florida who joined the governor at 9:00 a.m. with an incredible briefing with lots of information. we carried it live here and we'll continue to update you throughout the day on all of our fox news platforms. >> they've rescued 700 so far. the effort continues. we'll say a prayer today and into the weekend for the folks in florida. >> dana: "the faulkner focus" is up next. here she is. >> harris: fox weather alert we're getting an idea how deadly hurricane ian was in florida. updates on that and at least one county a current hospital having to evacuate, a couple of them in lee county as utilities are failing for freshwater. at this hour south carolina will see ian next. it is back to hurricane status after weakening a bit moving north and east from coast to coast across the florida peninsula and now regaining

strength and swirling off the northern california coast. a second landfall expected hours from now in south carolina. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." the after math of the storm, destruction, loss of life. i always caution everybody when we give out numbers they do fluctuate. right now it is believed 21 people have died from this and we have been told to expect that number to fluctuate again. so we'll report the news as we get it. this side-by-side comparison shows fort myers, people describe it with one word and you hear it over and over and over, gone. boats and cars in piles. homes and businesses shredded. florida governor ron desantis calling the magnitude of the assault biblical, historic. the governor with an update a short time ago. >> there is life rescue making

sure people are okay, following up on any type of calls. there has been really a great effort. the power is a big issue. there are 1.9 million people customers without power. the other issue is lee county, they have asked support from is they had a water main break for their county water utility. that means that the county does not have water at this point. >> harris: team fox has the very latest. we're on the ground tracking hurricane ian as it makes its way to georgia and the carolinas. we have begin in fort myers beach with phil keating. it's been quite a morning. >> yeah, one full of destruction and devastation and lives changed forever. this is a boulevard, half of which is blocked by three boats this size. these are 50-ton boats. this is captain tony's deep sea

fishing charter boat. the two behind it are house boats. airbnb boats. they washed onshore. the storm surge was so high they lifted up, became untied from the pilings and ended up right here in the street and on the shoulder. this was the marina office and that's a total disaster now, a total loss. next door was a restaurant that had been here for a number of years. it still has a roof but that's just about it. three people have been sleeping there overnight. at least they could get a little protection from the rain and sun. i tell you what, not only did boats surge into the streets, the storm surge 12 to 15 feet here also swept away houses. take a look at this dramatic, dramatic hurricane ian video. a house swept away from the storm surge.

just amazing pictures. up the bridge from us is fort myers beach. according to the governor who flew over all the barrier islands he described fort meyers beach the worst of them all. a total disaster. one person said it's wiped off the map. a lovely place. honeymooners, vacationers, white sandy beaches, condo towers decimated by the storm surge and the sand pushed up across a low-level island. now next door to us is captain mike, he is a boat captain, the guy that owns the two big airbnb boats. doing it his whole life. he rode out the storm on the boat and was in the water and now ended up in the boulevard. he said the storm surge is something to be reckoned with. take a listen.

>> when the second wave came in all hell broke loose. next thing you know you're on the road cruising across the parking lot fast. >> you were scared? >> no, not really. this boat is solid steel. we weren't really thinking there was any risk there. >> at least he had the confidence. his wife, by the way, did not stay with him on the boat. she stayed further inland in a little more safety. but he said he has been in three hurricanes. that was the worst. 700 people rescued, 3,000 contacted but most of them according to the governor and emergency operations director said we're fine, we'll just stay. harris. >> harris: many of thieves people are leaning on services provided now by first responders who they don't have a resources they need. i'm so thankful they are okay. clean water is a problem and they need a lot of it right now. good to see you, phil.

great reporting. thank you as always. >> i stayed as long as i could. i went to a brick home, the three little pigs built them out of block and stayed. mine is built out of sticks. my didn't last too long when the big bad woefrl. my house disappeared. he watch things starting to fly. part of the roof went off and the rest of the roof went off and the walls caved in and this is what i have left. >> harris: god bless you. thousands of floridians with stories like that. some of them left, some are returning today to find the things that they had are destroyed. stunning video captured by storm chaser max olson. we're sharing this on "the faulkner focus." it shows fort myers as the water

rose to unfathomable record of more than seven feet shattering the previous record of nearly four feet. people are telling me recovery from this epic disaster will take them years. many are saying, however, they will not rebuild and plan to move away. storm chaser aaron rigsby measured the surge. they are standing on a vehicle. you know how high they are there above the stop sign. those probes were underwater a short time later. waves crashing over them by more than a foot. let's get the story now from aaron rigsby himself. that the good lord you're okay. you at one point had to make a run for it and get out of the way. tell us about it, aaron. >> we did. we were positioned west of where the eye came on shore.

we had to reposition further to the east. interesting thing about this was that a lot of times when we got back east we were closer to the back end of the eyewall. a lot of times when the hurricanes come onshore they are a little weaker on the back side. we saw some of the highest winds throughout the entire hurricane on the back side of that as we sheltered at a hotel in port charlotte. they were sustained winds of 120 to 130 miles an hour and tore pieces of the roof in the place we took shelter in and water pouring into the second and third floors of that hotel. >> harris: you are talking to people and have your story about being there. you are a storm chaser. other people have seen this before and didn't leave. talk to me about what people say in the after math of this storm, one that is considered the fifth motion powerful to ever hit the united states. >> that's the unfortunate thing

about documenting so many hurricanes. you hear time and time again it is too little to late. you talk to so many people and they wish they would have evacuated or so many stories of people that fortunately got out at the last second and able to get further inland but their home was swept away from the foundation. the thing -- it's part of the reason why we deploy these surge probes. they can bring awareness to people and hopefully help with that warning process and get more people to evacuate. we were noting this the entire time throughout the hurricane. we couldn't believe how much traffic was still on the roadway in the western and northwestern eyewall away from the storm surge. scouting locations why we get down days in advance to see valuable places to ride out the storm, when we were going through fort myers beach, florida alarming we saw people sitting on their front porch directly on the beach front. we hadn't seen it before. a lot of other hurricanes that have been in rural areas of

louisiana or lake charles you saw these mass evacuations. we really didn't see those huge lines. we saw a little bit of it on i- four but didn't see a mass exit any where and made us wonder how many people stayed behind. when we saw reports of the storm surge coming up, the waves of 15 feet, we just had a pit in our stomach. we had no idea how many people stayed behind. >> harris: quickly tell me about what your storm surge told you about this storm? i read off numbers, 7.2 is a record on top of the water that's already there. tell me what it measured exactly. >> well we had about 13 feet in the air on a six foot all expedition parked one foot above sea level. my chase partner max, who captured that video, is six fought four.

we had our storm surge probe at 13 feet above sea level and there were waves coming across it. it told us when this was all said and done it needs to be confirmed by the researchers and scientists. i believe the storm surge was 13 to 16 feet tall in the worst-hit areas. >> harris: that's a lot of water and claimed so much of what we're seeing. thank you so much for joining "focus" today. i'm glad you and your storm chasing team are safe. i have a heart for that. i did it for many years. you are much better than i was. thank you. >> thank you very much for having me. >> harris: hurricane ian is barreling toward south carolina. landfall expected at any moment now. the national hurricane center predicts landfall between charleston and myrtle beach. life threatening storm surge expected. officials are warning people to get to higher ground. south carolina senator tim scott has a serious warning. >> stay home. stay indoors right now. we are literally just beginning

this hurricane. the truth is with high tide culminating at the time when the storm is hitting is a time to stay indoors. if you go out, you put more first responders in danger. if you do not have to leave your home right now, don't do it. >> harris: great information for people. don't become a burden for the first responders who are already willing to put themselves in harm's way to save you. mollyline is live in charleston, south carolina. molly. >> hi, it is now and the next couple of hours are thaw are the most critical hours. there is a flash flood warning here for charleston. concerns about the storm surge coming and high tide which is happening at 11:40. we're standing along the ashley river here. this is one of the marinas along the river and watching the boats bob and the winds and rain beginning to pick up in the last hour. we've seen some pretty powerful

gusts here as the storm intensifies and begins to move onshore and watching the water rise, a big concern. just beyond where i'm standing is the harbor and the atlanta and the storm coming in and the city of charleston. there are low-lying areas in the historic parts of town that people are familiar with in this beautiful city. this is the water we've been watching get higher over the mud and sweet grass the area is known for. this drive here acts as a natural levy to protect the city. if the water comes up quickly in a couple of hours they'll see an inundation and what they're worried about. the next couple hours are the most critical. we have seen folks out here on these roads although authorities are urging people to stay off of them. we even saw a mail van within the last hour or so. but authorities asking people to stay inside. there are thousands of power outages already and concerned about some downed wires and

trees. it is a pretty dangerous situation developing at this point in time and in the coming hours we'll get a better idea how intense the storm will turn out to be as it comes onshore. a very dangerous situation. we've seen the wind die down a little bit. we see big gusts and heavy rain. they expect up to a foot of rain that combined with the flash flooding possibilities and storm surge coming in is a big area of concern. theoretically it could intensify in the coming hours and its -- we're watching. >> harris: this has been days. ian is picking up more power. molly line. take cover. thank you. the red cross is on the ground in florida and here is some information. you know, we can text this to each other. i know there are cell tower difficulties in florida as people move away from some of where the wreckage is from the storm. they may be able to pick up some cell communications support. we want to make sure this

information is out there. leading the way is the red cross on efforts to help the sunshine state recover and rebuild in the after math of the hurricane ian. fox corporation donated $1 million to the red cross to support the relief efforts and they're double matching employee donations to hurricane relief efforts including ian and fiona. if you want to help those affected by the storm go to red cross.org/fox forward. we have complete coverage of hurricane ian this hour. and this. philly's left wing district attorney called out for his lax policies. the city is reeling from out of control crime now. a recall effort underway. voters clearly paying attention. plus more accusations that the f.b.i. playing politics. >> some of those whistleblowers have had their security clearance revoked.

always the first step in terminating someone at the f.b.i.enter now we think there has been specific retaliation against a whistleblower who has been suspended. >> harris: retaliation against whistleblowers. conservative employees ousted. more than one dozen people have come to him with claims of that happening. that's the top republican on the house judiciary committee, jim -- jim jordan. he is in "focus" next. home values have climbed to near all-time highs, too. that means the cash you need is right there in your home. newday can unlock it with the newday 100 va cash out loan. it lets you borrow up to 100% of your home's value. not just part of it like some other loans. pay down high-rate credit card debt, consolidate your second mortgage and car loans, and have the security of cash in the bank.

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>> harris: we're watching hurricane ian barreling toward georgia and the carolinas as a category 1 hurricane now. it comes as we all know the storm savaged florida. still 1.9 million people without electrical power right now and other utilities are a problem, too. at least two hospitals in lee county according to the lee health ceo have had to evacuate because they don't have running water. they don't have the water to be able to run those hospitals as their utility systems have been damaged in all of this. there will be some lasting effects at least for some time while they struggle to get their state back up online. take a look at this. this is before and after from

the street corner in naples, florida. it shows a high water rescue of a person trapped inside their car. they always warn you not to drive into these situations. rescue crews are out in full force right now all along the gulf coast looking inside cars that have been left behind to make sure there are no people trapped in them. this is one of the most recent rescues. we'll continue to bring you the pictures and video as we get them into fox news. now this. >> we know the d.o.j. is ideologically driven and not blind when it comes to people who do things that they are ideologically aligned with, they don't go after them. >> harris: a former f.b.i. special agent calling out the department of justice bias. and now new claims, the borough has taken major steps stow keep any one -- to keep any one quiet

who goes against their point of view. a purge of conservative employees. the f.b.i. has fired back at the accusations. here is a quote. the f.b.i. does not target or take adverse action against employees for exercising their first amendment rights or for their political views. to allege otherwise is false and misleading. the f.b.i. is required to follow established policies and procedures to include a thorough investigation when suspending or revoking a security clearance. congressman jim jordan now from the great state of ohio, ranking member of the house judiciary committee in "focus" now. what are the whistleblowers telling you and what do you you have about the statement? >> established policies and procedure? are you kidding me? we saw what they did to the pastor and his family and seven

children. 20 agents, guns drawn going through his house when local officials said there was no crime whatsoever. established policies, you have to be kidding me? that's what's going on at the f.b.i.enter what's happening is the people brave enough to take whistleblower status and talk to us they're coming after them. remember when it started? a few weeks ago what we first talked about this. merrick garland sent out a memo to everyone in the justice department here are the rules and guidelines for when you talk to congress. it was a memo to chill their speech and since that we've learned of people's security clearanceesque revoked and now suspensions for f.b.i. whistleblowers who came to us. if that's not retaliation tell me what it is. it sure looks that way. i'm sure they have something they will say it's not. that's what it appears to the american people and us and our lawyers. >> harris: i'm curious. you probably can't talk about it in detail now. one would be is there evidence? everybody saves text messages,

implosion mails. is there something to work with with page and others and how we knew there was bias there. >> we sent hundreds of the letters to the justice department about preserve documents, giving us information. if you want give it to us, preserve it if the american people put us in the majority when we can subpoena and get that information. we're trying to get that. we have had some of these wise will blowers give us information. this is how we learned they were putting the threat tag designation on parents that they were treating as domestic terrorists. it was a whistleblower who gave us that information and showed us the e.d.u. official's threat tag and designation they were putting on moms and dads and whistleblowers who told us that over two dozen parents were investigated with this process merrick garland set up. none were charged but the f.b.i. showing up at your door because you are a mom who cares about

the education of your kid and you showed up at a school board meeting? that's frightening stuff. it is all designed to chill speech and satisfy this narrative of joe biden where he goes out and calls half the country fascist and extremists. we know from whistleblowers they are trying to juice the numbers and cook the books to have these cases labeled as domestic violence extremism cases when the agents are telling us they're not. that's what they are trying to do. >> harris: let's talk about the whistleblowers themselves. i'm curious to know are you planning to put whistleblowers into this case? are you going to bring them to a house judiciary committee hearing and let them tell their point of view? we saw democrats across the aisle do that a lot during the trump administration, taking those whistleblowers and witnesses into the case for whatever. if it's political, i don't know. what is your plan? >> we would love to do that but that's a call for the

whistleblower. they get to stay anonymous here. not supposed to be retaliated against. it looks like that's what's happening at the justice department. if they are willing to go public sure we'll have them go public. we leave that up to them. there has been a couple who went public and have been on fox network on mr. bongino's show. god bless him for going public. we'll do that but it is up to the whistleblower to decide that. >> harris: that's a fascinating point. chilling free speech is one thing. these people are being quieted by the f.b.i. who raid homes. >> yes. in light of what we've seen from this f.b.i. over the past several months and over frankly over the last year starting with the school board association and it shouldn't surprise us they are also trying to do things to agents who maybe share a political view that is conservative or republican. that i think is just scary stuff.

one of the things i think we'll focus on is you use the school board issue as an example. we know there was communication between the left wing school board association, the white house, justice department and the department of education prior to the initial letter being sent. so i want know about those communications. did the white house encourage the school board association to reference the patriot act and say let's use counter terrorism measures against parents? if they were on the front end encouraging that it's frightening. i think that may have happened. we want the evidence. we are determined to get it and a host of other issues we're determined to get to the bottom of. >> harris: you are looking for command and control. who was pushing the buttons to get people to do this. there are so many thousands of agents in the f.b.i. who are not tainted by the suspicion of this. and they still have to do their job. we do need to get to the bottom of this so everybody, the high tide raises all votes. everybody has to get back on the page so we're protected.

crime might need f.b.i. agents help in the country. >> someone at the highest levels of the f.b.i. who made a decision to send 20 agents to the pastor's home instead of going -- 20 agents. who made that decision somme we need to know that. everyone understands it is completely wrong. they did that, though. someone decided that's how they were going to operate. ag again, it's scary. >> harris: 39 days we are now away from the mid-term elections. americans are fed up with the crime crisis. i was just talking about it. we need all hands on deck. a lot of blue cities are a dangerous mess. one philadelphia reporter called out the city's liberal district attorney larry crassner on the air. watch. >> the district attorney. everybody in the country knows that. maybe it's not working. >> it is working. the reality is there are a thousand people killed in 20 months. >> it is working. there is absolutely no

correlation between being progressive or traditional and the rate of crime. these states in the united states that have a rate of homicide that is 40% higher, they're maga states. >> republicans say the opposite. it's the blue states. >> republicans lie. >> harris: the numbers don't lie. more than 380 murders in philadelphia this year. new york and los angeles nearly as bad. the people want change. those are blue cities. people want change. recall efforts are now underway to try to boot crassner from his position. >> his argument is so ridiculous. he said there is no correlation with letting bad guys stay on the street and increased crime. that is crazy. this is the left. he accused republicans of lying. that is a false statement. you cite evidence the evidence of what is happening in his

city. don't vote for any one not willing to be tough on crime or willing to say you should be able to choose where your son or daughter goes to school. those are fundamental things i think families across this country get. they want safe streets, good schools. they would like the choice to decide where their son or daughter will get the best education. where their son or daughter will be safe. those are fundamental issues in this election. in 39 days when people walk in they remember that and vote for conservatives and republicans. >> harris: you are already seeing early voting. people are going. so the numbers of people who are in the lane of they haven't quite decided yet. the numbers are high in some places but coming down. people are already casting votes. if they're doing it now and experiencing this they may be following your lead on who protects you best. representative jim jordan, thank you so much. great to have you in "focus."enter >> thank you. good to be with you. >> it is numbing.

it is not any first hurricane but first total loss. >> it took everything from everyone. it is devastating. you don't know where to begin. >> i figured we'd ride it out. worst mistake of my life. >> harris: amen he is still with us. devastation in southwest florida. the sanibel island causeway before on the left side of your screen and after on the right side of your screen. the governor desantis of florida was describing all of the places. if you look at the top of your screen there is another chunk of it that's gone, too. not just this one swath. getting in and off the island requires air or a boat. it is completely cut off from the mainland. the causeway the only area for vehicles to travel. no word yet how many people remained stranded there after coast guard rescued dozens yesterday. the former emergency management director for florida says 80% of

structures on sanibel have been destroyed. fort myers people whose homes are destroyed now starting to assess their damage. doing so without electricity. i've been saying this, clean water. this is going to be the point. you have to get clean water for your hospitals, whatever food services, you have to be able to wash your hands. local and state officials say some customers face prolonged power outages as crews may need to rebuild parts of the grid. fox weather's robert ray live for us in fort myers. robert. >> harris, this is just one example of the debris here right on the marina in fort myers. downtown just a few blocks that flooded out from the storm surge and you see the piles of wood here, styrofoam that helped these big concrete blocks float.

the piers pushed in. doorways here. you look here and you see the yachts, boats pushed up by the surge and what you see all the way on the roads down to the barrier islands. scattered on the sides, these kind of vessels pushed in, the power and force of the surge. you see fencing from over here pushed in and sand moved in. and then if we walk back over here what you see is the downed trees. palm trees uprooted by the winds and storm surge all over dotting fort myers and down to the barrier islands. this is a 25-foot tree. this takes to uproot something like this at least 100 mile-per-hour gift. the power of this system as search and rescue is active in the barrier islands. 80% of fort myers beach according to officials wiped out. i can tell you that's where we

started our reporting two days ago as a storm came in and left because of the surge coming in and came here to experience those dirty side force winds that wreaked havoc on neighborhood and this entire area. there have been hundreds of rescues and they are still ongoing 24 hours a day with 21 confirmed deaths to this point. we hope it doesn't rise. to your point earlier about clean water and utilities here. there are over 40,000 utility workers from around the country on the ground mobileizing right now, harris. it is an unbelievable controlled orchestra they are trying to put together of aid groups and officials trying to pick up this mess here. >> harris: we pray for all the people who have come to help. they have a mighty job. thank god for them. thank you very much. robert ray. well, after leaving southwest florida in ruins ian has regained strength now a

category 1 hurricane aiming straight for the south carolina coast where it is expected to make landfall between charleston and myrtle beach within hours. adam klotz with new updates in the weather center. i want to know what the surge arrival is going to look like and if the back end of the storm is as strong as it was when it hit florida. >> i don't want people to think it isn't a big deal. it won't be anything like we saw when it initially made landfall. it is still a hurricane and a storm surge. you see winds here 85 miles-per-hour. that is significantly less. it was 150 miles when it made landfall on the western coast of florida. we're lifting to the north at 14 miles-per-hour and getting fairly close to a point where you start to think about landfall on this system. in the control room i need max weather ten and continue with my forecast. you see category 1 hurricane continuing with that spin.

there is your center of circulation. a little messier. you get a whole bunch of moisture with the system. it sat over the atlantic ocean and picked up new moisture that was not there. it weakened as it moved across florida falling to a tropical storm. now you have stronger winds once again and a ton of moisture. you have seen what the power outages have been across florida. those are beginning to come across portions of south carolina. i think we'll see large areas of power outages once again. not as much but it will impact a large area here. from eastern georgia running up through south carolina and north carolina, outages are likely. the winds are there. the ground will be saturated. saturated ground and wind you knock over trees, power lines begin to go. the hurricane warnings are in place from savannah toward myrtle beach in a large area around it tropical storm warnings. so much moisture in the system flooding will be my main

concern. here are the winds. current gusts 40 miles-per-hour getting close to that. it has been going on for 24 hours, 36 hours. the water has already pooled up here along the coast, harris. because of that, this is what i'll leave you with. the most dangerous thing. 4 to 7 feet of storm surge. seven feet of storm surge could be devastating. the threat is still there. folks in low-lying areas, you need to be careful. >> harris: the mayor of charleston said stay in your house. stay put so you don't become a reason for first responders to have to respond. thank you very much, adam, for the update. let's get more first-person account now. radio host and cape coral resident posted this video. he and his wife got out just in time. >> 10:20 as we are taping this. so it's right about now is when this storm, the eye of the storm

is supposed to be crossing over here in southwest florida. probably a little north from us. we still want to get as far away from the eye as we can so we don't have those 150 mile-per-hour winds. >> everything is empty. we're just keeping going south. >> harris: tony is in "focus" now. when you look at that area now, you know what you left behind. tell me about escaping it and what is left. >> the devastation that we've seen. thanks to you and the folks at fox keeping us up to date. we have power here in delray beach. tuesday night overnight we had the storm shutters up and had a restless night's sleep. hammering of the storm shutters and we got up and i wanted to go outside and see what the situation was. neighbors said they were going

to ride it out. this is our first hurricane in south florida. we only moved into our condo a month ago. we were wondering neighbors are saying i've been through many storms. my son was calling me from delaware and maryland, had friends all over the place, get out, get out, get out. finally at 9:00 the power went out right after i recorded that video and i said we have to get out of here. we grabbed the suitcase and cats and put them in the truck and grabbed water and a cooler and headed to fort myers over the river. you see the damage. we went from cape coral down south over fort myers into the city and through naples, another area that was hit. it was a white knuckle ride. the wind conditions and rain at that point were scary but hadn't gotten close yet. it was 10:30 in the morning. storm was still approaching. by 1:00 and 2:00 in the afternoon that area was devastated.

we then got on the trek across alligator avenue. once to broward county i felt we were safely out of the danger zone and here at palm beach. so many great friends who say i'll get you a hotel. drive to to here. we went to the sea gate and we'll try to make it back today. >> harris: i have to say you stayed late. we can see that the winds were already coming in. you drove through the parts now that are destroyed. you drove through fort myers. we can see winds were coming in at that point. hours later there was nothing where you are now in that video. i'm so glad you and your wife made it out. this was your first hurricane and so it is understandable that you drove as far as you possibly could and didn't look back. wow. thank you for sharing your story and i'm glad you're okay. >> thank you, harris. we'll make a trip back and load up on water and our friends are

asking for water. we have a big pickup truck. we'll go to wal-mart and try to load up the truck. >> harris: blessings thank you. thank you, tony bruno. a congressional hearing on restrictions on abortion went off the rails. big pushback after a planned parenthood doctor insisted men can have babies. they can get pregnant. plus radio silence from the white house after a big dust-up over biden's giant gaffe this weekend. sean hannity weighed in. >> ask yourself why couldn't the biden white house just admit to the error? why can't they for once kind of be honest, a little transparent with you the american people? >> harris: the president of the united states called out the name of someone who had been deceased and was looking for her. and he and the white house had been part of lowering the flag

at the white house in her honor this summer when she passed away. it is a mistake, just admit it. no, the white house went on full tilt spin why he might have done it. the liberal media not covering it at all. sean duffy won't be silent. he is next.

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>> harris: situation we're working -- or watching rather after hurricane ian as they get assets in the air. live pictures, is the sanibel causeway. it is the only way in and off the island by vehicle, so you see a chopper there, they've been bringing in boats trying to rescue people and have done it successfully. but the devastation to this causeway is unreal. the governor has said it is chunks of it gone if several

sections. we wanted to give you the latest live pictures as they fly over sanibel and parts of fort myers at this hour and as they pull out maybe we'll see more of it. and we can. okay. they're landing trying to get there and get people out. clean water is the issue. they are taking care of business in florida. we'll stay on it. for now a wild house overnight committee hearing ohhing abortion restrictions after georgia's democratic nominee stacey abrams said that there is no such thing as a feetal heartbeat at six weeks. >> forcing poor and working class people to give birth against their will, against their consent, against their ability to provide for themselves or a child is a

profound economic issue and it is certainly a way to keep a workforce basically conscripted. >> harris: there's this. >> so men can have pregnancies especially trans men. somebody with a uterus may have the capability of becoming pregnant whether a woman or man. >> okay, we're done. this isn't complicated. if a person has a uterus -- >> harris: sean duffy fox news contributor and former wisconsin congressman your reaction. >> i don't miss that, harris, having come out of congress. it is insanity. ocasio-cortez implemented the green new deal that wreaked havoc on our economy. neighborhoods aren't safe because of defunding the police.

i look at this and strong families mean strong countries. kids are important to the future of america. what an elitist to say that you have to be rich to have kids. if you are poor you can't have kids. some of my best friends came up in poverty and they are great, wonderful people. by the way, you can change your name and body parts but you can't change the fact that if you were born a male you can't have a baby. we have to play this game of names of what's a man and woman? let's get back to truth. men can't have babies, simple, flat, easy. >> harris: what you are responding to are two different things but tied together. it is changing the definitions of things and i wonder if people on the left understand what is happening there, that the manipulation that's going on is not supportive of the transgender, lgbt community. if they really cared they wouldn't be handling it quite this way. it is interesting. politics intervene in such messy

ways. >> i think it's offensive to women to say that it gives unique, wonderful, beautiful thing that women have. i can't do what my wife has done nine times. to demean that by saying men can do what women do, too. the most defenseless, voiceless human beings in our society. i mentioned this on "outnumbered" earlier in the week. you don't have a lobbyist. you don't have money to give to campaigns but you need people to fight for you for life and that's what this is about. giving the defenseless a right to life. >> harris: the president had a lot to say. the white house is cleaning up after he called for a deceased member of congress at an event this week to come up and join him on stage. >> president biden: i want to thank all of you here including bipartisan elected officials like representative governor, senator braun, senator booker, representative jackie -- where is jackie? she was going to be here. to help make this a reality.

>> harris: congressman, a usa today opinion writer, what his memory laps says about the late congresswoman really told us. your reaction before we have to end the show. >> jackie was a wonderful human being loved by both sides of the aisles. this speaks volumes about how far he has slipped mentally in his capabilities and how they have degraded. i look at this, joe biden has an approval rating of 39%. if the media wasn't covering for him it wouldn't be far worse. they don't hear these stories. the left wing media won't talk about the problems biden is having. calling out a former member of congress who is deceased. he lowered the flag for her. he forgot. >> harris: the other media isn't covering it. it is important for people to know the president of the united states and his team, rather than

saying they made a mistake, everybody does. oh, we've got breaking news. sit tight for a second. an tony blinken is at the department of state talking about ukraine. >> while also combating the climate crisis. the united states will release the strategy forfurther these goals and won't to work closely with canada to make them a reality. like the united states, canada is both an atlantic and pacific nation and we saw that last week at the general assembly where canada joined both partners in the pacific and strengthening atlantic ministerial meetings. it will further our shared goals as a pas -- we're working to end epidemics. we see canada's leadership on display at the general assembly

with the prime minister's generous contribution of more than $900 million to the global fund in its seventh replenishment. canada, mexico and the united states are partners in the usmca. we're strengthening supply changes and strong labor rights protections and the clean energy transition across an increasingly integrated north america. since december, our countries have partnered to mobilize more than 295 million in international commitments for haiti. we deeply appreciate canada's leadership in launching the u.n. basket fund to strengthen law enforcement in haiti. we are proud to support that. in these extremely difficult times for the haitian people, we're urging more partner nations to contribute to this vital cause. we also applaud canada's leadership against arbitrary detention in state to state relations.

this is bringing nations together to send the clearest message that the arbitrary detention of foreign nationals is unacceptable and governments that engage in this practice will face consequences. we discussed ways to deepen what is an already remarkably vibrant commercial and trade relationship to boost our collective competitiveness to create good paying jobs for people on both sides of our border. the united states and canada are already each other's largest trading partners with over $2 billion if goods and services that pass between us every single day. >> harris: secretary blinken explaining they are now going to be more severe sanctions put onto russia. russia has now moved to annex parts of ukraine where they fought and so what they're saying is basically that becomes part of russia. we want to take it. we're taking it. they did it with crimea. the president of the united states and secretary blinken now

are talking about the war in ukraine is a place where he cannot do that. so we'll continue to watch this story. what is really interesting is perhaps -- here is a question to consider -- is putin, the dictator in russia, trying to say the war which he is not winning right now, the war is coming to an end and this is what he is telling the world would be palpable for him to pull out? he will just keep those four sections that he wants and then he will walk away and what the president zelensky of ukraine has said no, absolutely not. you don't get to wage war on a sovereign nation, take parts of it and say the war is over and i'll lose and i keep the little bit i took. the united states is firing back with the same message no, it's unacceptable and we won't recognize it as such. so that's what we were watching with secretary antony blinken.

we'll see what russia's response will be. they were talking about a nuclear transition and putin wants to do it. is it bluffing? is this enough to call his bluff and see what his next move is? you can't just annex parts of countries that you want to have. let's get started now with we are expected here from governor desantis as we get a clear picture of the homes in the lives destroyed by hurricane ian. florida officials are now saying at least 21 people have died. it is returned to hurricane strength and is bearing down and it soon expected to make landfall of storm surge of 7 feet, charleston residents who have been warned to get to higher ground are fleeing the

city in a steady stream of vehicles p.r. yet how hello, everyone this is outnumbered and i am kayleigh mcenany along with harris faulkner along with jackie deangelis, janette nesheiwat, and joe concha. would begin in south carolina. >> in the next couple of hours are the greatest concerns, we see pretty big wind gusts as well steady rain coming on and off. the greatest concern right now is really the high tide. so that combined with the storm surge that they are expecting an up to a foot of rain is what authorities are most concerned about here in the city of charleston. the downtown area prone to fronting historic, the beautiful area people are so used to coming and visiting. that area we are hearing water come up there some of the ditches. this is just one of the marinas out of the ashley river ridge runs of the city of peninsula that goes down. just beyond that, the harbor, and the atlantic. that of course is the big concern comes sweeping into the