♪ ♪ >> pete: fox weather is tracking ian as the storm restrengthens to a category 1 hurricane churning off the georgia and carolina's coast. this is a live look at -- i hope i'm pronouncing it right rodanthe, north carolina north of where ian is expected to make third and final landfall in just hours. >> everyone in ian's path the danger is real to state the audience. please obey all warnings. >> ainsley: well, in florida desperate search and rescue efforts are underway this morning.

we know that at least 10 have been confirmed dead. officials are warning us that that number will likely be higher. >> significant damage i saw was on fort myers beach there have been more than 700 confirmed rescues and likely many more than that. >> ainsley: florida's governor ron desantis there. he is going to have a press conference today at 8:45 a.m. with an update on ian and we will bring you that live. these before and after photos are showing the extent of the damage down in fort myers. a crew is being enforced -- is being enforced there to prevent all of the looting. >> brian: that's sad to think people would be thinking about florida. 2 million people still have no power. team coverage this morning trying to cover it all. it's not easy. meteorologist adam klotz is standing by with ian's latest track. robert ray is live in fort myers with a look at the damage. robert? >> good morning. as we are starting to see the

beginnings of sunlight on this friday, which normally would be paradise down here in southwest, florida. but, indeed, is a nightmare. look at this disaster here. the boats, the vessels, yachts brought up by the surge here this morning. a business, a tiki restaurant bar and the top of it just destroyed. as you can sees a search and rescue continues here this morning. and people will wake up to the disaster that is ensuing across this part of florida and many parts of the peninsula of florida, unfortunately. as you stated, there are 10 confirmed dead. there are hundreds of individuals who have been rescued from the barrier islands down on the gulf of mexico and those rescues and that search is going on 24/7 and will continue around the clock over the weekend. look at this, guys, too, if you can up at this building. this is the tallest structure in fort myers.

there's no power. there is one tiny light on in one of those apartments or condos. clearly they have some sort of flashlight or generator, a power up there this is it. people are in the dark with no water here this morning. no electricity. and up and down the roads that lead to the coast. all you see is destruction on each sides of the roads. there is still standing water in some areas. the barrier islands, like fort myers beach. is disseminated. absolutely wiped away. businesses. livelihoods, homes. hotels. pine island not far from here there are people that are trapped there. they have no way in and out of that particular island. if we look at the before and after of the causeway, sanibel island. you look at this image, and you see what the surge did as it came in off the gulf of mexico,

ripped open the road in there, torrent. there is no pathway now. the only way to get there is from air or water from the gulf. the sounds of chainsaw also begin here this morning as there is a curfew in place by officials because, unfortunately, natural disasters bring out the best and the worst in humanity as looting has been happening. let's listen to one official from lee county as he describes some of what is going on. >> yesterday, when law enforcement was unable to respond because of the weather condition it was unsafe, there was a break-in on cleveland avenue. there was looting. and there was a group of people, don't know a lot about it yet. who just had their way. >> meanwhile, there is no fuel. no gasoline because there's no power. so people who have not lost

their vehicles are trying to traverse and get around. likely will be unable to as that source that runs our vehicles is diminishing because of the lack of electricity. there are power crews working, thousands of them working very hard to try and restore but it takes time when you see this kind of devastation behind me. all of this. god only knows how long it's going to take to remove vessels like this that are strewn all over here this part of the gulf coast. meanwhile, over 2 million people out of power in the state of florida and ian is still, still tracking up to the north south carolina. amazing energy. i will say this storm came in two days ago at this point about 20 miles to the north northwest where i'm standing here in fort myers and just three or four blocks away that's where the surge came in and flooded

downtown fort myers, ruining businesses that water has receded. but there are people that are trying to assess what is happening, communications is really bad, cell phone service right now. sometimes you can't even get a call out. get a text. so people can't ahold of loved ones. they can't get ahold of insurance. the amount of things that are piling up and the challenges right now in this part of florida is tremendous as the awakening is about to occur. and what i mean by that is after the storm, after the winds there is an adrenaline rush, and then there is the down time with humanity. and you come and realize what just occurred. especially if you have lost property. if you have lost vehicles. if you are injured. and hopefully people have not lost their lives or know anyone that's lost their lives. search and rescue very active right now. brian robert. real quick, would he know about the problem floridians have with

alligators. the streets are flooded. is that a danger that people talk about that should be aware of that you are walking through a street that's flooded and there might be an alligator there? >> it's a possibility, certainly, brian. and as the waters recede, i hope that that risk will go away. but there are some roads that go down to the coast line that still have standing water. certainly as we know, there are millions of alligators in this part of the state. certainly and not only that there are also fire ants, that's another thing that lay on top of this water that will bite you and cause a really incredible damage to you. so you have to be careful of all those elements as well. and also this debris. it's everywhere. >> pete: robert, real quick, we look at these images, the search and rescue are they going house to house and marking them as they clear them? what does that look like? >> well, so, we tried to get on

fort myers beach yesterday but officials would not allow us on. but, from my experience, i can tell you this, indeed. search and rescue teams that's exactly what they will do. they will go house to house. they will mark an x perhaps write something that they have been in there. and that is the case on these barrier islands, no doubt as the sun comes up here, what we are going to start to hear is a flurry of helicopters after well that will be monitoring these barrier islands and taking a look at assessing and having the communications down to the ground for those that are walking with cadaver dogs and moving through these areas and we just hope that there is not a lot more people that they need to pull out because, as time goes by, we know how that goes. it's just not going to end well. >> ainsley: all right, robert, thank you so much. i remember when hurricane hugo went through south carolina. houses destroyed they started to build the houses along the beach and rebuild them up high on

stilts. so you drive in the garages on the base on the bottom floor and the kitchen and the den and a few bedrooms might be on that main floor and then there was another, you know, usually another floor up top. some people kitchen up there so they can see the ocean, they rearranged how the houses look. now if you drive down every house is up. even the air conditioning unions are up. >> same here in new jersey after sandy. >> tax incentives and money grants if you would jack up your house. it would eventually save money. meteorologist adam klotz is being drag the storm. adam, this is a hurricane again? >> yeah, it is a hurricane again. this system is not over. it was the tropical storm as it exited florida. got back out over the atlantic restrengthened, we ground itself and yes winds at 85 miles per hour. moving to the north northeast at 9 miles per hour. our forecast track does take this right up to the south carolina coast early this afternoon. maybe at lunchtime, somewhere between charleston and running up towards myrtle beach. a system like this. the winds are going to be

strongest on the northeastern side, so wherever that landfall is, it's the northeast where the winds will be strongest. currently those winds are right around 30 mile-per-hour gusts they have been that way for 24 hours. 24 hours of window pushes a lot of sea water up along the coastal areas that could eventually become storm surge and those winds are only going to intensify 50 to 60 miles as the system eventually approaches and then makes landfall. that could be 4 to 7 feet of storm surge at its peak an absolute wall of water. happening at the same time as high tide. high tide will be at noon. expecting landfall to be right in that area. our fox model does show when this will be approaching. the center of circulation toward the bottom here. outer band of rain working their way across south carolina and north carolina. here we are right at 1:00 p.m. and it looks as though landfall is eminent on our fox model. that's a good idea of when you could see a landfall. moisture and all of that rain,

battering all through the entire day on friday. ultimately running into saturday also. so it's not just the storm surge. it is going to be rainfall totals getting up to six inches of rain widespread likely along the coastal areas, spots getting up to 8 inches, maybe a foot of rain. there is going to be water everywhere and flooding, i do think, is the major concern as we start to target the carolinas today and then running into early saturday. >> brian: thanks much, adam. comprehensive look at what is going on 11 minutes after the hour. zero in on where it's headed. >> ainsley: carolina is dealing with aftermath. south carolina and georgia. >> pete: expected to make landfall in south carolina later today. >> brian: doug luzader in charleston what does it feel like. >> we are starting to see some sunlight around here now. although diminished of because

of the storm. feel like you got a target on your back too in charleston. this is the area hit pretty hard we think by these hurricane force winds. all of south carolina is now under a hurricane warning. you know, you don't feel a sense of dread in the atmosphere around here. a lot of folks are going to weather this storm out. people have left their boats here in the docks behind us here in charleston. you know, the concern is the combination of high tide along with a storm surge. and that could cause some significant flooding under the best of circumstances. charleston can have some flooding just from a high tide. you add that 4 to 7-foot storm surge and we could see some significant flooding. now, one of the things or among the things that charleston, the city of charleston did to prepare this open up all the parking garages. get your cars above sea level. there was a line apparently to get some cars into some of these parking garages. but, people want to at least

make sure that they have cars left to drive once this thing passes through. beyond that again, it looks like people are saying -- we went to a walmart last night just to stock up on goods and there was no sense of panic. the store did close early because of the looming storm it there wasn't a run on water or anything of that nature. people seem to be taking this in stride. we will see how it goes throughout the course of the day though once this thing really arrives in earnest. again, it's not the window. it's the water that they are really concerned about. brian all right, doug, thanks so much. after we saw florida i can't imagine people taking precautions, if i had a boat it's on a trailer and out unless i want to get rid of the boat. pull it out of the water. why are we seeing so many boats in the water? >> ainsley: not me. >> pete: not that easy. >> ainsley: goal is to save enough money to maybe buy a house get a mortgage on the house. if you have extra money you might want to buy a boat.

you would think they would pull those out of the water. >> brian: unless you want can't afford it and cut a loose and say the storm took it. fox corporation by the way has donated $1 million to the american red cross for the hurricane ian relief efforts to provide aid and resources like shelter meals, medical supplies and more to those impacted. >> pete: fox is double matching hurricane relief efforts including ian and fiona. >> ainsley: thoughts with everybody affected by this storm including our own teams in tampa and orlando. thank our fox weather individuals. fox news channels, the fox tv stations all across the country who are actually covering this disaster. if you would like to join in fox's efforts, please visit red cross.org forward slash fox forward. you can see it right there at the bottom of your screen. >> brian: got the little qr coe to if you want to walk up and

touch it. a formal ceremony for justice ketketanji brown jackson. constitutional oath in private invite only ceremony filed by the judicial oath in the courtroom. president biden and vice president harris are planning to attend. house oversight committee member jim jordan is sounding the alarm on the fbi claiming the bureau is purposefully purging conservative employees. >> some of those whistleblowers have had their security clearance revoked, which is always the first step in terminating someone at the fbi. this is frightening stuff. >> the bureau pushed back on the allegations saying, quote: the fbi does not target or take adverse reaction against employees for exercising their first amendment rights or for their political views to allege otherwise is false and misleading. and listen to this. wild animals roaming neighborhoods.

several flamingos hunkering down inside a public bathroom at botanical garden in st. petersburg. after much speculation this viral video of a shark swimming through a flooded backyard in fort myers actually turns out to be real. the property developer who took the clip saw the shark flopping around. officials report seeing a 9-foot alligator swimming in the floodwaters as well. incredible what a storm can do. that's not the most aspect. >> brian: sharks and alligators together like you need on top of all of this. >> in your front yard. apparently you are seeing them more visibly now and they are coming out, they are trying to get to dry land as well. >> pete: all the water rises empties out not to mention the sewage another aspect feel facing just swirling some different ways. >> 60 minutes after the hour. our coverage of hurricane ian

georgia governor brian kemp is next plus south carolina senator tim scott. florida's first lady casey desantis samaritan's purse president franklin graham and beth anthony frankel will all join us live. ♪

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>> brian: after devastating parts of florida landfall category 1 today georgia and the carolinas. >> georgia's governor brian kemp joins us now. good morning to you governor. >> good morning. >> ainsley: folks watching waking up in georgia. what's your message to them

girls are doing to keep the folks in florida literally been devastated by the storm and experiencing tragic loss of life have them in your thoughts and prayers. ours message here has been to overprepare and hope this storm under delivers unlike it did in florida. and that's what we are seeing, continued to move east the last two days son and we have dodged a real bullet here. we are going to continue to monitor some flight flooding that we have got less than a thousand power outages also just be prepared in case something turns or something happens. >> when will you know if you are out of the would see. what have your experts told you? >> we feel really good right now. obviously this storm has been one to track. this afternoon we will know for sure. but i talked to director stalins this morning briefing on everything. i have asked them to start making plans for resources south

carolina or to help help the folks in florida that's what it looks like right now. we are not going to make that wall until we are positive on that. i'm going to the state operations center as soon as i finish we want to be helpful to our neighbors if we can. continue to take care of our own. mid afternoon. forgive my ignorance about the georgia. low lying areas susceptible. georgia you are most concerned about governor. of the same. the storm was a lot closer to the coast down on the lower end of the southeastern corner corner brunswick georgia. we did see a little minimum flooding there but nothing like we were preparing for two days ago or even yesterday. and the further the storms moved up the coast is pushing out to

sea, which is why it gained hurricane strength again. but it's also going to have landfall going into south carolina. we feel some of our low lying areas up towards savanna and that area. we are obviously 24/7 monitoring and we will continue to communicate to our folks on what we are seeing and we are ready to respond. we have teams ramped up and ready to go and they have been that way for well over 24 hours now. >> do you have i know we were talking about national guard being sent from other states. samaritans purse. going to interview franklin graham coming up. what is your state doing to help with the disaster relief and the folks down in fort myers? >> well, our p priority certaint knowing where this storm was going 48 and 24 hours ago was being ready to respond to things in georgia. we have seen some issues here. thankfully the window gusts are not near as bad as what we

thought they might be. but we really weren't sure about that until this morning. we will watch it through the day. we are preparing to move to help our neighbors we will do that somebody's it is safe for us to do so. >> governor, on a much, much lighter note. a lot of people thought the methods and braves fighting for three game championship in atlanta was going to be canceled or augmented. the weather men now say just play the game, right? going to play three state games, the world will be watching. >> yeah, looks like a great weekend here especially up in atlanta. so, hey, go braves, two in a row world series champs. >> the problem is we think go mets so, there is a little bit of a problem there. governor. we can work that out hopefully on monday? >> ainsley: who is the we? there are other people on this couch. >> pete: i'm with the governor. >> ainsley: i'm with you governor, too. >> the braves are america's team. just remember that. >> brian: they did have a great year and honored at the white house kind of.

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>> pete: successfully recovering 43 at this hotel overrun by hurricane ian. today flights are set to resume in and out of the city and several amusement parks will reopen in phases. multi media journalist brady campbell on the ground in orlando with a life look at the aftermath. brandy? >> good morning, pete. unfortunately this is the scene that many people here in orlando are still waking up to like this residential area where i'm told

some people still cannot access their home by a neighbor actually walking past this morning. we found this to be the scenario in many areas across orlando and kissimmee. rivers, streams, ponds, they were very vulnerable to flooding. on the other hand, people were impacted just yesterday. 73 people were rescued by the national guard. according to the local sources. meanwhile, we were with the kissimmee fire department as over 100 people were rescued by air boat is it attractions people to orlando starting to come back. disney world announcing that they are opening today in phases. universal studios we have some video from their grounds as well. they plan to reopen in phases today. it's only going to be for their hotel guests. and also, the orlando airport. a means for people to even get here to enjoy those attractions. they also announced they're

coming back today as well. starting at 12:00. but also asking guests not to alive until 10:00 a.m. to make sure they are properly ready to welcome everyone back. and while businesses are reopening the fun is also coming back in the tampa area. the tampa bay buccaneers says they are returning home and ready to play their game on sunday. so that's good news for football lovers. their quarterback tom brady announcing his donation to those who can't return home and that's going to be the florida disaster fund. so, ian has moved off the coast of florida, things are starting to come back. businesses reopening. and hopefully more water is starting to degree creed like we are seeing behind us now after hurricane ian is over here in this area of florida. back to you, pete. >> pete: brandy campbell stark images swans where people were hopefully people can get back to their homes and assess. brandy, thank you so much. hurricane ian devastated

southwest florida. the naples firehouse, you saw these images was left submerged in floodwaters. but, after 24 hours of working together, they were able to get the water out of the station and now they are back to fighting fires and assisting with water rescues. joining us now are two members of that naples fire rescue tear ren nehemiah and chief pete -- thank you for being here. start with you did this ever happen to you or sneak up. >> we are low lying area. team plus one. our bays are a little bit lower just for the ability to get in and out quickly. they are flood-proved. and built to be flood and drain floodwaters came up so quickly we couldn't get our vehicles out of the station on time.

shelter in place. we are still here in the station. so everyone is safe. we will lose so terron, those vehicles are now operable and out assisting in the community. >> that's correct. >> except the one we lost is up in the shop. >> pete: considering that level of water, to only lose one, and when you say chief, it happened so quick. paint that picture for me. because, i have never been in a situation where waters rise so quickly hey the option of even driving them out is not there. >> so we had a considerable amount of water on the streets, which is somewhat normal for our afternoon storms, but we knew we were going to get a lot of rain. and with the surge coming in so quickly, we were out responding and rescuing people when the floods started of to come up within 45 minutes to an hour. they were at our -- at the bait we just couldn't -- as the bay

goes down, it dips into the road, we tried to get them out but they just submerged we had to pull back in the bay and hope for the best. >> pete: talk to us about the ongoing rescue efforts. how is it going? how are people in the naples area? >> it's going. we have had multiple rescues this morning early, early in the morning. we had a structure fire. guys had been out all night working. our crews are extremely tired. they actually just got back some of them are still on scene it's an ongoing effort it's nonstop. >> chief, last question, your men have families, men and women have families there as well. so the double duty of, you know, caring for their family and the community. >> yes, sir. what we find with most of our personnel is i should say all of our personnel is they -- just dedicated to serving our community. so they made sure their families are safe at home and in a nice place for now. but, when they get here.

they are dedicated to the doing whatever they need to do to serve this community and step up to any challenge that is we are faced with. so, we are still -- morale is still high and still responding and continue to search. serve. >> pete: we appreciate you and i know everyone in the naples does. i know there are folks coming in and out on efforts and i'm sure you will be out as well. we will be praying for you thank you. >> thank you. >> pete: you got it. more than 2 million floridians speak of that without power after hurricane ian. duke energy is on the way with thousands of personnel that are prepared to respond. when officials say -- when will officials say the lights will come back on? we will find that out. florida's first lady casey desantis joins us live with her efforts to help ian's victims

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>> brian: this morning more than 2 million floridians are without power after hurricane ian slammed the state and as the storm tracks towards the carolinas, all eyes are there. we not forgot about florida. thousands of personnel ready to help respond across the southeast. the company has already restored power to more than 450,000 sunshine state. have in store for us. duke energy. florida in florida melissa first off. 450,000 got their power back. how did you do it what is going to be the greatest challenge as you look to stand up tampa and the orlando areas? >> good morning. i think really our ability to restore so quickly has a lot to do with planning. and being able to go into this quickly damage assessment and at the same time, begin

restoration. so we have made great progress and believe very strongly that we will be able to execute the restoration process over the next few days and get our residents back to living their what they are seeing, what are they saying polls are down? power stations are blown up? what are they coming back and saying their greatest challenges are? >> poles down, wire down. primarily also because of window and rain, interference from trees. flooding has been a challenge in some of our areas as well. special in the central part of the state. it's been a combination of factors and the results of the storm that they have seen in various areas. >> so in terms of where duke is in charge, how many customers do you have, how many are out? >> so in the state of florida,

we serve 35 counties, about 2 million customers right now we have about 457,000 customers without service that we believe we will make great progress today and over the next few days. >> brian: wow, just seeing some of this area and i'm wondering, being that cell phone towers are also down in almost every case, usually a customer calls up and says, hey, i don't have any power, when are you coming? do you just assume every neighborhood is without power? how are you doing this? >> we have a combination of technologies that allow us to see when a customer is technology here in the place where i'm located distribution control center and it tells us what main lines are off so it's a combination of that technology plus just the human eye getting out there during damage

assessment what's out where you need tree crews before you bring in line crews. to replace poles and to put up wires. that's why the damage assessment process is so critically important. >> just real quick. sometimes it's dangerous to put the power back on a house because it's so damaged. how do you assess sometimes when you flip a switch to a house that could have all types of electrical problems? >> sure so we are responsible for of course our facilities if we -- when we go out there see that a customer has damage to their side of the meter, we will say, then we work with that customer to ensure that they have an electrician and oftentimes we cannot restore power, especially in flooded areas until an inspecting authority tells us that it is safe. >> brian: 450,000 is awesome. see if we can go over a million

today. thank you. >> thank you. >> brian: carley shimkus. thank you. >> carley: former dallas cowboys tight end escabar has died after reported rock climbing accident in southern california. the bodies of escobar and second person were discovered by firefighters in san bernardino national forest. he would forever be in their hearts. he worked as a firefighter after leaving the nfl. he was just 31 years old and leaves behind a why the and two young children. six g.o.p. led states sue the biden administration over the president's student loan handout. the white house plan would cancel up to $10,000 in debt for those who make less than $125,000 a year. the congressional budget office estimates the cost at about $400 billion. and mortgage rates are rising for the sixth consecutive week. the average rate for mortgage climbing to 6.7%, rates are at

their highest level in more than 15 years and more than double one year ago. federal reserve interest rate hikes. the "wall street journal" reporting home prices are still rising. on year year over year basis decline month over month. those are your headlines, brian. >> brian: all right. we will see how that goes. thousands of face the wrath of hurricane ian. samaritan's purse is here to help. franklin graham joins us live with how can you join their mission. ♪ ♪

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shore window that pushes water from the atlantic ocean up along the coast. can you start to see a storm surge on top of that stronger winds are yet to many do. this is the window field from the storm as it lifts itself from the coast. bring powerful winds and all that water that's lingering there and suddenly turn into storm surge at its peak 7 feet of storm surge. this is very low country across portions of south carolina. but storm surge will be seen as far as northeastern florida wrapping up around into the carolinas. areas will see a couple of feet from this system. this is our fox model forecast. give you detailed idea where the storm. time stamp in the top left-hand corner. by the time you get to lunchtime outer bands of heavy rain have moved on shore the center of circulation is approaching there. that's when the storm surge will be at the worst. obviously a lot of rain moving on shore with this system also. it's going to be a little bit of a 1-2 punch. you have goft the storm surge, and we have very heavy rain. there is going to be a lot of

water that we have to figure out where to-what to do with it and it's going to take a while to drain. ainsley, back to you. >> ainsley: absolutely. thanks so much, adam. ian's destruction has left thousands of floridians just struggling today. samaritan's purse is here to help. the christian relief organization has already deployed teams down to elder flow. ready to help clean out the flooded homes. tut down trees and do a lot more. samaritan's purse president and billy graham franklin graham joins us now. good morning to you. >> good morning, thank you, ainsley. >> ainsley: you are welcome. thanks for coming on and thank you all for what y'all do. i was on your website and i saw a video. already loading up 18 wheelers. taking supplies down there. how can we help and exactly what are y'all doing? >> well two locations ainsley. these are -- this area was really hit hard. it's the hardest hit area of florida. this is going to take a long time. we have got two disaster relief units on site. we will have probably next week

somewhere about a thousand volunteers working in communities, cutting trees. helping to clean up homes. mud out homes. it's just going to take a lot of strong backs and some strong arms. and we just so grateful for these men and women who come from all over the united states, volunteer and we are going to be down there, ainsley, probably for -- i mean, it's going to be months. not something you just come in for a week and fix it. it's going to take a long time. we need to pray for the governor. he is working 24/7. we certainly need to pray for people that have been hurt and lost lives. their people the list is long but the first responders have been up now for several days. thee need to get rest. this is going to be a long haul, ainsley. we are grateful for the volunteers and first responders that are there to help. >> ainsley: yes, sir. what exactly, you are seeing these pictures of the 18 wheelers. what's inside? it's tools. it's got pumps lights,

chainsaws, rakes, shovels, everything you need to help clean out a home or to put tarps on roofs or reroof a house. and then what we do is provide the tools and then the volunteers come down and we give them management and go out into a incident economy. we will do a survey. find out the homes that need help. get permission to come on the property. get a work order from the homeowner and then we will put together a team of volunteers that home to work management. and so it's a great really organized. it's done well. just takes time. so, if somebody needs help, they can call samaritans purse. go to the website. if you do want to volunteer and we will have a number there locally that they can call if they need help and we will come to help. >> ainsley: yes, sir. where do you need the most help? i know you are putting tarps on the roofs and mucking out these homes. drywall. do you need people contractors more than anything.

people deliver supplies greatest? >> we need the volunteers and go to samaritans purse.org and find where they can volunteer and how to sign up and so that's what it is. volunteers. these are people not paid. just come down and they give their time. these would be church groups that come from all over the united states. just fill up a van with guys from sunday school class and they will come and show up. and not just guys but women as well. so we need people chainsaw know how to use a hammer who not afraid to get up on a roof and put a tarp on a roof. so it's a lot of folks. ainsley, it is just takes everybody, but it takes time. and i stress time. i don't want people to get impatient if we are not there tomorrow. right now we can't even get into some of these areas because the roads are blocked. powers lines are down. it's going to take maybe three or four days before we can get

into these communities to assess some of the damages. that's the way it is. we have to work with the local law enforcement. we have to work with fema make sure to get in safely for a community. >> ainsley: lovely way for god's children not affected to go in and help those that were. thank you so much for your organization and all you do for the lord and for your country. >> thank you, ainsley. god bless you. >> ainsley: god bless you. go samaritan's purse got organ to learn how you can get involved. can you also right there on the main page, can you donate money if you aren't able to go down there to help. stick around, florida ption first lady casey desantis joins us live how she is helping those impacted in her state coming up next. ♪ ♪ as someone living with type 2 diabetes, i want to keep it real and talk about some risks. with type 2 diabetes you have up to 4 times greater risk of stroke, heart attack, or death.

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>> fox weather is tracking ian as the storm re-strengthens to a category one hurricane, off the georgia and carolina coast. this is a live look at rodin's north carolina, north of where ian is expected to make it third and final landfall just hours. georgia's governor, brian kemp, joined us earlier. >> our message here has been to over prepare and hope this storm under deliveries. we are going to continue to monitor some light floodin