howard: phil keating, you're based in florida. did, did you question the wisdom of getting soaked? >> the miami crew's been in more than 30 hurricanes at point. we cover every single one of them. you certainly wouldn't want to have been standing here where i am because the storm surge was 12-15 feet above the ground -- howard: good point. >> reporter: that's way above my head, and that's why all those boats are pushed onto the land. we're all in agreement of when it's too dangerous, like, we wouldn't have been on one of the barrier islands, we would have probably gone inland. but it is what we do, you know, you're going to be wet and blown around all day. it's not exactly fun, but we think it's important. howard: it is what you do, certainly, in florida this time of year. steve krakauer, here's what drove me crazies which is we're going to show you footage, you won't be able to see it, on thursday, the day after ian struck. the pictures weren't that exciting, and the waters had receded, so all the networks kept replaying video fro

phil keating from fort myers, florida. hello, phil.phil: good afternoon, there, mike, we are at the marina service center, people on boats dock for repairs. looks like the business is exploding right now. a lot of damage over here as well. these are ripped up parts of a trailer in a building next door that flew over to this lot. 45-foot long sailboat, a quarter million dollars, now it's a piece of junk. in fact, the name of it is the dreaming and the dreams were crushed by hurricane ian. that's charles right there. he says the boat was actually in the middle of the road yesterday before front-end loader moved it out of the way. that's what's happening up here up and gulf coast counties, cleanup of all wreckage that's blocking lane of traffic, if not piled up high on demolished hoes and businesses. we saw a bulldozer pushing one large sailboat right off the boulevard yesterday just to get it out of the way for the in and out traffic of search and rescue vehicles that are going in and out of the islands, the barrier islands like fort mye

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phil keating is live in hard-hit fort myers beach with moore, phil. >> hi arthel.tuation and a second here. this is san carlos island which is adjacent to fort myers beach proper on the other side of the bridge. this is also a marine service which has several private vessels up on dry dock for repairs when the hurricane hit category for big storm surge of 12 -- 15 feet. that big 40-foot sailboat owned by captain charlie and is called the dreman, the dreams have been crushed. a quarter million dollar boat brand-new headed to a junk pile somewhere near here. you see all of those tall pulley cranes? those are shrimp boats. take a look at her drone shot right now. you can see all of the damage from a much better perspective than simply the street view. every trailer in the area was crumbled and slammed into each other totally wrecked. the shrimping boats and push them and onto the land. you can see they are all jumbled up there together. so that is a major job that has to be done now. cleaning up all of the wreckage and debris. not only in this county but up and down t

>> bret: phil keating just outside of fort myers, phil, thank you. fox is donating $1 million to the american red cross to help in the hurricane recovery effort. you can help, too. if you look online, you can go there to that website, red cross.org/fox forward. or you can do it over the phone or through your alexa. but all that is going to the right place. a big day on wall street today as stocks rallied and treasury yields ease off their multi-year highs. the market loved that the dow soared 765. the s&p 500 jumped 93. the nasdaq surged 240. gasoline prices continue to creep back up. aaa now says the national average stands at 380 per gallon. that's up seven cents from a week ago the national average. gas has risen 59 cents a gallon. 54 cents in alaska. 43 cents in oregon. the most expensive markets for gasoline right now, california at 6:37 per gallon, followed by nevada and oregon. joining us tonight is trace gallagher, the new host of fox news at night. trace, good to see you. congrats. >> trace: greg,bret, great to se you. appreciate it. >> bret

phil keating is live for us in fort myers for us this morning. e, sandra, the three counties receiving the special elections relief package are sarasota, charlotte and here in lee county. the most heavily hit by hurricane ian for elections. workers as well as voters, there are significant challenges. for example, how is somebody going to vote by mail when their mailbox is gone and maybe even their house? over in fort myers beach there were two polling sites on the island. now none. both destroyed by hurricane ian. at least 90% of the island is not living there at their houses or condos because they can't. homes gone. but democracy marches on posing significant challenges for election officials as well as displaced residents who aren't yet sure how they are going to vote. patrick not only lost everything in the devastation, he is also a voter and running for town council. >> one of the things that i think that i've heard from the constituents and residents is they really want to vote. they want to vote. i hope that we have -- give them the opportun

phil keating is not available at this time. to get him in front of the camera and give you a report. meanwhile look who is here now. congressman byron donalds, republican from the state of florida joining me now. governor desantis's performance i think is on the ballot in 3 weeks. i think he has been measured by his response to this hurricane. how do floridians feel about his performance? >> if he's measured by his performance that measurement will be incredibly high. a plus marks for the governor. the thing you want to do in a disaster situation is be responsive, be decisive, cut through red tape and get the job done. he has done all those things and our business owners, residents, people on the barrier islands, law enforcement community, fire department, firefighters, everybody singing the praises of governor desantis, even president biden had to sing the praises of governor desantis, his judgment is job. ibly1 democrat states the media in democrat states like new york are looking for anything to criticize governor desantis,

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phil keating in miami how the florida one went for the senate race there. phil.l, for an hour last night the sparks flew in florida's one and only senate debate between marco rubio and congresswoman val demmings. >> the senator who has never run anything at all but his mouth would know nothing about helping people. >> the congresswoman likes to talk about helping people. she never passed a bill. reporter: topics included inflation, oil production, china, russia, and the big one, abortion. >> number one, i'm 100% pro-life. that said every bill i ever sponsored on abortion, every bill i voted for has exceptions. >> no, senator, i don't think it is okay for a 10-year-old girl to be raped, have to carry the seed of her rapist. reporter: each has been flooding the airwaves with campaign ads. demmings more so than rubio. she has raised $50 million more than rubio. making democrats optimistic about flipping the seat. rubio touts his experience and getting the ppp passed at beginning of the pandemic. he said that saved tens of thousands of jobs. he painteds demmings as s

fox news correspondent phil keating is on the ground if fort myers, florida. hey, cheryl. we are in day five after category four hurricane ian ravaged this area and slowly things are improving in people's lives. this is a spot whering you can get water as well as boxes of mres, those are meals ready to eat, and you can also grab bags of ice. aside from -- this is just set up from the florida national guard. but as days go on, more gas stations are being opened up again, grocery stores as well, and pharmacies are working hard on it. over the weekend, particularly friday and saturday, the lines were extremely long in these places. tens of thousands of floridians have benefited from all of the doe e nateed food and waters from the national guard as well as charity organizes like the united way. national guardsmen and women tell me they are just happy to help these people who, clearly, have dwindling pre-hurricane supplies at their house or home and if they're staying with friends, well, they're getting additional things to be less of a problem. and the people tha

phil keating, thanks. white house announcing president biden will head to puerto rico tomorrow for a two were fiona's damage and then head to florida on wednesday to survey the devastation from hurricane en. chad pilgrim live at the white house with the latest on that. >> good evening. important for presidents to head to disaster zones, but they also do not want to get in the way. >> with president biden making the trip to florida this week, this is his opportunity to really show that he is putting people above politics. if he comes down here and talks about climate change and covid vaccines, that will grab a lot of people raw, especially because we are currently engaging in active rescue efforts. >> dealing with the storm, most politicians give the federal government and the state of florida high marks. the key was preparing a head of storm. >> the biggest thing that we knew and what the governor's concern was taking care of the people in the way of the storm's path. we positioned the largest amount of se

. >> phil keating on the ground there. thank you for that birdseye look.ne thing to see this destruction on tv, another thing to see it in person. thank you for giving us a look at that in that report. forty-four florida from this storm, as you heard phil say. you can donate by going to volunteer florida.org. donate, people definitely need help at this time. i want to turn the topic now, some allies of vladimir putin are pushing russia to escalate its war in ukraine. a leader is urging moscow to use low-grade, low yield nuclear weapons as a russia army continues to retreat. congress has voiced its growing concerns about putin's threats. listen. >> i'm not in the risk of him detonating a nuclear devices zero, i think the risk is higher today than it was a month ago. >> i think we should believe our adversaries. putin has been saying this almost this entire year. very little response from this administration. president biden has said don't, don't, don't, as if that's enough to deter russia. catastrophic consequences without any details. anita: scary stuff. a

phil keating following from cape canaveral.rter: another successful launch for elon musk's space x team, the crew 5 mission is on quite well at this point, three astronauts and one cosmonaut are comfortable for their ride on the space x dragon capsule. it is gorgeous and a glorious launch as well. >> three rookies in space right now and -- pretty happy to be back. >> straight up at noon eastern, blast off from launch pad 39 a at the kennedy space center, the crew has a relaxing cruise control, 30 hour ride for docking with these, tomorrow afternoon, they are nasa astronauts nicole mann, the first native american woman to get to space and the mission commander, pilot josh kusada, koichi yokana and anna co coquina, he spoke the first words on board going 10,000 miles an hour. >> three rookies are happy to be in space right now, one veteran astronaut is to be back as well. >> reporter: as the crew rocketed on the second stage the main booster came down for another perfect landing on the ship called just read the instructions, they

phil keating is in miami with more. lew last night in the one and only senate debate between rubio and demings. >> of course, the senator who has never run anything at all but his mouth would know nothing about helping people. >> the congresswoman likes to talk about helping people. she has never passed a bill. >> the debate included inflation, oil production, china, russia, and abortion. >> need to win over the region they're in. >> that said every bill i sponsored on abortion and voted for has exceptions. >> no, senator, i don't think it's okay for a 10-year-old girl to be raped and have to carry the seed of her rapist. >> each is flooding the airwaves with campaign ads. demings morning rubio. she raised nearly $50 million more than him making democrats optimistic about flipping the seat. rubio touts his experience and getting the ppp passed at the beginning of the pandemic and paints dejs as a support of of extreme politics and turning boys to girls. demings slams rudeio for the low attendance record and distanced her

the first week turned to phil keating in florida, phil. >> hi shannon.assive search and rescue operation continues again day for in the hunt for survivors. and of course and grimly finding bodies a death camp that is supposed to go up day after day. the other big job of the day cleaning up all of this wreckage. the coastal counties in southwest florida all look similar to this. just wreckage and debris everywhere. plywood, aluminum siding for ripped open trailers. personal effects just all over the place. the storm surge also came here. so every sigel one of these trailers and got broken into the water force, everything is ruined. nothing is salvageable. overhears a car that's not now ruined the passenger side window blown out, palm tree crumbling the house. over in fort myers beach at the san carlos rv park, all of the big, big rvs that were left behind are now across the bay and wrecked and mangled into the trees. that was 1215-foot storm surge there. people who stayed tell me they have a newfound respect for the power of a storm surge. lived and worke

. >> harris: phil keating live in fort myers, florida.and talking to a lot of people. what's going on for people out there? >> well, i will say this, harris, life is slowly improving here in extremely hard-hit lee and charlotte counties. tens of thousands of people have come here. not here are more grocery stores open. restaurants were opening and more gas stations but here people can pull up -- [inaudible] eat and get cases of water and, of course, somebody that has no electricity desperately cannot make at home and that is ice. so everybody gets 2 or 3 bags of ice and they say it's one of the highest in demand. over the weekend, especially friday and saturday in particular, extremely busy with super long lines of cars and trucks restocking their dwindling pre-hurricane supplies. the national guardsmen and women say they're happy to help. many are coming here every day. their only option and they're so thankful. >> we're getting what we need to survive. these guys are awesome. they help so much. >> i'm so incredibly gracious. i come ever

phil keating in fort myers, florida. >> sad but true.looter arrested down in collier county, convicted felon who was recently fired from his waterfront restaurant, exactly the place where deputies believe three times in two days he returned after dark and looted. stealing 23 bottles of champagne, among other items. looting has been a major concern up and down florida's gulf coast counties, which is why curfew remains in effect after dark. in collier, lee and charlotte counties. the lee county deputies arrested five people accused of looting an outlet mall, high end outlet mall and they were all together lined up and handcuffed on the floor after they were caught. lee county sheriff dive times continue their daily work searching sunken boats and cars for any victims yet to be found, none have, but lee county has the highest hurricane death total of all, with more than 50 killed, most of them from drowning. nearby sanibel island, however, still isolated without a bridge, the only way on or off is still just by boat. the desantis administra

marking their fifth mission together: phil keating is live at the space center in cape canaveral, floridaabsolutely flawless and spectacular as they are now approaching chasing, if you will, the international space station, the crew 5 mission has four people on board, three nasa astronauts as well as one cosmonaut, and as you can see, sandra, it's a gorgeous day, blue skies, and this morning, right at noon, a glorious launch. >> stage 1 alpha. >> copy, 1 alpha. >> vehicle is pitching down range. >> stage 1 propulsion is nominal. >> straight up at noon eastern time, blasted off from launch pad 39a here at the kennedy space center. the four crew now have a somewhat relaxing cruise control 30-hour ride before docking with the station about 5:00 eastern tomorrow afternoon. they are nicole mann, a marine from california, and the first african american woman and the commander. and a man from japan on his fifth space trip, and a russian. the commander spoke the first words from the capsule going about 10,000 miles an hour. >> that was a smooth ride, we have three rookies that are pretty happy to

correspondent phil keating takes a look from miami this evening. >> of course the senator who has neverple. >> the congresswoman likes to talk about helping people she has never passed a bill. >> sparks flew at the one and only senate debate republican incumbent marco rubio and democratic congresswoman val demings. topics included inflation, u.s. oil production, china, russia and abortion which rubio opposes in principle. >> number one, i'm 100 percent pro-life. that said, every bill i have ever sponsored on abortion every bill i ever voted for has exceptions. >> demings is pro-choice up to the point of viability. >> no, senator, i don't think it's okay for a 10-year-old girl to be raped and have to carry the seed of her rapist. >> both candidates have been flooding the florida airwaves with campaign ads. demings more so than rubio as she has raised nearly $50 million more than rubio has, giving democrats optimism about flipping this seat. rubio touts his experience and getting the paycheck protection program passed at the beginning of the pandemic. [cheers] >> he paints demings as the