charlotte: we still see value in some of the health care names.hey are still getting continued growth. technology you have seen a lot of big names pullback an awfully long way, that would be something you begin to start looking at but making sure you are not waiting into something -- wading into something that could be vulnerable in this environment. dani: our reporter sent me the best email ever. it was, tom i don't know if you are ready, she said boj, taiwan, philippines, indonesia, south africa, boe and turkey all have rate decisions tomorrow. yes, we have the fed but that is potential volatility coming into this market. part of the way it is manifested is liquidity being sapped especially in treasuries. in this environment, is the market functioning is normal? charlotte: the question is what happens when we begin quantitative tightening. we don't have historical expanse of what happens when that happens. and how much confidence people have in the market. investors, do they carry on buying the dip, or do we see cash continuing to blowout? it mu

i 75 south through charlotte county is open and flowing. portions of lee county, they're still looking at. as you know some of those areas cape coral, city of fort myers, they got really, really inundated and really devastated by this storm. so the hope is that all of 75 will be open. but most of it is open and it gives us what we need to be able to continue to move supplies into the area. we have 100 engineers on-site to do bridge inspections and they were in teams of two as a ss the damage and they can ensure safety, then bridges can be safely reopen. we do have reports of structural damages to bridges such as the bridge going onto sanibel island. island. i anticipate there will likely be of the bridges that it suffered damage. once bridges are inspected and determined to be safe, they will be reopened as soon as possible. we know sanibel causeway, we also know pine island bridge. those two are not passable and they're going to require structural rebuild. right now if you look in the central florida you are looking at potential major floo

every >> princess charlotte seems to keep her brother in line. >> she certainly does. there was a wonderful moment as the state queen was coming off the state gun carriage off the hearse and you could see charlotte saying to george, you've got to bow. she knows her stuff, and she's pretty good at keeping her brothers in check. >> my sense is we will see more of that in the future. >>> and we want to turn now to the severe weather and hurricane fiona, which has strengthened

i am charlotte crab. i'm a climate justice activist, and i'm an organizer on the free. jess spreads team. i'm wondering, charlotte, at what point do you abandon diplomacy, climate negotiation? talking to your nemesis, perhaps talking to policy makers who are not thinking about the future and then say i need to take direct action. when does that happen? i mean, i don't think of it as a binary. i don't think you need to abandon, you know, as the word that you chose, those other tactics and do something like property destruction. i think that we need a diversity of tactics. i think we need policy change. i think we need legal challenges . i think we need direct action. you know, i think i would be the most successful way is using a variety of tactics yet, using tactics needs to do a cost benefit analysis. you always need to see or calculate how much benefit them going to get from using this taxes and how much the cost it goes to me and in the tactics cost more than the benefit to bring step. it doesn't call

charlotte and it's a mess.ave been trying to get through. you can see the results here, if we can push over here, you can see where the cars didn't make it. there are cars just stuck in the water right here. you get a sense of just how bad it is, john. they got 20 inches of rain or so in these parts, and so that water just sat on the ground here and then it storm. yes, there was a storm surge and we've been talking to people in hard-hit communities, the wind, but also this freshwater flooding now well inland, well inland. we haven't seen any rescue teams here yet or official crews. now, i know they'll get here and this may not be the area of greatest need. i've got to move up. my boots only go so high and there's a wake now as some of these cars try to pull through f. you don't go through quickly, you get water in your engine, you get stuck. this is not what you're supposed to do. this is why officials say stay at home, don't go out and try to drive, because you could end up in the middle of a road that has tur

lee and charlotte counties have no power. it is pretty much 100% out. there is also other counties that suffered significant impacts, sarasota, manatee, collier, the hope that those powers can be restored quicker. i think lee and charlotte is probably going to have to rebuild some of the underlying infray structure. that is not as simple as taking a downed power line and reconnecting it. there are massive amounts of supplies and food and medical. a monumental effort. the next 72 hours are about securing people's safety and stabilizing the situation. >> bill: is it safe to take that report about hundreds of fatalities? can we take that off the board right now and remove that from our reporting? >> here is what -- well, i think there is the potential for significant fatalities. that was based on an estimate of the people that were calling in from areas that were suffering severe flooding and they looked at the number and thinking whether those folks ended up being able to survive that. we don't know. there are rescue attempts that are being made. i can te

it looked like this was going into port charlotte. between north port and port charlotte.ike it was beelining right for you. what was that like and how did you communicate with your people >> yeah, it kept us guessing for the last 24/36 hours it just sort of spun up the coast like a corkscrew you just were hoping you were on the right side of the arc as this corkscrewed up the coast. unfortunately for people down in naples and fort myers, they got that shore storm surge we kind of escaped that from now and are hoping the storm heads out of our area before the tail can swing around and bring all of that storm surge up the harbor. >> hey, brian, i was just watching from punta gorda maybe last hour, the back side of the eye wall was coming across punta gorda. that was some of the worst looking stuff i have ever seen i started trying to make calls to people in punta gorda i couldn't get through and i got quite worried. what do you know about what the back side of that eye did to punta gorda? >> i've been telling people the lucky folks in charlotte county have minor damage in t

at the charlotte harbor. i don't know, what would you expect would be happening in the harbor if we're seeing this kind of -- a storm of this magnitude. >> when the wind is going to be blowing from the west from 140 to 155 possibly, all of that water will get pushed up into that river. you can get a funnel effect where some of those numbers could be higher right up the river, right up the stream. that's what i'm concerned about, especially if there's someone actually staying on those boats out there. that's something that you need to be gone. but the whole idea here is that charlie, every talks about charlie. this isn't charlie. this is closer to katrina. this is a storm surge of katrina, not a small wind field of charlie and i just hope people got out of the way because you need to run from the water, kind of hide from the wind, if you can, but, you know, 2 million people have been evacuated with this or have at least been told to evacuate. how are they -- are they leaving? >> that's actually the concern her

charlotte and lee have 80 percent without. and de soto is at 80 percent without. sarasota, collier and manatee, close to half of the customers there are without power. hillsborough and pinellas, 15 to 18 percent are without power and these crews have been on the ground since it was safe to do so and they're working 24 seven to restore power throughoutthe state of florida and that's over 42,000 lineman and associated personnel that are on the ground . fdot has had 1300 people on the ground, then cleared 1100 miles of roadway. i was happy to see the trafficflowing in southwest florida . there's structural problems on the bridges leading to sanibel and pine island but largely they were clearing operations. traffic is flowing in southwest floridaprobably better than would have been anticipated so soon after such major hurricanes . they've also inspected and reopened 100 bridges across the state and this includes 67 high priority bridges affected and reopened in lee, charlotte, sarasota and manatee counties . pine island, sanibel, those will be rebuild efforts. the san

among the children i was amazed at were prince george and princess charlotte.re of course along with their parents. all of them have now a new life. one they knew was coming. but for the children they really, you know, they're young, 9 and 7. they don't know what is ahead fully. how will their lives change? >> well, george is now second in line to the throne. and he is witnessing, you know, what happens to monarchs certainly when they become monarchs, when they pass on. the reaction of society to them is a lot for him to get his head around. i think it was very important, though, that they were present today, not just as members of the family but also as a symbol of continuity. king charles is obviously much older than his mother was when she came to the throne. we have the new prince of wales who's in his 40s. it's important to have a younger generation coming through as well. and i think that shores up the family in the public's eyes. >> thank you all so much. we're going to have much more on prince george, princess charlotte, that next generation now in the

>> reporter: we're here in charlotte county. there is no power here. this is a community that did not get the storm surge. in fact, they got the negative storm surge. the water, because of the counterclockwise rotation and where the eye was, actually sucked all the water out of charlotte harbor, kind of a curious view. but as we're waiting to find out about those who may need to be rescued, there are the stories of the survivors. and one of those survivors is renee smith. she's joining us here now to talk about what her ordeal was like. first of all, i'm glad you're here. >> thank you. >> reporter: where did you ride this storm out? >>> i did under the kitchen table. >> under the table? >> yeah. i made kind of a fort with pillows and blankets and hid under the table. before i hid, i had to protect my husband. >> reporter: your husband, kevin. >> christopher. >> reporter: i'm sorry. he's paralyzed from the chest down. >> yeah. he has metastatic prostate cancer that has metastasized to his spine. this week he became paralyzed. he was at the hospital, but

first, charlotte sports park, the spring training facility for the tampa bay rays in charlotte county, and then the lee county sports complex, the spring training facility for the minnesota twins. these are pods that are much bigger than normal pods. there have been over 1.6 million gallons of fuel into southwest florida that have been moved in to support the response. i think what we're finding with the fuel is the fuel supply is flowing. it's just a matter of the gas stations need to have power to be able to operate, and if they have a certain number of pumps, they're required to have a generator. i was in lee county yesterday and i saw some of the larger gas stations were operating, so that's good sign. as of 6:00 a.m., there are about 1.9 million people, customers without power. right now the hardest hit areas are hardy, 99% without power as of this morning, charlotte and lee both have 85% without. de soto is at 80% without. sarasota, collier, manatee, close to half of the customers there are without power. hillsborough and pinellas, 15% to 18% are without power. and these crews h

we are not far from charlotte harbor, which is where the water pushed in from. the storm surge will come from there into downtown punta gorda where we are, wolf. >> i want you to be careful over there and go inside. obviously, if it gets worse, it looks pretty ominous right now. i want to go back to jennifer gray. tell the viewers what randy is experiencing right now. i know that this hurricane landed at 150 miles per hour. that's a monster category 4. if it would have landed at 157, that's a category 5, the highest category. what is she experiencing in punta gorda? >> most likely winds close to 100 miles per hour gusts. just like bill, experiencing that for much of the afternoon. what an exhausting experience for not only our reporters out there, but the people that maybe didn't evacuate and they are living through this and you have indef several more hours to go. torrential rains across this area. look here. you can see those areas of bright red, orange and yellow. this is where the heaviest rain is. we are seeing rainfall rates at 3 inches an hour. sometimes

we have 12 unconfirmed fatalities in charlotte county. we have eight unconfirmed fatalities in collier county. and we are still processing through the situation with the hasty search that i mentioned before in lee county. now, let me talk about confirmation and unconfirmed. people die in disasters that have nothing to do with the disaster, right, so the medical examiner is the one that makes that determination, they are the lead agency at the local level to determine when they investigate, that this is either disaster related or not disaster related. if it's determined to be disaster related and you've heard the governor and i talk about this for three or four days, direct death, storm surge, rising water, or indirect the stuff that led to it after the fact. with that being said 12 unconfirmed fatalities in charlotte county. we have eight unconfirmed fatalities in collier, one confirmed fatality in polk county. so that brings us up to 21 total. we do have an identified situation that was done during the hasty search of some fatalities. we

we are currently in fort charlotte. finished our second work order clearing roadways and reconnaissance teams all over the county trying to figure out what type of unmet needs our volunteers can bring their skills to address to help the community recover. >> bill: it's early. how best have you assessed how you can help? >> you know, we know there are certain things that are part of our skill set, tarping roofs, moving debris, clearing roadways, cutting up trees that have fallen down and clearing them and the path. we know we have to muck out houses. we know that stuff will happen and it's moving. there are other things we know that will come up that we can address. those things from tarping roofs to help people try to recover part and parcel to what we do. >> dana: are you able to start doing some of that right now? >> yeah, we are. we've actually got two roof clearance teams working their way again clearing out roadways like the one behind me an hour ago it was impassable. we're trying to cut our way in and out of the

st steve, he is on the other side of charlotte harbor. what's it like where you are, steve, do i need to ask? >> hats off to the fox technical crew to get the shot up in the storm. i'm seeing right now, small objects flying through the air. parts of roofs, it's parts of fences, it really reminds me of katrina. we don't know if the storm will get there yet, but you see the skies fill with small objects, objects are beginning to be torn off of buildings. it's a danger in the short-term, when you have one-third of the state over age 60, a lot in nursing homes, a lot in living conditions or hospitals that have to be evacuated, that's a real challenge. and this might be one of the worst spots right here, but this is a major event, this is a big storm. already 45 miles north of here in sarasota, they are no longer responding to emergency calls. so you have a big swath of the coastline where really everyone is on their own at this point. that's a tough thing for people to hear, at least it's daylight. you heard the governor desantis really detai

charlotte. >> that is an ominous forecast. chad myers, please stand by and keep us posted. >> you're welcome. >>> i'm here in tampa. as you just heard from chad, may not get the worse of it, they are trying to see the hurricane winds. >>> with me now i want to bring in the sheriff. you're an important person, you are smart enough to bring an umbrella. farther south is the immediate area. there is a lot to happen here. how have you prepared? >> this storm's 90 miles away and we're already starting to feel the effects. it's going to get nasty here. we're still in the zone of uncertainty. from hurricane irma, the eye was supposed to come prepared. make sure if you are going to evacuate, i believe it's almost approaching to where you have to hunker down. >> talk to me more about that because you want people to stay where they are at this point? >> yeah. correct. i think at this points, you know i was thinking about t it's over. it's time to hunker down and stay safe. >> the biggest threat here, here

you know, 90% of fatalities occurr due to water. >> charlotte harbour and the cities of port charlottegorda are expecting the highest storm surge, with 8 to 12 feet possible. around tampa, a record storm surges expected. >> a storm that slows down for 24 to 48 hours, and just continuously dumps rain into the tampa bay area is devastating. >> hurricane ian is expected to dump at least 2 to 3 months worth of rainfall by friday. possibly as much as 24 inches of rain in tampa and west central florida. >> it only takes 18 inches of water to be a life-threatening situation. >> tampa's airport taking no chances. >> at 5 pm today, no more commercial flights. >> evacuation orders expanding since monday, with shelters open for those without other options to wait out the storm. >> i've never been in a hurricane. this is my first time. my first time at a shelter. but i feel better here than if i would be alone at home. >> those riding out the storm racing to get sandbags, facing lines for gas. >> out of water folks, no water. >> and the familiar scramble to stock up on food and water. then, hurry

he received the key to the city of charlotte.story to receive that honor and per usual, steph was humble and grateful while accepting. >> charlotte is and i was in my i'm so proud. nobody has been away wasn't born here, but i am from best. 20 only is my life's been in here. and i carry that with me everywhere i go. so to have this key to the city, it means so much to me to my family charlotte, is it? so thank you so much. >> cool stuff. and i know we claim charlotte rightfully so spent most of his years there. but step is also pretty well travel because his dad was in the nba play for a rival team. so he was born in akron and same cities, lebron james, but a little time there than in charlotte and also spent time in canada. he was living in toronto for a couple years. so and we claim him here and to pay a very well traveled. but it's really cool that he's getting his flowers because like you said, he does so much for so many other people. last couple days was cool for him to kind of just, you know, get pampered and everything in

we tried to explain what storm surge means and how were vulnerable here in charlotte county.. we're experiencing the impacts and being out on the roadways, not in a hardened facility is not the place to be. >> for folks listening in these areas, what does husker down mean? we had an official on earlier this horng, who said with winds above 40, 50 miles an hour -- we're well above that -- rescue crews cannot go out. can you make an emergency call, they may give you advice, but you will not guess rescued. what do people need to know and do? >> hunker down means get inside a structure, the firmest structure you can, move to the interior of the building, away from windows. hopefully if you are in your home outside an evacuation area, the shutters are put up if you have them. away from windows, wait the passage of the storm. when this thing clears our area, it's not time to get out immediately on the roadways. we will have severe debris all overed roadways, downed power lines. getting within the interior of a building, away from windows, and just ride it out at this point. >> what

the islands in charlotte county.bviously there were a lot of calls coming in as a storm was really raging yesterday. people who did not evacuate were hunkered down. there was a storm surge and a lot of apprehension understandably, when initially the first responders came this morning, people would wave them down. whether they were by helicopter, boat, or high water vehicle. now what they are finding is in places like sanibel, most of the residents are weeping thank you for coming but say they are fine. that they are staying put now. i think there are going to be issues with being on some of those islands because they are not going to have services like we expect for quite some time given the limitations of transportation. but nevertheless that is a sign that some of the folks who did write it out are stabilized in their homes. first responders are doing targeted searches, going home my home, searching if people are ok. when responding to specific reports if they are missing loved ones. there will of course be many mo

lee county is in a difficult situation, charlotte. and see when they can get back on their feet, the damage has been so extensive, it is a difficult situation. we have received major emergency declaration for nine counties, i do expect more. i spoke with the president this morning, he offered supports, i told him thanks for this, because the storm moved inland and caused damage in center part of the state, we will be asking for those counties to be expanded and included, charlotte, collier, hillsborough, lee, manatee, and sarasota, allowing individuals to seek individual assistance from fema. you have people displaced due to catastrophic impact of hurricane ian, that will be something that is necessary, we have been granted 100% federal assistance, category a and b for 30 days to ensure we move quickly forward into this respons fema has activated assistance to those who qualify. go to fema.gov or call 1-800. make sure you take a picture of the waterline in your home. if you can show that we're able to get assistance to you faster. as

some damage in charlotte counties. but there's been a lot of the infrastructure that was able to make it through. i think now actually, lee, they got about 20% back with power which is quite frankly more than i would have anticipated this soon after such a major impact. we were able to go just kind of look around. we flew. we did a press conference. we met with some people that had lost homes and businesses. people that had been in that community for decades and decades. so it's -- it's sad to lose your belongings anyway. there's a lot of history in that part of the state and many parts of our state. you see that it's hard to just replace that. there will be things need to do infrastructure-wise, brings, some of the other stuff down there. but i was pleasantly surprised to see 48 hours after a massive impact i saw things opening. i saw all of this happening in lee county. so the quicker the broader population can get back to normal, that's going to make it easier to help those who have been displaced. we also towards d

you can see it's just to the southeast of port charlotte. much on that northern side still have a tornado watch in effect until 1:00 a.m. tonight until tomorrow morn. we also have a flad watch across the large part of the peninsula. we have a lot of rain still to go across the peninsula. it's also going to move to the north. you look at the rain fall forecast over the next five days, and you can see it focus right aaround daytona beach. it goes all the way to the north as well across parts of the carolinas. some spots to the south in excess of 15 inches of rain over the next two to three days or so a long time before that water does start to come back down you can see the storm surge on the western side, that still continues with that rapid circulation around, still pushing a whole bunch of water across the western and southwestern parts of the coast. it's going to be a while before this all starts to recede and we can see the damage, which will likely take place tomorrow it's going to lift to the north move towards orlando, daytona beach, e

i just got back from surveying the damage in charlotte and lee counties. some of the damage was almost indescribable to see a house just sitting in the middle of the bay. it literally must've gotten picked up, flown because of the massive wind of water. there were cars floating in the middle of the water. some of the homes were total losses. i would say the most significant damage i saw was on fort myers beach. some of the homes were wiped out. the sun was just concrete slabs. coursers damages some of our infrastructure. particularly the sanibel causeway. there are breaks and that of multiple different areas. it was interesting the pylons on the water you had that part of the bridge that was actually good. it was the point it was on a sand bar the got totally wiped away. or from the mainland there is breaks there. that will require major, major overhaul and potentially a complete rebuild. they're going to look at and see. that is the only way on the island. the operations to help people there has been mostly by air. and all told surgeon rescue operations a

you , 90% of fatalities occurred due to water. >> charlotte harbour, and the cities of port charlottee expecting the highest storm surge, with 8 to 12 feet possible. around tampa, erekat storm surges expected. >> a storm that slows down for 24 to 48 hours, and just continuously dumps rain into the tampa bay area is devastating. >> hurricane ian is expected to dump at least 2 to 3 months of rainfall by friday. possibly as much as 24 inches of rain in tampa and west central florida. >> it only takes 18 inches of water to be a life-threatening situation. >> tampa's airport taking no chances. >> at 5 pm today, no more commercial flights. >> evacuation orders expanding since monday, with shelters open for those without other options to wait out the storm. >> i've never been in a hurricane. this is my first time. my first time at a shelter. but i feel better here than if i would be alone at home. >> those riding out the storm racing to get sandbags, facing lines for gas. and the familiar scramble to stock up on food and water. then, hurry up and wait. cnn, the gorda, florida. >> the house s

matthew kofuji is meteorologist for the ap my radar speaking to me from port charlotte, florida. he gave me this assessment of the extreme conditions. personally, i've never witnessed the storm at least 1st and this intense store thing right now . conditions are beginning to die down here where we are, which is good to finally have a break in the wind in the rain and everything else. the 1st half of the storm was bad, especially for areas of south the port. charlotte, we're talking naples, we're talking fort myers, or some other high storm surge ever recorded at more than 22 and a half meters was complete. inundated the coastline where i was, we saw significant winds in the order of i'd say, 140 plus kilometers per hour implant this will rainfall, then we got the i ordinarily the 2nd half of the storm is weaker. in this case, it was far stronger from a wind standpoint, we saw wind gusting close to, gosh, 172190 kilometers per hour. we saw absolutely plentiful rainfall to the point where even beyond storm surge, every place that we were trying to drive through or around was an ina

but now, areas around port charlotte, charlotte harbor, could see storm surge areas 6 to 9 feet.catastrophic across this region, and of course, you are looking at a storm of this magnitude that is spent so much time over water, strengthening and maintaining that intensity. it is piled up quite a bit of water. that's the concern with the storm surge threat and also tropical storm force winds, john, that extends some e 140 miles away from the center. so even if you are not close to that landfall, you are going t o have power outages, you are going to have trees come down. and significant flooding with as much as 20 plus inches of rainfall. before the system is all said and done. >> yeah it's going to be tough few days ahead and then some. thank you pedram, for the update. >> now facing growing international condemnation of the death of a young woman by west about immorality. police coming, up the latest on the unrest of maori me, and why protesters are not backing down. all across the country, people are working hard to build a better future. so we're hard at work helping them achi

unfortunately, our little town of inglewood which shares with charlotte county, we haven't seen the charlotte north port, that is our community along i-75, a lot of damage to public buildings, you know, school buildings, a lot of flooding, so what we're doing, we kept our evacuation centers, for the public open, and we're allowing anybody there, with destroyed homes, to come in, there and a lot of destroyed mobile homes. communication is out. power is out. phones are out. so we've actually just brought in an amateur radio community, our sarasota county amateur radio emergency services, and they're set up out here, on the eoc, with a tent up, i have an amateur person at the eoc of northport and we're communicating, we're in the process of getting high water vehicles, resources down there, and then the other thing we're doing is kind of tearing down our shelters, evacuation centers and anything that is not in the north, we are starting to close those and we are working on a plan to move people that skill tant go home to a red cross shelt hear we're establishing in several of those throughout th

steve harrigan's live in charlotte county florida. how are you? >> doing good here.oo late for charlotte county. those are certainly on his words to hear from the governor. right now about 900 people in this county are in shelters. they are about 175 shelters opened up across florida. they have warned two and a half million people all along the coast to leave. they've actually ordered about 1.75 million people to evacuate. a lot of those people have not evacuated, and just from standing here, i can tell you over the last hour that conditions have gotten worse. the wind has kicked up considerably. we are not seeing trees snap, but we are beginning to see small objects fly around, and branches. first is going to be the wind, then the surge, then flooding from the rain. so a real triple threat here for the west coast of florida over the next several hours. emily, back to you. >> emily: steve, my question to you is about the cadence. you say the wind has picked up, you have been noticing upticks in certain elements. has the cadence become more rapid? as you see those upt

two of his children were there, prince george and princess charlotte.essage. >> it sent a really powerful message about the future of the monarchy, with the king, his heir, and the future heir. but it was also incredibly personal, i think, to have the green's great-grandchildren there, so young, 9 and 7, walking in a procession behind her coffin. a very touching and personal moment. >> princess charlotte seems to keep her brother in line. >> she certainly does. there was a wonderful moment as the queen was coming off the state gun carriage off the hearse and you could see charlotte saying to george, you've got to bow. she knows her stuff, and she's pretty good at keeping her brothers in check. >> my sense is we will see more of that in the future. >>> and we want to turn now to the severe weather and hurricane fiona, which has strengthened into a category 2 storm with maximum sustained winds of 100 miles per hour. fiona battered puerto rico with torrential rains, which caused massive flooding. and tonight much of the island is without power with at leas

the 1st half of the storm was bad, especially for areas sound port. charlotte, we're talking a naples, we're talking fort myers, which other highest storm surge ever recorded at more than 22 and a half meters was completely inundated the coastline where i was, we saw significant winds in the order, i'd say, a 140 plus kilometers per hour. implants, it's lorraine saul, then we got the i ordinarily the 2nd half of the storm is weaker. in this case it was far stronger. from a wind standpoint. we saw winds gusting close to gosh, 172190 kilometers for our. we saw absolutely plentiful rainfall to the point where even beyond storm surge, every place that we were trying to drive through or around was an inaccessible due to extreme flooding. with rainfall rates of 5 plus to 6, perhaps centimeters per hour. it's extremely difficult situation. and now this is the 1st life i looked out, the window and can't find a single lights anywhere. the only lights we've seen all night long. we're actually hunker down in a garage right now. are from transformers blowing. so power flashes. why was the 2nd par

i-75 south through charlotte county is open and flowing.you know, some of those areas, cape coral, stay of ft. myers, they got really, really inundated and really devastated by this storm. so the hope is that all of 75 will be open. but most of it is open and it gives us what we need to be able to continue to move supplies into the area. we have 100 engineers on-site to do bridge inspections, and they work in teams of two. as they assess the damage and they can ensure safety, then bridges can be safely reopened. now, of course, we do have reports of structural damages to bridges such as the bridge going on to sanibel island and i anticipate others will have suffered damage. once bridges arement inned and determined to be safe, they will be reopened as soon as possible. we know sanibel causeway and pine island bridge, those two are not passable and they are going to require structural rebuilds. right now, if you look in central florida, you're looking at potential major flooding in orange and seminole counties, st. john's river, all the way

we're in port charlotte to do a live shot. port charlotte, i mean the hurricane came right over this area. this gas station just completely ripped apart. he's closed, obviously no gas available but look at this. i can pick up part of the roof here. it just sheared off from the roof right above me and as i move over to my left, your right, we can see a gas line over -- could be a gas line. it's a loose line that is attached to the gas pump so clearly, you know, whether you're going to a gas station, a store that might be damaged or you're home, this is the kind of stuff you have to watch out for. look at this cable hanging down. power lines that are loose, gas lines like this, these cables here. you know, we have officials from tampa all the way down to naples and elsewhere in florida warning residents, do not rush back to your houses so quickly because of things like this. there are still a lot of dangers around. first responders still have to concentrate on rescue efforts. collier county, they've said they had to do at least

charlotte: down a bit. the company is planning to dump equity.also hearing that traders are expecting the selling pressure to be short-lived. for one, the market has expectations. the tech giant has already said they are going to diversify. following the early report, the market has expectations about this. this is a sign that could potentially ease pressure and monopolistic behavior in china. charlotte: the other one is the audit -- david: the other one is the audit story, right? what is the story? are they going to come to hong kong? the quarantine is still in place. what do we know about that? charlotte: it's expected that they will be arriving in hong kong later this month. we have a tentative batch of companies including tech giants like alibaba, baidu. there's more attention on the implementation side. after the initial assignment, everyone is looking at how this will go out. they have discretion. china said. everyone is closely watching how this thing is actually going to pan out. some of those logistical difficulties, transferring those.

here's a public information officer for charlotte county.o much for being with us at this hour. when i ask you about pensacola and there was -- it was slam so hard yesterday and today. what are you hearing about a threat to human life, injuries and damage assessments so far? i know it's early, but what are you hearing? >> we are starting to hear some of the damage coming into. our first responders are off the streets right now and we are just waiting for the winds to subside, so where it's safe for us to go out there. once that happens, we'll hit the streets, we'll have our public words departments there. they can go in and know the main artery, so they will get those clear. our first responders will be right behind them doing assessments, doing search and rescue operations and that's the type of activity out there. public works crews will be clearing the roads so we can operate and our message is the same. stay off the roads, i know people want to get out there and see, but right now it's dangerous and plus we don't want residents out there

inundated well known cities, fort myers, port charlotte. we spoke to people on marko island who rode out the storm. i spoke to a fireman who was in naples who said he was unnerved as the water was flowing up into their fire house. 4 to 7 feet. they couldn't get out to help people because they were trapped inside as their building was flooding. only now are we beginning to get a sense of how much damage was done in this storm. brianna, i do believe as the light does come up >> yes, and that is about to happen very soon. ian may have weakened to a tropical storm. it's not done with florida, in fact, far from it. the storm continues to pummel parts of the state on a slow, this is really an issue, it's churning on the destructive crawl north. orlando now in the crosshairs of this historic storm that's produced record rainfall and storm surge. power outages are a major problem with more than 2 million customers in the dark across florida. water is just everywhere in many communities. in port charlotte, the storm blew the roof off of a hospital a

and duchess meghan the jewelry worn in tribute to the queen and the sweet moment between princess charlotte and older brother george what she reminded him to do. the service concluding with two minutes of silence across the uk. an emotional charles wiping away a tear, and the moving note the king left atop his mother's coffin. what it said then the final journey. tens of thousands lining the 25 miles from london to windsor. the queen's coffin lowered into the royal vault, later buried beside her late husband, prince philip tonight the grief, the pageantry, and the future as britain lays its longest-serving monarch to rest. >> announcer: this is nbc "nightly news" with lester holt >>> good evening, everyone, from london. behind me, westminster abbey, where queen elizabeth's state funeral was held today. thousands lining the streets here for a good-bye like none other. we'll have the sights and sounds of an emotional day in a moment but we start tonight with hurricane fiona, now strengthening into a category 2 hurricane with winds up to 100 miles an hour taking aim at turks and caicos islands

floodwater inundating areas like naples and port charlotte. these are pictures of that area leaving some people who decided to ride out the storm trapped in their homes, others rescued from their cars, berman. the danger also continues, we should note. >> reporter: it absolutely does continue. the storm not done yet. brianna, i'm sorry for communication problems earlier. the fema administrator told me they are prepared for thousands of displaced people, thousands perhaps of long-term displaced people. so that is what people are up against here in florida right now. cnn's got live team coverage of ian still very much a powerful force. first i want to go to the national hurricane center. mike e brennan is there. where is the storm? where is it headed? how powerful, sir? >> right now the center of ian is just about ten miles west of cape canaveral here, right along the florida space coast moving northeast at 9 miles per hour. it's going to emerge back out. we have flash flood emergencies in places like seminole, deltona, life threatening flash fl

expect the storm surge along port charlotte and charlotte harbor to be as high as 9 feet. this is a significant storm surge. show you the animations of what that means. storm surge of 4 feet brings ka ter into the properties on the coast. any time you exceed 9, 10, 12 feet you can get water above the first floor of the homes. the energy expected farther towards the north puts other people at risk in areas of the south. 50% of tropical psych klobuchar fatalities do occur because of storm surge. that's why we try to hammer this particular element home so much when it comes to the weather and tropics. we've already seen significant wind gusts upwards of 87 miles per hour. when it comes to the storm system, it's not just the storm surge, not just the category 4 winds. if you're not at the coast you're not going to be dealing with those is what you think. look at the rainfall. areas to the north, expansive area where the forecast models have brought as much as 20 plus inches across an expansive area. the flooding here is going to be significant. the flash flood risk is high and

i'm joined now by matthew caputo cheese, a meteorologist with the app my radar, and is in port charlotte, florida. could you bring us up to date on our, what's happening there? i believe there are people who are still trapped after the storm swept through. most definitely you know what, what we're hearing right now. it appears that a major bridge that connects sanibel island with the coastline washed out during the height of the storm, both as a result of very high storm sir. water pushed ashore and significant winds. so those people are iceland have no ability to get back to shore unless helicopters are brought in. and of course it's been too windy to do that as of late. and so this could be a humanitarian crisis for them. in the meantime, the storm is now a weakening hurricane is still pushing off shore, the east coast of florida soon to march over the atlantic. we will recur of becoming strong once again, impacting the carolina as, believe it or not yet another hurricane. what about the situation for rescue work is i believe it's also been extremely dangerous, but then because of the

bailey joining us on the phone from port charlotte to tell her story.ley, thanks for joining us. first of all, how you are, where you are? >> i'm doing okay, in my inlaws house in port charlotte and doing the best we can right now. >> is that where you rode out the storm? >> yes, we rode out the storm in their house, which thankfully is boarded up. >> tell me about that, because i understand, you didn't have enough gas to try to get back to where you lived just outside of tampa. tell us what has happened and what this experience has been like for you. >> yes, well, we thought we were doing everything right, we got, you know, the mandatory evacuation in tampa, and it was supposed to hit us and we went south to our inlaws in port charlotte and we couldn't find gas on the way, it was sold out in tampa and when we got here, it was sold out here as well and then we realized the storm had turned, and by the time we started to look at, you know, going to shelters, we were getting conflicting reports with shelters being shut and others saying they were open but

thank you, charlotte.te of the funeral procession, in london and windsor, and there'll be big screens in city centres and 125 cinemas, around the uk. let's return to our correspondent helena wilkinson, who's at buckingham palace. well, we have seen so many extraordinary, powerful, poignant moments from the people we have just seen queueing, willing to queue for hours, many overnight, thousands and thousands of them queueing to see their queen lying in state, to the queen at�*s grandchildren, who held that silent vigil by the grandmother's coffin, to the journey that the queen took from balmoral to london. as the final preparations get underway for the queen's funeral tomorrow, presidents, prime ministers, members of royalfamilies from europe, they are all arriving here in the uk to pay their respects. it will be one of the biggest gatherings of royalty and politicians that the uk has hosted for decades. and tomorrow, across cities and towns in the uk, people who have so publicly mourned this week will be a