on beach a little more than two hours ago. 60 miles southeast of tallahassee. it is weakening to a category 2 moving across the state of florida threatening the region with storm surges, damaging winds, flash flooding and even tornadoes. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. bill hemmer is off today. good to see you with me, bret. >> bret: i'm bret baier in washington. hurricane idalia battering the state after cracking ashore in the big bend region where the storm is predicting up to 16 feet of storm surge. we haven't seen that yet. damaging winds spreading inland over northern florida. national weather service calling idalia an unprecedented event. it hasn't hit this particular area ever. a storm this big. the storm tracking north/northeast at 18 miles-per-hour. maximum sustained winds 110

miles-per-hour as it heads for georgia and the carolinas. steve harrigan is in tarpon springs near tampa. what are you seeing now? >> we have about a foot and a half water on this street and we're with jim who has an auto repair shop. has had it here for 30 years. behind every house, every business along this road and along much of this town there is at least a foot of water. if you want to see what it looks like we'll look inside this auto repair shop. what did you try to save when the storm is coming? what did you try and do? >> put cars up in the air. put our own vehicles in the air. the shop equipment. >> we're wading through six inches of water on the ground. he tried to get the cars up on lifts. some of his air conditioning and valuable equipment, too. i have to say it's a mess here. >> it is. >> now look, a lot of americans want to know when you got six inches of water in a business

you've had for 30 years, as we can see these cars he has tried to raise them up here. tell me something. how are you feeling about that? >> truthfully. way luckier than a lot of other people because about not even an eighth of a mile from here it is probably 20 times worse than this. look out in the shop. i can see the water has gone down in the last hour i've been here. this year is about $15,000 worth of equipment that i didn't want to risk. i have had 30 years to put stuff off the floors and i have everything pretty much important off the ground by about a foot, foot and a half. >> people will ask insurance. do you have it? >> i do have insurance. the shorans companies changed their rules so often every year what i'm covered for right now i honestly don't know. >> some uncertainty and a man with six inches of water on his business is feeling lucky today. back to you guys.

>> bret: steve, thank you. he is feeling lucky. >> dana: thank you, bret. joining us now is brian, a hurricane specialist and fox weather contributor. great to have you here. your assessment. love to hear it. >> this will be a terrible event for north florida into south georgia and we've been focused so much on florida but the carolinas and southeast georgia are also going to feel this as a massive flood, we think, a flash flooding event with storm surge at the coasts. there is more to come. talking about tampa. a lot of focus on tampa bay. the storm surge, the height above the normal high tide is right about four feet now and looks like it will stay about that. could be six inchs plus or minus for the next few hours. high tide 1:30 this afternoon and then it will start going down. tampa bay and all the bays around are all filled to the

brim here and overflowing into low lying areas and neighborhoods. it remains to be seen when this is all over they will go out and look at the various trees and everything trying to figure out how high the water came. i think we got lucky that the storm weakened a little bit on the right-hand side. the right-hand side of the storm as the storm is moving is where the water is pushed toward the coast. it weakened just right before landfall a little bit. that just affects a handful of people because it is not a populated part of the coast. but this is moving inland and we usually think of it weakening as moving inland. it will stay very strong all the way across north florida into georgia and only slowly weakens into the carolinas. >> dana: at what point to the carolinas, tomorrow? >> yes. this is a moving thing but in the carolinas, already it's

raining hard up the hill. so in the carolinas, start in the low country, beautiful, and then you go up piedmont to the upstate where it gets mountainous. up the hill it is already raining. that water will come down. then while this is going by water will get pushed from the ocean into the harbors and inlets and so forth. we have water to deal with in the carolinas, more than wind. the winds will be going down. enough wind to take out power but not enough wind to do tremendous structural damage. >> dana: they didn't have an entire 6 or 7 days to plan for this. sounds like there were a good number of evacuations. the state has been through this so many times they are a well-run machine. talked to sheriffs this morning who feel pretty confident but are concerned that people will try to return to their homes and businesses too soon.

>> well yeah, definitely in cedar key, a small and historic community. a lot of those folks weren't going to leave and they didn't leave. on cedar key it looks like they got 6 1/2 feet of storm surge. storm surge means above normal high tide. on cedar key there is land, the average is ten feet. there is land 20 feet. people should have been able to be okay. they elevate their houses there. they understand high water. not as worried about that. what we don't know and too early to know what is happening if places we haven't heard about and the extent of the flooding and the damage in tampa bay area. you have millions of people. a lot of them live in low-lying areas. this is saltwater, not like a flood with freshwater where you

wash things off and dry things out. it's saltwater. it ruins electrical systems and cars. any vehicle that drives through three inches of saltwater is subject to not being usable because the brakes rust and it is all nasty underneath if you don't get in there and clean it up. this isn't like the flooding that we've seen so often and you see cars driving through. you do not want to have your vehicle or anything electrical anywhere near the saltwater. i don't know yet when we have four feet above the normal high tide and in the tampa bay area in my friend's homes there i go in the backyard and water looks to be a foot below the sea wall or six inches in some cases. that means that's up and in the house at least to some level saltwater in any house is not good. >> dana: is it june 1st to

december 1st for hurricane season? >> this is a freaky storm. this weather pattern. looking back in the record books we've never had one of these in august. this is an october phenomenon. if tampa and gulf coast get a hurricane that's curving up like this it happens in october. this is only august. so this is a very, very unusual weather pattern. it is related loosely to the heat dome here in the northeast. you have had a pretty nice summer. >> dana: summer here has been good. last week we were in the heat dome. my co-anchor bret enter>> bret: bret: b -- >> as the track goes north and hits the carolinas, charleston by special report time tonight, goes out into the atlantic, any chance the thing turns back around? we've seen some storms have crazy paths and regenerate and

hit someplace else. >> from the computer forecast shows it going out and looping back in the general direction of florida but the indication is that it would be weak and stay weak. the atmospheric pattern is not conducive to it being strong. we watch because we don't have confidence in a forecast a week from now. it will get out in a part of the ocean there off the southeast coast where the steering currents are weak again like in the caribbean. it sat there and stewed because it doesn't have anything to push it along. it will get in that situation again and dry air. >> bret: this is a fast-moving storm. a good thing it is. >> a fast-moving storm across the carolinas, that's a good thing. although the forward motion of the storm adds to the winds. so if you have a hurricane that's -- if it were stationary

at 100 miles-per-hour and moving 20 miles-per-hour in the direction of movement on the right side it's 120 mile-per-hour winds but it does come and go more quickly. it looks like what is going to happen, it will go across the carolinas, to the atlantic and stall. we should get it away from land here by the end of the day tomorrow. >> dana: there was talk yesterday about how warm the water was in the gulf. did that increase or have an impact on this hurricane and that october thing you were talking about? >> yeah. the gulf water was at record warm. yes, probably provided some energy. the reason the gulf water was so warm, all the water is a little warmer than it used to be. but because of the heat dome and the way that the weather pattern has set up, the breeze, the normal breeze has been lower this year than normal. and so the thing that keeps the

water temperature modulated a little bit is going across the water and mixing it because cold water is underneath. if the winds are calm you end up with extremely warm water. you might have seen in the keys they measured the water temperature at 101 degrees. not unheard of. it happens. but then a thunderstorms came along and mixed the water and then it was back down to the upper 80s. so it is not all related to some kind of permanent change. sometimes the weather pattern makes it warm in the gulf. this was the case. this storm ran over a pool of very warm water in the gulf so that helped intensify it. >> dana: great to have you as part of our program. >> bret: the best in the business. let's bring in randi campbell live from tallahassee, florida.

what have you got there? >> right now the big issue out here in tallahassee is the power outages. that's something they predicted would be a big issue because this city is known for its tree coverage. 55% tree coverage and worried the strong winds from idalia would knock them over and cause power outages. there are 34,000 power outages in leon county where we are now. almost 250,000 in the state right now. a lot of people in the dark. thankfully it's daylight now and that helps at this time. i will say power companies are out trying to actively restore it. i will say 20 minutes ago it said 50,000 power outages. they're at work already. as you can see if you look around me it's raining and non-stop all morning and behind me some of the trees are giving way to the wind. every now and then we get a

strong wind gust. we still feel the impact from idalia passing through this part of florida. it will only last for a couple more hours on if this is the worse we'll take it for tallahassee considering what we're seeing in other parts of the state especially in the big bend area. >> dana: isn't she great? one of our great reporters from fox weather. thank you so much. we're keeping a close eye on idalia as it has weakened to a category 2 but a long way to go and we'll be right back with more. veteran homeowners. have you looked at the interest rates on your credit cards lately? get ready for a shock. the rate on many credit cards is now over 22%. if you want to save hundreds of dollars a month, pay off the balances on your high rate cards and other debt with a lower rate va home loan from newday usa. and get the financial peace of mind every veteran deserves. no one takes care of veterans like newday usa.

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we have full coverage for you using all the resources from fox news and fox weather and right now it's a category 2 storm. it is mowing its way across northern florida and into georgia and into the carolinas. by tomorrow it will be out in the atlantic. >> bret: you have to take it seriously. we haven't seen all the elements of the storm surge as of yet. but as we get more information from some of these communities, we may see more of the damage and it could be substantial. it was a category 4, category 3 when it hit. high tide is coming around noon down there. it is a big deal. president biden meantime keeping a close eye on hurricane eye dahlia as it hits florida pledging its full support for emergency relief to the state. rich edson is live on the north lawn with more on that part of the story. >> good morning.

federal official eaves say they've moved supplies to head of this storm like florida, georgia and south carolina. the president will get a briefing today on all this. also the white house says the president did speak with florida governor ron desantis. >> president biden: spoke to the governor last night and we're providing everything that he possibly needs. we're in constant contact. i had the director of fema in here today earlier talking about it. it is going to be, i think, we're worried about the surge, the ocean surge. we don't know exactly it is hour to hour we're watching this. >> they're watching it. federal authorities are investigating more than a dozen migrants from uzbekistan who crossed the southern border with the help from a human smuggler with links to isis. spokesperson with the national security council says there is no indication any of those migrants have a connection to a

foreign terrorist organization. the white house press secretary maintained the administration is vigilant on terror threats at the border. >> we're committed to making sure we're protecting our homeland and also protecting the american people. that's our commitment and we'll continue to be vigilant on that. >> republicans meanwhile are maintaining their criticism of this white house's border policy. administration that has seen historic number of migrant encounters as cities like new york plead for funds to care for thousands of migrants who have ended up there. >> we're pro-immigrants. we want legal, orderly migration. if we preserve our country that's what we have to do. >> as for the human smugglers the white house is working on disrupting the smuggling routes working with foreign nations to do that. >> bret: rich, thanks. >> dana: bret, during a summer of hurricanes, wildfires and other natural disasters the federal emergency management

agency is calling out for more funding. congress has yet to reach a deal. chad pergram following the story on capitol hill for us. >> here is how this works. right now fema has the money it needs to address the hurricane in florida and also the disaster in maui on hawaii. right now they have $3.4 billion in what they call the disaster relief fund. the administrator says it will have to be increased. these two natural disasters back-to-back will dwindle the pot. she said she needs $12 billion brand-new for the next disaster. listen. >> i want to stress that while immediate needs funding will insure we can continue to respond to disasters, it is not a permanent solution. congress must work with us on the supplemental request that the administration has made on behalf of fema.

>> so there is a request right now by marco rubio to separate ukraine funding from disaster aid. i talked to a democratic representative from florida earlier today and he is teaming with senator rubio on that piece of legislation. he wants that to be a straight vote in the senate as does republican florida senator rick scott. but the way the administration presented this, they also tacked on ukraine aid. there are only so many congressional appropriations trains that leave the station each year so what they probably have to do is take any additional money that they need for the hurricane, attach it to ukraine aid and probably put it on an interim spending bill to avoid the government shutdown before september 30th. back to you. >> dana: all right, chad. we'll pay attention to that. it will be a fight on capitol hill. >> bret: the storm is not over. we're tracking hurricane idalia. it came across as a category 3.

it knocked out power to thousands in florida. the storm taking aim at georgia as it marches north. our coverage on fox news continues next.

hurricane idalia. it soaked northern florida leading to some power outages and there could be additional significant storm surge still to come as high tide is around 2:00 p.m. eastern today. we have all the resources of fox weather and fox news channel covering this storm for you and will keep you posted as things develop. bret. >> bret: the florida governor and the authorities down there pre-positioned 5500 national guard troops in florida. thousands of gallons of fuel. they're waiting for the storm to completely go through as they assess the damage there. we're getting assessment from different folks around the

state. let's bring in florida state university sophomore danielle friedman. hi. you have been in the dorm there. how does it look? what's it like outside? >> it's definitely a hurricane. i mean, we keep losing power on and off. it's definitely raining, thunder, lightning, and the wind is blowing all the trees. it is what i expected. >> bret: where are you from? >> originally from new york. i have been through a hurricane or two. we definitely knew how to prepare. >> bret: a lot of students there. everybody hunkered down? what are they telling you at school? >> yeah, definitely. they really sent out so many notifications to get prepared. just in case it was really bad. fortunately i don't think it's as bad as people expected but we

still did lose power. >> bret: so is the worst of it over for you? is it already past that area or are you seeing something on the outside? >> i think the worst of it is past us fortunately. right now it's just rainy and definitely windy but -- >> bret: looking forward to the florida state football games. stay safe. >> definitely. >> bret: thank you very much. >> dana: even i know those are big football games. let's bring in leon county sheriff. there was a mandatory evacuation for people living in mobile homes in your county. what have you witnessed this morning as the sun has come up? >> thank you all for having me on the show and right now we are recovering. we had extensive winds come through leon county and had some 40,000 persons without power for a good bit of time but we're in the process of restoring that

power to our communication. we did the evacuation for people living in mobile homes in leon county. most of those folks did lead our warnings. shelters are open. we have 400 people or so in the shelters. but as you spoke to your previous guest, the storm is winding down. hopefully in the next 2 or 3 hours we can get out there and make some assessments of where we are. as you know, leon county is a city with a number of trees. trees and power lines are our biggest problems. i suspect now. we'll make an assessment of that in the next few hours. >> dana: one of the things they said is this could -- the power of this storm could change the coastline, some florida officials saying that. as you say, your county is known for all those trees. it is heartbreaking when one comes down but then, of course, that also provides a lot of danger. is one of your concerns that people will try to return too

soon to their homes today? >> well, that's one of the things we will evaluate looking for. obviously if homes are damaged and roads not clear we want to make sure our citizen stay in. we'll make the assessments and getting the information to the citizens in terms of what roads and power lines are down and what's available to them to move back into their homes. hopefully again we think we've dodged a bullet here in leon county. hopefully get our folks back up and running if not in the next day or so but certainly by this weekend we should be back up and running. >> dana: how does this compare to maybe the last hurricane that you all dealt with? >> well, hermine was perhaps one of the storms we dealt with most recently that came through. this one has been much like that one. we had one back in 1985, kate. that one was not a hurricane but it did a lot of damage in our

community. we learned from that storm how to prepare and get ready for hurricanes in our community and we haven't had that kind of devastation since 1985. >> dana: wow. other sheriffs have told us this morning they feel like the governor of florida has provided them with the resources that they need and requested. is that the same for leon county? >> absolutely. governor desantis has stepped up and made sure this entire state got all the resources they need and that includes us in leon county had we needed those. the governor has done a tremendously good job responding to this hurricane. >> dana: do you have any other messages for people who are maybe in leon county watching us right now and wondering and looking to you for leadership as to what's next? >> well, what we're saying to our citizens is stay in place for right now. as we get out with law enforcement and first responders to evaluate exactly what's happened, looking at the utility

systems and making sure they're up and running. we are concerned about persons getting out there too soon. this community works together anyway and sure our citizens will heed these warnings and hopefully we'll give them the all clear sign in the next few hours, if not this week. >> dana: all right, sheriff walter mcneil. they're lucky to have you there. sir, thank you. >> thank you. >> dana: bret. >> bret: talking to a florida state student danielle about the fsu number eight football team plays lsu in orlando. game is still on sunday night. fox weather correspondent robert ray is live in clear water police. >> i did. one of the lieutenants took time to speak with me we got an update on the storm surge.

here is the good news. they think most people did heed the mandatory evacuation warnings that went into play as they've been going through the neighborhoods, they aren't finding many people in any of the homes. that's great news. no injuries to report. also no structural damage that is significant according to the lieutenant that i spoke to. she did say, though, on the north end of clear water beach where many of the homes are, they have taken in water and they've taken in water that's higher than where i'm standing. earlier this morning the water was up to here on me as those bands were coming in. they said there is waist deep water in some of those points that are more low lying that were on that. their high tide is coming soon. that's the biggest concern for the police and fire in pinellas county now. they are waiting for the high tide. we might see a bit of a rise

here. we almost hit four feet as far as the surge goes. we could have hit seven feet. that was the potential expectation. thankfully that did not happen. in a hurricane of this magnitude. rapid intensification. a day ago it was a tropical storm this time of day, bret and dana and it turns into a cat four and makes landfall at 7:45 in the morning within 24 hours. if we could have a large community like tampa and the barrier islands come out of this with no major situations like fatalities or marinas with boats that have collided like we saw during hurricane ian last september. that's a win, right? now i'm not negating what is happening on the bend where the storm came in and some of the surge that it moved into that pocket and also the fact that it's still a category 2 moving across south georgia, an area really just unprecedented for a storm to be of that magnitude

moving across that part of the country and into the carolinas. here this will likely go away later this afternoon. the recession of this water and according to officials, all good on the ground right now. >> bret: talking to brian earlier about the speed of this storm and how fortunate it was it was going fast through a lot of these areas. it's fair to say judging by what you just said that authorities feel they did better than expected in clear water? >> i think it's fair to say. i asked the lieutenant that exact question. would you label this as a worst or best case scenario? she said right now i think this is a very good scenario. but she did caveat that with worried about the high tide. that's about to come in. right here i don't think it will be a problem in the main hotel area. even if it does come up, i don't think it will make its way into many of these businesses, but

the neighborhoods to the north she calls it the north beach area of clear water may have an issue. again, the good thing is according to the officials, most people got out of dodge thankfully. >> bret: great news. they learned a lot. robert ray in clear water. thanks. >> dana: thank you. hurricane idalia plowing through florida this morning targeting georgia and carolinas with wind and heavy rain. stay with us for the latest. we'll be right back. great news. you can use your va benefit to pay off your high rate credit card debt with a lower rate va home loan from newday. rates on credit cards have gone up to 22%. for late payments, as much as 30%, more than three times higher than a newday va loan. so pay off your high rate debt with a lower rate newday home loan, and you can save $500 or more every month.

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category 2 storm right now. hearing from communities and seeing some flooding, some concern about storm surge as the high tide hits that area. but so far damage assessments have not been that significant in some of those key communities. waiting the hear about exactly where the eye crossed and how keaton beach and other places are looking this afternoon. >> dana: other news california's attorney general suing a school district over its new policy on transgender students in which schools would be required to notify parents if their child changes their gender identity. the school district is pushing back. william la jeunesse is live in los angeles with more. hi, william. >> governor newsom and state attorney general want to stop a conservative school district from informing parents if their child wants to change their gender identity. the attorney general says the

policy requiring the school to disclose a student's gender identity without their permission put students in danger by outing them to their own parents. >> i refuse to stand by and allow chino valley or any district board of education to put our children at risk or infringe upon their rights. especially not one of our most vulnerable at-risk groups. >> they wageed a war on parents saying we do not want you, the parents, to be involved in your children's' life. >> chino valley is 1 of 3 california cal districts that require a school to notify parents within writing in three days if they become aware a student a using a name or pronoun or changing the bathroom that does not match the biological sex. >> i think the plan to fight back is just to stand our ground. we won't cave into their bullying tactic. the political cartel of newsom

and they think that they can flex their muscle and dictate what our school districts will do. >> yesterday a california mom won a $1 hundred thousand settlement from a district that failed to tell her her daughter transitioned to a boy. the teachers union say they need special training to handle parents and students and any disclosure requirement should be part of their collective bargaining agreement. >> dana: this is happening across the country. thank you for the update. >> bret: over the counter narcan is being shipped to u.s. pharmacies for the first time ever today. two packs of narcan nasal spray will sell for $45 in most stores. this lifesaving drug quickly reverses overdoses of opioids such as fentanyl. bryan llenas is live in new york city to tell us more about this

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officials, first responders and emergency management personnel and we started seeing the effects and conditions deteriorating here in loudon county. we've seen gusts of 67 miles-per-hour and also have seen tons of power lines down in our community. our message to our residents right now here in our county is please, please, please shelter in place, stay off the roadways and allow the winds to calm down so our first responders and power companies can get out and get those power lines off the roadways and get your power back on. >> dana: is that one of your biggest concerns is either the snapping of trees and downing of the power lines mixed with partly because of the wind, of course, then you also are expecting a ton of rain. >> yes. we are currently under a flash flood warning from the national weather service out of tallahassee, florida.

the last report we had was about four inches an hour of rain. on top of the main threat which is the wind, we are seeing a significant amount of rain. so we have power outages and it could be extensive for a couple of days. we want our residents to be prepared and know that we are working around the clock and it is all hands on deck. >> dana: meghan, this is not your first hurricane and i'm wondering about all the ways as a public information officer you work to get communications out. for those watching right now are watching fox weather, which is an excellent resource, what are you wanting them to know right now? >> please stay off of the roads and shelter in place until conditions improve for our county. we'll provide that information here through facebook and our code red emergency notification system.

>> dana: meghan, thank you so much for your time. we wish you all the best there as this storm came ashore at 7:45 a.m. meghan, we'll say goodbye to you and let's stay in touch and make sure everybody is okay there. >> thank you, and stay off the roads. >> dana: that's meghan's message, bret, she wants everyone to stay off the roads. i will listen to her and i hope everybody else does, too. >> bret: a great message. a lot of troubles happen as the flooding comes in and we saw in hurricane ian a lot of people went out and then their cars were stuck in the surging floodwaters that everybody thought it was all done and it came up later. so it is a good message to have. they've got a lot of people that are trying to assess damage right now. we don't mean to downplay any sense of this storm. we could hear from governor desantis that the destruction is pr pretty heavy where the eye

passed. some communities are saying they are doing better than expected. >> dana: the forecasting of the storm was accurate. the path and strength of the storm and made landfall this morning at 7:45 a.m. near keaton beach. the storm now is bumping a ton of rain over north florida and about to enter into georgia. that's more your neck of the woods from years past, bret. they are no strangers to hurricanes and governor kemp will be giving some updates in the 11:00 a.m. hour and you will hear from governor desantis again at noon. >> bret: everybody should get fox weather. they do such a great job. brian nor cross one of the best in the business tracking the storm overnight into the morning. fortunate to have him on. the qr covid is on the screen to get that app. we recommend it. we use it every day. the folks all around florida and throughout the southeast will be covering this as idalia

continues to move north. >> dana: as you said, florida state, louisiana state game. >> bret: yeah, big game in orlando. >> dana: it's still on, right? >> bret: as of today. >> dana: i'll be watching and reporting when we get back on monday. bret, thank you for being with me again for another day. we really appreciate it. i will see you on "special report" as well. "the faulkner focus" is next. julie banderas in for harris. >> julie: historic hurricane idalia slamming florida's gulf coast as a monster category 3 storm just hours ago. the most powerful storm to ever hit the state's big bend region. unprecedented event currently at a category 2 status with more of the state in its sites. this is "the faulkner focus." i'm julie banderas in for harris. listen up. the biggest risk right now the life threatening storm surge. 12 to 16 fee