and you see them fort ticonderoga is owned and operated by the fort ticonderoga association. we are nonprofit, educational organization or historic site where a museum are cultural destination and center learning both on site across our 2000 acres as well as across the globe through our center for digital history. i'm sure many of you enjoy our online learning programs from our author series, which we monthly to our fort fever and many of the other programs that we do. the mission of the for ticonderoga association is to preserve, educate and provoke an active discussion, the past and its importance to, present and future generations. we foster an ongoing dialog surrounding citizens, soldiers and nations through america's military heritage. this amazing mission is a direct, acknowledged and the significant museum collections we have, and it really forces us to look far beyond this remarkable site and and look more deeply at the international scope of the wars of the 18th century and the conflicts that shaped political and cultural geography of the united states during that ti

and you see them fort ticonderoga is owned and operated by the fort ticonderoga association. we are nonprofit, educational organization or historic site where a museum are cultural destination and center learning both on site across our 2000 acres as well as across the globe through our center for digital history. i'm sure many of you enjoy our online learning programs from our author series, which we monthly to our fort fever and many of the other programs that we do. the mission of the for ticonderoga association is to preserve, educate and provoke an active discussion, the past and its importance to, present and future generations. we foster an ongoing dialog surrounding citizens, soldiers and nations through america's military heritage. this amazing mission is a direct, acknowledged and the significant museum collections we have, and it really forces us to look far beyond this remarkable site and and look more deeply at the international scope of the wars of the 18th century and the conflicts that shaped political and cultural geography of the united states during that ti

the collections here at fort fort ticonderoga roca demonstrate that this was a place of color of of humor and whimsy and beauty in ways that a journal might not capture. and it also tells us that there are always new ways to approach the past both scholarly an academic setting, but also within a public setting. so. one day i will roasted chicken on hearth or perhaps we can restore a fireplace to have cooking infrastructure, which would be amazing, but it is just one of those opportunities for continued and continued public programing. the fort ticonderoga is already doing, but which we can all continue to go to, continue to do and continue to expand on as part of this scholarly community, as of that scholarship and also museum attendees as consumers of that scholarship, it's so i'm out of time. so i will end here, but i think we have some time questions and. thank you for. know just. thank you sarah. anybody have questions? sarah? we have one on the line at least. yes, we have a question that's come from our online audience, which is asking carbon dating or other methods been used to conf

arrived at fort edward? yes on july 30th and stayed there for over six weeks, in part a raid in mid-august to acquire cattle and forage and more horses near bennington, vermont, which is to the east that raid ended in disaster by mid-september after weeks of contests and toil, the army finally had accumulated about five week supply of provisions and so burgoyne saw okay, i can cut the supply line back north and head off to albany. so on september 13th the british germans packed their tents, crossed the hudson river and headed south. now all of these delays, however, the slow movement and being place in one place for a while gave the continental army local militia time to get to the saratoga brega area. time to assemble in overwhelming. so the two sides clashed as you. september 19th and october 7th. you know the results the german british forces did not because of one reason insufficient and horses and histories to complex to be reduced to a single but i think in environmental history and the perspective of

arrived at fort edward? yes on july 30th and stayed there for over six weeks, in part a raid in mid-august to acquire cattle and forage and more horses near bennington, vermont, which is to the east that raid ended in disaster by mid-september after weeks of contests and toil, the army finally had accumulated about five week supply of provisions and so burgoyne saw okay, i can cut the supply line back north and head off to albany. so on september 13th the british germans packed their tents, crossed the hudson river and headed south. now all of these delays, however, the slow movement and being place in one place for a while gave the continental army local militia time to get to the saratoga brega area. time to assemble in overwhelming. so the two sides clashed as you. september 19th and october 7th. you know the results the german british forces did not because of one reason insufficient and horses and histories to complex to be reduced to a single but i think in environmental history and the perspective of

we'll know a lot more about the damage, about what's happened here in fort myers, fort myers beach, ofsoon as the sun comes up. that will give us a better chance to really assess what's happened here. but power outages the big problem right now. flooding the big problem right now. and tornados. this has spawned two dozen or more tornados across the state, including one here in fort myers. one on the east side of the state that is obviously been blamed for a loss of life there. and so that's something that they are working through on the other side of the state. most every portion of florida right now under some type of emergency order, some type of emergency warning as this storm continues to push its way through. and still a category 1 hurricane. category 3 at landfall, and now losing some steam as it moves across the state but still causing some major problems. >> really tough especially when it comes to those anxious residents, jay, who have to wait until morning to see what the damage has left behind. all right. jay, thanks so much. >>> and coming up on "today", later this morning,

me encuentro en fort myers. la ciudad ha sido impactada por milton. se pueden ver en la pantalla. la playa estÁ cerrada. ya pudimos ver inundaciones. se experimentÓ un tornado que arrasÓ una comunidad, de destrozÓ techos y derribÓ tendidos elÉctricos. estamos en un Área donde no hay electricidad, el centro de la ciudad. tuvimos que desplazarnos, estÁbamos cerca del rÍo. el rÍo comenzÓ a aumentar el agua y fue inundando calles. es lo que tenemos por ahora. maity: gracias. son muchos videos que destacan en redes sociales por el impacto del huracÁn. vamos con detalles. reportera: el impacto de milton se ha sentido desde temprano. en florida se reportaron mÚltiples tornados y las imÁgenes son impactantes. este tornado fue captado por una cÁmara del departamento de transporte de florida, y descrito como grande y peligroso. el tornado estaba en una zona no muy poblada del condado de broward y atravesÓ la carretera i75. este otro tambiÉn fue registrado en florida. varias zonas han estado bajo vigilancia de tornado todo el dÍa. en este video vemos que un torn

cho ginger zee is in fort myers. i know the track can still change, but as of right now, when and where is this expected to make landfall? >> yeah, david, it looks right over say, bradenton, sarasota, and tampa bay, those are the heart of where we'll see that landfall making impacts. let me show you what's happening already here in fort myers, though. the storm passed us already, but we are just now taking on some of this dangerous storm surge. the gulf of mexico just beyond the sanibel causeway is starting to push onshore with the onshore winds. so, this is just the beginning of the storm, even though it has passed. all of that is going to play into what happens tonight. let me take you through the maps, because that cat 3, we've been forecasting it for days as a major hurricane making landfall here tonight. and now, it's upon us. northeast at 15 miles per hour. the thing is kind of cruising, it got picked up with that wind shear we've been talking about for days, awell. and it's interacting with a front. so, what's

wintert valley fort, i just marched right over there. yeah, yeah. ter the btle, the frank brothers and their regiments marched to valley forge, pennsylvania, for the winter encampment of 1777 to 1778, while in camp there. oh, excuse me. american troops suffered major losses due to disease. illness and desertion. washington would describe the encampment as, quote, composed of men half starved, always in rags without pay and experiencing every species of distress, unquote. the food rations were in such short supply that many of the army regulars threatened to revolt. their slogan was no bread, no meat, no soldier. at the end of 1777, washington notified congress that over 2800 soldiers were unfit for duty because they were otherwise barefoot and naked. william frank one of these soldiers. a week later, an additional 1000 men were on sick roll. over 3000 soldiers deserted. the rhode island regiments were decimate it as well due to their losses, there were barely enough soldiers left to form one regiment. colonel angell wrote, quote, i am sorry to infor

and the retraining brigade at fort riley, kansas. each of these facilities is designed to handle a different kind of problem solver. but at them all look for a disciplinary approach as directed toward rehabilitation and correction, rather than punishment of these offenders. inmates receive frequent counseling from military, police personnel, whoever received training and counseling techniques in order to accomplish this job. while other branches of the army with things the military believes primarily concerned with people. that's what makes the corps such a unique part of the service. are the corps members here teach or supervised the extensive vocational training programs which are designed to enable inmates to find a responsible place, military or civilian society upon release. looking at the career training, an honor system privileges many of these offenders enjoy. it's clear that the confinement system administered by today's military police has come a long way since the dark days of civil war. like andersonville. even in their m

and at fort campbell, the interview rooms were filling up. in one of those rooms, jessie goslyn-- jessie had given law enforcement a possible motive for her husband's murder. she said vince owed money to drug dealers, a lot of money. prosecutor pryor was getting regular phone updates about all the witness interviews. but to her, jessie's was the most important. jessie gave police a key new detail. she said on the night of the murder, one of those drug dealers contacted her. she was getting text messages from this man? lynn pryor: that's what she indicated, yes, and that he would do harm or kill her and her family, her children, if she didn't comply with what he was telling her to do. narrator: that's when jessie admitted she didn't drive down fidelio road because she was feeling sick. she said she felt she had no choice but to go through with what the man said even though she suspected something bad was about to happen. as jessie's interview on fort campbell headed into its second hour, sheriff's detectives across town were working on trackin

and th rhode island troops were stationed at fort mercer bank. that is where the red arrows pointing at detachment of soldiers from the second rhod island was also oveto reinforce troops at fort mifflin. initially the rhode island troops were able to defend fort mercer and repel british and hessian troops. however, the british able to eventually capture fort mifflin, forcing the rhode island regiments to evacuate both forts as a result of the battle. 14 were killed, 21 were wounded. but they did receive praise and accommodations for the exploits, and the commander, the first rhode island regiment, colonel christopher green, received a commendation sword from the rhode island assembly for his his work at fort mercer. what was their ultimate reward for their service at red bank? nter at valley fort, i just marched right over there. yeah, yeah. afterhe battle, the frank brothers and their regiments marched to valley forge, pennsylvania, for the winter encampment of 1777 to 1778, while in camp there. oh, excuse me. american troops suffered major loss

winter at valley fort, just marched right over there. yeah, yeah. after the battle, the frank brothers and their regiments marched to valley forge, pennsylvania, for the winter encampment of 1777 to 1778, while in camp there. oh, excuse me. american troops suffered major losses due to disease. illness and desertion. washington would describe the encampment as, quote, composed of men half starved, always in rags without pay and experiencing every species of distress, unquote. the food rations were in such short supply that many of the army regulars threatened to revolt. their slogan was no bread, no meat, no soldier. at the end of 1777, washington notified congress that over 2800 soldiers were unfit for duty because they were otherwise barefoot and naked. william frank one of these soldiers. a week later, an additional 1000 men were on sick roll. over 3000 soldiers deserted. the rhode island regiments were decimate it as well due to their losses, there were barely enough soldiers left to form one regiment. colonel angell wrote, quote, i am sorry to i

one was a fort fort. one was a castle. revolutionary war fort that was pretty much obsolete. and there was fort sumter, sumter at this time was incomplete construction had begun in 1828 and it was still not the guns had not been mounted. the fortress was meant to have 650 soldiers at this point before the action begins that had essentially none. some laborers who were working, working on the floor. so us control these properties and. that really rankled south carolina. that really rankled because again they felt that the north was this tyrannical force. and here in the harbor was this federal presence. then you know, this fort sumter galled them the most. it had this this, this gigantic flag flying from the top of this. you know, fortress with a 50 foot walls and three tiers of guns and so forth, really -- them off. and so, so the united states became concerned about this after after lincoln's election, after the declaration of of secession, but actually even even before lincoln's election, the united states army put a new

this right here is a decimated storage facility in fort pierce. look at that even before the hurricane arrived at whipped up an outbreak as we were talking about of tornadoes, this camera in fort pierce captured a tree nato as it descended to the ground. >> and ferociously shredded. and tossed almost anything. and it's free some of the deadly tornadoes also proved as i pointed out, deadly at least four people are confirmed dead in st. lucie county, about 150 miles from where milton later made landfall high winds also strip the roof off tropicana field where the tampa bay rays played baseball. earlier this week, it was announced the stadium would be used as a base camp for 10001st responders and emergency workers. we have a lot to cover today and our team is here to walk us through all the latest developments. let's begin with cnn's isabel rosales and tampa. and you were there at the dramatic overnight rescue? assisted living center and just to hear you speak to them. and the last hour at all, they went through actually sitting and water waiting fo

they are bracing for a major storm surge in fort myers. that's also south of where i am, and sam brock is there. sam, it's already been a very dangerous day there. >> reporter: it sure has, lester. tornadic activity, at least one reported tornado by the weather service here in fort myers, as you mentioned, but the storm surge and all eyes on the caloosahatchee river behind me, and it reached street level. there are images of damage from that tornado. there are a half dozen emergency services right now, the cities that control them, lester, that have suspended going out and trying to save people. the reason being, once you get to 45 miles an hour or faster of sustained winds, they to say it's just too fast, we cannot do it. in lee county where we are right now, deputies at last check are actually still out there on the streets. there are 800,000 people who live here. about 400,000 of them are under mandatory evacuations. that extends all the way west about ten miles to those barrier islands like fort myers beach and sanibel island. you'll r

he has south of me in fort myers, which was very badly hit. obviously in hurricane ian hundred and 50 people were killed in that storm wow, it is carlos. what is it like where you are not letting up at this point here in lee county across parts of fort myers where we are at this hour. >> we're looking at gaza i've anywhere between 15 to 60 miles per hour. and so what's happening right now is the flooding is really the big issue for parts of southwest florida. this storm, the hurricane, has made landfall, of course, to the north of me where you and boris and bill weir and everyone else and randi kaye is located what we're experiencing thank south of you guys is the storm surge. all of this water that is being pushed in from the gulf of mexico that has nowhere to go. the kaluza hatchie river, which is behind me here is pretty much at this point just blended into this street. there's really no way to know exactly where river kind of stands because the pier the beach area over there, that's at this point all of the water is just coming through on

think about fort myers, naples,well away from that center. we got to keep reminding people, you're not safe, even though you're not near the center of the storm. we'll continue to really message that as we can. the other part of this, flooding could last a while. unlike other areas with elevation, there's not much elevation in florida. so, some of these rivers are going to be slow to drain. some of these rivers could stay up for about a week after the storm. and the storm surge will act as a blocker to drain some of that rain on the inland areas. so that coo really be -- add some challenges with some communities with the flooding and recovery efforts, so some of the roads will be pretty impassible. so, i was looking at this, mr. president, madam vice president, yesterday, i said the clock is ticking and sounding alarm bells going off. people really need to start getting into their safe place. as always, the weather service remains on duty 24 by 7 to make sure decisionmakers have all of the information they need. >> ken, i'd like to focus on o

that correct. _ proved, in fort myers. that correct. yes- _ proved, in fort myers.fort myers. that correct, yes. iwill- proved, in fort myers. that correct, yes. iwilltell- proved, in fort myers. that correct, yes. i will tell youl correct, yes. i will tell you the message for days has been telling folks to get out of the area, not asking them to cross the state, even though that's what a lot of folks have been doing, folks trying to find shelter in areas like miami, fort lauderdale, 0rlando. a lot of folks travelling perhaps farther than they needed to. the message from emergency officials was you just need to go inland, evacuation centres across the state, and unfortunately in previous storms we've had people perish in rising waters on islands, low lying areas. they really didn't need to go very far, perhapsjust a few didn't need to go very far, perhaps just a few miles to find a safe place to be. in find a safe place to be. in our find a safe place to be. in your neighbourhood to have the sense most people have been listening to the instructions or do they feel t

another tornado spotted on a traffic camera crossing i-75 west of fort lauderdale. this shows just how far and wide the effects of this storm have been felt for hours. tonight here, my interview with the hurricane hunters from noaa flying into the hurricane, rocked by turbulence. what they witnessed inside the eye of the hurricane. and you're going to hear from the lieutenant commander just back on the ground tonight. president biden late today coming before the cameras warning of the dangers of this hurricane. and again, hurricane milton just making landfall as we the air here in the west ton tonight. the latest forecast from the national hurricane center. chief meteorologist ginger zee is live in fort myers with the very latest for us. >> now we have landfall at siesta key, about 75 miles to my north. look behind me. do you see that little shed and that door? the door handle is pretty apparent. and the surge has made it up there. we've had to climb up here in the last hour because the surge has overtaken the entire pool deck. it's breached into the pool at the hot

we have a hurricane warning for orlando, tampa, fort pierce and fort myers, and we're going to see a be the biggest impact and historical storm as we go throughout the next 24 hours. a 10 to 15-foot storm surge. that is unsurvivable where you see the purple there including portions of of central florida, sarasota, tampa, also looking at very high storm surge in fort myers, also marco island. and we're going see flooding impacts as well. flash flooding, streams and rivers will be swollen. the ground is saturated already so life threatening and catastrophic flash flooding is expected, up to 18 inches in some spots. and we're going to see rain across the state of florida. and we're also looking at those winds. this will be a major impact because those grounds are so set. stow hurricane force winds gusting from ghost to coast. and jonathan, we're going to see widespread power outages not just days but we're talking weeks. this is going to be a story to to watch over the next 24 hours, certainly one for the record books and the cleanup afterwards. >> and anyone in the storm's path again p

in fort myers. i know we've been reporting all morning long about the impact of this hurricane outside of the gulf coast of florida, the west coast of florida, a particularly when we were talking about now these tornadoes. i mean, we had at least four that were confirmed. we know one out in the western part of broward county, another one up in clearest in which is right where lake okeechobee is. and then again, these two other tornadoes that the folks out here are pretty certain is what caused all of this damage. >> kate carlos. thank you very much, john. >> just for the record, i can hear you. fine. >> thank you very much as always, the mellifluous sounds of kafle that in my ear, right? so the very latest is that four people have been confirmed dead from the tornadoes. >> governor desantis suggested that number could rise as we get more information, cnn meteorologist derek van dam is with us now. derek, what are you learning? >> well, listen, i think it's something for people in south florida when

good news is we've been out on fort myers beach. we've been around fort myers. it looks like a lot of people did listen to those warnings did move to higher ground. let's talk about the psychological impact on the folks there when they've already been through. you know, saw colleen and now they have milton coming toward them. i mean, this is a deja vu. they didn't want to see so difficult. i mean, that was just two weeks ago. and now this storm, which is a much more powerful storm, is moving through. and consider that they've also gone through debby. and before that, two years ago, ian, there are people here still recovering from ian, still people trying to rebuild from that storm. and the others that followed. and now dealing with what is likely the strongest of all of those storms. and so, yeah, there's frustration here. there's obviously fatigue from all of this. and it is a very tough go. i talked to one of the families that was evacuating and they said, look, these next few hours may be the worst because we've worked so hard to get back on our feet here. no

little west towards fort myers.'t even getting complaint accurate ratings because we lost power there. the expectation is that the entire coast is flooding at this moment right now. naples 4.8 feet above normal high tide. that's higher than hurricane hellion. 3.9 feet in downtown fort myers and the peak is yet to come there later this evening. so there will be another flood event for all of southwest florida. tonight 90 mile-per-hour hurricane through orlando and the metropolitan area there in the dark tonight. after that it goes offshore. there is more as to the north of the storm that i wall structure comes across this part of florida 4-4 flash floods threat on top of the wind for and tornado threat over this corridor here. it's starting over here right now through tonight across the state has its own top of the record tornadoes that occurred earlier today. >> what we are seeing as it's hitting the west coast of florida in central florida with the high wind and potential flooding there and it should be off the eas

this is a security camera outside a house in fort myers, florida. it picked up the violent winds of an apparent tornado let's go straight to our meteorologist, elisa raffa and seen in turkey headquarters. lisa where is milton right now? just how widespread is the impact including these tornado warnings? >> yeah. i mean, jake, it's still sitting 100 miles south and west of tampa, but the winds are just so wide. we now had a category three hurricane. it's got winds at 125 miles per hour at its center. so it is still a major hurricane and doing what the category number fool you. we have these tropical storm-force winds that stretch 300 miles. this has more than doubled the size from what it was yesterday. like we were talking about when the intensity fluctuated. look at how much wider got a wider storm means more people will be impacted across the state because these winds are just far-reaching. you could see wind gusts are ready nearing 50 miles per hour in st. petersburg naples. am i ami as well, these outer bands that have been coming onshore old da

fort myers businesses are boarded up, and sandbags piled on in preparation for the storm. still, some residents say they plan to stick it out. >> i'm in highrise downtown. so i feel pretty comfortable where i'm at. i got plenty of food and supplies. >> reporter: a traveler filmed this empty terminal before she departed tampa's international airport, now one of several in florida to suspend operations as milton approaches. now we know several areas here including fort myers beach and sanibel are under a curfew, as well. really those officials trying to make sure that people get out of town long before we start to feel this which could happen any time now. >> nicole, thanks and stay safe out there. >>> an afghan man living in oklahoma city has been arrested on charges of plotting an election day attack in the u.s. the suspect has been identified as nasir ahmad tawhedi. federal officials say he was motivated by isis and was attempting to stockpile firearms and had taken steps to liquidate his family's assets and relocate members overseas. the fbi said he worked with an unname

they are bracing for a major storm surge in fort myers. that's also south of where i am, and sam brock is there. sam, it's already been a very dangerous day there. >> reporter: it sure has, lester. tornadic activity, at least one reported tornado by the weather service here in fort myers, as you mentioned, but the storm surge and all eyes on the caloosahatchee river behind me, and it reached street level. there are images of damage from that tornado. there are a half dozen emergency services right now, the cities that control them, lester, that have suspended going out and trying to save people. the reason being, once you get to 45 miles an hour or faster of sustained winds, they to say it's just too fast, we cannot do it. in lee county where we are right now, deputies at last check are actually still out there on the streets. there are 800,000 people who live here. about 400,000 of them are under mandatory evacuations. that extends all the way west about ten miles to those barrier islands like fort myers beach and sanibel island. you'll r

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regreso con ustedes. >> alejandro isturiz muchÍsimas gracias por este reporte desde fort myers.a de una cuestiÓn de vida o muerte, segÚn las autoridades. mi colega julio vaqueiro acompaÑÓ un oficial en este recorrido. >> julio buenas noches aranza, muy buenas noches a esta hora es ya muy peligroso para las autoridades, para los equipos de emergencia, poder atender a las personas que quieran salir de casa. hay sitios en donde ya es imposible acceder. mira la fuerza del viento, mira la fuerza de la lluvia, pero apenas esta tarde nosotros junto a la policÍa recorrimos algunas calles de tampa y estuvimos acompaÑÁndolos en ese Último esfuerzo por hacer que las personas llegaran a un refugio seguro. esto es lo que vimos. mandatory evacuation order, has been issued for this area es el Último esfuerzo antes de milton. >> nosotros vamos a ir a palmetto beach. es una Área que es la mayorÍa son hispanos. >> y ella es la sargento rose. recorre las calles de tampa en busca de personas que todavÍa no han evacuado. creen que todavÍa hay personas en sus casas que no han querido evacuar en esa z

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sarasota, mike seidel, fort myers beach mayor in fort myers where the word is out, get out of town while you still can and ian are lover, new york city looking at the storm's trajectory and what we are likely to see. welcome, i am neil cavuto. >> reporter: good morning. we have taken our viewers on a trip across the key. we showed up at 2:30 in the morning, started in the residential area, made it to the commercial section and now we are the gulf of mexico. big, huge condo behind me, storm shutters are shut. just half an hour ago, a big stack of chairs, 8 chairs hanging out on the front balcony. we mentioned it during our live report on fox weather, they opened up the shutters, pulled everything in and shut it. not sure if we are the ones that gave them the heads up but they are prepared and ready to go. that would have been a problem. we expect wind gusts of one hundred 25 miles an hour, the worst-case scenario for the wind. check these two cranes. they are building condos on the beachfront, those two cranes are going to be an issue, if they verify the peak potential of one hundred 25 m

myers in downtown fort myers. the flooding at this point really just has not stopped. according to our meteorology department, the storm surge here in fort myers at this hour is about five feet. that number we expect could possibly a double through the night and into tomorrow. this part of fort myers beach, we expected to flood. right now. >> you can may behind me a whole lot because there's no power and the winds and the rain, but the kaluza hatchie river runs parallel to where we're going live for right now. and that river really started a breaching hours ago. and so at this point as far as i can see from where i live right now, all of this water is being pulled wish to this way by the storm surge that's coming in from the gulf of mexico. and what's happening out here is we're seeing the rainfall, we're seeing the flooding, we're seeing the storm surge. it's all coming together ahead of high tide. and so the concern going into the storm was going to be the surge because of all of this out on fort myers beach and

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

robert murray in fort myers, florida, with the latest. robert?tha, all up and down the western seaboard of this pencil of florida and you can see fort myers beach behind me rain coming down already and you see some of the debris, that swept over from two years ago hurricane union. this is a category five storm and it is going to come in late wednesday evening they mix apm, 9:00 p.m. roughly but take a look at what fort myers beach has endured just in the past couple of months, tropical storm debbie flooding the beach out in early august unfortunately catching many people off guard and that less than two week six oh hurricane hilly making its way up the gulf coast and swamping parts of fort myers beach as well -- hey, in the meantime all across the gulf coast and those inside today mandatory evacuations are in play and there are literally thousands if not millions of people fleeing the coastline, sandbagging going on in my morning up windows on homes and businesses and people that are already frustrated and scared by what happened two years ago by

myers. >> we are in downtown fort myers in an area that is known to flood. and so what you're taking a look at is the biggest sure. had with this hurricane we're. >> seeing these kind of numbers. >> just to enable downing where it should be at this hour. >> again landfall here in lee county, it's a storm that i covered this part of fort myers flooded. it's a low-lying area. it is right next to the kaluza hatchie river which just about 20 minutes or so ago when i went over there to take a look at it, it has started breach that water is now starting to come in and a lot of this is happening because as this storm continues to make its way north, it is pushing that water from the gulf of mexico up into the kaluza hatchie river. and then you've got all of that rainfall. that's coming down from lake okeechobee coming down from central florida. and those two forces are coming together at this one and location. and in fact, just on the other side of the river out here, i can see the lights of transformers that are blowing and the two other things that have happened

at fort bragg, kelli trained as an army medic, one of the most demanding jobs in the military. i think it gave her an opportunity to do something better with her life. and she wanted to help people. andrea canning: and what was it about being an army medic? that's an intense job. it was something that would push her to her limits. i want to make a career out of it. i want to do it 20 years. she's like, i really want this to be something. so she would have possibly made a life out of the military. oh, yeah. yeah, that was the plan. andrea canning (voiceover): kelli's professional life was on track, but her personal life was complicated. kelli had a husband named mike bordeaux. they got married in 2010 before she joined the service, but later separated. after some time apart, the couple decided to give it another shot. so when the army sent kelli to north carolina, she asked mike to come with her. why did kelli want to save the marriage? i think she didn't want to see it as a failure. she said i'm going to give it three months where i devote. i am going to make this work. andrea

so the folks here in fort myers and down in fort myers beach and over in sanibel, they're getting ready essentially for the possibility of a repeat in terms of the storm surge and the flooding that we are going to see we spent the day yesterday over in the downtown part here of the city folks there put up plywood, they had sandbags. they were trying to do everything as much as they can in an effort to try to keep a lot of this water out. a one final note, john, for me over on fort myers beach. i was there yesterday. it is a ghost town. the folks there were told to evacuate earlier this week and the city, the town there is now under a 24 hour curfew is ladd that the people appear to get out from fort myers beach because that is so vulnerable. there was so much destruction. there are a couple of years ago carlos suarez, thank you. from being in fort myers, stay safe, keep us posted. >> and with us right now for some more, chief barbara tripp, fire chief of tampa fire and rescue chief. thank you very much for taking the time. these are really the final moments to get the message out. talk

but five feet of water is in the streets in the building in fort myers.in tampa, the water is still low. this is incredible. in east bay, they actually had an anti-surge. it's the opposite of the water. it went out. it dropped five feet. people could see the bottom of an entire bay in this area by the shoreline. now that water is beginning to creep back up. they're warning people don't go walking around out there, don't go looking around. that water will return. current wind gusts, 79 in winter haven. orlando, 54. we saw some of our gauges broke here when sarasota hit 102 and the power went out, we lost this wind gauge. the backside still slapping pretty hard. by about midnight, tampa should be, you know, at least getting done with the hurricane gust. by the time we get to 2:00, 3:00 a.m., the tropical storm forced winds should be dying off too. mostly in orlando, probably about 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. and stephanie had, we're still getting these pictures in, hearing about reports of numerous fatalities earlier today. and so this storm has kind of done it all.

we've encountered a few folks who said, look we've evacuated from fort myers beach. we just finished rebuilding our home there, but we're not going to ride out that storm. and in fact, we've also seen a few who fort myers police officers drive around in their squad cars. there are playing out a message on their loudspeakers, telling folks out here, look, this is a mandatory evacuation. you need to get out of here. you cannot stay here because of the flooding concern again, hurricane ian two years ago was a direct hits and the flood levels again, we're about four to five feet this if the projected path stays to the north, we're still looking at a storm surge anywhere between six to ten feet and so once all that water gushes in, the folks here know exactly the damage that they're in for all right. >> thank you so much for that report. needless to say, please stay safe, carlos, i want to now bring in fema associate administrator keith turi. thank you so much for being here, sir 20 million people are americans total are under storm warnings but i do want to start where c

this is from a short time ago in fort myers. can see the before and after of water coming up over this hotel pool. quite dramatic there. and just to show how dangerous this storm is, even with the storm still offshore, it is already causing damage. it has spawned several tornadoes which have been reported in the state, including in areas that are seeing flooding. this is a home in fort myers that was hit by one of those tornadoes. you can see the roof is ripped off and the interior already destroyed, and the hurricane itself hasn't even arrived. these pictures from space give you a sense of the size of the monster storm. it's bringing winds of up to 120mph — that's more than 193kph. some areas in florida are under an "extreme wind warning." and more than 250,000 residents are reportedly already without power. of course, milton comes only about two weeks after hurricane helene struck the state. many cities in florida have not yet finished cleaning up from that storm. just minutes ago, us presidentjoe biden outlined the dangers th