 2021 when biden took over. the stock market, dow jones was at 31,000. it is 1,500 points off where it was when joe biden took over and also remember in january of 2021 the economy was growing at 6%. we've had two negative quarters and inflation of 1.4%, it is

8.3%. we're going in the wrong direction. >> dana: does this tell you that the markets are indicating that they think there is bad news to come in the future as well? >> it tells me the markets think we've dug a hole with all the spending and regulations and killing of fossil fuels that it will take us a lot to get out of. it is not just us, it's the rest of the world. although there are some good signs from places like u.k. and italy that they may turn around their economic policies to one that's more oriented towards reality. >> bill: we were watching this abc polling that came out over the weekend. keep in mind the election is in the back of your mind and who do you trust to handle the economy? republicans lead by 16 points. inflation republicans lead by 19 points. then you get into crime at 14 points. relevant to financing in america today, it's clear who people believe will lead them out of this. >> it's really up to the voter. it is up to the question of whether voters can realize it

that everything that has been prognosticateed by democratic policymakers in the past hasn't worked out. they have had a year and a half now. we'll talk about student loans and bail-out there. when the government took over the student loan program in 2011, barack obama claimed that we were going to save $68 billion within ten years. it has been more than ten years. we're in debt $200 billion as a result of that. they want to go all in now with $500 billion to a trillion? forget about it. it doesn't work. >> dana: the congressional budget office came out yesterday and said it is going to cost $420 billion for the student loan package. that's without congress even weighing in. it's just the white house saying. >> you can say it's unconstitutional. a president does have authority in emergency situations to take a billion here or there. president trump did it with regard to the wall and took money that was designated for

the pentagon. but $400 billion and penn wharton says it's a trillion. a very favorable calculation of how much it will cost. this is something that is supposed to start -- this kind of spending is supposed the start from congress, not the president. >> bill: you sit at home and think it's a lot of money. we've been talking trillions for three years. the 420 billion price tag is equal to the $1400 stimulus checks that biden sent to americans at the beginning of his term. >> where is it going? all those people who paid off their loans, all of the parents who saved working two jobs to pay off their kids' loans are getting the raw end of the stick here. colleges and universities, particularly the ivy league ones, the once who preach to all of us, they have multi- billion dollar endowments they aren't using and they continue to raise their tuitions. it is essentially not just a

bail-out of students that are not paying their debts, it is a bail-out of universities who will continue to rake in even more money, billions and billions of your tax dollars are going to pay off universities that already have these billion dollar endowments. it makes no sense. it is a bail-out of the rich and people who aren't paying their debts and i think most americans don't like that. >> dana: it breeds resentment and it's a terrible way the feel about your fellow citizens. >> bill: they are doing the same kind of control over the energy sector. something we have to talk about at some point. i see a nationalization of the whole energy sector of our economy by the federal government. i see that as their goal. we can talk about details on that later. >> dana: we'll catch you on fox business. it is a big issue. a fox weather hurricane alert. ian is a powerful category 3 form now and eyes set on florida's west coast. experts are warning of the

potential for catastrophic and life threatening storm surge. charles watson is in tampa, florida. hi, charles. >> good morning, dana. folks are already hard at work at this sandbagging location we're at in the city of tampa. look at this. city workers alongside residents trying to fill up those sandbags so folks can make the necessary preparations to protect their property. they are really trying to get these folks in and out of here pretty quickly. so far this morning we're told they've given away 1500 sandbags. look, they're already running into some issues. take a walk with me right now so you guys can get the perspective. look this way. that is the start of the line that leads into this sandbagging site. it wraps around this entire park. if we wrap our camera around you can see where it ends. that's where the cars are headed into this sandbagging site. look, you talk to folks out here and really get a sense that folks are taking this seriously.

certainly when you talk about the concerns of major flooding here in the city of tampa. you talk about storm surge. they expect maybe 10-foot storm surge. a massive wall of water that ian could push inland if it's able to sit off the west coast of florida on top of maybe ten inches of rain that could fall across the city of tampa and 15 inchess in isolated areas. one gentleman got here two hours early to make the necessary preparations. he lives in one of those evacuations zones and will have to get out of here later today. listen to what he had to say. >> we had some pretty serious flooding during ada two years ago and that wasn't even half as bad as this is going to be. so a little nervous about what we'll come back to on friday after we evacuate today. >> folks are definitely going to have to make the preparations

and decision essential whether they will evacuate pretty soon. they won't have that opportunity as the storm quickly approaches later. guys. >> dana: charles watson in tampa. keep us posted. >> bill: from overseas there is more fallout now in iran. look at the pictures we picked up from over the weekend. there is fallout from the death of a woman in police custody. a stark warning over the protests. differing accounts of what happened when the f.b.i. raided the home of a pro-life activist. his wife accusing agents of arresting her husband in front of their children. a u.s. senator is calling for an investigation there. for appraisal or termite inspections. no upfront costs at all to get the cash you need. veterans get more at newday.

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>> dana: a catholic pro-life activist from pennsylvania is due in federal court today. his wife says 25 f.b.i. agents arrested her husband with guns drawn at their home on friday. the agency says it didn't exactly go down like that but aren't disclosing details. he is accused of assaulting a planned parenthood escort nearly a year ago. alexandria hoff is live in washington with the story. >> there are two different stories in terms of how the arrest unfolded and the incident it stemmed from the government is alleging that he shoved a

72-year-old volunteer on two occasions outside of philadelphia planned parenthood and his wife said he was defending his 12-year-old son from harassment. this is the case that the d.a. declined to take up and a private claim was thrown out this summer and that's where the federal government comes in. he has been charged under the safe act. a federal crime to forcibly interfere with somebody who is seeking or providing reproductive healthcare. these charges are rare. among the 15 cases listed as examples on the department of justice website incidents were mostly surrounding something like arson or bomb threats taking place. his attorney said there is no case here and that this is instead an attack on pro-life americans. when it came to house arrests on friday his wife told the catholic news agency that 25 to 30 f.b.i. agents came to her bucks county pennsylvania home with guns drawn on the family as their seven terrified children

watched. f.b.i. calls this an overstatement maintaining the number of agents on scene was inaccurate and they did not point their guns at the family or enter the home. writing this statement, quote, the tactics used by f.b.i. personnel were professional and intended to insure the safety of everyone present in and outside the residence. the man will be arraigned in philadelphia federal court today. as it proceeds if convicted he faces up to 11 years in prison. >> dana: alex hoff, thank you. >> bill: mid-terms six weeks away as conservatives in the u.s. try to take control in washington. right-leaning movement is gaining traction in europe. italy's first female prime minister on the heels of a win for conservatives in the country of sweden. byron york, fox news contributor. good morning. the left has already branded her mussolini 2.0.

let me introduce the audience. she was at c pac this february and this is part of her speech there. >> we live in a time in which everything we stand for is under attack. our individual freedom is under attack. our rights are under attack. the soul of our nation is under attack. the prosperity and well-being of our family is under attack. the education of our children is under attack. the only way of being rebels is to preserve what we are, the only way of being rebels is to be conservative. >> bill: many people are trying to define her. let's begin with that. what does she stand for, byron and why is she taking so much heat? >> what you are just hearing is a classic social conservative point of view. you hear it in the united states all the time. italy is a country with plunging fertility rates, with great concern about migration which

has remade life in parts of europe. this is a standard conservative concern about some of the things that are going on. you hear in the united states a lot of concern about education albuquerque -- elites. >> she was -- the strands of brexit linger throughout europe. i think we can agree on that. if you are taking orders from bru brussels. italy was racked by covid. the canary in the coal mine for the rest of the continent of europe. here she is three years ago talking about topic of family.

>> bill: put the hammer down there. here is how the media reacts. cnn, italy's most far right prime minister since mussolini. italy's fascist. women can be just as awful as men and it goes from there to npr and foreign policy italy's far right wins. how do you see that? >> well remember that a lot of commentators on the left are calling a lot of people fascist in recent years since the rise of donald trump in the united states. that doesn't make it so. now, the other side of concerns that she has, we were talking about social conservatives,

cultural conservative concerns is just the state of italy and its role in europe. countries don't have a real national sovereignty. you've seen sort of nationalistic pop you list movements arise in hungary and poland and sweden and italy. a threat to the european bureaucracy? brussels. it doesn't make it a bad thing. it is an unstable union. the whole place. and on top of that, when you think about these elections, remember italy has had very bad inflation. their energy prices have just shot through the roof. tripled. that's the sort of thing that causes voters to want change. it doesn't mean fascism, it means that gas is really expensive. >> bill: it's almost like it is italy first is the slogan here. it is rare when you hear a female politician say and

encourage the women of her country to have more babies. but that's what she is trying for in italy. byron, thank you so much. interesting to watch her political career. we'll see the reaction from that. nice to see you, byron. >> thank you. >> dana: ian has its eyes on florida. the tampa bay area, the latest on the storm's track. california lawmakers approving a first of its kind bill, doctors punished for misinformation. who decides what is misinformation?

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your money never stops working for you with merrill, a bank of america company. >> bill: southwestern corner of florida, this is the southern-most point. key west florida if you've been there you know the landmark very well. the outer, outer bands of this storm, hurricane ian. want to move up to tampa. we have our drone in the air from fox weather and we can see downtown tampa.

looks pretty good right now. typical. pre-storm days rolling in. this will be a very different image this time tomorrow 24 hours from now. so just wanted to share that with you as we track ian and where he goes, right? >> dana: absolutely. this happening in california. watch. >> the pandemic is over. we still have a problem with covid. we're still doing a lot of work on it. but the pandemic is over. >> dana: president biden spreading what some would call misinformation on the state of pandemic. this is california lawmakers send a bill to governor newsom's desk empowering the state to punish doctors for spreading misinformation on covid. and that doesn't mean just publicly. here to talk about it is a doctor, california board certified general surgeon to tell us about this bill. how it came to be and what your big concern is about it, doctor. >> thanks for having me, dana. i appreciate it.

if i could sum up a few words of concern i have about this bill, destructive and dangerous. primarily dangerous to patient care. it will be destructive in the sense there will be no scientific progression. it will be dangerous because it will set precedent for other bills similar to this in the california legislature for other medical conditions which will dictate how doctors will take care of their patients. finally be destructive because healthcare providers and other allied health professionals won't be able to take it and a mass exodus weakening the healthcare system in many places. >> dana: california's bill says false information that is contradicted by contemporary scientific consensus contrary to the standard of care. which is a strange thing as a doctor you know that science is also evolving. even wallens ki said this.

to be frank we're responsible for some pretty public mistakes from testing, data, communications. even with all the terrific work we do we suffer the consequences from the mistakes. part of the reason i imagine you love science and you are constantly learning. this would make it basically illegal. >> yes, absolutely. i agree with you. we all know there has been, you know, contemporary scientific consensus regarding covid that has been wrong. actually refuted partially and fully. we can go back to many issues, 1% mortality, closing schools healthy for our children, wearing masks helps prevent the dissemination, vaccines you won't get ill at all. vaccines won't allow for transmission of disease. we know all these have been refuted. and if you were a physician back then trying to explain and go

against the grain, then you would be at risk for losing your license. that's a really dangerous thing. we have to remember the definition that they have in here as disseminate does not mean to discuss it publicly. the term disseminate, the definition of the bill says if you convey information -- misinformation about covid from the doctor to the patient in the form of treatment or advice, then that will be deemed as unprofessional conduct. this bill will then transfer the power to the medical board of california who can make a quick decision in punishing the physician up to and include loss of license and loss of their livelihood and be able to treat other patients. >> dana: this bill is sitting on the governor's desk. he could veto it, sign it or do nothing which would make it

become law that daily wire considers that extremely monstrously cowardly if we were to do that. thank you for being being here. we'll get the word out about the bill sitting on governor newsom's desk right now. hurricane alert. hurricane ian is intensifying moving toward florida. residents are preparing for the storm of the century. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. >> bill: good morning and welcome back. i like the sunshine yellow, he said. >> yellow he said. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer, good morning. you'll be on the story for days now. ian made landfall. category 3 storm slamming the island with heavy wind, rain and high storm surge. it could arrive in florida as early as tomorrow. >> dana: tampa is bracing for its first direct hit from a hurricane in 100 years. here i