dean saying that i thought it was interesting to have her say it is something that they plan to talk about a little bit more in the future. they don't usually see these kind of wedge tornadoes out of hurricanes but it certainly happened and right there on your screen you look at bradenton beach, where the pastor we just had on. his church is there. give you the last 20 seconds here. >> bill: i would say on the video you see the homes on stilts still standing. maybe the construction in the last several years did it job. we'll see as the day unfolds, dana. good to be with you today. >> dana: take care down there. harris faulkner with "the faulkner focus" will take you through the next hour. >> harris: breaking news, the national hurricane center is coming through right now. you know every day about this time 11:00 a.m. eastern we get an update. that's if process now. we'll bring you the information when we get it on hurricane

milton's torrential rainfall and devastation via the winds and dropping twisters from the sky. many of them well over 100 of them about this time yesterday it had just started with that. and by dinner hour in florida 125 and we are told to expect even more as that number grows and they confirm what hit the ground and what wiped out some neighborhoods, twisters. millions of people right now are being told to shelter in place. you just heard bill hemmer talking about why that is. it's because they have not finished watching the waters rise. and catastrophic flooding could come at any moment as those waters continue to rise. as you know by now, you are starting to see some of the pictures, the storm carved a path of destruction through just about the entire state of florida. it was massive. by the way, it is still a

hurricane. hurricane category 1. again, the hurricane -- is it still a hurricane? i want to check with my team. category 1 still. think about that for a second. it hits as a category 3 late yesterday into the evening, it spend all of that time moving across the state of florida, destruction dropping and doing that and as it leaves the state it is a category 1 remaining its category as a hurricane. now that is strength. and that is danger. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." high water rescues still underway. communities still under water. feet of water. some of that will start to recede. we'll let you know when that happens. 11 million people are at the risk of that flash flooding that i was just talking about.

>> look at that. here, here, here. >> harris: let's watch the national hurricane center director michael brennan. >> from milton we have considerable urban flooding lingering throughout this afternoon in east central florida and ongoing and continuing moderate to major river flooding forecast for the next several days throughout central florida and finally please use caution, make safety your primary concern in the next few days after the storm. deadly hazards remain including downed power lines, flooded rows. operate your generator safely and be careful using tools and power equipment when cleaning up and drink plenty of water and avoid heat exhaustion. you can continue to come back to

hurricanes.gov nor updates on the storm and find information from your local national weather service office. thank you for joining us, please be safe. i'm mike brennan at the national hurricane center. >> harris: the big confirmation at this hour is this beast remains a hurricane after moving across the entire state of florida. we do know that some areas will begin to open up this afternoon and let some people back into them. we can't give you a direct count of that yet. he didn't, either as the team was monitoring before going live to michael brennan at the national hurricane center. the biggest concern right now are the things you cannot see in that water. it doesn't matter that it's daylight out there. it is deep water now. it is feet of water. so if there are live electrical lines whatever might be under there they just don't want people rushing back to try to get into their homes. and creating more rescue situations. they are already dealing with enough.

michael is in jacksonville beach, florida now and want to go to michael right away. michael. >> harris, the winds out here have just been brutal. we've seen winds gusts this morning over 60 miles-per-hour and still -- and still at this hour, harris, the winds are still gusting over 50 miles-per-hour. the gentleman's hat flew right beside me. the waves in the ocean are just enormous. here is the thing, we had kind of a two-prong concern. storm surge was a concern. obviously you can see on jacksonville beach this is how high the surge got. they are well prepared. dunes that protect them and the inland community. however, these winds, which has knocked out power to thousands of people, by the way, areing to be with us through the morning. there goes another hat. through the morning, through the

afternoon and into this evening. this is still going to be a big concern at one point over 3.3 million people were without power. so again, harris, this will be a concern we're watching as our system continues to work into the atlantic ocean. until then you really need to make sure you are staying out of the water. obviously a very dangerous place to be and just wrap it up by saying the st. john's river, we expecting high tide at 3:00 p.m. this afternoon. be cautious around that river. all of that rain flows into the river and it swells and could catch you off guard. >> harris: the tributaries around the surge that came in. a lot of talk how the surge was far less in some areas than they anticipated but the winds that you are demonstrating right now are proof that whatever water is out there is on the move.

if the st. james and other tributaries are cresting you need to be careful. that wind still has power and can push water around. high tide you said was 5:00 p.m. eastern today. i'm noticing just a couple of people behind you. what does it look like in jacks jacksonville? it was not one of the areas people thought he had to evacuate. >> jacksonville, downtown, thank goodness they didn't have the evacuate. five miles down from where i am we saw a wind gust over 80 miles-per-hour. a quick look at what the beach looks like. there are quite of few people on the beach as you can see. no mandatory evacuations here but they said in low-lying areas you needed to make sure you watched for the storm surge late last night and into the early morning hours of this morning, harris. >> harris: quickly and i will let you go. more people are coming out.

the wind, though, is something to be at least mindful of as people get close to the water's edge there. i'm always concerned about these things because it is very unpredictable. when you tell me it can gust from 50 to 60 miles-per-hour i hope the people don't turn the back to the ocean. always face the water. it seems to be swirling. doesn't matter where the photographer has you walk it is blowing around. someone is handing you a hat. >> thank you so much. i really appreciate that. this thing ended up a half mile down the beach. the winds are so strong, harris. that is the message moving forward is take these winds seriously. i'm concerned, harris, this could knock down a few more trees and power lines and with -- and obviously when we're talking about some standing water, you are talking about strong winds, water, electricity, don't mix that's my

big concern looking forward to jacksonville beach. be safe, be respectful around the water and, of course, the downed trees and power lines. look at the folks these winds are just not messing around. again, hats flying all over the place, my goodness. >> harris: i appreciate you giving us a look. we only have a few places we've been able to go yet. the state isn't opening everything up. we'll get an idea what some of the twisters did coming up. right now it almost looks like straight line winds. something you would find with a tornado but it is not. this is the left over remnants from hurricane milton. great reporting. thank you very much. i want to give you another illustration of the power of milton. this is the roof of tropicana park's dome. it is gone. it's not a dome anymore. that is home to the tampa bay rays, major league baseball

team. meteorologist adam klotz as more on this historic storm. what makes this one so different? did we anticipate so many twisters? >> that is, i think, the question. every time you get through one of these storms and i'm running through that path. this is what it looked like for the last couple of days. you ask yourself at the end what will this be remembered by and the legacy? i think for this one likely until we get into some of the barrier island it seems like the tornadoes will be the story. more on that in a minute. the storm is currently spinning still a category 1. unbelievable but that's the case. winds 80 miles-per-hour. you are seeing the very final ends of some of this rain and some of that wind there right along the coast of florida. but you said what will we remember this by? 126 tornado warnings. the entire central to southern half of the state got under some

sort of tornado warning with this system. i've never seen anything like it. nobody has, 126 warnings is a record. the most ever issued in a single day. the previous record was irma in 2017. nearly double. unbelievable numbers of these tornadoes spinning up. when you start to look at tornado reports it is more than just a radar indicating it saw a tornado but eyes on the ground seeing them and a bunch of those as well. they'll look at these and probably see more pop back up and get a little more information about them. they will be really busy. >> harris: i wanted to ask you about that and ask my team to pop up something that people need to be on the lookout. for those of us who lived in the midwest and storm chased tornadoes and seen people survive unreal unsurvivable

types of things because they could go below ground. that's not the case in florida. they can't dig into the earth and dig storm shelters. for the most part they have other types of shelters so you will ride this out. a wedge tornado is as wide as it is tall and i want to give it to adam to talk about what happens when one of those touchdown? we've seen pictures of them. >> way more powerful and right about the cellars and basements like people in the midwest. you need to get into the bathtub probably the safest place in the middle of the house. a wedge tornado is when it is wider than it is tall. the reason we saw this is because there was so much energy wrapped up in milton that it brought all of that energy on shore and strong upper level winds. winds that hit each other from different directions start spinning. we had a whole lot of energy and big storms with milton and they

started to spin and see tornadoes like this. it is unheard of. it took a special storm to spin these up. >> harris: you are probably seeing these now. a lot of people on the ground. these weren't necessarily areas that had been evacuated where some of the twisters touched down. look at that. these are beasts. the indiscriminate way they destroy. a house here and not there. neighborhood here, not there. last word what we can expect with regard to the twisters at least. you said they could see more. >> the risk of that is over. the surveys will get out there and learn more. maybe we'll get more updates of how many there were but the risk of them going forward today has ended thankfully. >> harris: okay. more information, not actual touchdowns. adam klotz, thank you very much. florida governor ron desantis is hitting back at the vice president kamala harris's claims that desantis refused to take

her phone call. i don't know if today is the day or the week for someone to get all up in their feelings. apparently that is happening. she is also keeping up with the white house's narrative on any criticism, any and the slow response to all those people still suffering from helene that only happened 14 days ago today. any of it they are calling misinformation. >> there is a lot of misinformation. >> it is the height of irresponsibility and callousness. we all know it's dangerous. the gamesmanship has to stop. >> harris: you know what's dangerous? not showing up when you know you have to. those politics playing out as floridians are facing threats from obviously because we know it's still a hurricane and even the winds on the back side as adam klotz showed us milton is still doing some damage. but the worst of it is over we're told. now they have to wait for the waters to rise and get past the

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>> harris: along with hurricane milton's storm surge which is

yet to crest and deadly winds, the category 3 hurricane sparked, as we know, over 125 sightings of massive tornadoes, including along florida's gulf coast. fort myers is one of those places now dealing with the destruction from twisters dropping from the sky. the mayor of fort myers beach, florida. dan, tell me what you were prepared to do as that was happening. when you look at a hurricane coming in you don't usually see twisters dropping. >> no, we were fortunate we didn't have any twisters touchdown on the beach. i believe there was one or two that was just inland in fort myers close to page field airport but we didn't have any of that here. >> harris: tell me what the worst of it was, what you were expecting and what you got. >> we were expecting 8 to 12 feet of storm surge. we are somewhere in the seven to

ten range depending where you are at on the island. we have a bunch of sand and debris, cars, dumpsters, things like that have been pushed onto the boulevard and down some of the side streets. a lot of cleanup we have to do. we're working on it now. we have the water restored as of an hour ago. >> harris: good news. >> we're able to -- we still our residents are able to walk but no cars on yet. we have a lot of work to do to be able to make that happen. we're trying to get some power. that's our current situation. >> harris: you know what? praise the lord because you didn't start with loss of life. people got out. as you said, we have a lot of work to do in terms of restoration. just your last thought on what you've been through in the last, say, 12 hours. >> yeah, i'll tell you, a big shout-out needs to go out to our residents when we asked them to evacuate and they did and we

were able to get back on the island at 3:00 this morning search and rescue went quick. they didn't have any calls. which is very unusual with a storm like that. that tells you that people left so there are no calls. the first step of the process to be able to recover is very, very short. so we didn't have any major injuries or anything that you would expect because everybody heeded the warning and got off the island. it goes to show you if you listen and get off the island it allows the work to start much quicker and hopefully have our residents back working on their properties here by the end of the day. >> harris: it allows you to survive in those conditions that we had told could be unsurvivable. mayor, thank you for bringing some good news on this day and i wish you the best with all prayers as you rebuild. >> i appreciate it. thank you for the time. >> harris: absolutely. hurricane milton again category 3 but this time it made a direct landfall. let's talk about the place where it hit first, siesta key in

sarasota county. they took the brunt of this early. a storm surge of eight to ten feet. areas facing significant damage and devastation. republican congressman from florida with me now. the direct-hit zone part of it is in your district, congressman. >> yeah, the whole part of it is in my district. the real challenge we have on the ground is all of us were recovering from hurricane helene that had just come through and the five to seven foot storm surge on the district. a lot of people were rebel and they got hit again. in punt -- this is the biggest challenge is having an area that was devastated by the last

hurricane now having to deal with hurricane milton. thankfully as your last guest was stating, thankfully a lot of people heeded the evacuation orders and got out of the evacuation zones which was really good. >> harris: i just don't think we can talk about it enough and i know that there is loss of life today and we're there in spirit with everyone and we'll mourn them and at the same time there are people who listened this time and heeded the warnings that you and leadership were giving them and that is a blessing. wrapped in heartache for those you've lost. you mentioned some numbers, five to seven foot storm surge was only 14 days ago. as we learn today it can take time for the waters to recede. what that happens and leaves the sand and mud then the next storm eight to ten foot surge. what does it mean exactly for the communities? >> very challenging for the people not able to get in right away. we are in southwest florida and have a lot of people who live

part-time here or six months and a day here and have a house in michigan or somewhere else in the country and they can't get down here right away. i was helping families that were impacted and you would see the next door neighbor there was no activity whatsoever. hotels no activity whatsoever. so they weren't able to get in right away and get it cleaned up before the next hurricane hit. you will have some devastating situations when you open those doors without having any ventilation in there and ripping the drywall out that got saturated. so a lot of challenges for my residents in the coastal communities in the last couple of weeks. >> harris: i know your governor desantis has been giving help to the hardest-hit from helene up in the western part of north carolina. because you are so prepared ahead of these storms you are able to help others. right now you have to help yourself and many blessings to you as you go through that. again, what a blessing not to

have loss of life there. we think of those who left us. we're following all the aftermath now as milton moves out still a category 1 after all the time it spent across land. that is a little different, too, from what we've seen with major storms. it's off the coast of florida and still kicking up those winds, those 60 plus mile-per-hour winds that we saw with michael in jacksonville beach as it pulls away, it retains its strength. major flooding in tampa is where we'll go next.

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>> harris: fox news alert. people throughout the state of florida are feeling the rain still in some areas and the high gusting winds from hurricane milton. holding together still as a hurricane category 1. right now millions of people are at risk of flash flooding following all the storm surge, the rain, the wind, and the water is continuing to rise. this is particularly important. part of the reason why in some areas they aren't letting people back in. we have to see where things are going to crest first and they don't want you near the water's edge until the rivers and tributaries have crested and begun to recede. it is extremely dangerous. you can't guess which way the water is going to move. if we've learned anything, anything from the recent hurricane helene, it is just

that. water does, as it moves, what it wants and this is high water. tampa has urged people at this point to stay indoors. and they actually still have not resumed emergency services in that area because of the flooding danger. senior correspondent steve harrigan is in tampa. steve. >> harris, people moving through this floodwater in and around tampa any way they can. we see a number of jeeps, pickup trucks making their way but people without pickup trucks. a mother, probably her four children just making their way through the floodwater on foot. most of this is rainwater. tampa got whacked with 12 inches of rain yesterday. not a terrible storm surge. the winds were difficult, at some times more than 80 or 90 miles-per-hour enough to snap trees but rain has caused the damage so far and the rainwater

rose up quickly it took a number of people by surprise, including this woman. >> my girlfriend lives four blocks from there and i thought i could make it. i went a block the water comes up to here and i'm falling down and i'm yelling and a gentleman comes out of his house and he pulls me in and says get in here. he had no idea who i was and his name is roy and i want to say roy, thank you for saving my life. because i almost died. it was really bad. i've been here all my life and never seen anything like this. >> it was a rough night for that woman and a lot of people along florida's west coast people with the stress of trying to save themselves, saved their loved ones. sometimes first responders, sometimes just people helping stranger. at least 50 water rescues, many by the national guard using boats or high water vehicles over the past 24 hours. 15 of the rescues in tampa where

we hope the sun stays up and dries up the water soon. >> harris: and that water recedes. in many areas they're telling people to stay inside and not go through some of that water. you mentioned rainwater. it mixes with a whole lot, sewage, everything else on the ground and does it quickly. we've seen you in so many different locations this hurricane season and you have been telling us how quickly and how unpredictable water can be. thank you. i appreciate you showing us that in tampa and that woman, god bless her, roy on her behalf, thank you. steve, thank you. millions of people are dealing with a second deadly hurricane in two weeks. yet politics are still in play. florida was then preparing for hurricane milton and having to deal with the aftermath of helene and helping out other states as i was talking with the congressman about. they were so prepared that they could help others once things started to clear in helene and

the first to get hit in the state but the worst of it happened in north carolina. vice president kamala harris attacked florida governor ron desantis amid all that was going on. she began to claim that he would not take her call. the governor had plenty to say about that. >> they put out a story saying i didn't take -- i didn't know she was trying to reach me. she has no role in this process and i've been dealing with these storms in florida under both trump and biden. neither of them ever politicized it. in fact, all the storms i've dealt with under this administration, although i have worked well with the president. she has never called in florida. she has never offered any support. so what she is doing is she is trying to inject herself into this because of her political campaign. so as the governor here who is leading this, i don't have time for those games. for her to try to say my focus should be on catering to her rather than worrying about my own people just shows she

doesn't understand what it means to respond to these natural disasters. >> harris: you heard him talk about past presidents. democrat and republican, and what great relationships through these types of situations the state has had with the white house. and it was really on full display when president biden looked into the camera at one of the briefings and said i have ron desantis's direct line. that was the stab at the politics. it was pretty glaring that kamala harris, i guess, is trying to play. yet yesterday she herself complained about the role of politics in the storm. play it, complain. i don't know what kind of strategy that is. ahead of hurricane milton's landfall. >> it is dangerous, it is unconscionable, frankly, that anyone who would consider themselves a leader would mislead desperate people to the point that those desperate people would not receive the aid to which they are entitled. at some point, the politics have

to end especially in a moment of crisis >> harris: okay. maybe that was a personal intervention on her part. pete hegseth, "fox & friends" weekend co-host. pete. >> what a silly response, what an unforced error by kamala harris. the only thing you should be doing when you are the vice president and trying to become the president is make sure you are seen as being all over this on the ground and around it to make sure in your future administration disasters like this would be responded to properly. instead she picks a silly game in a state where she hadn't been involved before. she is not in the chain of command. take my phone call, take my phone call. when ron desantis is writing the textbook on how to do emergency management doesn't need that support and doesn't want to be in the middle of this political squabble. she picks a squabble with the guy rolling up his sleeves and she looks petty as a result and has not -- her response to the

criticism was this is politics. you created the politics unfortunately and you stepped in it and you haven't made it any better as a result. >> harris: the real issue with all of this, politics aside, is whether or not she would know what to do. biden took over. it is his job, he is president. we get it. he always said she was the last person in the room and wasn't in the room. she joined virtually with all the other fema experts, director and president kind of zooming in and doing what they had to to make sure that everybody appeared to be at the same table. they weren't covering that up but it was interesting. not one of them was in a storm zone. they could have gone to north carolina. milton wasn't hitting there. but they are still hurting. it just looks like -- i like the way you put it. unforced errors. >> for sure. from someone who doesn't have executive experience. remember that. she has been in various forms of

office at the state level, senate level, and now vice president but never in charge. never the honcho saying here is we're going to stage things and give briefings. citizens want information and decisiveness and direction about where to go and what to do. she has never been in that role. just saying i want to talk to you on the phone makes it look like you are an executive but playing one and not actually doing something. it was a moment to demonstrate how she would lead. instead she has stayed elsewhere and joe biden has been the one complimenting ron desantis. it is really bad on her part. >> harris: we can't miss the optics of being in michigan in a battleground state, continuing to campaign while former president donald trump was with brian kemp in georgia with helene. you can't miss the optics of former president trump landing in the middle of the storm's

response very early on was so an an emo -- >> you can't miss the optic barreling on milton in florida and drinking a beer late night with stephen colbert. people are seeing. she talked in a force manner as well. so this just -- there are things that happen in october and you never want it to be something like this that lay bare who really cares about the forgotten men and women of the country. places where you are going to get votes or not get votes. where people are registered or not registered it doesn't matter. this is about saving lives and addressing life-changing circumstances. when you're too busy because of campaign season, voters see that and in a moment when she is trying to define herself because people don't know her or been on both sides of every issue, this solidifies maybe she is not ready and it's a political

reality. >> harris: i remember when she tried to score one with donald trump during the debate and said i never ask anybody when they are in trouble how they vote. i just ask how can i help. did she forget? oh boy. >> seems so. there is a lot of talking about empathy. you hear it in every dripping interview. talking about it. what do you actually do? what do your actions show the citizens? who are you prioritizing? that's what matters. >> harris: great to have you, pete. thank you. we're watching the scenes now as they come into more daylight to see where the rivers and tributaries will crest. they want to keep people out of the danger of not knowing exactly how much surge there is along with the high tide. especially by those who were hit by this historic tornadoes sweeping through.

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homes and neighborhoods unrecognizable. it was a two punch. some was from the hurricane and some was tornadoes. dana marie mcnicholl is in that area now. dana marie. >> harris, you were just talking about the destruction. part of this is super cuts right behind me. so many people were waiting in anticipation on the west coast for milton. on the east coast we were dealing with over 126 different tornado warnings. the destruction you are seeing now this happened around 6:45 last night. the tornado was forming off the water on the ocean and quickly came into this community hitting directly this super cuts, that wells fargo and a couple of homes behind me. the roof completely fallen in. some of the style tools on the ground. reminder how much cleanup and

devastation we're going to see. some of the homes people walking around today just shocked about what they are seeing. another couple said that they were going to go outside, fix a pool pump. they waited a couple of seconds and thank goodness they did. >> she said don't go yet. it wasn't 20, 30 seconds later where the wind just went crazy. the tornado came in and all this happened. i would have been stood right here turning the pool pump off when it happened. >> a couple houses that got nailed. their whole back patios came off, flew over their house and into the across the street neighbor's house. >> this is not an evacuation zone. so many of the people were hunkered down here waiting for this hurricane and tornadoes to pass through an hour south of us in st. lucie county multiple tornadoes ripped through and four people have lost their lives. >> harris: it is hard to see

them especially at night. they are dropping from the sky. not like a hurricane that's forecast and you can see it on the map coming through. you will see where the clusters are twisters are coming. where they hit is indiscriminate. thank you. i'm glad that couple is okay. a crane collapsed in st. petersburg leaving a gaping hole in several buildings. the area thrashed by wind and rain and completely cut off from emergency responders for a protracted amount of time. entry points are blocked by downed power lines and debris. jim kilpatrick is the st. pete beach fire chief now and he joins me. you know, chief, i have to ask because i'm reading in some parts of the county where you are people have been allowed to go back in. where does the emergency services situation stand right now? are you still making rescues? >> at this point we have not made any rescues. we have made welfare checks.

some people that did stay during the storm we've gone by their home to check on them after receiving calls for service from their loved ones. >> harris: tell me what some of the warnings were in your area. i don't know if you could hear one of our reporters. it was a collision point of a hurricane and basically a band of twisters. >> well, the messaging was by internet, by tv, basically going door-to-door every opportunity we had to message out to the population that it was time to leave. that was expecting a 12 to 15 foot storm surge. luckily we avoided that but still have substantial damage on the island. >> harris: what has been so amazing throughout all of this, though, we don't have the numbers yet and i want to caution people. we'll only report what we confirm but it is looking like a lot of people in your area

listened to you, fire chief, and i just think that's remarkable where we are right now. maybe a lot didn't have to happen because of that because people got out. >> i think you are right. that came with the impact of helene and fresh in their memory and then this second bunch came and it was beneficial in a way to have people listen. >> harris: just one last quick question from you and i don't know how you pull out forward and that's what i want to know. you have barrier islands in your county. >> how we move forward? it will take a lot of help. we still have a lot of debris. still have a lot of infrastructure was affected. we have a lot of good partners through the state and county and fema. every resource we've asked for

we've gotten and i want to thank them. >> harris: such a difference learning from helene what we really needed. your state has made a difference for a lot of different people, too. fire chief, thank you. appreciate your time. we move to this breaking news now. ethel kennedy, the widow of robert kennedy, has died. she died of a stroke in her sleep on october 3rd we are learning. she was the widow of robert kennedy and the mother of 11 children including our very own fox news colleague and my friend douglas kennedy. she was a fierce human rights colleague and founded the rfk human rights center in 1968. our prayers go to douglas and the entire family. ethel kennedy was 96.

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