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turned roads to rivers after idalia rolled ashore as a category 3 storm. water reaching four feet high in some spots. we await high tide. governor kemp is holding a press briefing, let's listen in. >> your honor itting us loose to do the job we are trained to do, we appreciate that. that quick response allows us to fill a room with state assets to do the job we need to do. we have prepositioned assets all over the state, patrol, dnr, forestry commission, air asset, drone, search and rescue teams, tarps, mre's, water, things needed we have prepositioned and down range. we have our staff inside local

management centers to get response quickly and in a timely manner. something we want to remind everybody, trees that are down, it will take a while. we remind you, 72 hours is time frame you need to be thinking before you can expect a true power response. if before that, we are very pleased, ittic tas time to get back into the area. we have to clear right-of-ways and assess transformers, get live wires down. we need wind below 35 before we can get folks up in bucket trucks. that is important. we have shelters all over the state, as well. if you have to evacuate due to the storm, we have shelters standing, american red cross has

shelters up and shelters run by the counties. the 800-number is a number that will get you service or visit our website for a list. we have a banner scrolling says kroo the top of ours that will get you to resources we might have. we are standing by waiting for the storm to continue doing what it's doing. we are in wait and hold pattern. the governor mentioned we are hopeful it is out by 8 p.m. this evening, maybe 10:00 and we will begin to,a sess. those hit first, we will try to get to you first to provide resources. with that, we'll take questions. you have anything? >> so as governor mentioned, it is category 1 hurricane right now, weakening quickly,

hopefully to a tropical storm moving to -- >> emily: georgia emergency management agency. hello, this is "outnumbered," i'm emily compagno, joining me fox business anchor and co-host of bottom line dagen mcdowell. meteorologist janice dean, tammy bruce and kevin o'leary. live on the ground in clearwater, what is the latest, robert? >> good afternoon. clearwater beach. i'm standing on coronado. we have bands of wind picking up and some spotty rain. isn't that amazing? this hurricane is over georgia and we are still feeling the

effects here. police were serving this area while the road was full of water. they tell me they feel most people heeded mandatory evacuation warning. they think most people got out. they were cruising north clearwater beach and did not see many people that stayed. not a lot of structural damage, though the water is higher down there. we will go and take a look at that part of the island very soon. assess it for ourselves. i am not negating power and fury of this hurricane, the big bend area is where this hurricane came in as category 3. by the way, it hit category 4 strength at one point before landfall. that area taking upward 10 to 15 feet of storm surge, anyone in

the way of that cannot survive. we saw that last year. structures get washed,a way and vehicles, and wind at 125 mile per hour, roofs will be ripped apart. in clearwater and tampa area, what we're not seeing thankfully is a lot of structural damage. roofs that were peeled off by heavy wind and not seeing the surge we could have seen, up to seven feet. we saw about four feet. having said that, this morning was intense, no doubt about it. one point, jasper think we thought it was going to be a lot worse here. there are people going through t tremendous amount. the storm is not done it is moving to georgia and south carolina, charleston. a lot more to go, more assment d

it is reported two people losts on lost their lives and hundreds of thousands out of power. >> emily: brennan, we come to you income, hello. hi. >> emily: what is latest, sir? what are we looking at and what can we expect? >> we have the center of idalia moving across southern georgia, passing east of valdasta. maximum sustained winds 85 mile per hour. rain shield is moving across southeastern u.s. into the carolinas. we have flash flood emergency in effect for the city of valdasta. over six inches of rain there, dangerous flash flooding there and we expect that to continue as heavy rain move to the center of idalia.

multiple hazards, storm surge, wind stretching to the coastal carolinas during the next 24 to 36 hours. >> janice: janice dean here. thank you for your wonderful work, first of all, hats off to you at national hurricane center. you are our beacon and you did so well with the forecasting of this storm. it was very accurate from the get go, it was a tropical starm and hurricane and intensity forecast was right on. what do you attribute this to? >> we have a lot of great experience here and had a lot of storms so we know what to look for in terms of the environment. great modeling capabilities we've impelemented are tools to make the forecast for the track and intensity. that is information we need to

get out to people. >> janice: storm surge was the main message with this, 15 to scene foot storm surge along big bend, neveroccurred in our records. looking ahead, people think, it is category 1, no big deal. we have emergency flooding in georgia. >> that is right, rainfall flooding will be substantial, it is big risk. expecting widespread totals of four to eight inches and we have significant risk of flash flooding from wili think mton, statesboro, to north florida with 4 to 8 inches and some higher than that. if it falls in a short period of time, significant flash flood risk. this is a killer, more people died from rainfall flooding than any other hazard in the united states. >> janice: glad you brought that up and thank you so much.

we owe a great debt of gratitude for you and work you do with the national hurricane center. thank you. >> appreciate it. >> emily: national weather service? tallahassee warning when you try to compare this storm to others, don't, no one has seen this. hurricane idalia is different from other storms to hit the state. that is next. veteran homeowners. if you're on a fixed income, inflation can hit you extra hard, especially if you're using high rate credit cards to take care of your family's expenses. even minimum payments are tough. it's too much and it's time to hit back. with a newday 100 va loan, you can borrow up to 100% of your home's value to pay off those high rate credit cards and other debt. and you can save $500 a month. that's $6,000 a year. it ain't my dad's razor, dad. ay watch it! it's from gillettelabs. this green bar releases trapped hairs from my face...

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porches in keaton beach. roads are a mess in mayo. parts of a downed tree as folks work to rescue an suv stuck. a home in orlando beach is flooded and idalia made fighting a fire tougher with firefighters having to wade through the knee-high water to get to the scene. no one was hurt. hurricane idalia is different from other storms, brian norcross with more on why. >> we don't have any storms like this in the record books in august. if a storm comes from south and veer to the north, it will happen late september or october, few we have had. in this particular part of the big bend, the eastern part of the big bend, last hurricane that was really strong, strong

hurricane was back in 1896, cedar keys hurricane, it was called and produced high storm surge about the same intensity of this storm. this is very unusual. >> janice: we had a great conversation on my podcast, that will air on sunday, so grateful for your time and knowledge about hurricanes. compare this one to ian last year. >> number of i think thises are different, it wasn't as strong as ian and ian in terms of intensification and weakening, similar. ian weakened just before coming ashore. when we get final analysis, we will find the right side, hurricane is moving to the right

that is the part with strongest wind ush approximating onshore from the gulf to land, storm surge. that in this one, was significantly weaker and weakened last hour before landfall, ian did. original projection up to 15 foot of storm surge, this one, jasper don't thdon't think are materialize. don't think. steinhatchee, end of a long road and they are marshy, they will do their best to figure out what storm surge was. we may find a spot that storm surge up in that range.

looking at radar and satellite, it lost energy before landfall. that was during the period energy was shifting and that is causing flooding in valdasta and that will be major flood threat from south georgia through the carolinas. >> emily: tell us about the ancillary damage and risk, storm surge will potentially bring the most damage. we discussed what would have been routine firefighting endeavor, they were wading in knee high water. i think about electrical currents. what do viewers need to know in term of risk appreciation? >> when you have a storm that knocks down trees, you have a whole set of i think thises. hurricanes, a number of people die from medical conditions because they can't get care from a physical practical standpoint.

storm surge was expansive down to and including tampa bay. the storm surge is not the threat, it is rain in carolinas that the most damage. this is major threat from georgia through carolinas. >> emily: thank you for your expert ooes, bringing it back to the couch now. kevin o'leary, you live in florida and have businesses there, what are your thoughts? >> i know the difference in tropical storm and cat 1 2, 3, 4. i have never seen a storm go from tropical to cat 4. that is really violent change and floridians know know what a 3 means and 4 means, where water

will come from. zero to 4 in 21 hours, wow. >> janice: rapid intensification and a lot of reasons why it exploded so quickly. national hurricane center did a good job in measuring that, that is one thing that is hardest in forecasting to do intensity forecasting. they knew we were going to have rapid intensification from 1 to 3, borderline 4 before making landfall and part of the reason is warm temperatures of gulf of mexico. normally warm, that is high octane fuel for the storms. we knew if an area of low pressure got into the gulf of mexico, it could explode and the main reason is it didn't have a lot of wind sheer, strong winds, the water temperature and how

deep that went fuelled this storm. that is what is happening along the gulf of mexico. >> florida owning property down in condominnium, florida is in middle of vast property insurance crisis because private insurers put the brakes on writing new insurance in the state of florida and people are being insured by the state of florida, citizen insurance is insurer of last resort and ensure almost one out of every five florida homes now and it is cut rate insurance because of florida regulators and it is quite precarious financial situation. it is a very trouble some situation for state of florida in terms of homeowners insurance

and everybody knows it. >> if i can add, i remember before i moved to new york, being in southern california, watching this network and news about sandy, thinking what is going on and say a few words about our colleague. what is going on with janice dean? nobody else was sounding alarm except for janice dean. this is 12 or 11 years ago, other networks were making fun of janice dean and her warning people to take it seriously and it brings me back toature, we have technology, it is great. we know about rapid increases and where it will head and all that. there is human instinct of being able to interpret what is going on and we in west coast have

earthquakes and fires and all that, and things you can't predict. an earthquake just shows up. people know what is going on. it was education for theest are of the country, the value of prognosticators and humanity and state leadership. one thing about policy and you can have fights and want to change things, this is when it matters, kemp, desantis, that is when your governor matters. >> janice: i agree, all of us need to come together. after a storm, you see the best in humanity. nobody asks who you voted for when your neighbor's house is taken over by water. really good moment and just trying to convey the message. we are deliverers of the

message. we don't want to get the forecast wrong. it is up to families to decide what to do, evacuate or heed the warning? we do the best we can, not to scare people, but to let them know the dangers and pay attention. it does change a life in a day. >> dagen: i have memorized, you can hide from the wind, you cannot run from the water. during ian, responsible for 156 fatalities and storm surge claimed 41 lives. >> emily: everyone, we are awaiting florida governor ron desantis, he is holding a pres conference in tallahassee as hurricane idalia pummels the state. drone footage capturing the foot l flooding in tarpin, florida. the roads are covered in water.

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beaches, now looks like rivers. drone footage captured this video. here is the scene of a mother and daughter having to wade in the water to escape their home. here is the latest with steve harrigan. steve what was it like a few hours ago compared to now? >> there is more hope. things are getting better. we've seen helicopters overhead and national guard is out performing search and rescue operation and clearing roadways with high-water vehicles. trying to come back and pick up the pieces, sweeping from the early morning hours. a lot of places don't have electricity, but are doing what

they can to get businesses back. we have seen a number of cars stuck. the national guard is operating, 300,000 people still without electric power and many places hard to get to. we have seen fire engines stuck with fire in the distance, getting around is the biggest hurdle. water has receded. things are getting better on this location. >> dagen: of all hurricanes you covered, put this one in perspective. >> this is appalling hurricane. i heard you talking about how it got more powerful. it hasn't been heavy wind, it is gradual storm surge. >> emily: steve, thank you. straight to governor desantis giving the residents of his state a briefing. >> there are more than 250,000

accounts out of power and in need of restoration. as you imagine, counties with highest power outage are counties in main pathway of the storm. utility workers are actively working to restore power in all affected areas and have started doing that as soon as it was safe to do so. restoration efforts are ongoing, we anticipate power outage numbers could go higher. all eight search and rescue teams are deployed, national guard has folks in taylor county, they are getting on the scene to do things like clear major pieces of the road and get

debris, that has been knocked around. there is a lot of moving parts at ground zero. national guard unit there and the general will talk about that. coast guard is active, including with rotary wing and florida fish and wildlife has boats and vehicles en route and florida department of transportation conducting at southern part of the state ander clooing roads and moving up north and will clear to taylor county. tampa airport will reopen for incoming flights at 4 p.m., by 3 a.m. tomorrow, will be fully reopened. gainesville airport will reopen tonight and tallahassee will reopen first thing in the morning. portings in tampa and manatee are undergoing assessment and

then they'll be able to resume operations, assuming all is well, which we anticipate it will be. there are as of now no confirmed fatalities, fatalities are things that are confirmed by law enforcement through medical examiner, we do not have confirmed fatalities yet. if you have questions about how things are unfolding go to florida disaster.org, for updates and emergency management will update that eb site with the latest information. we have good retail in terms of all counties other than big bend proper, tampa bay area and leon county doing well. we are assessing what is going on on the ground in the places that had initial impact.

i will probably try to get down to some counties today, we have a lot of people going in offering assistance to help the counties to stabilize the situation. i will bring up kevin guthrie, from emergency management. >> thank you, governor. so far right now biggest impacted area following up on what the governor said seems to be in perry. right now we know we have a couple businesses that have caught on fire. eye few have roofs knocked off of them, maybe potentially one collapse. we have crews there working with taylor county sheriff office and fire rescue. that is going on. madison county has been impacted. they have a lot of debris on the

ground. they have 99% power outages in that county. we have resources heading in that direction. i will let the general talk about that, he has a task force heading in that direction. other than that, specific detail, we continue to search, secure and stabilize areas that we can do that in. most of what we're doing in big bend area is initial search and i will say this, we don't have anybody from the cfo's office here, in search and rescue, in fort myers we were able to clear houses quickly because of the footprint of fort myers. in big bend, you may have two houses on a five-mile road. that will take a long time to clear those. we have more than enough assets

and resources, i want to set expectations, it will take longer than we experienced in fort myers because of the landscape, we'll have to do tree cutting and push, emergency access to get into areas to then do securing and stabilizing. we are working through that. we maintained communication with our counties. all 911 calls have been answered, there are some minor backlogs in taylor county and madison that local shall ifs are working through and sup elementing resouss to get through the calls as quickly as possible. we have 911 calls, there is no one in distress that has not been taken care of. the ones in distress, we folks

to immediately. we have folks calling saying i'm entrapped in my house and i'm okay, but i need help. they are okay, we will get to those folks as quick as we can get access in to them. response team will work around the clock to meet the needs of survivors and initiate efficient proffery process to communitieses impacted by hurricane idalia. we are working with law enforcement to continue to conduct search and stabilize, as i mentioned. we have recovery team in the eoc. we activate recovery team exact same time we activate response team. recovery team has been working getting ready for this and are conducting windshield assessment. we will go into the next phase individual damage assessment.

where those are done at local and county level to get numbers that will roll up with us, we have fema that is standing by ready to do what we call join damage assessment. they have teams here ready to go for that. you will see a very quick response on the recovery side of the house to do individual damage assessment and public assistance damage assessment to check infrastructure, city and county buildings. that will unfold likely as soon as tomorrow so we can get recovery pros jump started here in the state of florida. we could not do that without leadership of the governor and objectives, he sets. thank you so much. >> general. >> good morning and thank you,

governor, for your leadership and support of your florida national guard and mr. guthrie, thank you for protecting citizens. we are assessing damage and our thoughts and prayers are with the impact of the storm on folks. florida national guard is fully mobilized with 5500 supporting the efforts post landfall. guard elements have been providing support to state and local partners with reconnaissance, search and rescue, damage assessment. 53rd combat team is engaged in florida coastal counties, conducting ground search and rescue and route clearance. florida guardsmen are in hearnando and taylor county and

58th brigade conducting similar mission in the northeast counties. we have forces available to reinforce presence and capabilities in area with greatest need like taylor county. we are embedded with emergency operation center and remain ready to provide support as requested. as briefed earlier, florida national guard has 2400 vehicles, including high water and my mobility vehicle, aircraft conducting planned urban search and rescue operations this afternoon and 23 small water craft on hand to support marine operation as needed. florida is receiving assistant from other state national guard, two truck companies from south carolina and tennessee and we are preparing to receive three helicopters from kentucky.

same time, maryland, tennessee and colorado are standing by in case we need additional air assets. we are grateful for assistantance and support, florida national guard are prepared to accomplish any mission by emergency management and ready to support state, citizens and neighbors in need. thank you. >> thank you, governor desantis, for continued leadership and director gatherrie, for your partnership. several days ago we began preparing and had crews for last 36 hours. immediately after landfall, we began pushes crews into the area. 100 bridge inspectors, 1100 generatorings and 250 pieces of heavy equipment have been moving

into the area. get cut and toss and support life safety mission and main area of impact we have nearly 1000 bridges that have to be inspected, focusing on the coastline, several major lines over the rivers. right now state road 24 going to cedar keys is impassable because of high water and going i steinhatchee, is impassable because of water. we made progres and will continue to do so. we moved generators into the area and most traffic assessment completed, we have 50 locations left. all 13 traffic management across

the state will continue 24/7 operation inputting realtime traffic data to florida 511, most accurate information for traffic at florida 511.com, we have 185 road rangers continuing to patrol interstate system and responds to motorists. there is still high water in a lot of areas, if you see water overa road, do not drive through it. stop, turn around and go a different way, it can be dangerous to drive through flooded road ways. thank you for your support, governor desantis. >> we'll have all these assets in motion and a lot of efforts at power restoration and roads cleared and really significantly affected areas that will happen and we'll do whatever we need to

help local communities get back on their feet. any questions? >> what time did the eye cross into georgia? >> i will have to look that up? >> i think it was probably within the hour, within the last 30 or 40 minutes. >> this morning what time was it too dangerous for people in big bend area to evacuate? >> what would you say? >> probably last evacuation between midnight and 2 a.m. >> do you have any idea how much people stayed in their house? in ian, there was a form families filled out. >> we did door to door, it was a different scenario with les people. florida highway patrol and local sheriff office agencies in levy, about 100 people that stayed and up into taylor county in the

50ish people that stayed. >> would you say the florida or tallahassee has dodged a bullet with -- >> if you look, if we were sitting here last night, we had a track bringing the eye to leon county and they shifted that this morning. leon, this was from where we were when it was going there, this is the shift leon wanted for sure. you go out there and i've been out, rain, wind, debris, nothing i think like if that wall would have impacted tallahassee, you would have seen more damage. that helped tallahassee and leon county. >> is there bridge damage like we saw in sanibel island? >> i will let jared come up, i don't think we have identified that. in tampa bay, some bridges were

closed, some because of water and wind, structurally, i have not gotten comments they are problematic. bridges are not passable because water is overflowing, is that accurate? >> that is accurate, we are in process of doing damage assessment and have not seen anything close to what we saw with sanbel island. we have not seen major damage yet. >> are you seeing significant river flow inland whether the swany or can go over saint johns? >> i'm sure we are. >> so short answer is we're starting to see some reaction. all of this rain will drain into the basin. usually we don't see actual river action for 24-48, 72 hours

after the fact. saint johns river is slow responding river. in hurricane ian, took 45 days to correct itself on that body of water. it will take time to react and go back down. >> i will say, the one thing of this storm moved faster than other ones have you have mooed, some things will dump water and go slow. this moved faster, which is at least when talking about flooding, is a little bit better than when they are slow. >> the reason -- what does it look like for recovery for counties hit like taylor and suwannee? >> we are in the process of doing, of course, stabilize, rescue, recovery, whatever needs

to be done, power, save lives, all that, without saying. there will be damage assessment to see what we're looking at in terms of damages in each county. there is debris that is something that will need to be done. counties are not able to afford that on their own, with 75% cost share with the federal government. i imagine the state would want to help fiscally constrained counties. we may be seeking better cost share, there will be things that need to be taken care of and these are counties among big bend, they have small budgets and expenses like this are not things they can absorb the way wealthier counties could. >> i saw an oak tree fell on the

governor's mansion, is your wife and kids okay? >> we are fine, she called and told me ancient oak tree split in half and part of it fell. i don't know if it fell on the residence per se, i don't know if they'll have to cut down the tree, if they do, that will be more room for my kids to hit baseballs in, for us issue the tree was nice, we'll make due and be all right. >> can you comment on healthcare facilities in smaller counties? did they have to close? >> i will let kevin, i have spoken with a number of main chains who had closed hospitals in the tampa bay area, they are doing very well. most of them are going to be reopening today, if they have not already done that.

they have a footprint into the nature coast. do you want to talk? >> we did have a couple of facilities and nursing homes that did do evacuations as part of the evacuations we called for two days ago. to date, no report of any issue inside health and medical industry whether that is assisted living, skilled nursing facility, nursing homes or hospitals. everybody is reporting green and they are good to go and everything is all right. >> do you know how many residents had to be transferred? >> i don't have that number. we can get with the secretary and figure out what the numbers were. >> talk about the discrepancy between numbers on fatalities and sighting fhp and you saying

there is no -- >> right. there is process for confirmed fatalities that goes through law enforcement and medical examiners and they do that, that has not been done yet where we had confirmation. there is unconfirmed reports that may get confirmed. what is fatality that is direct result of the storm or fatality that is unfortunate but not necessarily a causal factor with the storm. in fort myers beach, people there were fatalities because of the storm surge, no requesty question. if you are out day after storm and picking up debris and someone has a fatal heart episode, does that count as storm related death? they argue these i think things. when confirmed, fatalities will

be put out by authorities, there is a process. unconfirmed, i think unconfirmed report of traffic fatalities and that may be storm related, it was happening within the time the storm was approaching or on target in various parts of florida. we'll have more updates as the day goes on, we will visit some areas as soon as safe to do so and will be assessing on the ground and mobilizing additional resources. >> dagen: governor ron desantis giving the people of florida and the country an update on the aftermath of hurricane idalia, including kevin guthrie, florida division of emergency management chief there. we are waiting for a white house pres briefing that could start any moment from now.

the headline out of governor desantis, touching on it there, no confirmed fatalities at this point in the aftermath of the storm. it just left the state of florida and moved into georgia and will head toward south carolina, as well. there have been unconfirmed reports of traffic fatalities. all eight search and rescue teams in orlando have been deployed. tampa airport will reopen for arriving flights and reopening of the airport will begin tomorrow morning. we will discuss what we heard and might see in the next day or two. janice. >> janice: i hate the term dodge a bullet, if we have a storm hitting georgia and carolinas, we can't get out there.

i am cautious when i hear people saying moving on. we have to assess what happened, when you have storm surge and flooding, the storm is not over yet. i just am weary of writing the storm off before we can assess what is going on. we have a lot of storm to cover and emergency flash flooding in georgia and hurricane on their door step and emergency managers trying to figure out what to do with residents, that is my takeaway, this is downgraded to 1 and made landfall, it is not over yet. >> dagen: this harkens back to the 1960s and hurricane camille, through the gulf, it is rainfall. we were talking in the beginning

of the show, rainfall total 4 to 8 inches expected in georgia and south carolina. more people die from rainfall flooding than from the other flooding salt water flooding. >> emily: right, ancillary risk is devastating to so many. think about how a year after hurricane katrina, i volunteered and we were giving out three meals a day to people without a home and shelter. my friend a medic who was deployed and her stories of body finding location and triage for those combchl family displaced, any one family hurt by this is the world and our prayers and thoughts go out to them. moving to brandi campbell, live on the ground in tallahassee

with the latest. what do you have for us? >> emily, as you can see, it is dry finally in tallahassee. it has been a stormy morning, constant rain and gusts and we are getting a break. fox weather app shows no more rain on the forecast and the storm moved on mostly from florida. governor desantis did talk about power outages saying they had 260,000 customers restored, but still many without power, 43,000 in leon county waiting to be restored. i did talk to a resident and he mentioned power flickered, but he was lucky. we were here doing reports and hearing transformers blow off. they were worried about power

outages because of the tree canopies in the distance. they are big, tall trees, in front of them is power lines. that is what you have, power outages, good news is they are getting them restored, it will take some time for folks. >> thank you, bringing it back to the couch now. >> >> where this will have economic impact, power will be out for 70 plus hours. new york, florida, texas, california, the largest demographic of small business in the country, employs 60% of the people. it's a huge holiday weekend for businesses. huge. it's going to hurt. people forget about the lingering economic impact of not having power. it's very fortunate this did not impact a lot of lives but it's going to hurt small business, i guarantee you that. >> i think about the medical

industry, where so much of the reagents require refrigeration and the like. to your point, sort of an untold possibility here, potential for destruction in that regard. >> people at home who rely on machines or cpap machines or things that need electricity and a friend of mine, tens of thousands of new residents in florida who have moved, one of whom is a friend of mine from california, warned her about the hurricanes, well at least you get a warning. i got a text when this began asking where do the alligators go, and so there's a whole different kind of world that goes on that people have to think about that will -- they'll have to continue to think about, the impact on small business certainly but it is a beautiful area, nature has a different agenda often than we do. but there you go, prayers for everyone to say the least. >> people still have not recovered financially from hurricane ian and then nicole. people on the east coast, people luckily were not hit by idalia,

but they have not even begun to repair the damage from those two back-to-back hurricanes last year. >> fort myers, tarps on homes, a devastated area. >> final thoughts, janice. >> listen, it's another hurricane, right, and there will be another one and we will cover it and the best of humanity will come together afterwards. >> stay with fox news for continuing coverage. >> the state is still being impacted by the storm's bands and we are seeing that particularly in the northern part of the state. >> it's a dangerous storm. people need to prepare, be ready when it's coming through. >> there is still additional storm surge expected