so worsening situation here in madeira beach.we've seen a lot of deputies with pinellas county, we've seen the fire department out. they are starting to assess what is going on. there is a presumption that homes and businesses could flood if that seawall breached. it has breached. they are hoping now that the high tide, the storm surge will retreat before any worse damage than what we've seen so far. you can tell the wind is whipping here pretty good right now. look at those stop signs. kind of a textbook example of the wind and gives you an idea of what we're facing. actually it slowed down a little bit. it was more intense than this just a few minutes ago. we've seen a couple signs damaged, some things like that, minor damage, palm frons down. nothing of really any note. but the wind is a factor here and it is helping to blow the water from the gulf of mexico north up gulf boulevard toward the roadblock just over my shoulder here. we'll continue to monitor the situation here at made la mayor madeira beach and check back in with

for madeira beach, that subject is gone. these people are now having to be evacuated by us. >> for those people who have not evacuated that need to be evacuated by you, what is your message to them at this moment? >> you can replace your house and belongings. you have to look out for your safety and your family's safety. a lot of people especially long term florida residents, they always say that we've dealt with this before, it will they ever do anything to us. it won't hit us. well, living in madeira beach, you will be faced with the floods more than anything as opposed to the winds. the winds only got up to about 55 miles sustained here, but it is the surge and the king tide that was mentioned, it is the perfect storm for flooding here. >> and in terms of -- you make a great point. we've been talking to officials both state and local saying that there is a lot of people in this region kind of across the coastline who say we've been through this before, there have been warnings that never lived up to kind of the worst case

and madeira beach, florida, madison, scarpino, fox news. hawaiian electric is taking responsibility for one of several deadly wildfires that broke out on maui on august 8th. the utility company released a statement saying its power lines sparked the first wildfire in lahaina, but it blames county firefighters for declaring that fire contained and leaving the scene only to have a second fire start up nearby. the utility says its lines have been shut off for more than six hours before the second fire began. maui county is currently suing hawaiian electric, claiming the company kept power lines on during the dangerous wind conditions. a washington, dc judge today set the date for former president trump's trial for early march. trump facing four counts of conspiracy and obstruction an in alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in a us district judge scheduled a trial to start on march 4th next year. that's the day before super tuesday. that date is later than what was proposed by special counsel jack smith, but much earlier

and madeira beach, florida, madison , scarpino, fox news. federal judge in washington, d.c, today set the date for former president trump's trial for early march. trump faces four counts of conspiracy and obstruction for his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. a us district judge set the date for march 4th of 2024. that is the day before super tuesday. that date is later than what was proposed by special counsel jack smith, but it is much earlier than the defense request for a trial date in 2026. defendant in a criminal case is supposed to be tried within 70 days on on these complex white collar cases , it is not uncommon for it to take years. the dc case is one of four sets of criminal charges the former president is facing. trump's legal team says it will appeal today's ruling. russia's state funded media has released new video showing imprisoned american paul whelan, the former us marine, is in a remote prison in mordovia for serving a 16 year prison sentence for espionage. this newly released video shows whelan i