a tic tac. >> you have come a tic tac. >> laura: awkward pure are you one of those people are afraid of puppets? i think i have that phobia. i don't know what it is peer that is it for us tonight. please thank you for watching. please set your dvr so you never miss "the angle" continued coverage of hurricane ian on fox news. >> carley: a fox news alert over the atlantic ocean strengthening to a category one hurricane as it prepares to make landfall for a third time. now south carolina a direct target at the east coast for life threatening, heavy rain and 85 mile-per-hour winds. you were watching "fox & friends first" on this friday morning. i'm carley shimkus. >> todd: we are certainly not done and i'm todd piro. we have seen stunning before and after images showing the devastation in florida.

take a look at your screen right now. part of the states completely saturated still 200 people remaining without power in ten people dead. >> carley: tracking the hurricane with us all morning long but we began with doug luzader on the ground in charleston as ian approaches. what are you experiencing this morning? >> good morning, guys come a little bit of light rain is all we are seeing right now and some winds to pick up and the intensity will wrap up through the course of the day. now we have been watching a couple of things closely with this storm as always, the track. as far as the track is concerned it is shifting to the north. the second landfall might happen close disadvantage to georgia but then we started talking about charleston and now it is looking more and more like north of charleston may be closer to moreland beach. as we tracked the track itself, we are also making intensity and this is a category one hurr

hurricane. this is something perhaps expecting. the concern here though is not so much the wind versus the water. they call this the low country for a reason. even a small title search can cause flooding around here. that really is the concern the flooding may go pretty far inland even though category one hurricane, still a strong hurricane, but the flooding could go pretty deep in. we are not seeing a sense of panic around here. we are not seeing a big line to get out with traffic backups in the region. interesting the local paper did show one line of vehicles to get into a parking garage. people want to get their cars above sea level just to get them out of harm's way as far as the low level flooding is concerned. notice the part of the country as well that experienced a number of hurricanes. people talking in 1989 how devastating that was. you have a lot of grizzly veterans around here and a lot

of folks to stay put through the storm, todd and carley. >> carley: doug luzader live in north myrtle beach, south carolina, doug, thank you so much. senior meteorologist adam, a high tide at noon that could coincide with the storm makes landfall. once again storm surge is a huge concern. >> there will be a ton of water in the storm surge, the rain to come together to make for another really kind of nasty situation. we will have spent over a day back over the ocean water by the time it makes landfall. that is what has allowed this to reform a little bit from a tropical's for strengthening again hurricane winds moving to the northeast 35 miles an hour but they are at 8 miles an hour, hurricane warnings in place savanna including myrtle beach and slowly to the north but a much larger area with tropical warnings because there will be so much moisture once again

picked up in the ocean with the system but this is a good map potentially what we could be talking about when it comes to the storm surge. for over 24 hours, we have been consistently seen costs 25-35 miles an hour. over the last day all of this water keeps getting pushed by those winds off of the auction along the shore. when the system gets here, it will force the water piled up on to lan and that is when you see the storm surge numbers 4-7 feet. above most people and everyone's had it. so this will do a ton of damage, a dangerous situation and 5 feet in north carolina all the way back to northeastern florida. a large area here and a lot of timing that comes with high tide. really, as you get there right around lunchtime or early in the morning or afternoon as we talk about landfall, charleston and myrtle beach. again, the worst of this will be

to the north and the east over the storm makes landfall. and then it brings a bunch of moisture up into south carolina south carolina, north carolina and ultimately virginia. rain will be a huge part of this. a detailed look at where the heaviest rain will be coming on and win. think about this afternoon into this evening is where you will see a bunch of rain across the region and i will leave you with the rainfall totals. flooding will be a huge concern. widespread 6 inches of rain, but definitely areas up to 8 inches of rain and a foot piled on top of the storm surge on the coast. flooding is one of the major concerns. back over to you. >> todd: i covered hurricanes for fox and myrtle beach a couple of years ago. that was basically a mist there was still a lot of problems associated with the most. i hesitate when this happened gets to myrtle beach. thank you. ten people are dead and 200

residents in the dark after carving a destructive path through the state. >> carley: extensive recovery after cat 4 laura naples south f fort myers. what is the damage you are seeing? we see a little bit of it behind you right now. is the town yet in recovery mode? >> all right. we have a little bit of an audio issue so if you could repeat what you said, that would be great. >> sure, carley, todd, what we see is a ton of debris on the roads. this storm toppled trees and flung toys like you can see behind me onto land and knocked out power. thankfully they have been able to restore some of the power.

more than 2 million people in florida are without. and i want to show you something, take a look at this. it shows you what it looks like fort myers before and after. it gives you an idea what kind of a monster of a storm ripped through and wednesday. as you mentioned the search and rescue mission to find people stuck in homes and areas is a mess of one pier at governor ron desantis said the coast guard, national guard and national teams have saved hundreds of people. as at this morning fox confirmed ten deaths but that number is expected to rise. >> this could be the devil's hurricane import is history. the numbers are still unclear, but we are hearing early reports what may be substantial loss of life. >> ian is not over yet obviously pure the folks in north carolina, south carolina, georgia coast bracing for ian as

a category 1 hurricane plus, guys, storm surge warnings in effect all the way to north carolina to the northeast coast of florida. a ton of people within that storm surge warning area. >> todd: lauren blanchard, thank you very much, let's bring in the emergency management system, will, thank you for being here. it is called the low country for a reason and that his reason for concern but are the folks in your county heeding the war warnings? >> absolutely. we've had a lot of preparations done by our systems especially with sandbags. our citizens know the history of the storms appear to be fed a break for a couple of years, but this is definitely a real threat hazard coming to the area. >> carley: what is it like outside and are you feeling the effects of the storms so far? >> we've actually had rain since last night. what we are looking at is the worst-case scenario. probably around the afternoon so aiding amp we will get a lot

more rain but around noon time is when it will pick pick up ad peek for us. >> todd: the city of charleston and anyone who has been to charleston, you are right on the water. those homes are on the water and not a lot of room for the water to go when it rises above its back. you are used to dealing with flooding but are used to dealing with something like this? >> this is not a normal occurrence and weights and those with matthew, irma but this is not a day-to-day thing for us. this is the first storm that has made a direct impact, matthew in 2016. >> carley: the presta also recognizes this is not normal occurrence either. he already approved south carolina's emergency declaration which means the federal funds will assist the state and local funds. how critical is that to the state? >> it is definitely critical to move those resources. a lot of the state emergencies will help us with moving the

resources. for example, south carolina with the state of emergency, and we can move the national guard throughout the state. so we have got some high water vehicles position within the region just to respond and take care of the citizens and residents if there are any rescues needed. >> todd: what is your worst-case scenario for the storm? >> worst-case scenario we are planning for, we say one category above. so coming to us as a category 1, and we expect a lot of wind, rain in the areas but we plan for a category 2. so we know we've got the responders in place. we have staff members, fire, police, emergency operation center running. that is the worst-case scenario. we have a threat for tornadoes. the threat is lower but changes hour to hour but that is something that could really change this storm for us. but really make that recovery process a lot longer longer for

us as well. >> carley: one of the worst pieces of news is high tide will be at noon time which could coincide with makes landfall. when you think of the infrastructure and the beautiful homes that are on the water in south carolina, what kind of damage over talking about here? >> so, there is a lot of damage to the residential areas, but we also worry about commercial industry. this area is a mix up a lot of suburban. we have a lot of commerce and industry. south carolina is a fast-growing state, and a fast-growing county. we have a lot of companies here. the big concern is as we start to see more water, it could definitely impact the roadways. it could impact infrastructure. and prevent folks from getting to work and companies from getting the logistics to them. that is some of the big things we worry about. rescue can be a real possibility

as we start to see more water. we have low-lying areas in the county that kind of is a concern, especially berkeley county, the city, those are concerned areas as the search starts to come in with the title waives. >> carley: who are clearly on top of it. you and all the residents of south carolina are in our thoughts this morning. will rochester, thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you all. >> carley: the talk storm corporation has donated $1 million to the red cross to support its hurricane ian relief efforts. the red cross is currently on the ground providing food, medical supplies, shelter, and more victims impacted by the storm. if you would like to contribute to the effort, you can scan the qr code on your screen right now. visit redcross.org/foxforward to make a donation to the

american red cross. and another big story, we are covering for you this morning new york city ems step to death and unprovoked attack while she is on duty. we will tell you what we know about the investigation so far. >> todd: error coverage continues all morning long before the storm makes landfall in south carolina today. keep it right here on "fox & friends first." ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> carley: i'm ashley strohmier with your headlines. starting with this the clock is ticking on capital who has the stopgap spending bill heads to the house where it must be passed by midnight to avoid a government shutdown. the senate passed the bill yesterday after democrat senator joe manchin agreed to drop the controversial energy provision. the bill will fund through december 16th biding time for congress to negotiate a year-long budget. a florida judge signs with former president trump in the fight overseas materials and the mar-a-lago rate appear as a u.s. district judge overruled the special master's order for trump to give final objections on the

fbi's search inventory, meaning trump conducts the special masters request to verify the documents, "there should be no separate requirement on the plaintiff at this stage prior to the review of any seized materials to launch final objections to the accuracy of the defendants inventory and descriptions or its contents." and gave doj until wednesday with a document review vendor to scan for seized documents. an autopsy report with ari flari arifletcher was on ang run when she was kidnapped and forced into a vehicle. her body was found days later after multiple days long search for the mom. the suspect in the case was charged with first-degree murder and kidnapping. the headlines are back to you. >> todd: another story ems

lieutenant step to death while on duty. allison was simply on a lunch break when the police say a madman knocked her down stabbing her 20 times. what they were describing an unproductive, unprovoked attack. >> carley: spectacular barricading himself in a nearby apartment when the police talk them down taking him into custody. a 25 year veteran of the fdny and also 9/11 first responder. that is exactly right. she served during 9/11 and she was 61 years old, just going out on a lunch break to get a sandwich and she gets stabbed 20 times and is now dead. it is an unimaginable tragedy and also something that is happening in new york city every single day. >> todd: and cities around the country but specifically this one, more and more proof the city is not improving but instead getting worse and if the city doesn't get a handle on

this which is random violence, people don't want to take their lives and their hands by grabbing lunch. people are scared to travel year and people are scared to work here because this city is a culture of coddling criminals now. back in the day it was not like this but now it is. if you think the consequences for your deranged act won't be that severe you are more inclined to do that ie knocked down, stabbed and killed. >> carley: we don't know a lot about the suspect we don't know his name yet but the neighbor has told "the new york post" he was a loner and something was off about him, but she said he was completely nonviolent. that turned out not to be true. she also said i passed him on the side streets. i typically go to the other side of the street. i didn't want to meet him or say hi to him or anything. he was actually arrested after a good samaritan chased him down and he barricaded himself inside a nearby apartment and the police -- look at this image, how many times do you see the

police officers gathered in first responders gathered a hugging after one of their own is killed in an unprovoked attack? you remember in january, the two police officers chasing rivera killed by a repeat offender on the job. then hundreds, thousands of police officers blooded fifth avenue for the funeral. nothing changed in terms of making the city safer and in terms of the laws on the book. a few years ago, there was an emt run over and killed by her own ambulance after it was stolen and that didn't change anything either. and at this horrific tragedy that took place. >> todd: when are we going to get real about the mental health crisis in this country? this person was hurt by the system, it was the gun's fault, no we have a mental health crisis and the left wants to ignore and blame every other aspect. they didn't have a fair shot at louth nomadic life and it goes down the list. we have to solve the mental health crisis, they need to be

off of the streets so they are not impacting the rest of the spirits >> carley: can make a good point, it is the mental health crisis and there are laws on the books. it all started with black lives matter movement. in handcuffing police officers so they couldn't do their jobs and the widow, david dorn's widow, we had her in an op-ed on foxnews.com an end it was so well written. she made such a good point. she said ultimately, david, her husband who died during black lives matter right yet and was killed in st. louis i believe. david was murder because the people who are supposed to protect active duty police officers were ordered not to do their job but it is clear that anti-law enforcement sentiment fueled by democrats left-wing activist rhetoric has gone too far. >> todd: stop handcuffing law enforcement and allow them to handcuff the people who do bad. >> carley: and you look at

kathy hochul was presented with the facts in ten people commit a 500 crimes after the bill and laws were changed in 2020. the reporter asked her, "what are you going to do about it? "and she said she needs more data and the reform laws are making an impact on the cities. it is not just new york city but upstate new york as well. nothing is being done about it. >> todd: things don't get done, lee zeldin actually is seeing a bump in the polls and he said he will do something about it in a state quite frankly he should have a chance of winning because primarily democrats. with that, is there a conservative purge happening at the top of the fbi? congressman jim jordan spoke with the news accusations. >> hurricane ian expected to make landfall as a category 1 storm. now underway in where millions have no power and desperate need of food and supplies. we are talking to americans whose lives have been changed

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♪ ♪ >> carley: we are back with a fox news exclusive. house oversight committee jim jordan sounding the alarm on the fbi claiming the bureau is purposely purging conservative employees. >> todd: brooke singman joins us live with the story, it broke. >> congressman jim jordan of the top republican on the house judiciary committee said purchasing staffers with conservative viewpoints and retaliating against whistle-blowers who claim their assignments are politically motivated. in a letter to the fbi, jordan to maintain the bureau jennifer moore speak to the committee stating "the committee has the judiciary, legislative and oversight jurisdiction over the

department of justice and the fbi's. of the the oversight." a clear effort of the bureau's effort to prevent employees from coming forward in the future. list them here. >> a few weeks ago when i was on your show come we talked about the whistle-blowers come with fbi agents who have come to our office. the very next day, merrick garland sends a memo out saying here are the rules to speak to congress. we also know the whistle-blowers have had security clearance revoked, which is always the first step in terminating someone at the fbi. this is frightening step. speak the bureau pushed back on the allegation saying the fbi does not target or take adverse action against employees for exercising their first amendment rights were for political views to allege otherwise is false and misleading. jordan promises a more comprehensive investigation into the doj of the republicans take back the majority of the house, carley, todd.

>> carley: broke, thank you. let's bring in jonathan gilliam on this one. good morning to you but what do you make of this? you have congressman jim jordan say the fbi is engaging and perching employees with conservative views by revoking security clearance and indefinitely suspending the employees. that is impartiality by the fbi but do you believe this? >> there was a couple of things here. number one, justice as we know it is not impartial anymore. but is not blind completely to who is being brought forward. we know the doj is ideologically driven and we know they are not blind when it comes to people who do things that they are ideologically aligned with. they do not go after them. we know that already. went out the top of the fai since 2015 has been ideologically left and gone out to president trump based on the fact he is conservative. and he is not liked amongst the left. but here is one thing that is

very important, especially about congressman jordan's when he comes out and he says these things, he is correct, but i can go back to 2017 and jim jordan saying the exact same thing. i look at jim jordan like paul revere warning people that the british are coming and actually need to be taken. the problem here is we rely on the g.o.p. largely to go and do battle with these leftist. they have no strategic plan, and nothing is being done. >> carley: how would you change this? you would think the people at the top merrick garland, christopher wra y would want the american people regardless of political perspective to fully believe that the fbi is not partisan. yet, we are not seen any action there. >> all of the people that you just mentioned are politically motivated. christopher wray is a political appointee and he didn't get that

way by following justice. we did that because he's a politician. merrick garland is a politician and far left individual but i think the reality here is we are battling against ideology. right now it is the fbi, but tomorrow silicon valley as it has been before. there is no differentiation and i can see from the standpoint from the private sector the government entities that are basically censoring or trying to cut away any power that conservatives have in this country. that is a huge problem because their motivation is really marxism-like if you really want to look at it. >> carley: you mentioned the fbi targeting some individuals and not others. that reminds me a situation with mark houck, a pro-life activist who was arrested. his wife is saying the fbi essentially win in with guns a blazing the fbi said, they did no such thing but at the question is, should they arrest

him at all because at a state level, the state dropped the case against him so why would the fbi pick it up? >> i tell you a comic that is a good question. because it falls along the ideologically avenue that the left takes. this is the key to investigating. when we would get a complaint or see something when i was an fbi agent, we would look for probable cause to do a preliminary investigation. once we determined that there was evidence that crimes were being committed, we would open up a full investigation and we would look at what they were doing, who was doing it, and how they were going about committing the crimes. then we put together a strategic plan to go and get these individuals and charge them with crimes. you see none of that at all in the government when we look at how the left is manipulating justice. i'm telling you right now from an investigative standpoint, we are at the point where i can

look at what the left has done, whether falsifying information or all the other things they have done, and there is a clear case of conspiracy amongst these individuals across the board to bring this nation down. >> carley: it is a major concern, jonathan, thank you for joining us this morning. we appreciate it. >> you got it. >> carley: to the story tracking ian to california and georgia. now bracing for category 1 hurricane and potentially a storm surge. >> todd: the carolinas and georgia with teams on the ground and a long road to recovery is just starting. ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ >> carley: ian with category 1 5 mile-per-hour winds as it moves to make landfall for a third time. south carolina is a direct target as the east coast with life-threatening storm surge. >> todd: doug luzader live from south carolina where it is starting to rain. >> good morning. it is starting to rain pretty hard and we have seen this intensify through the course of the morning. we spoke about a half an hour ago and the rain was just starting to sprinkle a little

bit, may be harder than that. you see fans going across as the storm zeros in on the south carolina coast. we watch this track move north. initially it looked like ian may hit in georgia but now we are talking south carolina and north where i am in charleston. the wind is one thing. there was talk about a trop tropical's and now it is looking like a category 1 hurricane. but the biggest concern is the water. this is called the low country here, this part of south carolina. 4-7-foot title search goes awfully far inland. this is an area that floods high tide sometime. that is really a concern that they may have significant flooding even if they are not dealing with the kind of winds that say florida as ian moved across there. antidote of glee, i can tell you the paper showed a picture of a

line of cars not to get out of the area, but to get in a parking garage, just to give might get them above street level to deal with the flooding they expect to hear. again, things are beginning to intensify. there are a lot of folks decided to whether this thing out and most people trying to weather out the storm. the governor of south carolina is a warning of what he calls human error. that is their biggest concern right now that people might do stupid things. but a lot of people are battening down the hatches to weather the storm out as trump gets closer and closer to the shoreline here, todd and carley. >> todd: doug luzader, adam with the fox news, what is the latest on the track? >> good morning there, the track just a little bit to the north. that just means more time out on the atlantic ocean. ultimately, we will have spent a day over open water after exiting florida which allows

strengthening of 85 miles an hour to the north/northeast 85 miles an hour to savannah and the beachwear hurricane warning in place but everything wrapping around in the red tropicals because of the winds and particularly the rains, heavy winds on shore. we have seen the wind gust of 25 to 35 miles an hour over a day now in circulation of the system and pushes ocean water up along the south east coast and pushes it and pushes it for over 24 hours. that means water is already piled up along this area. these wins will only intensify as the system gets closer to 60 miles an hour. that is when you see the storm surge is piling up along the coastline because the ocean water has been forced there for so long that ultimately, you end up seeing some pretty significant storm surges. 4-7 feet would do a ton of damage but this is a wide area and even 5 feet does a lot of damage from portions of

northeastern florida all the way up into the carolinas. there will be flitting with the system as the main concern. not just coastal flooding but also rain. you can pay attention the time-stamp to give you an idea when we move on shore. think around lunchtime which will be high tide. it brings that moisture on shore and drops a ton of rain. we saw a whole lot of rain 20-3s across florida. more rain is on the way. everything in the orange colors probably 5-6 inches of rain and some of these isolated areas will be closer to 10 inches of rain. a foot of rain, just a ton of moisture falling here. so we think about the flooding and likely actually if i take you into the week, likely running up into the mountains typically the case with this rough terrain. obviously something we will pay close attention to, back to you. >> todd: all right, adam, ten

people confirmed dead and expected to rise across the state. with speed to fort myers is still underwater this hour. >> america woke up this morning to images like naples, cape coral submerged under water. >> i would say the most significant damage we saw was fort myers beach. more than 700 confirmed rescues and likely more anymore than that that will be confirmed as more data comes in. >> carley: lori joins us from florida, her house through hurricane charley, irma, ian and lori, we see you don't have power. how are you holding up this morning? >> i'm doing a lot better than others. >> todd: carley s the important question, how is your house holding up? >> my house is doing well. i did do the packing of windows

and the roof within the last couple of years. the house did really well. i was really concerned about the water coming in because i live on a canal in cape coral. speak to you are about 15 minutes away from fort myers. cape coral obviously on the water as well. described the damage to your area. >> we have some power lines down and lots of debris, trees down everywhere. [lost audio] i spent the day yesterday trimming trees and picking up everyone's shingles from their roots. so, a little bit of everything, but we are without electric and without water. it could be a couple of weeks or even longer from what they are saying from all the damage. >> todd: that is what they told you about when your power could be restored, couple of

weeks or longer? >> it could be. i'm guessing it's going to be that long because this is a lot worse than charlie and irma and both of those storms i went seven days without power, but we did have water. not having water is a difficult thing. >> carley: do you have enough supplies to get through it and you have a 90-year-old neighbor. how is she doing? >> she is doing well. she has been a great trooper. i stay in touch with her and she is receiving phone calls from all of her family in new york, trying to stay calm because they are not near her. i have been trying to stay in contact with them, you know, keep them relaxing. but she is doing well. >> todd: that has to be a helpless feeling all the way up here and worried about your relatives down there. have you been able to make contact with your friends in hard-hit areas of florida? and if so, what are they telling

you question what >> we have been text messaging with some of my coworkers and some of that. i know someone that works in my building. it sounds like she lost her h home. there is most everybody that i have been in contact with are doing okay. some have water in their houses, but so far, everybody has defied this. i have heard that sanibel, they are not really in that good of a place right now. speed to the of sanibel said the island is completely unlivable. the images are so scary, the causeway portion is wiped away. governor disanto said there were some people who live in tampa and traveled down to fort myers because everybody thought the storm was going to hit tampa and they thought theyg but didn't realize they were actually traveling into what would be the heart of the storm.

were you or your neighbor surprised how hard-hit the area was? >> yeah, we thought we were okay because it was going to tampa. we did always make the comment the storm could do another charlie and make a right turn and head into us. that is pretty much what it did. and it went over cape coral. i think where i'm positioned at, you know, the radar that i was looking at, we were is always on the outside of the wall. so our winds got pretty strong. whenever it shifted, 's started coming out of the west and we started to see a lot more damage happening. >> todd: lorrie whited, we appreciate you. we know it is not easy not having power water. we appreciate you waking up and giving us your story down there. >> thank you. >> todd: a hurricane continues but we are talking to the salvation army to coordinate to

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ballistic missiles. vice president harris raised eyebrows with this comment while visiting the demilitarized zone. >> vice president harris: so the united states shares a very important relationship, which is an alliance with the republic of north korea, an alliance that is strong and enduring. >> ashley: harris mistakenly touting alliance with the republic of north korea, which the u.s. is technically still at war with. heroes out of devastation of hurricane ian, group of good samaritans rescue an elderly man trapped in a car in bo nitta springs, florida. they were able to pry the door open and carry the man to shore, away from the dangerous flood waters. awesome story, guys, back to you. >> todd: agreed, florida

recovery efforts ongoing after hurricane ian plowed through the sunshine state. salvation army providing meals to victims and preparing for the storm to cut through the carolinas and georgia. emergency management -- from the salvation army joining me now. >> we are treating this as major disaster event, we are committed to the relief operation in florida or on standby in georgia and north carolina and south carolina waiting to see what ian does next. >> todd: this is not like a fire or a county that had a tornado, this is multiple states, multiple large states. of all efforts in the past, where does this one rank in terms of size of it? >> this is my top 10, i've been in emergency management for 20

years, this is my largest response since hurricane michael. this affects not just one state, multiple ones, over a long period of time, we are worried about the amount of rain ian will bring to the carolinas and could see flooding inland from the coast. >> todd: how quickly can the salvation army mobilize to a disaster like this when they find out hurricane ian is on the way? >> great part is we're already there, salvation army is placed in local communitiess like naples, fort myers, part port charlotte. yesterday we were fortunate, our first full day of feeding post-landfall in south florida and came across pretty desperate scenes. we made a wrong turn down a street and came into a neighborhood completely flooded and had a line all day long of

people looking for food. >> todd: if somebody needs food and are watching via battery, how do they reach out for help? >> there is a couple different ways, be in contact with your local salvation army corps, we have facilities in the impacted communities and as we continue to augment operations, we are mobile, we will go into neighborhoods and come to survivors, this is a ramp-up process, but we're ready to go and check out disaster.salvationarmy.us.org, information is posted there. >> todd: for people who want to help those affected, how do they do so? >> make a financial contribution is the best way, it is easy, go to helpsalveation.org, that will allow us to buy food, medicine,

infant supplies, cleaning products that is helpsalveationarmy.org. >> todd: make sure if you are being generous, do so through an organization that is reputable like the salvation army. jeff jellets, thank you. next hour of "fox and friends first" begins now. >> todd: ian strengthening to category one hurricane as if prepares to make landfall for a third time. south carolina is the direct target as east coast braces for life-threatening storm surge, heavy rain and 85 mile per hour winds. you are watching "fox and friends first," i'm todd piro. >> carley: and i'm carley shimkus, we are seeing devastation in florida with parts of the state completely saturated. over two million people remain