storm that we've been waiting on now for the past four days. so here we are tonight in orlando, we will see where we get throughout the night. it will be a long dark night as i said earlier in the sunshine state and then again tomorrow we will be dealing with the storm. we will find out what happens with that senior community and all of that -- those homes that apparently where 125 damaged during the storm as the tornado broke out earlier this afternoon. our coverage will continue with trace gallagher in a moment on "fox news at night" and stay with the fox news channel and fox weatherford complete coverage of milton. this is quite the storm and it's not nearly over yet. live in orlando, we will see you again tomorrow morning on america's news. >> trace: good evening, trace gallagher, 11:00 p.m. on the east coast, 8:00 in los angeles and this is america's late news, "fox news @ night". breaking tonight, we continue the coverage of hurricane milton now wreaking havoc along the

florida peninsula after making landfall as a category three hurricane. it is now a category two, making it's way across the peninsula, battering a region that was pummel by hurricane helene less than two weeks ago. we will have rolling coverage from across florida, all of the coastal areas all night. as the state's governor president have been preparing for days, begging floridians to evacuate to avoid dying. >> if you are in one of those storm surge prone areas, take action now. >> sometimes moving just a few miles can mean the difference between life and death. >> trace: meantime the vice president, a woman who wants to be president, has other plans, like beer on late tv, laughing with hollywood elites and gallivanting through coastal cities. >> cheers. >> there you go. [cheering and applause]

>> that tastes like the beautiful city of milwaukee. >> the champagne of beers. >> trace: more on the political ramifications in moments but first hurricane milton making landfall just over two hours ago with sustained winds of 120 miles per hour and so far more than 1.6 residents are without power. we are being told now that the crux of that, the entire storm is over the peninsula the winds have dropped to about 100 miles per hour which puts it at maybe a category two hurricane, just that category two. it should remain at hurricane strength oiler crosses the entire peninsula. that is a live look at tampa, florida and let's get to the senior national correspondent steve harrigan live on the ground. how's it looking? >> reporter: trace, we are seeing the trail of play storm and the winds come through. tampa mainly so far it's been a wind and rain event.

earlier winds have been strong enough to snap -- snapped some small trees. i can see some of those small trees blocking parts of the road so it's going to be tough for repair and rescue crews at night. one of the real challenges has been for first responders. governor desantis has said that thousands of power crews are ready to go, thousands of first responders, 9000 members of the national guard ready to carry out high water rescues if necessary, but they are being held back until storm winds go lower than 40 miles per hour. so really people being told to hunker down and write it out for the next few hours. governor desantis saying help is on the way and on the way very soon. >> trace: as you look around, are you noticing people coming out of their homes, are you noticing that people are kind of coming out to check out if there was any damage or check out the remnants of the remainder of the storm? >> reporter: i think it's too

early for that. downtown tampa has pretty much been a ghost town for the past five or six hours. we got some strong gusts earlier but no major to struct of far as buildings downed more signs or streetlights, but you have to figure some of the smaller homes and a lot of trees will be down so they will really be picking through the wreckage tomorrow, especially two weeks after another storm left so much debris along the roadside. >> trace: daylight always brings a significant amount of damage. steve harrigan, back to you as the news warrants, thank you. for the latest on the path of the storm let's bring in fox whether meteorologist. adam, i heard you last hour saying you believe the storm is now over the peninsula of florida. could be off the peninsula by sometime early morning? >> reporter: seven, 8:00 a.m. you could see at least what was the moving out over the atlantic but then you would still be seeing some of the backside of the storm which does take a little bit longer to ultimately drag

across. by midmorning it is completely moved on through. where are we right now? you are looking at what would have been the center completely over the peninsula. because of upper level winds it's kind of top loaded or front loaded. all of the action is to the north of that line really where interstate four is up towards orlando and places further north. it's a category two, winds at 100 file might hundred 5 miles per hour. it should stay hurricane as it ultimately makes the move. because of all that heavy rain on the north side, that is so far probably the biggest story. everything you are looking at here in this purple highlighted box, that is a flash flood emergency. they don't put those out often, the rain has to be really heavy. it's what was going on in the appalachian mountains.

the rain is going to continue to march across the state ultimately heading up towards that orlando area. wins, the other story, at least so far, gusts in tampa up to 85 myles murao her, 91. there have been spots up to 100 miles per hour. the important thing about the winds is this system came on sure south of tampa. that means all of the winds are coming from the land and pushing all of the water out to see. you don't get a storm surge. there was talk about a 10-foot or 15-foot storm surge. that was not the case because instead the water is being pushed away from tampa so you are getting a negative storm surge. there are places negative 5 feet. flooding still likely an issue but it is not going to be ocean water, it will be reign water because of the intense rain storms. there are places where there could be storm surge and that will be a little bit farther south when you suddenly get the winds coming from the golf pushing onto the land. this is getting down further

south. these are some spots where the wind gusts are up towards 70 miles per hour. those are places where you are getting the wall of water likely pushed up on sure. some storm surges we have seen, fort myers recently up to 5 feet, naples at 4.6. some of the places it could be higher, sarasota. we don't have gages in place and we won't know until tomorrow. folks can get in there and we will get a better idea but wind continues to be the story as well. plenty of spots getting up to 100 miles per hour. that should continue to die down but maybe from here on out it will be a wind and rain story and it will last all night long until tomorrow morning. >> trace: we've talked a lot about the breaking news happening in south florida but i'm wondering what the conditions are because across the state of florida they had 126 tornado warnings. not a watch, a watch is a look out for a tornado, a warning is we've seen tornadoes. 126 is a phenomenal amount and we know that the county was hit

with some of those tornadoes, what are the conditions that spawn that many tornadoes in that little time? >> i will be honest, this does not ever happen really. this is a record in south florida. we've never seen this many tornado warnings in such a short amount of time. 126. here they all are and pretty much covered the bottom half of the state. you typically get a tornado warning or watch when you see a hurricane move on sure. this was just abnormally warm moist air, the conditions were perfect and boy did it explode unfortunately. >> trace: we will talk more about what's happening, the rescue. we do not know if it's underway because we don't know if rescue teams can get in there. adam klotz, we will get back to you in moments. meantime let's bring in florida residents ben moss and macey moss and former olympian dania vizzi who all evacuated florida ahead of this monster storm. i want to go to you first, then.

because you were listening to adam and steve. in your area it looks like they really dodged the bullet down there because it did not get the storm surge they were expecting. there is some rain, there is wind and could be severe wind damage but what do you think about the path of the storm? >> going into it it was kind of confusing. even when we first heard about it no one knew where it would hit. is it hitting tampa, south of us, north of us? we had to prepare for a direct hit. listening to talk about the tornadoes, i did not even know tornadoes hit inside of hurricanes to be honest. to have that many, we went up to my mother-in-law's house an hour north of tampa and i'm talking to some of my neighbors and stuff and the property still looks good but the wind damage is the biggest thing. we are away from the water, our home near tampa is away from the water where storm surge is not

an issue but it's the wind. tomorrow once this blows over, looking forward to seeing what damage has occurred or anything like that in our neighborhood. >> trace: are you eager to get back to your house and see what damages there and see maybe, you know, maybe moving back in tomorrow? >> i'm curious to see for sure. i am curious what the power situation will be like. we know that the house has already lost power so curious if that will last for several days over a week. it's really hard to tell. we just moved there. >> trace: do you think the evacuation was the right move, was there is handled well, do you think the state handled this well? >> i agree it was the right move. i'm a florida native and i've lived here for 29 years and this is the most scared i've ever been for a hurricane.

i think a lot of florida natives and florida residents take hurricanes for granted. we don't really prepare that well. but after all of the disaster we saw from helene, so many people took it more seriously which i think was really great because when you hear that you are going to have 12, 15-foot storm surge and in my case i live less than a mile from the bay, that's really scary. so i chose to evacuate about 35 miles north to our farm where we have lost power but we do have a backup generator and we also have a safe room which is what i am in now when the winds get up to 80, 90 miles an hour may be, that's what we've heard, we can come in here and be safe. but the community has been so great. i've had so many people help me make sandbags, board up windows, everybody is so gracious at the grocery store, is letting you have cases of water. it's been really inspiring and i

think the state has handled it really well. i think a lot of -- every resident i know is so grateful to have governor desantis on top of this. just people ready to come save us if need be. >> trace: i'm wondering if you are saying if not for hurricane helene a couple of weeks ago, you might have decided to stay and ride hurricane milton out, is that kind of where you are leaning? >> it's definitely possible. i think if i did not have my parents farm so close, there would have been a chance that i would stay just because i've never seen impact like this in tampa bay and my 29 years of living here. but i've had a friend loser home, i've had multiple friends and the tampa bay area who have not been able to come back to their house since helene so i think a lot of us have taken this more seriously. >> trace: it's interesting because i know that you have had some friends and family that also had trouble getting gas and

getting supplies, ben, what do you know about their whereabouts, do you think the people having trouble are safe and accounted for? >> absolutely. my wife and i ourselves, we had to go to the gas station a few times to get our cars filled up. waited in line a little bit. there were seven of us and we went to my mother-in-law's. we are here north of tampa. there's seven abbas, we all made it here and are fine but it took my brother about four and a half hours or so. monday, tuesday, whenever he came up. that drive, going to all the traffic was insane. >> trace: macey, i know there's a lot of concern here. how was the flow of information for you? i know you guys had to leave your home, how is the flow of information, have you been able to make sure you contact your loved ones, has not been difficult to do during this time? >> thankfully not for us. we haven't had too many power

service interruptions so we are very fortunate in that way. we have been also getting a lot of information from the local government and various news sources so i think for us at least, where we are, it's been pretty straightforward but i can't say the same for others in the area. >> trace: what about you, dania, has communication been effective, clear, are you in touch with your loved ones and friends, are you worried about anybody right now? >> i'm worried about a couple of my friends who decided to stay and some of the evacuation zones but a lot of them are in high-rises so they weren't really scared of storm surge and i have hurricane impact windows so i was a little nervous but i've been keeping in touch with them all day and they seem to be fine. i think they just lost power so hopefully they can regain it soon. but communication has not really been a problem and i'm just

praying for everybody through this storm and i hope when i go home tomorrow there is not too much damage. >> trace: yeah, best of luck to all of you, thank you for coming on. ben moss and macey moss, dania vizzi, thank you very much, we appreciate it. stay safe, stay dry and i hope your properties are all good when you get back to see them. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> trace: meantime let's take a look at what's happening on the ground in tampa. fox weathers steve is live where extreme winds are creating extremely dangerous conditions. i know you are holding something there. is it a sign that fell off that may have hit you? almost hit you? >> yeah, this is a bus sign. it's pretty heavy. this is all medal. this collapsed and was ripped off because of the strong winds you were talking about. we got over 100 mile-per-hour guests on the other side of the bay. we are in downtown tampa where we are under a flash flood emergency. you see all the water ponding. this isn't that bad right now

but we are after two and a half hours after landfall, still significant costs that are ongoing. it's been eerie because it's very quiet in downtown. then you hear this metal that hits the ground and it just reverberates all around the different blocks. if you look down towards this sidewalk, you are seeing a lot of these trees that have been shredded, large branches just getting dragged across the road. so we still have a long ways to go. we will be talking about the wind threat. i heard you talking with adam before about this prolific tornado event out of milton. my family just outside of west palm beach in wellington took over direct hit from one of those tornadoes. thankfully they are okay but i got that while we were live on fox weather. sadly though outside of my neighborhood where my family is, the next neighborhood over, likely people have died because of their car getting flipped in those tornadoes. these hurricanes, a lot of threats with them when they come in. >> trace: steve, stay safe out

there, it looks bad. we will get back to you as the weather warrants as we watch the storm move across the florida peninsula. let's bring in gods pit crew president and founder randy johnson and founder of the kings firm jillian anderson. thank you for coming on. randy, to you first, i know that the god's pit crew team is already working. i know the storm is still going but i know that your team, your crews are already working. what's the plan? >> yeah, we've been on the ground with hurricane helene now for ten, 11 days, responding in five different states. so we are spread pretty thin. we've already delivered 25 loads of product, over half a million pounds. volunteers working in georgia, north carolina, virginia. but we are gearing up for this storm as well and we will do everything we can to be ready to respond. first off with loads of product

and relief supplies including water, generators, our blessing buckets, whatever is needed to help. then we will get in with some assessors and see what's needed and try to get our teams of volunteers on the ground to help cut trees, move debris, tarp groups, market flooded homes, whatever is needed. >> trace: i know we've had you on the show many times, jillian, we talk about other things. you've been in the process all day of trying to house friends, to get people to evacuate. how did it go, did you establish all the things that you wanted to before the storm came ashore at about 8:30 florida time? >> yeah, honestly i feel very fortunate. the last three hurricanes including this one, south florida has really been away from the dangerous weather. there were some storms here in our county but largely we haven't been really affected so many times my friends and family from naples on the gulf side, fort myers, they come here. so i have a full house of the

families right now and a lot of kids hunkering down, waiting to see what their homes look like when they get back. the same during helene and the same for milton or sorry, turang en. >> trace: they may not want to leave, one of those things where it's great to have family together and they may not want to leave. randy, it's interesting because take me ahead if you will 12 or 24 hours. is there a checklist that god's pit crew needs to kind of go down? what is it, what do you first go out and look for? what are the signs, where are the areas that you target first? >> we've been doing this for 25 years now, trace, so we have a lot of contacts in a lot of areas and some very close contacts in the florida area. we have a ministry partner in venice, one of our board members actually lives in tampa so we have a lot of connections. we will rely on them pretty heavily to begin with to get

reports back of how bad it is. and start setting up sites that we can get product into. then that next checklist is to get our assessors in there to help us assess the damage, what's needed the most and to start securing a site for us to set up and send our teams of volunteers to help in any way that we can. it's just so much, almost unimaginable we've had this much destruction this close together. god bless the people that have been affected by this. we are just trying to do everything we can to help. >> trace: so many families across so many states have been so damaged by this. we send our best to them. you are kind of on the same page, jillian, because you, god's pit crew will go out and do some good in the days and weeks ahead, but you are going to join jack brewer and his foundation this weekend.

what do you plan to do, what is the hope there? >> i'm -- the jack brewer has been doing foundation for ten days or so so right now my team has just been stacking up all the essentials. they are waiting to see where we go tomorrow. we've floated up generators, chainsaws, and really the things we need first on the ground to kind of clear debris, clear trees and clear roadways, that's going to be the first motivation for jack as we move forward and he leads us through and then we will usually come through with clothing and food and we have tens of thousands of pounds of food ready to go for people who need it. other essential supplies thanks to our partners and other things like soaps and things that people are missing. i know last week and a half we realized people have absolutely nothing. we have elderly people who have been displaced and everything. >> trace: and there will be more of that. noor ra'fat coming in the days

and weeks ahead. very quickly, i know that your crew will say listen, if houses need to be rebuilt, we will rebuild these houses. >> yes, that's part of our organization's plan. we go in after all of the immediate response is done and we do everything we can to help rebuild homes for families as well. as i say, it has been spread pretty thin here with so many disasters. but we are committed to doing everything we can to help bring hope, healing and restoration to the people who are affected by these storms. >> trace: jillian, why did you get involved in this? >> it's part of our mission. for the jack brewer foundation, to help the world's most vulnerable. we have been leading relief efforts for a long time all over the globe but i want to say one last thing, as we do house people and a lot of people are being housed in my side of

florida, i do have my cousin who is do with her third baby any day now staying in my house so talk about a catastrophe, leaving your home with your small children, do any minute. and so everyone just pray for her that things go smoothly for the next few days. these are the things that happen, everything in an instant. >> trace: that baby is going to be a blessing and so is being in your home so that's great. you are doing great work down there. thank you. tell jack brewer the same, we've had him on the show many times. yeoman's work. randy johnson, best of luck to you and you also are just doing god's work down there in florida, we appreciate your time and thank you for coming on the show. >> thank you. >> trace: meantime let's bring in fox whether meteorologist whose live in madeira beach florida where the storm is already leaving it's mark. what do you know? >> reporter: i can tell you

that the winds are finally beginning to back off. week -- we've had wind gusts over 100 miles per hour. sarasota, they petersburg. down in venice, the wind peaked at 109 miles per hour. also the heavy rainfall around st. petersburg, now up to 18 inches of rain and all of this rain and wind is heading across the corridor. the reason i'm not on the street anymore is because of what came down about two hours ago. part of i believe the rooftop restaurant bar pool area that's over there, it's aluminum, corrugated aluminum. nothing extremely heavy. if it hit me up the side of the head i would not be here. across the area a lot of styrofoam and other minor pieces of debris. we also had a fence in the back which survived helene, it did not survive milton. those wind gusts pushing 100 miles per hour just tore it apart and pieces flew through

here. the other thing i want to talk about, because we talked about it so much this morning and over the past couple of days, is the debris around the area. this debris pile has been here, that's from helene, most from the post office next-door. a lot of this did not get cleaned up and the concern was even if you are around dinnertime that we would have this surge which is forecast eight to 12 feet, it's going to float everything around and redeposit it. plus these winds could turn things into projectiles. thankfully for this part of the state, the storm, this surge did not really take place, the weather service at 11:00 p.m. has knocked back the surge forecast at tampa bay. 3-5 feet. i don't know if we will get that much. we've got the wind, we've got 1.6 million customers without power in florida and about two thirds of customers here are out. we have some good news but still

a big hit here on the gulf coast of florida and a horrible tragedy over at the east coast with tornadoes earlier today with multiple casualties. >> trace: if i'm not mistaken, when you look at all of that debris that's piled up, that debris, when you talk about all of this tornadic activity that hit florida today, that debris can make those tornadoes extraordinarily dangerous. >> yes, fortunately where the tornadoes hit today there was no debris. they were all on the east coast of florida that did not deal with helene. back here these winds did pick up some of the debris and it was flying around earlier. thankfully we did not get the surge. camper really locked out on the surge because that was really. 10-15 feet, that would have been a disaster. but we've locked out, although down the coast they've had higher numbers than expected. from sarasota all the way to fort myers. some of those surge values will end up over 10 feet.

>> trace: lastly, i just want to get your take on this. i know you've done this for a long time but going into this, last night we were considering this as a water event. we look at hurricanes as a wind event or a water event or both. we really looked at this as a water event with the 15-foot predicted storm surge going into tampa bay. this turned out to be a wind event. this turned out to be a major wind event and still is as it makes its way across the state. >> reporter: wind and also rain. there's a lot of flash flood warnings and like i mentioned, we've had a foot and a half and parts of hillsborough county so some areas will still get five, ten, 15 inches of rain as it crosses the state. what's left of the -- right along the corridor. and between daytona and jacksonville, those areas will get the wind from the northeast as the hurricane goes off the coast tomorrow morning so we will have some surge issues there on the northeast coast of florida.

but basically tampa, wind and rain, not surge thankfully. >> trace: it really is, a good sign. once. mike seidel, we will get back to you. coming out, more live breaking news coverage of hurricane milton as the monster storm continues it's path of distraction across florida. it is now a category two hurricane as it makes its way across the peninsula. kind of moving in to where bill hammer was earlier. the orlando area. we will see remnants of that as we cross the state. over towards this -- the coast and on -- on down, they will see very heavy rain. some of the forecasts were calling in daytona beach for 15 inches of rain. florida gets a lot of rain. a few inches is not a big deal. 15 inches, wherever you are, is a very big deal. just ask the people of north carolina. we are coming right back. continuing coverage of hurricane

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>> trace: continuing coverage of hurricane milton. for the latest on the path of the storm let's bring in fox whether meteorologist adam klotz. where do you think this is going, give us a timeline on what we could be looking at as the early morning hours come. you've got 11:33 on the east coast now as we get past midnight. one, two in the morning, and a chance this hurricane clears the peninsula? >> absolutely. this is going to be leaving the peninsula overnight. we still have at least a solid four hours until you are even getting close to that. but really think more like maybe seven or eight hours until you clear the peninsula. there's your time-stamp in the corner. still category two. as it moves across land it weekends so we will watch it make that move and make that drag. there you are at 4:00 a.m., really getting close to the coastline.

you completely cleared the coastline by eight, 9:00 a.m. really there are just light showers on the backside of that. i've seen a couple messages on social media, instagram and the like. some folks have asked me what happens at that point because i know there is concern, no one has talked much about what happens when this gets back out in the atlantic ocean, is there any risk this could be affecting the carolinas, we know they've been hard hit. i can confirm that that is not going to be an issue. by the time we get into thursday evening, yes, it is still weakening but the more important thing is that the strength that it ultimately is it completely keeps this track where this is just heading out to ocean by friday evening. six to-mile-an-hour winds. this is a florida storm only what we are experiencing tonight will be it. obviously there is still a ways to go with that. here's where the storm currently sits, that heavy rain still in the top half of the state. that continues to move to the east northeast at 16 miles an hour. it does take pretty much a good chunk of the rest of the night to eventually clear the state. as it makes a move, the

flash flood threat i think continues to be the main issue. i heard you earlier say they can be windstorm, rainstorms are storm surges. i think this is a rainstorm and flooding will be a big concern in tampa, in orlando and out towards daytona beach as we continue overnight. >> trace: you can help me out here if you would because i want to show a picture now. i've been looking at this, this is from fox weather and it's a live look at siesta key. it was ground zero. where hurricane milton hit. this is a live look, you see a boat going up and down. things are calmer now. it was going up and down in the early hours and now it seems like it's flat. clearly the storm has moved on but that was .0 and i'm wondering, it's about six, six and a half miles south of sarasota. if you see that as the point were this hurricane made contact with land, do you expect the worst damage to be in that vicinity as we get to the daylight hours tomorrow? >> i think the folks, especially

who are familiar with the area, siesta key and points relatively close south, that's where the storm surge would be the worst, that's where the winds will be the strongest. i suspect that is when we will really know what the legacy of the storm is. daylight comes up and we see how bad the storm surge was there. >> trace: so now it's moving, we see the lightning in the background. this is live so we've got the boat moving, clearly still some wind, some water and waves but stay with me if you can because we talked earlier, you talked about the fact that when you leave the tampa area you did not have the storm surge. in fact you had the water reseeding, coming out of it. do areas that get the eye of the storm, they get the brunt of the storm, will they see an additional storm surge because the water receded in the northern part of the weather screen or the weather area for lack of a better term? >> no, there's no reason to

think that because the northern side dropped out or drained out a little bit that that is going to make it higher further to the south. it really is all the wind direction. i think where it made landfall there's a good risk of high storm surge and areas directly south of where it made landfall, that's the best risk of storm surge. unfortunately there are not gages there. it's that video and it will be people tomorrow morning who get there who will be able to tell what happened. >> trace: adam klotz, we will get back to you soon, thank you. meantime 1.8 million homes and businesses now without power across florida and the dangerous conditions have not yet passed. fox weathers randy campbell live in fort myers with what is happening on the ground and what is now the middle of the storm. >> good evening or good night, trace. we are in the downtown area where we've had a couple of hours where we were dry, is getting the wind, but the rain is coming down again and we are also getting pretty strong wind gusts, in the 60 mile-per-hour range.

we are also seeing the flooding. i'm standing in some, a couple of inches, but i want to note the river is just behind me a couple of blocks. i can only imagine the water, several feet. they are saying the storm surge is just overt 4 feet and we were expecting up to six just along this area. but if you are along the barrier islands where there's fort myers beach, the storm surge could reach up to 12 feet. i will turn this light off. we have the light from the camera in our vehicles but it's completely dark back here. there are some areas where you will see power on. there's a building just over the water with a little bit of power on. not sure if that's generators were not, but it's pitch black and we know that goes for a lot of americans here in the state of florida. like you mentioned, just over 1.8 million. a lot of those here in the county. this is what folks are dealing with. thankfully not a lot of people out on the roads. we know it's not safe, you can't

see, it's dark outside, you might have power lines that are down as well. thankfully we don't have those above us here in the downtown area to worry about. but you have all of those threats and again, the wind just blowing objects around at this late hour. >> trace: we will get back to you as the news warrants, thank you. meantime fema facing mounting criticism for the response to hurricane helene as the biden administration continues to lay the blame on misinformation. the senior national correspondent kevin corke is live in d.c. with more on that political story. good evening. >> reporter: good to be with you. evening to you. the biden administration's effort to take politics out of the hurricane story line frankly seems to have only ignited a political firestorm. the president himself taking direct aim at former president donald trump over what the folks at 1600 pennsylvania avenue have called misinformation about the government's response. >> quite frankly these lies are un-american and they are is no

place for them, not now, not ever. former president trump has led this onslaught of lies. >> trace: >> reporter: meantime vice president harris echoing similar sentiments today when she called into the weather channel, telling those in the path of milton not to listen to "anything or anybody who is trying to make you more afraid than you already are." this as the department of homeland security is pushing back on claims that fema is short on funds due to mass immigration diverging cash. however the agency is not disputing the fact that it is facing staffing shortages as millions -- milton that is batters the coast, revealing that under 10% of the front line staff is available for deployment. >> i'm not saying this is going to be easy but we have done this before. we've managed multiple incidents at once, like in 2017 with

harvey, irma and maria. we know how to do this, we planned for this, we are ready for this and we will make sure we meet everybody's needs. >> reporter: part of an excellent interview by our colleague martha maccallum. for what it's worth, after facing fears backlash for monitoring hurricane helene from delaware, the president will remain at the white house this weekend to monitor hurricane milton. >> trace: thank you. we of course are going to get back to the storm coverage in moments. we want to get to the political impact of the storm coverage. let's bring an attorney and rnc surrogate mehek cooke and former communications director tricia mclaughlin. thank you for coming on. a couple of sound bites. to you first tricia, here's joe biden on what he calls misinformation. watch. >> quite frankly, these lies are un-american and there is no place for them, not now, not ever. former president trump has led this onslaught of lies. >> trace: but nobody has told us what lies, nobody has laid

out these lies, they just keep saying misinformation and nobody has detailed exactly what the misinformation is, except for one tweet. nobody has laid it out, they just say the word again and again. >> over and over again and here are the facts. last week dhs secretary and kamala harris both separately said that right now fema does not have the funds to get through the hurricane season. first that and then we know that $670 million have gone to efforts under fema's umbrella to house migrants, to assist migrants, so of course naturally we are going to say what is the orientation of fema, why is the focus on noncitizens in the country and not on the recovery efforts for americans, specifically in north carolina and florida? those are real criticisms we should be offering. >> trace: nothing i love more than getting lectured about misinformation from the king of misinformation. they dhs secretary who said

this... >> how does the misinformation impact relief efforts? >> very significantly. individuals lose trust in their government. it's also extremely demoralizing to our federal law enforcement, emergency response personnel. we are there to help. they need to understand that, they need to trust us. they can rely on us. >> trace: it's rich when the man who said 100 times, including in front of congress, but the border is secure is now saying boy, we are losing trust. >> well we have to recognize this for what it is, this is truly embezzlement of taxpayer dollars. that is truly what we are seeing in this administration when they are using american dollars to help migrants. this isn't a surprise. this is the same administration that's all the inflation reduction act which increased inflation, the same administration that opened borders and allowed 15,000 rapists and homicides to occur in our country so every time they say something, we need to

believe the opposite. they are not equipped to handle this crisis and they are continuing to lie and this disinformation is truly just a campaign in and of itself because it's an echo chamber. >> trace: i want to play this very quickly, this is the cnn misinformation montage. watch. >> there is a significant amount of misinformation being spread. >> they are keenly aware of the misinformation that is currently circulating on all corners of the internet. >> it is something that is obviously so concerning to the administration and we are seeing the effects of it. >> trace: no surprise, they just parroted. >> there was a reason there was a ministry of truth, they want to control the narrative. >> it's an echo chamber. they are going to continue to use this word but the american people know better because people are suffering. $750 is what they will qualify for after the hurricane. >> trace: standby a few well, back now to live coverage of hurricane milton. spiritual breaking news coverage.

we've been covering this now as it hit. 8:30 tonight it hit see yes dickie as a category three hurricane. remember, just 13, 14 hours ago it was a category five hurricane. then became a category four and been -- by the time it hit land about 120 mile-per-hour winds so a category three. they were expecting 15-foot storm surge. instead in some areas the water actually receded in tampa bay. it was a break for them. but it was also bad news as you get further down towards harris out. and siesta key. a live look at santa bell florida as you look at the islands. we will talk about that coming out. continuing with our reporters on the ground as the storm makes its way across the central florida peninsula. next. hey, take a moment. do you know who we are? we are the kids you champion every day. we are the ones who dream big. and because of you, our dreams become a reality.

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♪ ♪ >> trace: breaking tonight, hurricane milton makes landfall in florida, some parts of the state have yet to feel the full weight of the storm. jeff paul is live in orlando where residents are still waiting to see what impact the hurricane will have there. what are you seeing? >> reporter: i think for a lot of folks who call central florida home, they have been watching their tvs, they see hurricane milton making landfall

along the gulf coast and now they are waiting and watching to see what happens here in central florida. a bit of anxiety as they have been bracing for this storm to arrive. there are two main concerns i think for the folks who call orlando home, the potential flooding and also the strong wind gusts moving in as the storm moves eastward through the state. in terms of the flooding, this, already heavily saturated. inches upon inches of rain falling, that only causes those roads to flood and those low-lying areas, you've got water coming into homes. in terms of the strong wind gusts, the real concern is some of these trees, these are florida pines, the roots aren't that deep so when you have guests up to 100 myles murao are moving through the area, it's really easy for these trees with that saturated water to come tumbling down. we've seen a lot of branches coming off those trees so far and when you talk to some of the locals, like one of the guys we

talked to earlier today, he's been living here for a couple of decades and his main concern right now, for the folks who are either visiting, it's a heavy tourist destination, or for the folks or have moved to central florida, he thinks maybe they have a false sense of security being that orlando is not on the coast. take a listen. >> i think they may be get a false sense of security thinking that nothing happens in orlando. also there's a lot of low laying areas in orlando too that can flood pretty easily. so that's a huge concern. >> reporter: so far it seems like people for the most part are listening to some of those warnings. the rain really is starting to pick up here in orlando. you are having some of those stronger wind gusts move through as the storm gets closer and closer to central florida. >> trace: it's interesting because you talk about the rain and they are talking about significant rain coming to the coast, to daytona beach.

i'm wondering if what the rain totals there -- they are calling for, have you seen recent forecast to what they are expecting in central florida because as you say the ground there is totally saturated, is a town filled with legs but all the legs are filled. >> and we are on one of those likes right now. i don't know if you can see here but the water wasn't this high up earlier today when we came out here. you can see some of the grass peeking out. it wasn't all the way up to the front but it certainly, this lake is filling up quickly. some estimates anywhere from 12-15 inches. and you never know with these storms. you've covered a lot of these. went these systems get overland they stall a little bit and as we've seen and storms like hurricane harvey, they can just sit there sometimes and dump rain and rain and rain and as we saw with hurricane helene, sometimes it's not those communities right on the coast they get hit the hardest, at some of the once more inland

that may be aren't has prepared accustomed to dealing with these storms. >> trace: jeff paul live in orlando, thank you. if we can go back to that map on the right-hand side, it was the twirling, milton in the middle of the map. if we can bring that back, that gives us an idea. it is now a category two hurricane. it says two on it as a goes across the state. when it hit it was category three. they expect sometime in the next hour before it leaves the peninsula that it will be downgraded to a category one hurricane. roughly 90 miles per hour and once against below 75 is when it gets tropical storm status and it will move off. we will continue our breaking news coverage of hurricane milton and the devastation to florida, next. ♪ ♪

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coverage as hurricane milton pummeling the gulf coast before making landfall 8:30 eastern time. alive picture of siesta key is where the hurricane first made landfall. siesta key is 6 miles or so south of sarasota. sarasota was the biggest region to get hit by hurricane milton. this was a storm that battered the region blasting the entire area. how lean that less than two weeks ago went through similar terrain. governor ron desantis spent the week preparing his state, watch. >> we delivered massive amount of supplies, water bottles, meals and generators. flood protection systems, starling internet and ambulances are in operation helping in the effort.

>> the continuing numbers we don't know is currently we think we .8 million flirty answer it without power but because the police officers and first responders haven't been out and about. these are rough estimates as ron desantis is bringing in trucks and electricity trucks and power trucks all over the country. let's get back to your national correspondent on the ground in tampa bay. it seems the storm has pretty much left your area so what are you seeing? >> yes this is the very tail end of the wind but still a steady downpour with 12 straight hours of heavy reign. we expect in the morning when we can move around a little bit with those areas near the bay having serious flooding. with that north side of the storm here with the going down

the way there. not strong enough to cause catastrophic damage. it's still largely in. the real damage in there is what we see south of here with the storm surge living off the expectation of how the storm could be. and we heard earlier from the mayor of tampa bay who said we would have to hunker down for the next few hours until that wind is down below 40 miles per hour. rain is following in the wind has eased up a bit with no sign of first responders. back to you. >> thank you for the analysis and reporting we appreciate it. all hands on deck once the storm passes as officials and first responders can assess the damage. we bring in fox news contributor and emergency medicine dr..

it's always great to have you on the show so great analysis on these things you've been here before it daylight going out into these areas what are they looking for? especially in a place like st. lucie county where tornado activity was extreme. there were fatalities confirmed there. what is the first step of that heading into the hard-hit areas? >> you need to assess the environment to make sure it say for you to go in. search for areas with possible downed power lines trying to avoid the floodwater. we talked about the debris and sharp objects and nails. they need to be careful that they aren't exposing themselves to harm before they can go in and take care of the citizens affected.

of course most of the people in that area if they were advised to evacuate they evacuate. that's the number 1 thing to do sometimes it's too late and some people chose not to leave and just ride out the storm. they need to be alert of those people who it might not be easy for them to leave the area. elderly people are those without the means to escape. they need to look for those people who might be stranded are stuck or maybe they tried to get out and it was too late. make sure your environment is safe so they don't injure themselves when trying to begin their rescue. >> trace: and we were looking at water which is something i wondered about. big danger and concerns not just for sweeping people away but also what's in the water. >> absolutely the water is contaminated with sewage and waist water and glass and sharp objects and nails and debris.

it can be very dangerous. lots of things i saw in the past when taking care of hurricane katrina victims or earthquake victims. when you come into contact with this floodwater that you want to avoid, we need to be careful. the floodwater can cause cellulitis skin infections and skin wounds and staph infections. it's dangerous especially when immersed in water for long periods of time. even the basics of just possibly drowning there's wounds and infections. i've seen respiratory infections and we look at things like more mould and thanks to cause problem's with breathing. it's a very traumatizing event when you're fatigued and traumatized and scared. and only before-and-after natural disaster like this. >> trace: thank you for your

time. it's great to have young the show jamie now. i wanted to see if anything with milton in that direction and these facets apprise do it all? >> no the sad part of my job is when the hurricane or disaster comes in as expected and this one came in as expected with the heavy rain and flash flooding into the north of where it developed over the last couple of hours with flash flooding merge agencies on the eye for -- that korey door and it could extend into orlando. >> trace: we talked all day about 126 tornado warnings and watches meaning they saw these tornadoes touching down in st. lucie county.

is that expected her saying that can't be predicted? >> he can protect where tornado will form or move until it actually does form. usually they have those weaker tornadoes as these were bona fide almost looking like classic midwest tornadoes. at least in the pictures i've seen. these were bona fide strong tornadoes there been fatalities from that. 's peel weight talked other reports in tampa bay of the storm surge in water actually receding. is that surprising or is it based off of the wind direction? >> the wind direction. peaks surge was always going to be near south of where the centre crosses land. a couple days ago we couldn't pinpoint precisely where that

would be and there was indication it could be towards the north of tampa bay driving that surge and onshore flow into the bay. as time marched on it moved enough south to spirit from the surge. the problem is that then put them right in the peak of the heavy reign. so they swapped one flood out for the other. i don't know if anybody in tampa bay cares that it's not saltwater they are getting flooded throughout the area. it will be really bad when the sun comes up only see that full extent. >> trace: the first place it touched was cs dickey we talked about the dirty side of the storm being south when it came in. do we expect to daylight when we go out? the areas hit the hardest are the ones on the dirtier side of the storm. that would be south of sarasota and siesta key. >> so the peak storm surge was

down of sarasota probably in the venice or port charlotte area. we won't know or have a good idea of how much they got until tomorrow. maybe we get footage from the area and we start determining how much they got. for these folks down here there was a dirty side but then given that significant wind that we see in the tampa bay area and the damage seen with it. of these folks probably think the north side is the dirty side. >> trace: jamie we appreciate your analysis it great as always. thank you sir. the militants like shift of direction might have kept can't tampa from the strong surge officials were worried about. high wind speeds and jamie we were talking about flat flooding and tornadoes -- flash flooding and tornadoes being a real threat. we check in with steve bender in tampa, florida.

>> we're in a flash flood emergency in downtown tampa bay. so we are seeing that rain but thankfully the wind is starting to subside. wind was extremely powerful so much so new reports coming out of st. petersburg on the other side of the bay where those massive cranes to all those beautiful skyscrapers one of those collapsed and came down. that's a massive threat. then tropicana field were the tampa bay rays play the roof there has been shredded and we have seen a lot of power outages. 200,000 people in hillsboro in florida, 1.5 million people this was a powerful storm and even though we are three hours after landfall we are still in the ebb and flow of the wind picking up here we talk about jamie and so many. tomorrow at enough you could hear that we had this surge comfort. with the wind picking up more signs collapsing. estimate talked i showed you

this bus sign another one collapsing way down there it just shows you even way after this event on the backside of the event to come sweeping through it's a major concern we haven't seen first responders because they can't come out when the wind is to strong you can't restore power leading to extensive damage and we see that play out tomorrow when the daylight rises there is concern in tampa the worst of it looks like it's moved on but if you're watching us and sheltering in florida continue to do so it's not safe to get outside especially at the windows spurting and picking up at times it looks like the rain keeps on coming we think of the storm is left in the rain just kind of lingered that rain. >> roussin a foot and a half 18 inches out on st. petersburg

they had a water main break somewhere water is easing out the can't have drinkable water shutting that down when you look at this and all the factors might so difficult to brace for the full extent of a tropical storm and powerful storm like a major hurricane like we saw with milton. we talked last hour my family in west palm got hit directly with the tornado. there was fatalities out of that event showing you the power these thank you for your time so we appreciate it. talking about recovery efforts a former small business administrator and a former nfl player jack bruce. great to have you guys on the show i talked to gillian anderson who said you guys are gearing up in the ready daylight what happens? >> daylight we get together and we had out we know where many of

these affected areas are we expect to see more damage because most of those places a lot of them hadn't had that debris picked up yet so you had loose trees and lumber outside people's property outside and over 100 mile-per-hour wind and some of these same areas so that is really the big threat making sure we get to the elderly get to the veterans and those folks who might need assistance. so this one i think the wind has been the biggest factor is we've been watching so i think we are looking forward to the morning in the sunlight coming out so we can assess the damage. >> trace: it appears the roof during this time at tropicana stadium was damaged here's a live look the lights are still on top. this is from fox whether that has been looking at this.

we didn't know earlier but you have tropicana stadium and the roof has been damaged in some capacity so it's hard for us to get a look right now with first responders and other crews on the scene keeping people away including cameras but there has been damage which gives you that indication of the rain and the wind. my question to you would be then. chris standby i will get you a moment but where do you know where to go? it hit siesta key but as you fan out looking to help people in need where is it that you do side to go first to be fast and efficient. >> have contacts across the state we do this all this time i hit my key contacts in each region usually with communication with the counties particularly the sheriff offices which they know what's going on in those locations so we use the intel from folks on the ground

we try to set up community distribution centres where we go trying to partner with local communities and they act as the first responders. they tell us the needs on the ground and we need to bring in more cleaning supplies or if there's a situation with sewage or electricity. we contact emergency management and folks that could come in a raid away. you see that tropicana stadium where people are planning on sheltering some people may already be inside that's another situation because those folks in the area or coming from outside areas going into that place might need some support. they might not have homes that are safe i've seen flooding there with the 3-4-foot storm surge and when eric starr some areas yet to start cutting sheet rock we have a team of people

ready we have our trucks gassed up and are ready to roll and we have jack bruce going out and the administration for small businesses that you ran a long time has been a slower process to what has that been going out seeing who's in need for the services of sba? and it's great to see jackie want to get my thanks to fox for the opportunity to be here in my prayers all the folks impacted by this they're providing individual assistance and shortly thereafter there's a declaration where they will set up centres in the infected and -- affected in impacted areas and distribute disaster loans. those are 30-year loans low interest rate to help with home

repairs we saw this in ms. gladu hurricane irma and maria it where the trump administrator linda mcmahon had a tabletop exercise to say what happened to make three hurricanes hit at the same time. three hurricanes in 30 days. there's a playbook and it can move forward and help the administration can follow this further the people need it most. >> he had president biden earlier this week as the sba was out of money in a matter of weeks and it looms large as you see the damage. >> it's a big concern presumably with a supplemental although. but it wasn't during the actual

storm itself and i do think as we look at this from the monday morning quarterback will make a determination as there will be various reviews and the trump idea to hang on to an efficiency commission could be applicable. it's one of the most sacred duties of the federal government helping people. >> trace: speaking about monday morning quarterback me go back to that shot as the people in tampa bay are grinning at us it's not tropicana it's raymond james stadium that got the roof damaged or lost parts of the roof. there's no roof on the stadium so parts of the stadium were damaged and the stadium is now flooding. not tropicana field it's raymond james. back to jack brewer another great segue because jack brewer played in raymond james stadium many times. when you go out in the morning how many people are we talking about the canvas the areas hit

hard? >> fourteen of us not including those folks that we partner with and our main thing depending on the flooding it depends on what the terrain looks like. that's what we are going out for. we probably believe are larger trucks behind. we like to bring in plenty of water and food as well to help those folks out but on the first assessment we want to leave the larger trucks because you can't go around. last mission we only add two flat tires so do remember there's a lot of debris and conditions not always be in so when we go out tomorrow it's for immediate assessment bringing plenty of chain saws with us because those trees can be a big issue and that is something that takes a long time for these communities to get to these large trees. elderly folks and folks who don't have the ability to cut these trees down. many of them are on their roofs and with these back-to-back

hurricanes you have these trees starting to break that are in real danger of these folks falling on their roofs and collapsing and harming people. that is really our first main focus. we will go in tomorrow and do that with several dozen people. >> trace: yeah, and we underestimate these things sometimes because the truth is people need food and water and electricity back on. people need money to get their business going again. >> they absolutely do this is where the federal government particularly the sba plays a significant role. people need to know how to get access to the money and they need to find ways to get money out the door. for ervin and harvey and maria we got those loans processed within 15 days and that's a huge difference for making people be able to recover their lives. i really hope that project plan is in play because that will be

a huge difference for the rest of those communities. >> trace: great to have you on the show as always. best of luck to you. we will bring you back and see how the recovery effort is going. thank you both. >> trace: in the meantime as many americans filled it and pending doom of hurricane milton. kamala harris is continuing her softball media blitz. some are saying the timing of it all might not be beneficial for her campaign. >> it really isn't. following reports some democrats were worried that vice president harris has been playing it too safe but largely avoiding the press. she has ramped up media presence by appearing on podcasts, 60 minutes, the view and howard stern even appearing on various outlets. she phoned in to cnn and at the weather channel as well.

but also they have been pointing at the late show saying harris has gone from playing it safe to finding a media say space. watch? >> this went viral from the debate can you tell us what you are thinking at this moment here? >> this is family tv right? it starts with the w there is a letter in between and the last letter is f. >> but with the tight contest media figures are questioning how much of an impact the media blitz is going to have. >> early voting is occurring right now and basically she wants to be everywhere. she wants people to see here and nobody is watching. >> and that's not me saying that it's moving the needle it's the paris people privately saying it isn't. >> reporter: fox news made one

final pitch to host a debate between the vice president and donald trump. at the end of the month mar moderated by bret baier and martha maccallum. i'm hoping it will happen. >> i do think the last letter is f. i don't think that's it. good to see you ashley. we bring in "new york post" reporter lydia moynahan and the author of what is killing america in the seattle radio host. so it 60 minutes goes up and cleans up the answers for harris. we will play the answer she gave initially about benjamin netanyahu and at the cleanup on aisle five. watch this. >> it seems the prime minister is not listening. >> bill, the work we've done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by israel that were very much

prompted by or were a result of many things including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region. >> but prime minister netanyahu hasn't been listening. >> we still won't hesitate and be clear about what we need for this war to end. >> trace: the cleanup was almost indecipherable is the actual answer. you wonder okay that's the cleanup. how bad was the actual answer? >> cbs under fire for this because they seemingly changed answers of what they were showing one day and then to the next. that seems to be a violation of some of their rules that you can't create an answer merely because you wish the subject said it better. obviously they faced backlash on twitter and from media reports trying to cover for her. cbs's in a tough spot as they will get some new management but

at the same time. one of their jewish a journalist has come under tremendous pressure apologizing to colleagues because they ask questions with a pro-palestinian journalist and this was for one person kamala harris criticizing a journalist at that same news division. as a whole pushback from cbs was preposterous. jason to you at fox news. if we had to clean up a donald trump sound bite it would be the lead story on "60 minutes" next sunday. >> they would lean in to the deep fake conversation and state run tv and over and over again ad nauseam him and this is precisely what they're doing to help their chosen candidate. editing every wants and awhile

and that is to her benefit very clearly. and it comes office so utterly incompetent. they tried their best and they still weren't able to do that. when they do any of these interviews. even though 60 minutes was rather aggressive for 60 minutes. everything else was simple. they flub those as well. it's hard to do on the view when surrounded by people who finally are your intellectual inferiors. and she still failed. >> next he has to kamala harris bear beer share moment. they make you ask for miller lite. >> the last time was at a

baseball game. it cheers. and it's a beautiful city of milwaukee. and it almost feels like we shouldn't cut away because there's a lot of serious stuff going on in florida and if you vice president running for president not being precise here. >> she's having these softball interviews. do bear in mind stephen colbert and even though there is no such softball interviews there struggling to come across as likable and the critics are saying she's been on this media blitz being there is a late-night host cracking jokes

and laughing at the same time seeing a disaster in florida. people not getting any relief a $750 check and running for this office to be president where she wants to be there. not necessary the best person for that job. >> thinking of timing and off -- optics the latest accent here. >> it is screwed. have you no empathy man. for the suffering of other people. have you no sense of purpose if you purport to be a leader? >> that's the lead-in. and it's just so silly. and does this weird accent that came out of nowhere but it wasn't just the accident it was

moving in this weird way which was so incredibly choreographed. everything about her is so inauthentic. of the think is she does this and has fun i think it's the pit me of everything wrong with kamala harris. she comes off as inauthentic when caring about people because she doesn't really care about people. people believe she's disconnected from the actual problem's that folks are facing. not just during a hurricane but just in general. so for her to do this at this moment and crack jokes and get in to this weird accent while feigning interest in the american people it just comes off as karen g and flat and desperate. more live breaking news coverage of hurricane milton and also new video as we said it was tropicana it's actually raymond james stadium we have some of the damage and there it

is. this is tropicana. we are out of raymond james i'm back to tropicana is that where the damage happened? as tropicana did get damaged we are to showing stadiums all over tampa bay. at least one of them has been damaged and flooding. we will tell you which one on the other side of the break. so, what are you thinking? i'm thinking... ing ♪ ♪

continuing coverage of breaking news more than 2 million residents without power across florida as the dangerous conditions of not yet passed. here's more from fort myers, florida, with what's happening on the ground in the middle of the storm. >> in the downtown area we are still seeing the high wind with depending where you are at stronger and weaker the closer to the water it's pretty wild

out there. most notable is the water we are standing in with a couple of blocks away from the river where the storm surge can reach up to around six feats predicted above the average normal high tide with those downtown streets for hurricane ian with those businesses having to restart and some of them got friend again with the floodwater. besides that with the camera light we have. everybody in the dark here in this area and in many places across the state of florida with over 2 million people, 200,000 in this county so we aren't done with it. we're in the gust of wind and the water is still rising here. back to you. and mounting criticism further response as they

continued to lay the blame on misinformation the senior national correspondent kevin corke is here with more in the political storm. >> good evening my friend to you. less than a month off in the presidential election the federal response and readiness to now two major hurricanes has been a highly charged campaign issue with the former president donald trump hammering the biden-harris response to hurricane and milton. >> she just led to the worst rescue operation in history in north carolina they have no workers or nothing. and while president biden said in moments like this there are no red or blue states he did call the former president un-american over what is at mistress and called miss at infant -- misinformation about the response. >> it's un-american what he's

doing. it's not who we are. what are they talking about the meantime the department of homeland security also pushback on claims from the former president that money has been diverted from disaster relief to benefit illegal for migrants. when he could've been used for americans. they are operating at less than 10% of their front line staff being for milton. >> just really didn't see somebody in a fema shirt doesn't mean they were getting support it's a whole community response. and as for the vice president. harris not making changes to her

campaign schedule despite the new storm in florida. she slated for a pair of events out west following the world wind media blitz which saw her offer criticism of the former president as well as florida's governor ron desantis throughout the storm. and unlike last weekend president biden will not be in delaware. he actually cancelled a foreign trip as he's maintaining the storm response coverage at the white house base. >> trace: kevin corke thank you. we bring in attorney and rnc director among others. welcome both you back. it's kind of amazing to every time joe biden because after donald trump he can't just go after more disagree with them. it's got to be assaulting democracy and anti-american has to be the worst. use the worst american and he says he's a uniter and continues to go after trump and all his

supporters. >> that's where the democrat base is abandoned harrison biden. they've seen so much division because of biden and harris. let's talk about un-american. the fact we have an open border with known terrorists roaming here. 15,000 individuals who have committed homicides under the biden-harris administration that's un-american and for taxpayers to foot a bill for migrants to have housing when we can't afford food and groceries in every day essentials and look at the victims. that's what i call un-american. it's pot calling the kettle black here. >> in this battle between harris and desantis is really working out to benefit desantis. it doesn't benefit aristotle. not only do you have harris going after desantis you have a president going after her but also it's sited with desantis a couple of occasions saying you

did a good job and then he was pushed about what he thought about harris saying ron desantis needs to go and he said he's done a good job. but who is the real winner in that. politically it's donald trump because these driving that wedge further between joe biden and kamala harris trying to create more attention between the two. but when i talk about the politics you look at the history for sandy as that was one week before the election really cementing it for obama because the right was lavishing praise. mitt romney said he wanted to defund fema and showed real political vulnerability from. >> trace: you see these battles going on and harris doesn't want to stay in the arena and fight. she wants to flit around and do whatever she wants to do.

joe biden is saying, hey, he's doing a good job because joe biden knows in politics you have to say, even though he calls trump and assault on democracy. sometimes you have to say ron desantis is doing a good job because he is. if harris won't say desantis is doing a good job it comes across as a sore loser. >> she's a difficult situation during a media blitz even though she's doing easiest interviews you can she's failing to the stinker yourself from joe biden's record even though voters are clear they want to move forward as she was asked asked multiple times yesterday if there are doing anything in the view not really in ask the same question later on stephen colbert didn't have an effective answer as and i think it puts and they're antagonizing

them when it's in the command central and hymn president biden having press conferences both residential and a lot of chatter about him potentially emerging as a candidate in the future so a good moment for him and biden but not a good week for harris. >> trace: to add to the point of lydia. the fact that harris not only was she given two chances to say if she would change anything from joe biden. maybe the afghanistan withdrawal. i can think of five different things that would've been a good answer even if she wanted to steer clear of the economy but she's consistently said it's time to turn the page. she's asked how would you turn the page she sang i wouldn't turn the page. >> everybody in the media wants to talk about her flip-flopping positions. she is lying she doesn't know

how to critical lease think. a critical thinker would say i need to ask for disaster relief funding. a critical thinker would say i'm changing my fund-raising operation and media blitz to help these victims suffering in north carolina and now in florida. her critical thinking has gone down the drain and the american people are seeing it. >> trace: and the misinformation thing hearkens back to joe biden is just fine. the media is on board and never been healthier says joe scarborough. he is in command and never been it's the same thing where harris in the media jump in saying those are deep fakes the biden stuff. it's deep fake and it's misinformation so when you are hiding something this is the way you try to get out of it. >> there is a piece from december 2023 sing republicans flow conspiracy erie that joe biden won't be on the ticket. look at that joe biden won't be on the ticket it will be harris.

the difference between a conspiracy erie and reality is probably at 2-3 months these days. >> interesting that misinformation is a catchall for anything a certain set of people don't like. the question was label misinformation and disinformation now seeking answers i guess it's problematic the people of more questions than ever and i think the question will be on the ballot box in november and i think we will see the results of trying to tamp down what people are seeing their. >> trace: the common sense department reminded us misinformation assaying their own facts. disinformation is doing it deliberately. only throw in that letter it's okay we are taking another step. not just lying but purposely lying. thank you all for joining us. coming up we are back live on the ground in florida as we trekked hurricane milton and its path of destruction next.

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>> trace: continuing coverage of hurricane milton the monstrous storm that hit florida here is a live look at the screen of tampa in florida where continues to rain.

it's rained since we've been on the air for two hours and almost an hour before that it's been a constant downpour the good news for tampa bay as they didn't get the storm surge many expected the bad news whoever is they are getting rid drenched with rain even though the storm is moved to the middle of the state with the rain band continuing on and off. let's check in with our correspondence here. we begin with jeff paul on the middle part of the state in orlando, florida. jeff? >> let me tell you right now the rain is starting to pick up with the wind getting stronger with some estimates between 74 miles per hour and 86 miles per hour in orlando as hurricane milton gets closer to where we are at in central florida. lots of uncertainty as people in orlando keep their fingers crossed hoping the flooding isn't too bad and the wind

doesn't knock down too many power lines. >> trace: steve? >> always a challenge to stay on the air during the storm. first thing to go is usually your wireless microphone and you see them tape up those hard lines there to keep on the air we've got some veterans helping us here. stick with brandy campbell, brandy corey. >> we're seeing seeing the storm surge in downtown several blocks away from the river where it's now edible around 5.2 feet of storm surge expecting around's seventh es we get close to verifying that. we are next to businesses that were flooded out over two years ago during hurricane ian and some of them are getting that damage once again with wind speed up to around 80 miles per hour. thankfully the rain has calmed down one other thing you will

notice looking behind me for the most part in the darkness besides the red light which is still on in the distance but over 200,000 people just in the lee county still in the dark. back to you mike? >> the wind is finally backing off the rain is just about over with the damages done with debris across the street coming out of the top floor from the rooftop bar and pool area. the debris pile sits there and that's a good sign no surge so all that debris is not floating away but the other impact with the wind has been electrical fires. 's about two blocks away you see in the distance we've been using it for about an hour and a half and no emergency vehicles are out on the streets right now so the fire continues to burn. i do take a drive around the corner and that's what i saw

around the corner just about 15 minutes ago so a fire not out of control per se think it's growing just blowing pretty good still raining in other buildings we did just see our first emergency vehicle come around the corner and take a look at it once again it's one of the byproducts of the situation with the fire in the wind and no response. trace? >> thank you that's our continuing coverage of hurricane milton. it will continue now with kevin corke from fox. i'm trace gallagher. thank you for watching. america's late news. >> i think really going to spend all day streaming college football on directv. can you blame them? they've got the biggest rivalries and bowl games speeding up. frank, run a sled to the bobby. one hook to the salsa. what are you going to do, coach brian? coach brian? don't for fa

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