opal began heading toward the florida coast pensacola area initially as a category 1 storm moving at 10 miles an hour. you take it seriously but the evacuation officials figured they have some time. couple of other interesting elements there. for some strange reason the entire i-10 corridor around pensacola was under heavy construction which is not something you want to have in a hurricane. also the night when things begin to get harry was the night of the o.j. simpson verdict. a lot of things suddenly came into play. that bush officials figured category 110 miles an hour we have got time. we don't want to have a nighttime evacuation. we are going to this tomorrow and in orderly way. in a matter of hours it went from a category 1 to a high category for at times a category 5. not only that it went from 10 miles an hour to 20 miles an hour. suddenly you have half the time to evacuate for a storm of monumental magnitude of troop catastrophic hurricane. people stay because they want to see the o.j. version. they are going to leave the next day. morning time everybody leads at the same ti

>> i'm getting what joe is getting from people in pensacola, friends saying you're being too hard, give chance. the honeymoon period is over. i'm hearing from friends in mine that voted for him not because they didn't like hillary but they believed in what he could do for the nation. they're frustrated. they want him to pivot. he's 71. he's not going to pivot. you're seeing it in the base where they want him to stop tweeting, act presidential, stop attacking the media, stop making it about him. he is the most selfish president i have ever seen. >> and wall street is over it too. wall street is over it. they don't think tax reform is coming. they're getting worried about this president, and if he's effe effe effectu effectual. they don't think his agenda is going to pass. everything is getting pushed farther into 2018. when i a new yorker go to washington, i have a reaction like what are you guys doing down here? >> definitely a case of presidential dysfunction. business insiders lynn et lopez, thank you so much. brad, thank you as well. >> thank you. >> we'll be looking for your latest

to fort meyers, key largo and the florida keys and mel bourn hurricane watches including orlando, pensacola, and panama city and jacksonville. looking at the future tracker 6, the wind gusts by 11:00 p.m., the eye is switched southeast of marathon winds gusting 84 miles per hour in key largo. 30 to 50 miles per hour north and west. as the eye wall gets closer to the area, the winds pick up. 113 in key largo, 108 in key west. the wall of water forced inland around marko island and melbourne the same. my him me seeing gusts 60 to 80 miles per hour. monday morning we're teeing tropic storm gusts for southern florida. so here's the official track for the national hurricane center it should make landfall sometime tomorrow morning in the florida keys and another hit around marco island and naples and monday into southern georgia and most of the ohio and tennessee valley as it continues to push i understand land. we'll take a closures look at the -- closer look at the projected storm surge which is impressive and look at the local weather in the delaware and lehigh valleys which looks very, very n

the 80 one person team is staged in a large aircraft hangar at the air force base near pensacola. 30 members of the crew arrived on sunday after driving 60 hours in a massive convoy, and more than 60,000 pounds of equipment. they also brought in search and rescue dogs and drones to help in the efforts. the rest of the members arrived on monday. >>> dozens of celebrities took part last night in the big telethon benefiting hurricane relief efforts. the telethon called hand in hand brought together some of the biggest names in movies, tv, music and entertainment. there were live broadcast from several cities. jay leno, the black-eyed peas, beyonci, jamie foxx, everybody was there. >> it is nice to see people with all the political and him and his cities -- put the political animosities aside and come together to help one another. >> my family is there. it is so frustrating to see all these images. >> organizers say the telethon has raised $44 million. it is expected to go even higher as the money will be going to charities including save the children, united way and habitat for humanity

he is in pennsylvania -- pensacola with a lot of gear and a lot of friends.images of the keys and all the damage that storm did. that wasn't as bad as what they were expecting the entire state of florida to get. >> what happened in the caribbean as well. >> i guess those guys will get it on friday and they will come here to some good weather. >> there is another storm forming down in the atlantic. >> at home right now, we have great weather in the door for all the emergency responders coming home. >> we have a little bit of cloud cover today. partly to mostly cloudy skies. inland and portions of the north bay, if you're getting out onto the roadways, the careful. we have a little bit of thick and dense fog that is patchy. here's a look at what is going on as we get into the afternoon. we will be partly cloudy with the northwest and west breathe with us for today. changes are coming in the way of cooler weather and even a little bit of active weather in the coming days. we have systems forming. they won't bring us any rain just yet . we may see a little bit of

task force three sent us this drone video of their station at an air force base near pensacola. after riding out the storm on monday, first responders spent yesterday preparing their equipment. the task force brought more than 60,000 pounds of search and rescue equipment and five search dogs. ♪ ♪ >>> usher sounding good there. more than $44 million has been raised so far from last night's hand in hand benefit to support hurricane victims. dozens of stars turned out to sing, tell stories, and play for support during the one-hour tell on this, including ryan seacrest. it'll help people in texas devastated by hurricane harvey as well as florida and the caribbean hit hard by hurricane irma. >>> happening today, a truck full of supplies and donations will be heading to texas from san francisco to help hurricane harvey victims. abc 7 news was on golden gate avenue yesterday when volunteers loaded hundreds of boxes on to the semi. it's an effort usf student bobby bosra who wanted to help after seeing the devastation. >> in about $2,000, but honestly, that's nothing to me because money

but almost the entire state is covered up except for the far west out near pensacola. >> senator bill nelson, senator, good luck to you and the folks of florida. we thank you for joining us on this busy morning. >> thanks, matt. >> all right. we spoke to the senator about the need for federal assistance after the storm. president trump was quick to declare a major disaster to make it easier for people to start to receive funding. nbc national correspondent peter alexander is at the white house with more on that. peter, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. president trump delivering a clear message here that his administration is prepared to deal with the aftermath of irma. after returning to the white house from camp david where he spent the weekend monitoring the storm, the president said he'll be going to florida in his words very soon. this morning he's going to get another full briefing on the hurricane and the damage it caused. he said we may have been a little bit -- we may have been a little bit lucky that the storm veered from its original course after shifting west

we checked and out of the nine major airports, only pensacola has a very limited number of flights on the schedule this morning. >> >> the time is 4:05. more help is on if way for st. martin. last week irma hit as a category five. 70% of homes on the island were damaged or destroyed. some american tourists are still stuck on the islands. later today, the united states is sending an evacuation flight. tomorrow the president of france schedule today visit st. martin. >>> members of task four force in almeda county are hunkering down in orlando, waiting for storm to pass it. the urban search and rescue team moved from the air force base in george to the orlando convention center is the photo was posted on instragram by almeda county fire. task groups from los angeles and colorado are at the same place. >> the orlando convention center is the second biggest in america. it has room for large emergency equipment, whiching 35 helicopters. >>> new this morning -- including 35 held adopts are. >>> people are dead at a home in plano texas including the shooter. police arrivedty home and they sa

. >> a fairly quiet weekend. 88 mobile, 88 pensacola.d 89 degrees -- [ laughter ] >> he was like, it feels like a warm breeze is blowing in from the south. we have a great show -- >> oh, my god. i think it's because he bent over that made it >> this one, with a guy you're on national news, i made it. >> not the way, poor dude. never going to live that down. >> got a feel for him. next for all you chocolate lovers out there, chocolate maker is debuting what he calls a fourth type of chocolate. we all know there's milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, now there is ruby chocolate. he says it is natural chocolate that comes with a ruby flavor and fresh and fruity taste. there is no arts official berry flavor or color added. i don't think there is any such thing as bad -- i take that back. i've tried green tea chocolate. not the best thing. when it comes to chocolate, can't go wrong. >> this guy has been holding out on us. sounds good. >>> new york and boston sports rivalry got kicked up a notch. they were already huge rivals. this

the stuff at the same time a term that was popularized media outlets were called in pensacola which translates to party of the proclaimed press. brazil's powerful media monopolies and grown into what they are largely because of a regulatory vacuum there was no broadcast regulator here which is extraordinary for a country of this size there's no law preventing politicians from owning media outlets so many of them in many countries banned media cross ownership the same proprietor owning multiple media outlets in the same market again brazil has no such law in fact the closest thing to allow regulating the media in this country was passed more than half a century ago. sixty three. it was because that's the way global words every time a brazilian congress tried to change that. has his character assassinated by the mob there is no law the law is whatever global wants to do. this issue the possibility of regulation i was raised in brazil a few years ago you know what the reaction was from the media they said this was tantamount to censorship they saw the idea that the government wanted to censor the

of the nine major airports only the pensacola airport has limited number of flights scheduled for this. >>> starting today four cruise ships will be used to take supplies. they will help hurricane irma victims both in the united states and the caribbean. >>> yesterday vice president pence visited fema headquarters. he said more help is on the way expected to be in the hundreds of billions of dollars. congress passed a $15 billion relief package for fee ma. more money is needed because more damage is possible. >> as this ming moves inland, that tornado threat is going to persist. >> it is going to cost a lot of money. right now we are worried about lives not costs. >> he plans to go to florida soon to see the damage for himself. >>> let's get to you where you need to go the sal castaneda, traffic is robust this morning. >> yes it is. it lot stay that way for the fall pattern. i'll show you some commutes here. you can see traffic is going to be okay if you are driving out to the toll plaza with no major issues getting into san francisco. once you get on to the bridge. 80 westbound a lot

. >> reporter: sunday we talked to him from pensacola, florida, where they'll try to wait out the rest of the storm. it's usually a nine to 10 hour drive from miami lakes. it took around three days. >> i feel safe because my son is with me and i have to say thank god. >> i'm very happy to >> reporter: stephanie ramirez, wusa9. >> that makes us feel so good. armando sent us this photo. his parents took a flower from their garden before evacuating so they can carry around a reminder of home. let's just hope they can get back there soon. >>> even as irma continues to pound florida, resident here are taking steps to send life saving supplies to those who need them in the state. six volunteers will head to florida wednesday for about a week. today they collected donations to take with them. organizer andy mortensen is a disabled vet who was once stationed in florida. >> what we're doing is we're loading up all the supplies we've presorted so we don't create a second disaster. we're taking a 30-foot motor home so first responders can have a place to nap, shower or eat. >> the group had plann

rockets are fired out to come international airport just hours after pensacola nato heads are rolling in the afghan capital both on the taliban say. it's not much state on the brink in syria we've got exclusive footage from the city of war where the terrorists have been pushed across the euphrates river. donald trump again threatens north korea military action is a possibility while the state department defends his approach to the crisis. would be devastating i can tell you that devastating for korea the president certainly. is a very effective communicator. five am in los angeles ten pm in melbourne three in the afternoon here in moscow this witness the september the twenty seventh welcome to our to international afghanistan first were several mortar rounds have struck international airport just hours after the u.s. defense secretary on nato secretary general arrived in the capital both the taliban say they were behind the attack at least one civilian was killed on four others with the taliban reportedly said it was targeting the u.s. defense secretary james marcus is the first membe

if you went all the way from key west to pensacola, that's as far as going from pensacola all the way to chicago. that's how big our state is. almost 21 million people, the third largest state, 75% of that a population is along the coast and of course you know what coasts do when hurricanes start threatening those coasts. this was an unusual one because it was first going to hit the east coast of florida. that was the track. the national hurricane center has gotten quite good in their ability to project the path and the actual velocity of the winds. but indeed it took -- once it took a turn unexpected as a category 5 hitting the north coast of cuba, it reduced its velocity and its forward motion and then took a more westerly coast first hitting landfall in florida at the middle lower keys where the winds were category 3 approaching category 4. and of course the residents were not even let back in to that part of the county to see their homes until sunday morning. and as of this moment, although fema is present in both the lower keys, key west, in the upper keys, key largo, individual

rockets are fired outcome international airport just hours after pensacola nato heads arrive in the afghan capital both on the taliban say they carried out the it's not. it's not much state on the brink in syria we've got exclusive footage from the city of the jurors who are where the terrorists have been pushed back across the. north korea saying military action.

almost every city from key west in the south to pensacola in the north could sustain dramatic damage.changes. that's it for us tonight. more hurricane irma coverage throughout tonight, so our viewers in florida, godspeed. good night from washington. our friends at "the five," ready to go. good night. >> dana: fox news weather alert. hello, everyone. i am dana perino and this is "the five." hurricane irma is now a category 410 storm, now steadily making its way towards the sunshine state. it is cordially is expected toe category 5 when it makes landfall in the united states. steve harrigan. >> the wind has been picking up every hour, 5.6 million caribbean's have been asked to leave their homes and evacuate, leave what they have come and get on the highway and seek shelter. of course, such a mass movement has not gone

a team of 81 people in this large aircraft hangar near pensacola on the florida panhandle. 30 members arrived sunday after driving 60 hours with a massive convoy and more than 60,000 pounds of search and rescue equipment. they also had search and rescue dogs as well as drones. drones. some law makes suggested spending cuts to off yet is the emergency costs but that was quickly cast aside. >> we've had a tradition in america when it comes to disaster that one part of the country is hurt and the rest of the country steps up and aids them. >> meantime, president trump has hosted a dinner with democrats and republicans to jump start tax reform. the deficit continues to rise. >>> today, a democratic congressman from silicon valley almost introduce a much different tax proposal. >> it with give a tax credit to working families. if you are making up to $75,000, you would get almost 20% back as a refund at the end of the year. >> the congressman ro khanna of santa clara admit that most republicans will not support his plan but he thinks it will get strong support from his fellow democrats on

then we were looking at the screen, and been there for the trump campaign in pensacola and my wife did her navy training in pennsylvania so i know the area well. when i asked a woman at the rally the same question i ask everywhere is why are you here, what through you to donald trump? why are you here? she said i'm not an idiot. that was her answer. that is how automatically a vote was. i said how do we know which way florida is going to go? a short while later those counties started to come in, the state flipped into the trump column and everybody felt trump was going to win. i didn't think he was automatically going to win, in my pre-election calculations, to pick off a blue state, not going to win by using the tried and tested republican strategy of winning the conservative states and competing in swing states, there are three swing states. i knew he would have to steal one state from the blue column. this has been a republican idea for quite a while, sarah palin one to do it in 2008. this has been an idea out there but trump wanted to do it. the day before the election i ran into f

it hit pensacola as a 3. we were in the eye of that one.his has as much power or more and we are not in the eye. we'll be 25 miles or 30 miles to the east. that's what will hit so much of the west coast of florida. if you are watching on the west coast of florida it temperatures coming slope and it's relentless. shep: adam housley live for us in key largo. we have an opportunity to go to elaine duke. big picture, how are we? >> good morning. we are as expected, a slight move to the west. the storm path has not changed anything we predicted. the storm has hit as a shirk category 4. the winds and storm surge are starting as predicted. shep: this is beginning to look like from the latest update like a marco island call your county naples event with what appears to be unless it makes a turn, direct hit, and heavily tropical hated. is fema ready in that region? >> governor scott is leading the response for fema. and we are providing any requests they make. shep: the -- is it the expectation that this will weaken? >> we expect this to be a strong

you lived in pensacola. so you're kind of experienced with hurricanes. is there a plan?people to get out or dire consequences. i don't know if you have a plan at this point other than honkerring down and staying there. >> hochinger down and stay is is the plan most of the time. there's i live in concrete home most homes are concrete and that's what we do. we honker down. >> now, what about supplies? in terms of just the basic needs in order to you know, after the storm to get through things. are you stocked up? where would you be able to even go and get more stuff if you need it? is that an option? >> well, i stocked up 20 gallons of disking water and 180 gallons in trash cans and different containers to flush the toilet if we don't get water. i have 'generateer. not everybody has that luxury. they are expensive and recently you could not even get one anymore they were totally out. you have to wait. and we'll help each other out. i might run a line to my neighbor you know extension cord once i get the power going but that's it you have to help each other out. all teamwor

big issue.e war is a pensacola, florida. how are you this morning? caller: we're doing good. for people at n the red cross. we have a center down here called the baby center, that was opened up for like three or four days to the refugees that came of south florida and the people were up here, pregnant women, families, grandparents and such and they spent all they here. come up they let them into this baby center for three or four days then they told them they had to leave the next morning, forewarning. they had to be out by noon. i went down there trying to find places to go, people would camp out, if they had a place to camp. the red cross actually lied to the community when they found activists were here trying to get the people where stay longer ace to and the red cross just turned them over to the community and he church and everything, told them they had to get out. i don't understand that and i'd to why have an answer as this happened. host: we appreciate the question this morning. lines, 202-748-8000 if have you been impacted by recent hurricanes. 202-748-8001, for all

almost every city from key west in the south to pensacola in the north could have dramatic damage. tracking every dim development. hoping all the while and this is one of our biggest. more coverage throughout the night. try viewers in florida, godspeed. good night from washington. we will see you monday.

we did check a short time ago and so far of the nine major airports only the pensacola airport has a very limited number of flight on its scheduled for this morning. >>> more help is heading to the caribbean island of saint maarten. leslie irma hit as a category 4 hurricane. 70% of homes in the islands were either damaged or destroyed. some american tourist are stuck there on the island. later today the united states is sending an evacuation flight to get them. tomorrow the president of france is due to visit st. martin. >>> also irma's destruction is still continuing this morning through most of florida. a moment ago we had a live report from orlando. we are about to bring you another one but it was very windy with trees per week over. lauren blanchard is live in orlando to bring us the scene where you are. took yes. good morning. even though it is now a tropical storm, irving -- irma having lost some of its bluster, it is the wind today that is really causing a lot of damage. smith never have i seen anything like this picture roofs torn off, large trees and power lines brought off.

only the pensacola airport has a very limited number of flights on it schedule for this morning. >>> more help is heading to the caribbean island of saint maarten. last week irma hit a category 4 hurricane. 70% of homes were damaged or destroyed. some american tourist are stuck on the island. dated today the u.s. is sending an evacuation flight. tomorrow the president of france is scheduled to visit saint maarten. >>> members of the california task force 4 based in alameda county hunkering down in orlando waiting for the storm to pass. the oakland urban search and rescue team moved to the orlando convention center. this was posted on instagram by alameda county fire. task force groups from los angeles, colorado were also there. it is huge. the orlando convention center is the second largest in america having room for large emergency permit including 35 helicopters. >>> knew this morning eight people are dead including the suspected government after a shooting at a home in plano texas. this happened eight p.m. last night after police responded to a report of shots being fired. officer

it looks like savannah georgia, pensacola, still getting dumped on with several inches of rain and this is another view, a still shot of where this is right now, all of these severe areas of rain and south carolina seen this intensity as well. >> the rain future cast showing you for the next 24 hours where it is headed, moving north through memphis, raleigh and the strong pants, right along the coastline. also a chance of tornadoes with this, we did see some funnel clouds and twisters out there from florida. this is the tracking of the storm and it has been downgraded to a tropical storm with gusty winds moving northwest at 18 miles per hour and it will go into georgia in the next few hours and i hate to say it is only a tropical storm, it will still be strong especially for places like georgia that that -- that do not often deal with this, 4 to 6 inches of rain expected and a threat of storm surges along the east and west coast of florida with 4 to 6 feet and wind speeds, look at how it will swirl around this massive area with counterclockwise movement. this is all able to cause a sign

and, yet, what happened to me has happened virtually to the entire state of florida, even pensacola on far west of panhandle of florida is getting some of the rain bands. so this is a massive storm like florida has never seen. >> and, you know, millions of people are without power, 650,000 homes and businesses just in the tampa bay area without power. what is this state going to need in the days and weeks and months ahead? >> it's going to need a lot. it's going to need a lot more than the 15 billion that we appropriated last week for texas and florida. that's just the down payment. in october, we're going to have to come back and do more appropriations and then after that, we're going to have to do more. it's going to be a massive clean up effort both in texas and florida, and i suspect up in georgia and even further north from there. anderson, i just wanted to -- since we just came through the commemoration of 9/11. i want to say i was on the west front of the united states capitol building on that fateful day watching the tv of the twin towers and someone bursts in the room and said

that is the headline from the pensacola news journal. orlando,oining us from lord. you will get the point -- florida. you will get the brunt of the storm later on. what is it like? caller: thank you for taking my call. peter, tell him we miss him on sundays. what has it been like? it was kind of scary earlier in the week when it looks like it was going to get miami and end up on top of orlando. our thoughts and prayers are with the folks in tampa and st. petersburg. right now it is light rain. there is some much more to orlando than the theme parks. i live downtown. we have a great downtown. you could not get on an elevator or go into a grocery store without people asking are you ready? be safe. brunt of thishe until about 2:00 in the morning monday morning. donenow, the governor has a really good job. the local weather guys, the local news have got a really good job of keeping everybody up to date. we really appreciate a couple of comments from your earlier callers like the one gentleman talking about showing compassion to folks in texas and houston and the other c

a team of 81 people near the pensacola panhandle. they drove 16 hours and carrying more than 30,000 pounds of rescue and search equipment. >> take a look at this video out of miami-dade county after days irma hit. a catlin nun got a chain saw and got to work. sister market anne cleared away trees and brush. she works as a principal as a catholic high school in miami that's closed for the rest of the week. >>> dozens of celebrities took part in the telephone to help with the hurricane relief efforts. it was called hand and hand and brought together the latest names in television and music. organizers say that the tell ton has raised $44 million, and that's expected to go higher. it's going to go to save the children, united way and habitat for humanity. >>> funding for tax proposal could make the debit skyrocket. most lawmakers expect that number to only go up. some lawmakers suggest issed spending cuts to offset the cusp. that's quickly cast aside. >> we have had a tradition in america when it comes to disaster that one part of the c

all 47 salvation army units in florida from pensacola to south florida are on stand by and eager to assist residents in need. along with -- this is another information, along with 22 can teens that are mobile kitchen. the salvation army also have a fleet of equipment which include two bunk houses, two shower trailer, one generator and four utility track which will be deployed as needed to be -- in needed areas. >> and once this storm is over and once people leave the shelters, the job of the salvation army doesn't end, does it? >> no. no. we will continue supporting and working here in order to support our community. >> we seem to have lost -- did we lose communication with the captain? >> yes. >> continue. go ahead. >> no. we want to mention and remind that salvation army is currently working on establishing five staging area which include miami, fort myer, palm beach and fort lauderdale. >> thanks to you and thanks to all the folks at salvation army for all the work they do. we do appreciate it. flooding in the florida keys. just hours left until the state feels the full force of that st

pensacola? turned north, still significant, the possibility, thank goodness it made landfall in cuba or we would have had a category 5. but it's still a 4 and a 3. but that jog to the east of tampa instead of expecting it west a few hours before was significant for tampa. but as areas like new haven. you didn't get the flooding in a orlando had, but we had 90-mile-per-hour winds and tornado warnings. i do think this was significant. two storms, harvey and now irma, you have an impact of a category 4, and yes, maybe every losses life is precious. could have been much worse and a higher death toll, but who wants that. now over a billion dollars in texas and 100 billion in economic loss in florida. i think for those who say maybe it wasn't that bad, just count your blessings. i don't want to see another one of these come by. unfortunately the hurricane season runs until the end of november. >> certainly had not as many people heeded the warnings and been out and about, who knows what the impact of

. >> pensacola. >> atlanta. >> over the past 24 hours the florida governor ordering that mass exodus and among the tens of thousands in that blur of red taillights late friday was david lobe, his wife, two kid, mother-in-law and dog moo shu. >> on i i have 75 northbound stuck in traffic. >> reporter: since 1:30 in the morning. >> yes. >> where did you come >> miami. >> reporter: he documented that slow slog. >> 4:04:00 a.m. nothing. not moving. >> reporter: what's normally a six hour drives took him 20 hours. that line of cars stretching into the horizon is just a fraction of the total traffic jam. this thing spans 65 miles right now. but the heaviest traffic friday on i-95 just off the florida/georgia line. there over 4,000 vehicles an hour, more than twice the normal volume. in that river of humidity a thirst for fuel. here in the country's third alarmest state this morning the vast majority of dasstations either closed or empty. and for who didn't get out a dire warning from broward sheriff's fire rescue captain. >> once the winds go up to 40, 45 miles an hour we are not allowed t

host: here is kenny from pensacola, florida, republican line.aller: i think folks should stick to the bible. all these billionaires that have billion's of dollars, why don't they go build a factory and hire people and manufacture solar cars with their own money and create jobs and sell these things down the corners and put it up against the gasoline engines? if they are so concerned about it, see how well they do. host: you said the pope should stick to the bible. what do you mean by that? caller: he should stick to the bible, that is what he is, he is the pope. you are supposed to be the preacher in chief, not the climate change guy in chief. 816 it was known as the year without a summer. it snowed all year long caused india, ianic -- from think, was that climate change back then? the climate has always changed. host: let's go to john in englewood, florida, democrats line. john, from florida, hello. caller: how are you doing? host: go ahead. caller: i think the pope has got to clean up his own house before he turns around and tells climate prob

i lived in pensacola when roy moore was making his controversial headlines. it was the same market.y is i think trump got duped into supporting strange. if you something back four, six weeks ago there was a 72-hour between mcconnell and trump. i think mcconnell convinced him to get behind strange. the reality is moore was the trump candidate in this race. going back to taxes, it's way too early to say it's done. you can't come out on day one and say you're going to lower the upper tax bracket from 39 to 35, raise lower from 10% to 12%. even if it goes into effect, they lost the debate. >> i appreciate it. always good to have you. >>> president trump also addressed the crisis in puerto rico calling it a very difficult situation there on that island as leaders plead for help. necessity say the island, home to roughly 3.5 million americans, is on the bring of a humanitarian crisis. 97% of the island has no power. half the island has no water. generator power is limited. most places still don't have cell service. and many of the hospitals are still shut down. fuel shortages have led to

eighty-eight, mobile fairhope, eighty-eight pensacola, and destine at eighty-eight and eighty-nine degreesarm breeze is blowing in from the south. we have a great show tonight guys. give it up for the roots. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: thank you very much. thank you. welcome to the show, tonight, guys. if you're just tuning in now, this is not a repeat. i had a surgery on my finger. this will be hopefully the last one. [ audience aws ] this is the -- we had a a two-week break. so i figured this is the best time to do it. >> steve: why not? right? >> jimmy: middle of the summer. >> steve: yeah, exactly. >> jimmy: i had a giant cast. i had a giant cast on my hand for two weeks so that's a big cast. right, yeah. what happened was this doctor, dr. david chu. he's just a magician. i just love the guy so much. my finger was drooping from the other accident that i had two years ago, right? so he was like, i want to see if we can straighten it out. so he took a tendon, like this thing, out of my wrist, put it in the top of my finger, right? and he took fat out of,

roadways anywhere in the entire state of florida except maybe for over in far western panhandle, pensacola the roads. fhp says we are being tied up by traffic crashes that are happening when no one should be on the roads in the first place. it's putting their troopers in danger, they said we've had time to prepare for the storm, do not go out on the roads except in life-threatening emergencies, stay off the highway. so the storm is due south of marco island which is south, southeast of naples, which is where griff jenkins is now. griff, the winds should be picking up there. >> that's right, shep, it's definitely picking up. the national hurricane center putting alert in 120-miles-per-hour sustained winds, the urgent message from the police is absolutely true. the live shot that we showed you a block off the beach, the we turned and got out of there because they've been warning, the storm surge comes very quickly but our drive here which is 3.1 miles east of the beach on vanderbilt bridge drive was a debris mine field. i want to show you. very common to florida are the root -- rooftops, tar

here for florida is that everyone in florida, it doesn't matter what side you're on, except maybe pensacola will see a hurricane-force gust, 75 or greater. will you see 150? that's the true question. where does it go from here? everybody gets a hurricane. but who gets devastated? there's the storm right there. the dominican republic towards the turks and caicos. that's where it's going right now. that's what we already know. here is the question. after it makes its way all the way through the islands here, when does it turn? or does it turn? the turn is very important to miss the u. schs. skirting through the bahamas, if it's east of the u.s., that's better. through and into the gulf of mexico would be terrible because it would hit the back side of florida and still be a category 4 or 5 storm. the real threat is if this storm moves right over monroe county, let's say ocean reef which is the top of key largo, into key biscayne and central florida right through the middle -- let me tell you, that's the middle of the cone. we always say don't look at it but we need to look at it because that's

pensacola? andrew was only in the state for four hours. it turned north, still significant, the possibility, thank goodness it made landfall in cuba or we would have had a category 5. but it's still a 4 and a 3. at the exact latitude and longitude that wilma hit as a 3. but that jog to the east of tampa instead of expecting it west a few hours before was significant for tampa. but ask areas like new haven, you didn't get the flooding in a orlando had, but we had 90-mile-per-hour winds and tornado warnings. i do think this was significant. two storms, harvey and now irma, you have an impact of a category 4, and yes, maybe -- every loss of life is precious. it could have been much worse and a higher death toll, but who wants that. now over a billion dollars in texas and 100 billion in economic loss in florida. millions of people's lives are just turned upside down right now. we saw the suffering, as you know, in texas. we see it now. i think for those who say maybe it wasn't that bad, just count your blessings. i don't want to see another on

i've been in shelters, pensacola, and here, and i can tell people are very appreciative but they're justhocked at how the flood came in, what it teaches you is that when we have a disaster like this, you really need to watch the weather and listen to your local officials, follow the weather, you can do national or local weather, but follow it and on top of that if they say to evacuate you need to evacuate. i tell everybody, i've said this the last week, is that, you know, we can rebuild your house, you can get your possessions again, but you can't lose a family member or your life. you don't have a chance to do all the things you want to do with your family going forward. so, you know, as far as i can tell, i mean we're shocked yesterday when the flooding started happening here. so what i immediately did was i know the mayor was focused on this and the sheriff was focused on this but i sent fish and wildlife officers to help with rescue. the mayor will talk about what they did, but i think with everybody here, i think they rescued over 300 individuals. and thank god that everybody helped

we met in pensacola last year with the flood there and both witnessed how much water can damage a neighborhood. this isn't a neighborhood. this is a city. what if miami gets a 15-foot storm surge? fort lauderdale, up into broward count ji what does the city look like with 15 feet of water in it? >> oh -- here's what people are not thinking about. this is bigger in size, much bigger than andrew. andrew was, you know -- a horrible storm. it's -- it packs more wind, but the real difference is the risk of storm surge. the storm surcan come in. it can come in a long way and it can cover your house. you have got to listen. you know, volunteers, we have strong storm surge models, county by county, how we decided on the evacuation areas. listen. they tell you your area should be evacuated, thinking how big will the storm surge be? everybody is -- believes the path will be at the east coast. the cone is not just on the east coast. the cone is virtually on the west soviet. a -- coast. if there's a wobble to the west, it impacts the west part of the state. so we're focused on this, but this storm surge i

i've heard in other hurricanes and back in 2004 with hurricane ivy, it hit pensacola it was a massive storm but nothing like this. we went out for a drive since we saw you last, harris, and it still safe enough to do that and we drove in our car not far from where we were earlier this afternoon and the storm surge is already started on the other side of the island. were only a mild wide where we are in storm surge is already up about 3 feet there. we couldn't get back to where our location was at before. can see that water lapping and as i stood there it was increasing more and more towards the center of the islands. they do have the storm surge to continue to ride and we don't know how big it will get and if it will come all the way across but we do know that conditions will continually worsen in the winds will pick up, the ring continues to come down by some estimates as much as 20 inches will be coming our way. that storm still has not even gotten here yet. as were talking about it has been pounding us and at least the keys it's been pounding us since about 10:00 a.m. this morning.

if that happens, and i know governor scott and governor scott and i had a long conversation in pensacola when it flooded a couple years ago. i think ten feet is conservat e conservative. the storm surge could easily be 20 feet pushing up into homestead, towards the air force base, all the way up into biscayne bay, because this is the european model making landfall in the exact worst spot possible. right there, biscayne national park. and moving to the north and to the northwest, right over miami proper. up towards high leija through fort lauderdale and west palm beach finally offshore at fort pierce and turning, slams into north carolina. here's the american model, john, slightly farther offshore. only 40 miles, though. those 40 miles could make a difference in tens of billions of dollars in damage. whether your home is able to come back to or not and whether you live through it or not. because this would significantly reduce the amount of wind compared to this for the european model, still too early to tell. models are doing fantastic. we battle these all the time, but 40 miles one way

as you look at the district, are those people coming through your district near pensacola?at is happening? >> yes. some folks are headed west. that is a little bit west because that is complicated with so many folks from the state of texas heading east. so many hotel rooms full with those escaping hurricane harvey. a lot of folks getting on 95 headed north. heading toward atlanta and nashville, popular spots as people get out of way. stuart: you have hotel rooms in your area, is that correct? >> still some not full. folks who are given an evacuation warning absolutely need to evacuate, find a hotel room and get out of the way. this storm will be a terrible killer. we should not be losing extra lives as a consequence of just abject stupidity and not responding to the warnings of state and local governments. stuart: you're inviting business to your congressional district. i don't blame you. you have hotel rooms. occupy them. >> hotel rooms and gasoline. stuart: what else do you want? bottled water? matt gaetz difficult day. appreciate you being here. we're joined by doug holt

. >> the shelters in pensacola and jacksonville so far.talk to each individual, they have needs. they have a family. -- it's their individual problem. we've got a lot of people without power. people worried about having the fuel to get home. they're worried about what, you know, what they're going to go back to. they're all worried about their jobs. we're doing everything we can, on the phone this morning with the utilities. i've been on the phone to make sure into the state. i'm working, you know, the utilities have over 30,000 resources from out of state that's come in to help get power on. when i was out, i was selling powerlines that covers that area that i'm thankful. that's very hard hit and wealthy area. it's one of the struggling communities in our state. and they're ourt there getting power to -- out there getting power to every part of the state. giving them fuel back and power back and like -- as you just said, we're resilient and strong, we work together and we'll rebuild the state. >> governor, how much federal funding will fl

so maybe a tallahassee or pensacola serve. i think western gulf is safe, according to my analysis now. but no matter what kind of curve it takes, western coast of florida, eastern coast of florida, southern florida and bahamas are pretty much in for some bad news right now. neil: back it your premise of a busy hurricane season, this is busiest early on in a dozen years, right? what prompts that? is that cyclical in nature? what? >> we have obviously some very, very warm ocean temperatures. prior to harvey, 2005, 12 years ago, was the last time we saw a category 3 landfalls and all this activity. there are some cycles but there obviously is a long-term trend of oceans warming. that not only means storms get stronger, as they approach land they can maintain or even strengthen as we saw with harvey. i'm hoping not the case with southern florida. if this goes through a cycle and regenerates in the straits of florida, it could be very, very dangerous. neil: thank you very much, michael. governor rick scott of florida already called