he now says michael bobbitt joins us shortly as well. we'll have ch all aspects of the storm, especially in places where the danger is still real and the staying safe is still the immediate concern joining us right now as we wait for vice president harris, cnn, political commentators van jones and scott jennings, also journalist gretchen carlson, co-founder founder of lift our voices. then this is obviously a big deal for vice president harris there has been obviously a lot of focus on her position on the border. prison. biden's position on the border, the the deal that donald trump killed the bipartisan deal that the heat he helped kill on the border. what are you expecting to hear from harris tonight well, she's got something to say. >> she's going to a border that the biden administration has secured. it took a while and they took a lot of beaten. but they got it done and so she can say we got it done donald trump stood in the way and i think republicans should be very happy now, i bet scott jennings is going to give her a lot of cras

michael bobbitt lives on cedar key, which is small island surrounded by the gulf of mexico he has chosen not to leave michael. thanks for joining us. first of all, what are what's it like? what are you seeing out of your window? there? like right now? >> it's not good, it's just in the last hour really things have started to come apart. the gulf is rising up to swallow the island. during hurricane dahlia a year ago, we got about seven foot of storm surge and it completely devastated the island. we're looking at between 12 and possibly 20 feet of storm surge luckily, i'm in a house at the top of a tall hill. i think i'll be okay. >> but i don't know that cedar key as we know, it will exist in the morning. you've you've written out storage before. i assume that's why you're doing it now, even though this is worse as you said, then the last one with the storm surge, i know multiple neighbors first of years also have chosen to ride out the storm. why did you decide to stay well, that's exactly why why i'm here. >> i know of at least a half dozen, maybe ten elderly people that just refused to

michael bobbitt, who lives in cedar key on the verge of tears as he surveys his neighborhood covered in debris for the scenes we're seeing around the island, entire houses are missing or flattened in on themselves. nearly 4 million in the storm's path are without power, and officials say they expect that number to continue to grow. as helene keeps moving north in tallahassee, florida. rebecca castor, fox news. >> okay, so let's talk more now about helene, which made landfall, mark, as a category four hurricane. >> yeah. and what's interesting with this storm is just the rapid intensification. just on tuesday. this wasn't even a tropical storm. and we're talking about a category four. so yeah, people they had some warning, but not not two weeks of warning or days of warning just to basically the system intensified so rapidly and all the devastation you're seeing, unfortunately, is what you would expect with a category four storm. this is the satellite and the radar as you can see, there's that circulation moving on shore, moving on to the florida coastline last night. and as we coming

. >> reporter: michael bobbitt staying behind rescuing his neighbors on cedar key. >> their house will be completely covered in water. they would have died in that house. >> reporter: our whit johnson reporting overnight from a flooded tampa. >> you can see we're elevated, but look at that water line down that step. you can see how deep it is. >> ginger: more than 3 million customers without power, florida, georgia, south carolina so far. this storm chaser capturing transmission towers igniting. 911 overload. cars abandoned on roads, water too high. >> this storm is raging. >> ginger: waves crashing over walls, flooding homes. >> i couldn't evacuate if i wanted to at this point. >> ginger: water flooding matthew heller's living room forcing him to break out his kayak. >> i have got probably five feet of water in my lower level right now. i was walking around and got a cactus to the leg. so i decided to jump in the boat to avoid all my plants that were floating around my lower level. >> ginger: i can't emphasize the flash flood emergency threat at this moment is the biggest life threate