we are going to pray for all of our people down there in florida. we love you. stay safe. and we'll talk to you tomorrow. tucker carlson is going to continue to cover the storm, and he's up next. >> tucker: good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the hype turned out not to be hype. hurricane ian slammed into florida this afternoon, and caused shocking destruction. we want to begin tonight with a story unfolding as we speak. joining us first from fox weather is hurricane expert brian norcross, who we spoke to last night. brian, what did this storm do? >> it did pretty much what we talked about last night, tucker, and it's going to keep doing it. this is going to a multiday slog of the worst hurricane event to

affect the whole florida peninsula, probably ever, even worse than hurricane irma back in 2017. the latest advisory, 115 miles an hour now is the estimate for the top winds, still a spectacular hurricane considering the is overland. came ashore at 3:00 eastern time this afternoon, over cayo costa, and drove water over the barrier islands near f fort myers, flooding naples. this is going to be a huge disaster when the sun finally comes up and we see what happened. now tonight the rain situation up to 19 inches of rain fell today in this area north of here's fort myers down here. they have a flash flood emergency in effect tonight, this as the storm moves to the

north, this is going to mav toward central florida. is the next phase of this disaster that's going to unfold over the next couple days. here's the progress. not very fast. it's going to slowly stroll up the state. so by thursday, tomorrow night, this time, it's in the orlando area, then offshore by friday morning. this is the center, not necessarily all the bad weather. then over the water, could develop into a hurricane again, before it heads up toward georgia or carolina. so let me just play this out for you here. i want you to see what these people in central florida are dealing with. you can see the hurricane-force gusts. i'll show you the winds first. the hurricane-force gusts, in orange, blow down trees and knock out power, a mess. it arrives in orlando about midnight tonight. there we are in the morning. now we go through the morning hours. it's still hurricane-force gusts

in the central florida region. and only by late tomorrow does it begin to leave central florida. 36 or more hours to go of this. then we have the rain on top of this. national weather service issued the very rare extreme flash flood threat for all of central florida. keep your eye on orlando here. this is for today, tonight, and tomorrow morning. watch as we go forward in time. this is for thursday into friday morning. orlando is still in it. some areas of central florida get 30 inches of rain with widespread areas in the 20-inch range with massive flash flooding, catastrophic flash flooding is forecast. then it moves north. we start talking about georgia and south carolina, with flash flooding likely there. then that spreads up into the mountains of the carolinas. so this is a multi-day,

multistate, multihazard threat for the southeast. tucker? >> tucker: shocking. how tough do you expect the carolinas to get hit? >> i think it's going to be a big flood in the western carolinas, because when tropical moisture mixes with the mountains, then you get enhanced rainfall. in florida, tropical moisture, we're getting an unbelievable rain forecast. all indications are it's going to be a massive flash flood for large areas from daytona beach, orlando, over toward tampa. >> tucker: a historic hurricane. brian, thank you very much for your coverage of this. we'll keep covering the storm, which is not going away. download the fox weather app for the latest. we'll go live now to see what's happening on the west coast of florida, where the storm first

came ashore. fox's charles watson is in sarasota tonight. what are you seeing there? >> tucker, i got to tell you, the wind is pretty strong out here throughout most of the day. we've seen sustained winds around 45 miles per hour, and wind gusts around 70 miles per hour. from what we can see it's caused quite a bit of damage just looking around here in the dark now. we're seeing lots of tree limbs on the ground. we've seen large signs to businesses toppled over. in fact, about 100 yards away from us we saw a tree trunk probably large enough to kill someone if it fell just completely snapped in half and tossed into a near nearby pond. on top of that, you have this relentless rain that's continued to fall here throughout the day. the ground is completely saturated. you have to worry about these big trees out here possibly toppling over on to roadways, on to people's homes, possibly with people in them, and possibly

bringing powerlines down. now, you talk about the entire sarasota county, about a 100,000 customers at this point, probably more, are without power. something they'll have to live with at least possibly for a couple of days until utility crews get weather favorable enough for them to get out and fix some of these utilities and get power restored. for folks who decided to stick around, didn't decide to evacuate, they're essentially on their own right now. we got several alerts throughout the day from county officials saying, look, the wind gusts, the sustained winds rather, are at 45 miles per hour. that is dangerous. we're not going to send first responders out in that weather. so if you find yourself in an emergency situation, you're going to have to deal with it on your own. you can still call 9-1-1, and 9-1-1 dispatchers will try to help you through the emergency situations, but for the most part there will be no physical

presence in the way of emergency help. now, were expecting a storm surge up to 8 feet here. we're further inland, so we haven't been able to get out to the sarasota bay to see what's been going on there, but that's still a possibility. folks are definitely urged to stay off the roads at this point, certainly as it gets dark. you can't really see anything out here on the grounds right now. so it is in people's best interest to stay off the roads, because you just don't know what is out on the roadways right now. you certainly don't want to run over anything and possibly get yourself caught into a life-threatening situation, tucker. >> tucker: we're looking at the pictures, charles, that's just a mess in fort myers. appreciate you coming live to us from sarasota. thank you. in a minute we'll speak live to the governor of florida, ron

desantis, but first news we wanted to get to, an update on the biden administration's armed crackdown on its critics. earlier this month, a longtime fbi agent and swat team veteran called steve friend came forward to blow the whistle. what he said wask showing. according to agent friend, biden's fbi uses heavily-armed swat teams to raid the homes of american citizens who dare to criticize the administration. to be clear, these are people who pose no danger to anyone. these are people who haven't been confused, much less convicted, of a violent crime. the point is not to bring justice, but to terrify joe biden's political opponents. hard to believe it's happening, but it is. last year, the fbi's counterterrorism division raided the home of a 69-year-old red cross volunteer. an anonymous snitch had claimed that he was at the capitol on january 6th. not that he did anything

violent, but he was there. it was a lie. the feds moved forward and destroyed his life anyway. they showed up with guns, stole his electronic devices, and refused to return them. the whole experience was so traumatic that he suffered two strokes. well, on september 19th, the fbi suspended agent steve friend for daring to reveal what was happening, these abuses. it's illegal, under federal law, to punish whistleblowers, but the fbi did it anyway. then four days later, with friend out of the way, on the morning of september 23rd, a team of nearly 30 fbi agents, bristles with automatic weapons, came into the home of another man. he's a leader in his local community. they pointed weapons in front of their seven children. to be here, he's not a terrorist, never been accused of terrorism. he's instead a pro-lifer.

he founded an organization encouraging men to be leaders in their communities. here he is describing the experience he had earlier this year, praying outside an abortion clinic with his son. >> a woman came out who had an abortion. we offered her postabortion healing. we just said we'll pray for you. as we were praying, i brought my son over, i said, come on, let's kneel do this. we'll do this and leave. she attack us. i said, son, this is what the lord said. they persecuted me. they'll persecute me. she was spewing eve vulg vulgaro

him and me. this is part of the journey. >> tucker: that's mark hauck. he's a religious man. not everyone agrees with him, but there's no doubt that he's a peaceful, a nonviolent person. in october of last year, hauck was standing outside another abortion clinic in pennsylvania, joined again by his 12-year-old son. that's when a man approached him, began harassing the boy. to defend his son, hauck punished the extremist back. that was it. local police looked into it. the district attorney's office looked into it. nobody pressed charge against mark hauck, because it's not assault to protect your son from an extremist who's attacking him. but the biden justice department decided to revise this view, and they charged mark hauck with a federal crime, a felony, obstructing abortion access. there was in evidence that he had obstructed abortion access, but that's what they charged him with. hauck learned about three months ago that the doj planned to charge him, and he offered to turn himself in voluntarily.

that's what a civilized country allows. that wasn't good enough for merrick garland's doj, they wanted to punish him, and terrify his family, to send a message to anyone that would dare to get in the way of biden's agenda. agents were sent to his home, and he faces 11 years in prison for protecting his son. it's hard to believe that any of that happened, but it actually did. to confirm it, we're joined by mark hauck's wife, who was there when the fbi raided her home and took her husband away. thank you so much for joining us. you're also joined by your attorney, whom we're grateful to have. what was this experience like for you and your children? >> umm, well, umm, it was, umm, devastating. i mean, as you can imagine it's hard to even express, umm, the

victimization and, you know, how traumatized we all are, umm, due to this unnecessary, umm, thing that happened to us, you know, so -- >> tucker: how many fbi agents -- it's hard even to imagine given that neither you, nor your husband, or seven children have been accused of a violent crime, accused of violence. how many fbi agents with guns showed up at your house? >> umm, it had -- it had to have been 20, 25, 30. i mean, umm, we have a large property. my entire front yard, umm, you could barely see it, it was covered with at least 15, umm, big trucks and cars. there were, you know, like i said, 20, 25, 30, men, women, completely in jackets with

shields and helmets and guns. they were behind cars. it was, i mean, something i never would expect to see on my front lawn. it was crazy. >> tucker: yeah. maybe in china oar venezuela. peter breen is your attorney. we're happy you're here, mr. breen. have you ever seen anything like this ever in this country? >> not at all. this is reckless and outrageous. it put the hauck family in unnecessary danger. we offered to bring him in. didn't get a response. you don't violate the sanctity of the home, pointing guns at them. this is outrageous and uncalled for. >> tucker: were we right in saying that local authorities had assessed the alter caution

between mr. houck and the extremist who attacked his son and decided not to press charges against anyone. is that correct? >> the philadelphia da refused to press charges, and he's not a friend of pro-life. he's a soros ally. then the alleged victim filed a complaint, which the courts threw out because the guy couldn't bother to he shough up for the hearings. the local court system would have dealt with it, if there was a crime, and they said no. that's where the matter ended. this was not a federal crime. we have controlling case law on that, strong defenses, but instead they've taken an innocent man and made an example out of him, presumably to send a message to pro-life people, people of faith across this country. >> tucker: it's terrifying attack on civil liberties and human rights. i'll point-blank ask. if viewers are interested in learning more, helping the houck

family through this, is there someplace to go for details? >> we've set up a site defendlifetoday.com. we've got our whole thomas more legal team on this, because if we can push back against the department of justice here, we can get them not to do this to someone else. we've hired the best defense attorney in philadelphia, one of the best in the country, to help us what this matter. that costs money, but we're going to make the commitment that we're going to take this all the way, to succeed and hopefully prevail in the end, which we're confident of. >> tucker: it's so horrifying that i have to hope people are punished, for real. mrs. houck, how are your children doing? i have to ask. >> it's hard to tell. the older ones, we can talk, we can cry. you know, we've had some counseling. we have more counseling to do. umm, and the little ones they're scared. they're scared. there's a lot of crying and a

lot of -- a lot of unrestful sleep. a lot of kids in our bed at night and in the morning. >> tucker: well, i hope every one those agents who showed up at your home with automaker weapons is feeling deep shame. i really do. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> tucker: as we told you hurricane ian may be the most hyped hurricane in recent memory, turned out to be not hyped at all. the biggest hurricane maybe ever to hit florida just made landfall a few hours ago. florida governor ron desantis joins us next to tell us how the state is responding. we'll be right back.

>> tucker: this is a fox news alert. one of those our reporters down in florida reached out during the break and said he's heard buildings and other things collapsing around him. that reporter is in fort myers, florida. will nunley works at weather. will, what does it sound like where you are? >> i'm 10 or 15 minutes from downtown. we had to get out because of a storm surge threat here, all around us. we've been listening to pieces

of concrete fall off the building around us, crash on to the ground. we have gas stations that have lost the canopies that cover the pumps, of course. we've seen the big signs out in front of the gas stations come crashing down. i wish you could show them to you. the streetlights are rare. we have a city about 80% without power. statewide we're looking at millions in the dark tonight. i'll tell you another thing on my mind right now, the people we have not heard from, the places that emergency officials can't reach. we had these constant alerts going off on our phones with the rescue workers putting it very plainly, we can't rescue you right now. we can't get to you. we have a little bit of an issue with the cellphone service now starting to fail. it's getting battered in the same way that the electric grid is. so we have a tremendous emergency continuing to unfold. we're in fort myers, right? this continues to move. i know a lot of focus is shifting toward orlando, through the heart of the state, but we're not out of hurricane-force winds where we are here.

we've been in these winds since 10:00 this morning. this is an unreal scene. we'll have harrowing images tomorrow when we get our drone teams up in the air, our ground crews, to get to some of these areas, hope, again, that we have the cell signal, hope that people needing rescue are able to reach emergency officials in time. it is a tremendous emergency that continues to unfold. tucker? >> tucker: will nunley, thank you. thank you for mentioning communications. if viewers are watching, have family and friends down there, particularly in the barrier islands down there, you can't reach them, that's why. thank you so much, will. ron desantis is the governor of florida, watching all this very, very intensely. he's declared a state of emergency in florida tonight. he joins us right now. governor, thank you very much for coming on. you're seeing the bigger picture here. how would you assess florida right now? >> well, tucker, this is a

major, major storm. i mean, it hit at 155 miles an hour. that is one tick below a category 5. unlike category 5 storms we've had, this is a huge storm in terms of its size. it brought record storm surge in collier, lee counties, and it's continuing to churn throughout the state. so, you know, you're going to end up with many more people without power. obviously in southwest florida, as soon as the storm passes, you know, we have emergency responders at the local level. the state has marshaled hundreds of aircraft, high water vehicles, the capacity to go by land, air, or by sea to help people. they will do that. that will need to take place. then you'll have a majorrest to restore power. we have 100 cell towers we can help stand up to help do communications. we have over 42,000 linemen and

other personnel associated with restoring power. if you're driving anywhere in florida, i-10, i-95, you see these trucks coming into the state, and it's been ongoing, so that's going to be the biggest probably logistical effort in the history of the state. as soon as it's safe to go in, they'll go in, try to rescue people first. then try to stabilize the situation, restore power, get fuel in there, and make sure people can communicate. >> tucker: the storm came ashore in southwest florida, lee, charlotte counties in there. it's hard to know exactly what's going on there. you would know. how bad does it look, the damage, do you think? >> well, i think it's clearly the biggest flood event we've ever seen in that part of the state. i mean, that's not just lee and charlotte. that would be collier. massive, massive storm surge. you have places in those counties that have massive standing water. that, of course, presents a lot of hazards on the back end. we've been telling folks, be

careful once the storm goes past. you know, in hurricane irma, i had folks pull the numbers, seven deaths directly caused by hurricane irma. 77 deaths caused in the aftermath for downed powerlines or misusing generators. that's going to be a major disaster. in terms of the structural damage, i think it's too soon. we're getting intermittent reports, but it's really going to have to pass. we'll have people out there at the local and state level assessing the damage. but my sense is, i think it's going to be one of the biggest flood events we've ever had. what remains to be seen, how much damage the wind did. obviously it's very significant. as you know, tucker, in that part of florida, you know a lot of those buildings that are built are built specifically to withstand a category 5 hurricane. so we'll see florida building codes, how did they hold up? hopefully they held up okay.

>> tucker: when a natural disaster like this strikes the state, it is common, i think it's always the case, that the state receives federal aid. given how politicized things are at the moment, are you confident you're going to get the federal support florida needs? >> so i actually spoke with the president. he said he wants to be helpful. so we did submit a request for reimbursement for the next 60 days at 100%. that's significant support. it's a significant storm. so we haven't heard back from it. i'm actually cautiously optimistic that we do. as you said, tucker, we live in a politicized time, but when people are fighting for their lives, when their livelihood is at stake, lost everything, if you can't put politics aside for that, you won't be able to. i'll work with anybody who wants to help the people of southwest florida and throughout our state. >> tucker: amen. that's the spirit. governor ron desantis of florida, thank you very much for taking the time. appreciate it. >> thanks.

>> tucker: so when the sun comes up tomorrow, part of that state is going to look different from the way it did this morning. we'll have that. but tonight we're going to continue to monitor what hurricane ian is doing as it sweeps across the peninsula. what's interesting is how little time it took for political ghouls to make political points about a humanitarian disaster like hurricane ian. they just jumped right in. vote for us. this will never happen again, because it turns out they control the weather. we've got details just ahead.

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>> tucker: this is a fox news alert. hurricane ian as we've told you has crushed the state of florida, more than a million people have no power. this is a catastrophe. it's a national disaster. people will certainly be killed because of it. under circumstances like that, decent people put politics aside for a moment, because they're

not ghouls. they realizes some things, like life and death, are important than politics. they don't give political sermons at funerals, for example, but at msnbc there's no reason to abide by decency. claire mccaskill delivered a sermon, and it was about "stop complaining about joe biden." >> i hope those that hit at the federal government, remember that the federal government is there for them at a time of disaster. >> absolutely. >> tucker: can you imagine? no decency. no shame. none of them have decency or shame. one tried to link it to climate change. his guest shut him down.

jamie roman knows what he's talking about, director of the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. watch this exchange. >> can you tell what this is, what effect climate change has on this phenomenon? >> we can talk about climate change at a later time. i want to focus on here and now. >> what effect does climate change have on this phenomenon that's happening right now? seems the storms are intensifying. that's the question. >> you can't connect it to any one event. >> listen, i grew up there. these storms are intensifying. something is causing them to intensify. >> tucker: how can i help the democratic party in the middle of a disaster? most people tonight think that. amy klobuchar announced if we gave her more power, hurricanes

wouldn't happen, because turns out they control the weather, if you vote for them. >> we have to win as this hurricane bears down on florida, we have to win in the midterms. >> tucker: that's not someone you would hire as your executive assistant, because she's too incompetent. no one wants to work for her, because she screams at her staff. yet that person is claiming supernatural powers, saying this as people are literally dying. we called amy klobuchar's office today and asked her to come on to explain how specifically they would have taken control of the weather and prevented hurricane ian. how would you have done it? here's full power. full funding, amy klobuchar, tell us how you would stop the hurricane. really, she wouldn't stopped. she's always welcome on this show to tell us how she's in charge of the weather. what do you think, you're god or something?

hurricane ian is very powerful and very wide, and it has hurt the west coast of florida. the tampa bay arena is under water essentially. fox weather's max gorden is live in st. petersburg for us. hi, max. >> we were expecting the eye to hit the tampa bay/st. petersburg area, but it moved. the wind continues to whip, the rain continues to come down, and in some areas of central florida up to 2 feet of rain is expected, just a catastrophic event as this moves onshore. now, earlier today we saw a pretty interesting phenomenon in tampa bay. now, instead of a storm surge, we saw a retreat of the water out of tampa bay. in some areas we had negative 1. essentially what happened there is we had northerly winds

pushing that water out of the bay. now, that water is now moving back in, and we should have somewhat of a storm surge later tonight. again, we are not necessaryingly out of the woods here in the tampa bay/st. pete area, 195,000 customers are without power. as you mentioned earlier in the show, more than a million customers are without power. there are linemen here to work, more than 33,000 of them, but they can't go up in the bucket trucks in the winds calm down. tucker, back to you. >> tucker: max gorden for us tonight, thank you. >> tucker: we've got continuous coverage of this hurricane. you can get it, if you download the fox weather app, stream the coverage. so jackie walorski represented a state, and died in a car accident. at the time joe biden made

tribute. jill and i are shocked and saddened by her death, biden said, but he's apparently forgotten she passed away. today at a conference on food insecurity, which he's caused with the lunatic war in ukraine, joe biden asked why jackie wasn't there. watch. >> want to thank all of you for being here, like -- where is jackie? >> tucker: you didn't see that event. almost nobody did. news organizations sent somebody called a pool reporter, who represents the rest of the news organizations, to take notes. anything notable that happens, they write down. the rest of us can learn about it. that event was covered by a pool reporter from yahoo! news, who left the episode out of his pool report. but at the white house, reporters as asked about it any,

and she said it's totally normal why a dead person hasn't come to joe biden's speech. >> she was on top of mind, and understands she was going to see her family on friday for this bill signing. again, i don't think it's all that unusual to have someone top of mind. >> tucker: what's unusual is to have a completely senile president, and it's a problem for two reasons. one, he doesn't seem threatening. so most of the population has no idea what's actually going on. looks like grandpa nodding out at the thanksgiving table. people don't get just how radical the administration is. the second problem with having a senile president, we're living through this now, is that weak leaders cause disasters. so in your mind's eye you think of people causing disasters, testosterone-swollen dictators, but it's the weak who screw

things up every single time. of course joe biden is the weakest of all. we're not mocking him. we actually feel sorry for him. baback to the ho white house, ty said we're jumping to a lot of conclusions. yes, we are. disney announced it's closing its theme parks. nate, what do you see? >> tucker, good evening. you can see it's raining here, but the worst of this storm here in the orlando area will be between 7:00 and 10:00 a.m. people are seeing the devastating, heartbreaking images from southwest florida. if you draw a line from southwest florida to daytona beach, where the storm is expected to exit the state, orlando is smack-dab in the middle of it. the farther inland you go, you don't have to worry about storm surge, but you had a

meteorologist on the show who said they're expecting up to 30 inches of rain. it could be a catastrophic flooding event in orlando. residents are being told to career their yards of any debris so the wind doesn't pick it up and possibly clog a storm drain. we're in the wind mere community tonight, outside disneyworld, closed for the next two days. these two trees, looks like they were rotting leading up to today, but these are the first trees to fall down that we have seen. you'll see light on the left side. those two houses are operating on a generator right now. everything else totally in the dark. we lost power here at 6:30. 18,000 people in orange county where we are have lost power. last check, 1.8 million in florida have lost power. it's certainly devastating to see what this storm has caused in southwest florida. it's a waiting game at this point.

the people here have done what they can, time beinger. there's a tornado watch, not a tornado warning, a tornado watch, in effect until 2:00 a.m. the winds are expected to pick up. again, 7:00 to 10:00 a.m. is the key hours, we're hoping for the best. people seeing the devastating images perhaps expecting the worse, but it's expected to hit oral as a category 1, a tropical storm, nothing like we saw in the fort myers area. back to you. >> tucker: thank you so much for that, appreciate it, outside orlando. as you just heard, fort myers has really suffered, because of something called storm surge. it's water rising up out of the gulf and flooding. now this storm is moving inland, heading to the carolinas. we'll track it as it does. more coverage straight ahead.

>> tucker: this is a fox news alert, continuing to follow hurricane ian, which landed in florida earlier today, and really wrecked a lot of the state. in the meantime, for years, the government has attacked the civil liberties of anyone who challenges its authority.

especially true during covid. one of the people who resisted this on christian principles was sean foyt, a singer, worship leader at a number of different churches in california, and he had an amazing experience under the covid lockdown. we talked to him, and he told us when his mind changed about what the government was doing. here it is. >> i'm a worship leader. and we'ring to worship, doing our services. of course, you know, you can't meet in church anymore. you know, you can go to a casino or strip club or a marijuana dispensesy, or you can go to costco, but the church was the problem. >> they kept casinos open? >> oh, casinos, strip clubs. those were all deemed essential, but in california, new york, and other places, the church was deemed nonessential. >> tucker: who made that decision? >> the governor. >> tucker: that's totally evil, i would say, obviously.

so this order comes down. >> yes. >> tucker: and you're working at a church. >> yeah. >> tucker: how did your church respond to it? >> i mean, i think that they -- that you are very connected and tied into the city. i think they were trying their best to, you know, in some sense honor the local authority, honor the -- see how long this thing was going to go. i think a lot of churches, you know, gave him the benefit of the doubt in the beginning. they didn't know what was really going on. all right, we'll to us things for a few weeks. but then it was months. then it was harsher restrictions. then it was -- you know, it kept getting worse. then they were finger-pointing at the church for the ones spreading the virus. at that point that was -- >> tucker: but not the casinos, strip clubs, or weed dispensaries? >> yes. meanwhile people are raging throughout the streets of america, riting, protesting.

you know, tens of thousands of people in los angeles. they're cheered on. >> tucker: so not everybody played along and kowtowed. there's brave people left in america. that's one of them. watch the whole conversation on "tucker carlson today" on fox nation. people who come here from foreign countries illegally know they have nothing to fear, like you. they broke laws to get here. we just learned of a crime ring comprised of illegal aliens target teenagers. jason joins us with a report. jason, good to see you? >> looks like we have a crime ring targeting music festival, at lollapalooza, the music concert in chicago, while lori

lightfoot was enjoying the festival, women in the group would get flirtatious, start grinding on their target. while the target is distract, the woman reaches into the pocket, grabs the cellphone, and pass it on to a bag that blocks cellphone signals from being sent and received. it makes it hard for folks to half. luckily for the victims, undercover cops were alerted. many suspects weren't born here. almost none of them speak english. in that case, while in custody, a number of them needed translators. you can see them on the screen. to be clear, they all weren't in the country illegally, but a lot of them were. once they cross the border illegally, they connect with friends, family who already live here, and makes sense they might

head to a sanctuary city like chicago. that means the next time you're at a music festival, a large event like a parade or concert, hang on to your cellphone or wallet, especially if you're a sanctuary city or state. >> tucker: so sad. we've got enough crime. we don't need to import it, that's for certain. >> yeah. >> tucker: jason, thanks. so a fox news alert, hurricane ian has knocked out power for nearly 2 million people in the state of florida. so far it turns out fox weather's will nunley is in fort myers with a report on what's happening right now. what do you see, will? >> i don't know if this looks peaceful to you, but in reality this is the most calm this has been in hours, as we've been trapped in hurricane conditions with so many thousands of people since 10:00 this morning. my biggest fear right now is the unknown. we've watched the storm come ashore with live cameras. they gave us a glimpse and

understanding of what was happening. now that we're in the dark of night, i am so concerned about the people that are needing rescue, that we have not been able to reach, and emergency officials have not been able to hear from, not been able to pinpoint where they are, and still not able to reach them for a majority of tonight. when you have sustained winds as high as we have here around fort myers tonight, you can't get rescue workers out in these conditions. it's too dangerous. then you have the complications of trying to get down the roads. we have utility poles down, trees down everywhere. we still have debris quite frankly flying through the air. we don't have the wind right now at the speed we've been dealing with it for most of today, but still enough to pick something up, slam it into-vehicle. so that what is kind of really top of mind tonight, are the meme that are stranded in their homes, awaiting rescue. they're having to wait out this tremendous storm. then hope they have enough of the communications overnight and in the morning to reach the people that they need for help.

so if you're trying to call people down here, it's hard for us to keep in contact with control there at fox control, because the cell towers are going around constantly around us. if you're trying to reach family in this area, maybe parts of florida, as a matter of fact, keep in mind how wide this storm is, how much of the state is wrapped up in this. cellphone towers are going down fast. electricity is already down in so many areas. it's going to be-long, painful night, and we'll have incredible scenes to pass along when daylight comes, tucker. >> tucker: we certainly are. i know under the circumstances very early, but how long are authorities saying they expect the cell towers and power grid to be out? >> under the circumstances anybody's guess at this point. i mean, it is going to -- first of all, the wind has to get typically blow 40 miles an hour before utility crews can lift buck trucks in the air.

for cell towers, you're scaling the tall hours, so the wind has to be virtually nonexistent i would imagine to get up there. we're looking at sometimes days, especially when you're talking about infrastructure. i'm not an expert in it. there's a lot that goes into it. a lot of towers to service at one time. they can be bringing in the mobile towers to support it. the pedestrian time we're immeds five hours ahead of us, that's what i'm worried about, the people alone tonight facing these conditions. we have to pray no them. tomorrow we have to get action out there to help them. >> tucker: let me follow up on that for a second, will, if i could. there are still a number of -- i mean, there are a lot of people there. not everyone left. a lot of people did evacuate, but a lot didn't. are you getting a sense that a lot of houses were occupied throughout the storm? >> there are more people that stayed behind than emergency officials would have wanted.

you're talking about how much coverage went into this storm before it hit. yeah, it's a blessing we can talk about storms that are not going to strike an area five and seven days out, right? that technology is amazing. it also may give people so much of, well, i'm going to sit and wait and see what happens, and some assurance they maybe shouldn't have, and hospital in take the action when it comes te action when it comes. >> tucker: hmm. how are the roads? >> terrible. we have utility poles down. we have parts of buildings. we can still hear, you know, metal hitting the road every now and then. traffic signals, we started today, we had probably 12 traffic signals up here. all have crashed down, i think, except two. the wind has been so strong, i mean you know how big owe a traffic signal on the ground, they're big and heavy, but the

wind has scooted them down the street like they were toys. that's the force that's been on display, where we can see. again, we're 10 minutes or so away from downtown fort myers. the power that direction, even more intense than what we've seen here. trying to get out, navigate the roads, the first few crucial hours to get out and help people, it's trying on emergency officials tonight. >> tucker: i got to ask you, at the height of the storm in fort myers, where were you? >> i'll show you. we're between a fox weather beast, that helps us cover storms like this, and under a concrete structure. we're under the most sturdy structure that we could find blocked as well as we can. normally we would go into a parking garage. we had to be strategic, because this big boy is too tall to fit in most parking garages. we have to create as much barrier around us as possible, and get out of the awe of storm

surge. that's the -- out of the way of surge. >> tucker: yeah. >> we had to get high and dry as best we can. >> tucker: nice job. will nunnally, thank you so much for that worth. good luck tonight. >> tucker: we'll be back tomorrow night, 8:00 p.m., . >> sean: welcome to hannity, we begin tonight with a fox news alert. only hours ago, hurricane ian made land fall near port charlotte florida as a category 4 storm, areas around naples, fort myers, sarasota, they have been devastated by high winds and very severe flooding. new video showing water rising up to 12 feet in some areas. entire homes sadly washed away. now, this hurricane is far from over as much of florida now remains tonight in serious danger. here with the very lates