and are out of gasoline. if you can hear me, mike, in the storms that you have covered as a storm chaser, how would you rate this, thus far with the northern iowa -- i walls just touching on shore, if you can hear me? maybe you can put up a hand signal of 1 to 10, how you rate this. >> probably an eight. >> laura: i can hear you now! so it's bad? >> yes. it's very rare to have a northern i wall this intense. that's what they were worried about when it was going to build this way. we are seeing a shift south and i think they let their guard down thinking we wouldn't be getting anything. >> laura: might, we have to leave you there but please stay safe. that is at rest tonight, make sure to follow us all night long on fox, jesse is up next. >> jesse: fox news alert, monster hurricane milton

barreling down the gulf coast straight into florida's west coast. 120-mile-an-hour winds and violent water pummeling the bridge. and this is santa bell island where floodwaters appear to be swallowing a house. and in fort myers, a tornado rips through neighbourhoods, obliterating properties. the winds are ferocious, the storm churches unstoppable and floridians are worried. let's go to her senior correspondent in tampa. steve? >> jesse, we see rain come down in sheets. the wind is starting to pick up as well, we could see anywhere from 6-16 inches of rain here that has been going steady for the past six hours. the storm surge is another concern here in the tampa area. this could be a worst-case scenario depending on where the storm actually makes landfall. we could see up to 10 feet of storm surge here, anywhere from 15 feet along other parts and along the coast.

when it gets over 40 miles per hour, they cannot come out and rescue and right now it seems to be hovering right about that range. they still have electricity here in tampa. about 100,000 people without electricity, that is likely to go up to over 1 million before the storm is done. back to you jesse. >> jesse: stay safe, thank you steve. all right. it is a really tough situation out there on the west coast of florida. who do we have next? let's bring in our weather correspondent, robert ray. robert? >> yes jesse, we just had a huge pine tree fall on our vehicle right after a life report. we are all okay here on the manatee river. you can't see it but that's where i was reporting from all night tonight. where you can see the swells coming up on the river and on the other side here of tampa bay. and as i walked off the camera to get into the vehicle and just

try to grab a moment of solace, this tree just collapsed, as you can see. and there is debris and vegetation flying around and thus all of this equipment right now, sort of the heaviest winds that we have experienced coming in here in the past 45 minutes, the hurricane winds with intense rain and all of these pieces of vegetation coming off the trees. if you right in the face. there is no power in this area and landfall is imminent at some point very close to where we are, right now to the west. and with no power, i have to tell you, this microcosm of disaster that just happen to us, i can't even imagine what is happening all up and down the coastline from naples, fort myers and where we are at, tampa and the area. we are having major issues here tonight as expected. and as steve alluded to, the storm surge. as winds continue to come

through, the dangers sweep through this entire area and it is not just here, is in land in florida and in orlando. and then on the opposite side of this great peninsula, the atlantic, the entire peninsula except for parts of the panhandle will be impacted hugely as these power outages continue to mount. back you jesse. >> jesse: we can hear the wind in the shot. what does that feel like to you right now? >> it is unbelievable. i'm glad you brought up the fact that you can hear that sound over audio. that is all we are hearing. as a matter of fact, it is tough to communicate with the crew and our staff and understand what is going on. and when the tree fell, i hopped out of the vehicle, my photographer had the back of his vehicle open and part of the tree limbs went into the vehicle and we had to move the car back. the fox whether beast they're illuminating us and we couldn't even hear each other. in fact right now, if i screamed as loud as i could, they wouldn't hear a word i'm saying

without having their earpieces in. it is a difficult situation. by the way, that's why first responders are not out. anything over 40 miles an hour they cannot go out. these wind gusts are hurricane force right now and just downright frightening. and again, a microcosm. this is just one aspect of what is happening all across the coast of florida right now. >> jesse: is an ominous sound, think you so much. let's go over to mike. >> reporter: hello jesse. the winds are cranking out at hurricane wind gusts. we've had gusts up to 90 and nearby saint peace has dusted to about 80 miles an hour but the wind so far here is still blowing out to the east which is a good thing. and another good thing tonight is the track of milton. it is about to make landfall and it is going to go in south of tampa bay r that is going to alert the search numbers for tampa bay, it will increase the

search numbers and the forecast will verify down to the beaches. we have already had a surge of 5-6 feet and parts of the fort myers area. so south of here, those numbers verify but there is no way we will get 8-12 feet here. no one is complaining. eventually as it clears the tampa and st. peter area, the winds will come back around for the west and southwest and start to pour some water on sure. but by that point there is just no way we get those big numbers, no complaints here because there's so much debris in these neighbourhoods. they cleaned up a little bit more yesterday but literally miles and miles, these islands are piled up with debris and they are more than happy to get not much of a surge because people are really concerned even until a few hours ago that the surge combined with a wind, it would float the debris and the wind would start to float around. and then tomorrow morning we would wake up with debris all over the place and have to bring

in the bulldozers. right now we are looking better and areas. because of the track of milton as it starts to move right on the shore now. the edge on sure but you have to get the centre on sure before we have official landfall called by the national hurricane centre. rainfall has been prolific already in the st. pete area, pushing 10 inches of rain, it has been raining at 1-2 inches an hour since about dinnertime. and the wind so far has blown around a few things, some of these plastic highway markers going around but other than that, we have not seen a lot of things blowing around at this point. by the way, power outages in the state of florida now just over half a million statewide. here, the number has jumped up. we were at just about 10 percent, now 16% of the county, that includes clearwater beach and where we are here. 16% of customers are out. we're holding power here in this

area, we will see how that lasts. we have another few hours of these wins until about midnight, then things should begin to ease off but the impacts will be moving east along the corridor and the last one they had was charlie back and 2013. and that was the first one in 40 years and they were also concerned with the east coast beaches. also that tornado threat continues. the chiney to watch until 9:00 for most of the peninsula, they will extend that. that is a guarantee so be on the lookout. and that is where we stand right now. waiting for the official landfall and to see how it plays out on those gauges in tampa bay and the beaches here. but the bottom line, it does look better at this hour. >> jesse: if that is better looking, i cannot imagine what words would look like. you have done this, mike. not your first time. you are a hurricane guy. where does this rank, so far?

>> i would not yet put it in the top 10. i have been through some feisty ones, en two years ago, i was there for hours. it was like a buzz saw. i have been in katrina, i have been in -- it is not a top 10 yet. certainly from standing out here and certainly from what may happen overnight. but it is certainly pretty feisty and it will come in. it likely is a major hurricane down to 120. but still, a lot of impact for many people. but now it looks like the worst possible scenario where tampa bay is not going to be his going to happen. >> jesse: looks quite feisty from here new york, things for the report. as hurricane milton brings biblical damage to florida, biden came out today and defended his administration's slow response to hurricane

helene, calling any criticism of it this information and pointing fingers at trump. >> there has been reckless promotion of disinformation and outright lies about what's going on. former president trump has led this onslaught of lies. assertions have been made that property is being confiscated and that is simply not true. we're saying people impacted by the storms have received $750 in cash and no more, that is simply not true either. they are saying that money needed for these crises are being diverted to migrants. what the heck are they talking about? stop it, is outrageous. it is just not true. >> jesse: biden is fighting from part of than the hurricane. if he should be angry at anyone, it should be his team. they did not preposition assets in north carolina to help in the foothills. just like afghanistan and the border, that hurricane is now trump's fault. americans have lost power, their homes, some of them even lost

their hubs -- husbands. do not worry about politicians say on tv. they are worried because they have not seen fema all week. criticizing your government is not misinformation, it is a god-given right of every american. instead of battling to save lives, the biden-harris administration is treating natural disasters like a p.r. battle. that needs to be one with words instead of fast action. >> there has always been issues and disasters, certainly this happened where there is misinformation where there are scams but we have never seen anything like we have at this level. >> the administration will also continue to work out and call out misinformation and conspiracy theories around the storm and federal and state responses. this is wrong, dangerous and must stop immediately. >> are we concerned about any misinformation or disinformation regarding evacuations that we need to clear up?

>> there has been a lot of misinformation out there, madame vice president, that's for sure. >> jesse: the only misinformation we heard is that biden is doing a great job. and if you just drive your electric car, category five hurricanes will shrink into category two. americans are naturally suspicious of the government after they lied to us about vietnam, iraq, covid, russia, the president's health. this is not a cheap fake. north carolina sees the aftermath and biden and harris relate. so what are they claiming is disinformation? number 1, fema is seizing property. trump never said that. number 2, people would not get more than $750. trump never said that. and then the migrant money. that came from them. they said fema would run out of money for hurricane season. and fema admitted they wasted

$1 billion on migrants. i'm not great at math, if i were i would work on wall street. but if you spend too much money on one thing and don't have enough money for another thing, that means you messed up. but if someone is making crazy claims on the internet about fema, so what? the president of the united states should not be amplifying it at a press conference. no one had ever heard about most of this misinformation until biden repeated it in front of the nation. all of this silliness is designed to distract the media from covering biden's failure in north carolina. he makes the story about trump so the story is not about him. and the media just goes along. even cnn is confronting the admission -- administration about not being prepared, watch this. >> after it made landfall on sekera 26, joe biden was at his house. vice president kamala harris was flying between ritzy california fund-raisers getting down the celebrities. a secretary was in los angeles

presiding over an awards ceremony. heidi respond to this accusations? >> we don't listen to her pay attention to such unproductive and quite frankly, counterproductive words. >> jesse: so criticizing democrats is counterproductive but criticizing republicans is saving lives. by combating misinformation. you got that? what is counterproductive is leaving americans hanging. but bending over backwards to help foreigners who broke into the country. americans have to wait weeks for $750 when they lost their home. but a migrant crosses the border and gets a free bus ticket, free hotel room, free food, free phone, debit cards lickety-split. migrants get to cut the security line at the airport while you wait weeks for fema to arrive. it is not right. all we're asking is to put

americans first. we don't hate anyone, we just want fairness and respect. especially since we pay for the government that is supposed to help us when we cannot help ourselves. we should not be debating politics and arguing about misinformation. we should come together and save lives. but even so-called scientists are going on tv and saying if you vote for kamala harris, hurricanes will shrink. >> the other side, as we often call it, they have no plans to address climate change. no plans for long-term dealing with these sorts of problems. if you have young voters out there, and encourage them to vote. people say what can i do about climate change? if we were talking about it, associating it with big storms like this, that would be really good. but the main thing is to vote. >> jesse: this is like saying the best thing you can do to protect yourself from the hurricane is get vaccinated.

remember that? trump was asked about how these hurricanes will impact the election and he said he was not thinking about voting, he was thinking about lives. donald trump hosting nearly 300 lineman from florida power and light company at his golf club. and kamala harris has been sidelined by joe biden and has been left to complain that desantis won't take her calls. >> i'm working with president biden and our state and local partners and we are getting the job done. she has never been interested in any of the storms we have had in the state of florida for her entire time is vice president. now she is out there attacking me because i'm not catering to her whims? all she is doing is injecting herself to be a part of her political campaign. i don't have time for political games. we have a job to do, people's lives are on the line and that is our sole focus. >> jesse: even president biden is telling harris to stand down. he says don't get involved. we are working well together. >> does govern --

governor desantis need to take her calls? >> all i can tell you as i've talking to governor desantis and he has been very gracious and thanked me for what we've done. he knows we are doing and i think that is important. >> jesse: good to know biden and desantis are working well together because florida is about to get smashed. it's also good to know fema will not be getting in the way there. >> just let me be clear. and florida, we run the show. fema is not running the show, we will utilize them to support some of the things that we are doing. but you will not see fema running amok and florida. i know that has been out there on the internet, that will not happen. i am the sheriff in charge here and we will make sure to protect you, worry about it. >> jesse: the former hawaii congresswoman and former presidential candidate joins us now. this misinformation b.s., which they are trafficking in all day, they talk more about that than they talk about the hurricane, what is that all about?

>> they are really exposing themselves, jesse. they claim to be the defenders of democracy but they revealing themselves over and over again to be dictators. that is what we're seeing. they see themselves like dictators do, as the country. and anyone who dares to criticize them is therefore committing a crime or a traitorous or is disloyal to the country. this is how twisted their minds are and quite frankly how dangerous it is. just the other day we heard hillary clinton say that those who are spreading disinformation should be charged with either civil or criminal charges to act as a deterrent for people exercising their right to free speech. she set of social media does not start cracking down on free-speech online back then they will be unable to have total control. this is how these people think. they don't actually care about the constitution or free-speech or the first amendment, ultimately they are just more worried about we, the american people criticizing them when

they are failing to fulfil their fundamental and core responsibility. to care for the american people and their greatest time of need, than they actually do about caring for people and their greatest time of need. it is infuriating to see. i have friends on the ground were working hard in western north carolina and i just got off the phone with a few of them. our fellow americans are drinking water from a polluted lake in western north carolina because they have no water. they are like screw $750, bring me clean water. and really knew well so that my children don't have to be contaminated and complain about their esophagus burning. this is what is really going on out there and they are complaining about people criticizing their efforts? it is legitimate criticism and maybe if they took action then we would be able to say, hey,, good job. you are delivering clean water to people who were literally just trying to survive. >> jesse: we are not criticizing biden for the entire

thing, looks like he is working well with ron, georgia gets back on their feet when north carolina, that was a mess and that was on joe. and it is not on an american to point that out. and what they did during covid, if you criticize them they said it was dangerous and it was un-american and then what they do is censor you. and i do not want to see this country going back to what we did in that pandemic because that was -- you're right, heading in the wrong direction. thank you so much, good to see you. >> thank you jesse. >> jesse: the pilot who flew through hurricane milton, straight ahead. but when it comes to caring for his teeth he's let his own maintenance take a back seat. well maybe it's time to shift gears on that. aspen dental has complete, affordable care all under one roof. plus $29 exams and x-rays for new patients without insurance and 20% off treatment plans for everyone. making it easier to get started with quality care.

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the category three hurricane spinning 120 mile-per-hour winds. let's go to america's newsroom coanchor in orlando. bill? >> hello jesse, at evening. we're starting to feel the effects yet again, we have a break in the rain but it's coming back and so was the wind. it is going to be an all-night affair here in orlando well into the day from throughout thursday. however,, at the moment, the governor, ron desantis just completed his ninth briefing. after that briefing was over he scent out this tweet saying as milton makes landfall, near this county, now is the time to shelter in place. this is a category three hurricane, jesse. sustained winds of 120 miles per hour. the last time that the city took a direct hit was hurricane donna in 1960. and jesse, if you were to call up google maps and looked down at a satellite at all the housing development on the beautiful west coast of florida and all that area and south of their, you can see how much the

population it has increased, how much construction has taken place, how idyllic it is to be on those white sand beaches and get a peer sunset in the gulf of mexico. that is the reason why the population by the millions or the past few years has grown to where it is today. especially over the past 30 years. tens of thousands of people have moved into this part of florida and they are now hoping for the best. as it becomes dark here throughout the state of florida. governor desantis says 155 shelters were open, they have about 200,000 people being housed, that is a lot of people throughout the sunshine state. predeployed several tens of thousands of power and light, electricians throughout the state to try to work on the power starting tomorrow once things start to clear out. but we are a long way from the story even being over because the storm is going to pass the centre part of the state all day

tomorrow and then exit out around daytona. jesse, they are estimating about 18 inches of rain in daytona beach. and you start to think about the scale of this storm and how much this entire state could be covered by the effects of hurricane milton. we talked about the mayor of clearwater earlier today. he says in his lifetime, it is the first time that he has seen everyone leave and evacuate clearwater. i'm sure there are a few stragglers left behind but earlier today he was pretty convinced about the evacuation zone. >> jesse: i think we lost him. thank you bill, that was a good report. spring and captain nate, an air force pilot who flew his plane through milton and he joins me now. what was that like? >> 's, thank you for having me. it was intense.

milton is a category four and five hurricane and it is rapidly intensifying and it really threw us around. everything was strapped down and strapped in and we got kicked around for a few hours and the rest of the crews followed behind us have the same so it's a big one. >> jesse: what kind of insight can you gain by flying through a storm like that? >> as we fly through the storm, we don't fly around, we go right through the side of it. we fly in at 10,000 feet and drop weather instruments throughout and that gives us a temperature dewpoint, wing speed, direction. we find our way through the eye wall and mark the exact centre in the eye of the storm and we send that information in realtime to the national hurricane centre and the input that information into their models for more accurate forecast. >> jesse: how dangerous is that? >> you know, it can be but

safety is really one of the air force's most paramount priorities. we put so much emphasis on it and we are a reserve squadrons we have plenty of guys that have been doing this for 15, 20, some even 25 years. so any lack of experience is made up in the rest of the plane by another crew member and safety is a top priority. but it can be a little dicey sometimes. >> jesse: tell me about the plane. it looks like it has every bell and whistle imaginable. >> yes. it is a variant of the c 1:30. a workhorse of the air force. and yes, it is loaded with loadmaster pallet and it has some bells and whistles and we are always upgrading it so that we can get all of that information even faster to the people who can use it the most. >> jesse: you are doing a great job. thank you for getting that data back onto the ground so that people can use it and make

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>> jesse: back with a fox news alert. monster hurricane milton just slammed onto the shore. there are already multiple casualties. plus, this. explosions in the sky just outside of this town, let's bring in ben mcmillan with weather nation. he is chasing milton and joins us now. all right been, what exactly is going on now? >> hello jesse. we are outside sarasota on the bridge that goes between bird key and sarasota. you can see winds have dropped off because we are in the centre of the heart of this storm. we're in the eye and that's where those much more calm winds

are present. but in 20 minutes or so we can have violent winds start wrapping back around the backside of the storm. that is one of the reasons these hurricanes are just so dangerous. have wind coming from one direction over 100 miles an hour and then you have this wall and you might think a, it's okay to go out and then of course you get slammed in another direction from the wind so we want people to monitor the storm and not commit of their say shelters yet >> jesse: are you feeding information back? are you just a thrillseeker, what is the deal? >> ultimately i'm a first responder and have a background so i'm out here making sure we are providing up-to-date information to a lot of folks that don't have it. they pulled police officers off the streets here, tweeting it was no longer safe for their officers to be on patrol or their firefighters to respond. and in that situation, folks like myself can step up and provide the critical information to authorities. >> jesse: so you are the first first responder. what we salute you. >> in a way you could say that.

>> jesse: we salute you for that. how does this stack up to other storms you have experienced in florida? >> ultimately i think we're very lucky because this one has weakened some. we were at a five earlier today so being at a three or a two here in the next few hours is a significant improvement and what we're looking at, this is the largest evacuation since armah and 2017. millions of floridians having to leave their homes and rush and land. so it's safe to say we are all very grateful that the storm has weakened but unfortunately we are still going to see some very severe impacts. you said there were reports of casualties, we saw tower explosions so it will be daylight before we really understand the full impact of this disaster. >> jesse: tomorrow will be a day of reckoning, think he was always, we appreciate it, keep up the good work. let's go to fort myers. where the mayor has an update. what are we hearing? >> jesse, right now it is a little light rain and some new gusts.

we have street flooding going on. so we anticipate as the eye moves in and the backside of the storm comes, we will see more search, more flooding. >> jesse: and we just got reports of explosions, are those down power lines? what would those be? >> that would be the power lines, probably transformers. >> jesse: how many people evacuated? did everyone clear out or is there still some dead ends? >> you will never get 100%. i do believe we have more this time than we did with ian. we have 13 shelters open and i know there are thousands of people. >> jesse: governor desantis seems to be on top of this one. we have been hearing from him all day, all week, actually. what has been your interaction with the governor? >> the governor is very supportive when these storms happen. and when it comes to a disaster, he's a great leader.

>> jesse: when you had ian hit a little while ago, how far along with the recovery were you until this came along? >> because we are upriver about 15, 18 miles from the gulf, our recovery was a little bit better because we did not get slammed is hard. we were almost 100% recovered. then helene came along and people who just got back in their homes were now flooded again and here we go again. >> jesse: is there anything you want to say to the people fort myers now that you have us? >> yes, the only thing i can say now is the storm is upon us. you have to stay safe. tomorrow -- whenever the storm passes, our emergency response teams are ready to hit the ground and start the recovery process. >> jesse: mayor, stay safe, hunker down and it looks like you have a lot of work ahead of

you, we appreciate it. >> thank you jesse. >> jesse: let's go back to mike. >> yes, the unrelenting wind and rain continues. we're still gusting anywhere between 70 and 90 miles an hour. on the north side of the eye wall of the center, as jesse mentioned it made landfall at 8:30 o'clock eastern. it is just down south, you get into manatee and sarasota county and from there south is where you have the surge issue is because as the centre goes in, the winds are still blowing offshore because we are on the north side to the winds are coming around like this and we still have an east wind for the most part blowing the water into the gulf. so the gulf is not going to come in for now, it will be a while. once the centre tracks in and gets past the tip of the st. pete area, the circulation will start to wrap the water back in and we will get some surge. but the 8-12-foot numbers from the forecast earlier from the tampa bay area here, that will

not verify. nobody is complaining. what is increasing our the power outages. at last check, 675,000 floridians were without power and that was not only here, or the east part of the state but we have had tornadoes and strong winds earlier today and then tornado watch until 9:00 will be extended. here we have lost more power, when i talked about half an hour ago it was 16 percent, now 24% of customers in the county are without power. that will continue going up and we will continue seeing it increase inland because milton will basically track along interstate four into orlando. as we get a gust like we did from charlie? we will find out. also towards daytona and also those speeches surrounding the area. strong winds, heavy rains with the risk of tornadoes as we get into the early hours on thursday morning. our weather here will get better. certainly by about midnight or so, we will be out of the

strongest winds and the rain will come to a quick and on the backside of hurricane milton. >> jesse: we keep hearing about these tornadoes. i am unfamiliar with the tornado factor during a hurricane. how does the hurricane give birth to a tornado? >> what happens to these bands, not so much around the centre but the outer rain bands you have a lower level wind here and they are increasing and you get the spin-off. and it is not unusual to get spin-off and week tornadoes with hurricanes. but we are getting some very strong rotation and the reason being is this is not a completely trackable system. we have the cold front come down and the jet stream is taking down in this jet stream, thankfully, is sharing the storm and that's why it dropped from a category five to a category three and the winds came down from 180 down to around 120. so we have this jet stream energy that we talk about in the spring time with tornadoes and

the deep south. so we are getting some of that extra oomph from the jet stream aloft, mixing with the low-level wins in the different directions northwest and the southwest or southeast wind below sea got the rotation and that's how you get the tornadoes. but this time around, this is unusual. another unusual thing about this is the intensity of the twisters and i heard earlier today that the tampa and miami weather service put out more tornado warnings today so far than they have done on record, i believe that is the staff i heard earlier so it has been a very busy day here in tampa. not only from the severe weather threat but also the milton threat. >> jesse: thank you so much. keep us posted. and we will have more live reports on the ground in florida as hurricane milton mcclaren fall right now. more “oh yeah!” more laughs.

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per hour. torrential rain and ferocious winds are pummeling venice as we speak. you were looking at santa bell island where in the last 4e enveloped half of this house. let's go to the cowboy. on a mission to save as many people as possible. is this just you right outside there? >> yes, we are out there, we just had to come back because we had probably about 5 minutes so we started making her way back to higher ground. >> jesse: what is the agenda for the next 24 hours? >> it will be pretty nasty. here the tip of the storm, about midnight, 1:00 it will get worst we start to see the surge coming in. we have maybe 5 minutes left in the truck would have been gone. so we are making her way closer

to higher ground. rope midnight, 1:00 is where will be. >> jesse: and do you expect people will be in need of saving? >> absolutely. i think a lot of people will need to be saved. if you are on the second or third level, i think you may be okay. but we will see around 12:00 when the wind is at their backs. >> jesse: keep up the great work, god bless you and god bless everybody in fort myers. >> thank you, amen. and check in on captain dan in tampa. >> jesse: that's great to hear. good luck. a congressman's district is based in sarasota enjoins us now. congressman, you guys have weathered so many of these storms, people must be prepared by now. >> yes, the biggest challenge we had was that we were still recovering from trend to. i had my barrier islands that

had debris outside of their homes, we are trying get as much of that up is possible before milton hit so we are very accustomed to this. we have evacuated level eight so hopefully most of those people have left. after what we experience in ian and helene with the storm surge, it was looking like we would get more than that. we got hit with the storms so i think the surge is going to be south of us in the fort myers and charlotte area, they would get the worst of the storm surge, we have a lot of wind. i think i am in the eye right now because i heard the wind calmed down so then we get back into the storm. we are very accustomed to this. unfortunately, my barrier islands just recently got hit and were flooded and they now have gotten hit again and that will be a real challenge. >> jesse: we were just talking to bill who was explaining how many people have moved to the gulf coast of florida, the west coast of florida and just the last few decades.

and especially during the pandemic. how many people from the northeast or the midwest just came down there and set up shop because of the lifestyle and the freedom. for those people who have just arrived, in your area, just the last couple of years, transplants, what would you tell them about a storm like this? >> we have 1100 people a day moving to the state of florida because we have freedom here in florida. the thing is that you have to buy houses that are built and the last 10 years or so under the fema codes. those older homes that are one-story and in the beach, they all got flooded in this last hurricane and they will probably get some catastrophic damage this time. so i live in land, obviously in land you don't see the type of storm surge they see on the coast but a lot of people moving down here want to be close to the water and that comes with a cost. paradise has a cost and you have to make sure that what you are purchasing and where you are buying is in a place that has all of those new codes and is

higher up than the older homes. >> jesse: we just heard from your governor who appears to be on top of this, he usually ends when these things hit, he said he is working well with the president, the president paid him a few compliments, they say they are coordinating everything. you did hear from the president talk about disinformation today. how have you interpreted that? >> president biden and the administration has no involvement on what goes on on the ground. yes, we have fema calls but those people aren't on the ground right now. i still have charlotte county who still has not gotten reimbursed from fema from hurricane ian from two years ago. so the real players on the ground are the state assets, we have the national guard here in my district that are ready to activate as soon as it is safe to activate. once the miles per hour of the winds go down, they will get activated and law enforcement will get activated. hopefully we don't have that many rescues but the local government, the county government and the state

government is where it is at. you do not see the federal government on the ground right now. >> jesse: that is good to know and thank you for keeping yourself safe and everybody safe in your neck of the woods. we appreciate such a beautiful place in this country where you are, thank you. >> thanks for having us. >> jesse: more prime time straight ahead. ♪ ♪ yo this fall, switch to a turbotax live expert and we'll beat the price you paid your pro last tax season.

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♪ ♪ >> jesse: hurricane milton just hit south of tampa. nora for fort myers directly hitting the sarasota area. that area which still recovering from hellion and even hurricane ian two years later. looks like the governor has things ready with the national guard ready to go. at this point we can only pray that mother nature has mercy. ♪ ♪ >> sean: