i mean, what a day they've had, robert ray. i mean, you see the power of hurricane in there, the wind, the storm surge, those communities and buildings, unfortunately, that are waking today and assessing the damage . and i mean, not even just waking up today, but having to go through it. i haven't myself gone through a category four hurricane like that. >> and , you know, you hope that a lot of people did heed those evacuation warnings and get out of town . but there are some people who did perhaps choose to ride it out. it really was just devastating to see the amount of storm surge that came through fort myers, naples, verifying the forecast. it's never what you want to see as a meteorologist. >> you know, and i feel like, you know, with with robert ray taking us there, it was it was so compelling for me. and i was watching through this afternoon. he brought us to downtown fort myers. >> i mean, this is a it's a beautiful development of fort myers, a wonderful vacation destination, great spring break destination. >> for the c

we start with fox weather correspondent robert ray in fort myers. robert? >> ainsley: trouble obviously with his microphone. we can't hear you, robert. right now, it does look bad. fox weather correspondent nicole valdez continues our coverage, she is in tampa. >> we are only starting to rapidly see conditions deteriorating here for the tampa bay area as hurricane ian, that now category 4 storm. you just mentioned with winds at 155 miles per hour. it is teetering on a category 5 storm. you heard governor ron desantis there saying our emergency management officials are planning and preparing to see a category 5 storm. that is how seriously they are taking this situation knowing what we could see happen over the next few hours. we're talking power outages. we're talking significant damage, storm surge, fresh water flooding. there are so many factors to take into consideration here. which is why he said, unfortunately, at this point, it is too late for you to evacuate. getting on the road now is going to be far more dangerous than hunkering down in your homes.

robert ray is in the middle of it. fort myers balancingsing out the winds there. robert. >> yeah, sandra. it has gotten more intense since i spoke to you, 20 or so minutes ago. t two separate transformers have blown down the block. rick, potentially go as far as you can, just to take a look at all the debris that keeps running down the street from trees and into the harbor down there, and we have the ebbs and flows, rain consistent, but the wind, die-down and then incredible gusts can knock you off your feet. so, very dangerous situation right now as ian, part of the eye has already crossed according to radar, over land. the question is where and how fast it will come through here. we are going to see -- it's going to be not on top of us but we'll have the dirty side roll across the counterclockwise, it's going to give us some very heavy wind gusts, hurricane force wind gusts and rain bands still coming in and you know, you see the palms on the ground and electricity starting to go down, things starting to unravel here, unfortunately in fort myers as they have bee

robert ray in fort myers. let's begin in tampa where the eye of the storm is off the coast. >> the big event will soon be impacting the tampa bay area in just a matter of hours. the story of the day now hurricane ian now a cat four rapidly intensifying. the power and strength and devastation potential. it was 120 mile-per-hour winds at 2:00 in the morning. 5:00 a.m. up to 140. they're now at 155 miles per hour. that's on the cusp of a category 5. that's, of course, the worst of the worst. it does appear most people in the region have sheltered in place. this is a busy street in downtown tampa on a wednesday morning. we have hardly seen any traffic all day. it will make emergency measures easier. the storm is 55 miles west of naples. from there it will make landfall somewhere on florida's west coast later today. with charlotte county looking like the spot at this moment, punta gorda, port charlotte where hurricane charley hit causing massive destruction in 2004. an hour ago florida's governor addressed the new

i'll go man-pire. >> martha: robert ray rejoins us lives in fort myers. s back in our sights. robert, where are you now and what are you seeing? >> i'm not sure if you can hear me. i've had a different broadcast put in my ear unfortunately. i'll say this right now, you can see what's going on here with this giant garbage can that has been blown into the street. what we're starting to see is things unravel with the debris flying around. the wind gusts kick up. you know, they are coming in the dirty side of this storm. hurricane ian made landfall just at about 3:10 p.m. eastern time to the west northwest of where i'm at right now. 20 miles. so i'm in downtown fort myers. these incredible wind gusts still continue. the power outages are stacked up. you can see a lot of these palm trees that are taking a beating, a big oak trees with the debris getting kicked off. the power is not in a good situation here at all unfortunately with well over 700,000 reported. down in naples, some of the images coming from that great community are unbelievable of boats that are

robert ray has been up for hours, robert. good morning and based on what governor desantis said a moment ago, how do you assess your situation there? >> i am thrilled to hear the governor and officials make that statement about the phone calls that were coming in and that is not necessarily a declaration of people losing their lives. we've been very clear on that this morning. in the after math we have to stress that. we've been doing that. numbers get floated around and people don't mean to cause panic or havoc but it is true, until you get out there and the search and rescue teams are there on the ground assessing, it's very important to be cautious about the numbers when you are talking about fatalities and injuries. i'm glad he clarified that. great news, guys. and yet you look at this here this morning. this is fort myers and the marina and these boats that were pushed around like toys from the wind and the surge yesterday. some of these vessels are very large and they take a lot of force and energy to move them. they ar

robert ray is back with us today. we begin with track of ian. adam klotz is in our studio watching that. >> we still have a hurricane as we remember this storm left the coast of florida as a tropical storm but we've spent a good chunk of time over the atlantic ocean. winds currently at 85 miles-per-hour. we're moving to the north at nine miles-per-hour. everything you see is infray red raid area. the center of circulation is behind that. likely talking about a landfall just after lunch. conditions will linger there for hours and hours and hours. here is the category 1 storm and stay a category 1 hurricane as it makes itself closer to landfall there. likely just to the north of charleston toward myrtle beach. the worst weather happens on the northeastern side. wherever we see landfall the winds will be worst on the northeast side of the storm where the storm surge will be the worst and winds worst. it will lift into north carolina, virginia, a lot of rain as this system works that direction. we have hurricane warnings from savannah stretching to

robert ray ktvu, fox two news. locally the rain that we saw last week. let's dried up in our meteorologist mark tamayo is here with more and mark. the temperatures are going to start going up to yeah, you will notice that that warm up beginning today, but it really kicks in as we head into the weekend. we're talking about some more nineties, the hottest occasions of the area. so typical fall pattern set up by the way that the timing is right on because fall begins later on today during the six o'clock hour quick update as you can see , powerful hurricane fiona. there is the defined i and, of course, keep an eye on on bermuda there. you can see that in that red boxes. we take a look here at the past track. that's the line showing you the attract over portions of puerto rico and then moving up to the north. current information moving to the movement of the north, still category four storm with winds of 130 miles an hour expected to pass just to the west. bermuda so it's something we'll be watching closely over the next few days. but right now a category fo

robert ray is there. come on in and describe what it is like where you are. okay. you to describe what conditions are like right now. >> am i here or no? stuart: i will change the subject for a second. we got ashley with us. is he? okay. we can go back to robert ray. if you can hear me, let me rephrase the question. what is it like and what it is going to be like in a couple hours? >> reporter: in fort myers the wind is coming in hard. we are on fort myers beach and had to evacuate because of the storm surge beginning to come in. you can hear it whistling through this area. the wind and rain. the and flow as we are waiting this to intensify here as hurricane ian is moving offshore at this point, expected to lose power in this area absolutely for sure and the storm surge could come in as far as downtown fort myers which is 12 miles from the coastline. that is the issue right now as we stand here. we try to stay down and couldn't hunker down any longer, no high ground for vehicles, not safe to be there by any means. we evacuated. i cannot hear you, i have no communica

robert ray is in fort myers which saw the rest though - the worst of the destruction. worst? >> reporter: good morning. you see this series of yachts behind me pushed up by the surge. this is cooper's landing and there is debris everywhere. i was talking to the yacht broker who is trying to figure and sort this mess out and if you stand by i will try to grab mike because i want you to hear this, the logistics of the situation right now, you are on fox business. we talked a moment ago, tell us the complexities of this deal. we have two yachts better destroyed, what is going on with your accounting here? >> they are both under contract though it under contract for purchase. $350,000, it is still owned by the owner, jean johnson because we haven't closed yet. we were finalizing repairs before we could close. the other one the same situation. conditional acceptance, waiting to get a couple items fixed. they are a total loss, 1/4 of $1 million. >> high deductible on his insurance. >> $650,000. total of million dollars. >> how from a business standpoint do you go forward at

robert ray, thank you. north of fort myers sarasota and surrounding communities also hit hard . people there face powerful winds and dangerous storm surge. fire and rescue crews telling people to stay at home as they go out, the professionals go out to assess the damage and respond to hundreds of emergency calls coming in now. sarasota county also one of the areas with the most power outages. nearly 200,000 or 70% of the customers there are in the dark. some say they fear they may not have a home to come back to. >> no way out of florida at the moment and i'll probably stay here at the airport for the next two days and then make my way back to sarasota. hopefully still have a home. >> harris: not a lot of activity at the airport. they have generators. sarasota mayor is in "focus" now and this -- when you look at it, is it what you thought it would be or is it worse, are there any silver linings in any of this? >> there was. it's unfortunate that it was such a powerful hurricane and -- but it did not hit our

let's go to fox weather's robert ray in ft. meyers which, you know what, you could call this very much ground zero, can't you, robert? >> reporter: liz, yes. i would say good afternoon but it's nothing like that at all. look at this disaster here. these boats, some of them very large vessels pushed in by the winds and the storm surge on top of each other colliding so violently. where i'm standing these are piers that are concrete below them. there is foam that makes them float and as one owner told me earlier, he lives in a high-rise and watched this last night. he said -- the wind came in those hurricane-force winds and the surge record amount of water pushed into the ft. meyers area, the downtown area was under water last night and since receded but the businesses and the shops and the historic area totally destroyed here this morning. liz, i have to tell you, you know, we just got back. we're out of cell phone service for about two hours. we took the drive down to the shore to the ft. meyers beach area because we wanted to cr

that is where we find fox weather robert ray this morning, what is the latest? see here, look at this destruction behind me, literally large vessels pushed up from the bay here and just debris everywhere, a chair, trees, people's belongings, unfortunately and look, guys issue at the difference, the before and after. if we can see that, of fort myers before and flooding from the surge that came in just tremendous amount of flooding much of downtown. that water has receded, no power and no running water this morning, sanibel island, look at the causeway, my gosh, you can't get out there at this point. the water ripped apart that causeway, making it impassable, only way to get there is air or boat from the gulf of mexico, many people actually thousands in this area that right now are waking up when the sun comes up to no power and no water at all. their roofs are gone on both sides of the road down to the beach, fort myers beach, the destruction takes your breath away. downed power lines and trees and you get to the base and fort myers beach in total devastation rig

robert ray, thank you, sir. >> ainsley: thanks, robert.icole valdez continues our coverage. >> this is just the beginning as you start to see the rainfall behind me and the winds pick up. unfortunately, things are going to get a lot more dangerous pretty quickly over the next few hours for the tampa bay area but all the way down towards that south florida area. southwest florida area i shall say where we are expecting to see a really big chunks of that storm surge threat the hurricane hunters calling hurricane ian life-threatening and extremely dangerous storm as it makes his way over the coast of florida. over the day talking about threats of flesh water flooding. as the storm slows down all that rain is going to be falling here for 24 to 36 hours. that's why we are talking about the chance of seeing anywhere from 15 to 20 inches of rain. let me show you a map here. if you live anywhere in the areas shaded in red, you should have either already evacuated your home or be doing that as of right now. officials hone thattible who needed to ev

fox weather's robert ray is on the ground there. robert. >> yeah, harris, deteriorating as i speak.you can see here this is downtown fort myers. one of the harbors here you see the trees unraveling. if my photographer could zoom in down there and look at some of these boats starting to come apart. anything that is on there is really in danger because these winds keep picking up tremendously. this is some of the strongest gusts i have felt all day and i spent the day starting out actually on the gulf of mexico. we had to get off that barrier island where fort myers beach is because of the storm surge. now here we are 12, 13 miles inland and the bands are coming in with the heavy winds. another one right now. it's not that there is a tremendous amount of rain at this point. it is the wind kicking things around. you can hear in the distance, harris, when things are popping and you hear slight booms and you just know that things are unraveling. we've seen garbage cans fly around and just the sounds of the whooshing through the buildings here on this harbor as the boats go back and forth

let's check in with robert ray who is in fort myers, florida. >> robert: yeah, guys, good morning fromere with boats and huge pieces of concrete slabs here that were docks, piled up like toys and pushed around. the smell of diesel coming off the boats, we hear alarms in the back coming out from the interior, the wind continues to kick up and make the boats move around a bit. there are wood pieces and stier foam and intertubes and clothing, it is here and destroyed and in the elements as hurricane ian wind force came in yesterday and pushed it around, some highest winds we saw yesterday evening as light was going down and just was reeking havoc with debris all over the area. the boats, some very, very large and now destroyed here as people that live in the area are starting to come over and assess, many boat owners and i hope no one was on any of the vessels while they were tied up and trying to make sure they were safe. this is a scene like no other issue as bad as it gets in the aftermath of a hurricane. downtown fort myers streets turning into rushing rivers last evening, that has re

we have you covered with robert ray in fort myers, florida, ashley webster in st. petersburg, florida. steve bender, fox meteorologist. begin with robert what we're looking at in fort myers. robert? reporter: neil, yes, conditions deteriorating in a major way here in downtown fort myers. i'm sitting on a harbor here. you can see, neil, in the distance the winds just rocking those boats back and forth, the palm trees just getting kicked around. look at this, there are palms all over fort myers everywhere. this is what you see up and down these roads. look in the distance there, look at the fire high tant, blown up, popped up, blowing water out with the rain and wins trees in the distance. tarp is coming off of that boat. it's a situation of unraveling here in downtown as ian is coming ashore here today. now, neil, i started the day off out on fort myers beach about 12 miles from here on the gull of mexico. the storm surge began to come in three hours ago. we had to evacuate, go over that bridge, get to here as these winds continue to pick up right now. it is amazing

jonathan serrie, robert ray and janice dean are standing by. want to go to janice dean in the fox weather center for an update. hi. >> good morning. we'll get the official 11:00 a.m. advisory coming out shortly but we do know this was historic, it is the top four storms, strongest storms to make landfall in florida. 150 mile-per-hour sustained winds. pressure was 9.40 close to a category 5. still the chance they might upgrade it. there were winds indicated at 158 miles-per-hour from hurricane hunters yesterday. the current wind gusts over 50 miles-per-hour in daytona, orlando close to 40 miles-per-hour. this has been battering winds over hours and hours and heavy rainfall on the order of 6 to 12 inches. we aren't done yet. we'll still be covering this through frooird and the weekend for our friends across georgia and the carolinas. northeast florida is still seeing the potential for flash flooding. flash flood emergency from orlando to daytona. we could see several inches of heavy rain in a matter of hours. flash flood emergency now for catastr

fox weather's robert ray live for us in fort myers. ust one example of the debris here right on the marina in fort myers. downtown just a few blocks that flooded out from the storm surge and you see the piles of wood here, styrofoam that helped these big concrete blocks float. the piers pushed in. doorways here. you look here and you see the yachts, boats pushed up by the surge and what you see all the way on the roads down to the barrier islands. scattered on the sides, these kind of vessels pushed in, the power and force of the surge. you see fencing from over here pushed in and sand moved in. and then if we walk back over here what you see is the downed trees. palm trees uprooted by the winds and storm surge all over dotting fort myers and down to the barrier islands. this is a 25-foot tree. this takes to uproot something like this at least 100 mile-per-hour gift. the power of this system as search and rescue is active in the barrier islands. 80% of fort myers beach according to officials wiped out. i can tell you that's where we sta

fox weather correspondent robert ray is live in fort myers with a look at the damage. what he sees as the sun comes up. and adam klotz's stay in here with ian's latest track in south carolina. first we go to charleston. doug? >> good morning. we are seeing things intensify, and it's up to see on tv, but these clouds are flying across as the outer bands of the storm arrived. you see all the boats behind here on the marina, people have chosen to leave their boats here. there's not really a sense of panic, as we've been saying, here in south carolina. they have been reports of some people going to higher ground, but a lot of people are seeing behind. the city of charleston is really preparing for that. one of the things they did was allow residents to park and all the city parking structures for free to get their cars up to higher levels, because this is a city that floods. when we arrived here yesterday, before the storm had even arrived, we saw low areas flooding. that is naturally occurring here any time you get close to high tide. we are not far from high tide as this

robert ray on the ground with how floridians are responding to the warnings over in key west but we beginteorologist ian oliver at fox weather center with the latest models and where things stand at this hour. >> kevin good even the latest information from the national weather center none is good a devastating hurricane strike in south florida, the latest maximum winds at 120 miles per hour, a category 3 but one that's forecast to intensify into a category 4 before land fall. you already see all of these intense bands that have been moving across south florida, a lot of spin in these intense bands and we've seen a couple dozen tornado warnings already that's a threat but look at the core of this storm we actually lost this buoy now. before it stopped reporting data it reported a wind gust up to 85 miles an hour, key west a gust of 63 in the past hour, we've seen gusts up to 71 miles per hour, about a hundred miles removed from that inner core. also you showed some of that video of the flooding in key west, the third highest water level ever recorded in key west and the only two that were

forecast to come very close to bermuda later this week , and that is where we find fox weather's robert ray, who has been tracking the storm, robert yes, indeed. hurricane fiona. category four trekking up through the atlantic ocean, and it's going to come about 100 miles to the west of where i'm at in bermuda. and if you're not familiar with the island of bermuda, we are just under 700 miles from mainland usa in north carolina, bermuda is really a beautiful place. it is a territory of great britain about 21 square miles that is all consisting of about 180 very tiny. the different islands here . roughly 65,000 people live here, and they are prone to not only tropical storms hurricanes that make their way across the atlantic and fiona are going to come really close. we spent today talking to residents and visitors about how they're prepping. or perhaps some of them not prepping. listen, hopefully not. we don't get too much damage and probably a lot of don trees, power lines and electricity may have people losing their lives in their rooftops, but how to guarantee by monday, you wouldn't even

i want to go to robert ray in fort myers, florida. also getting this direct hit. i mean a direct hit. what is the the latest, my friend? >> yeah, neil, it's really coming in. just as you came to me, a big gust, another hurricane force gust coming in here to downtown fort myers. lands fall at 3:11 p.m. eastern as the wind has now just died down again. to the west northwest, 20 miles of where i'm standing right now. we have been feeling these forces all afternoon and just in the past 1 1/2 hours, the intense wind gusts and rain here and there. i have to stay, i was just liking all the way down the block here, neil. another wind gust comes in. three or four blocks is a harbor. even with my own eyes, i'm seeing water get gushed up. white caps blown around down there. so i have to think some of the water has come up on the street over there. fort myers has seen i believe almost four feet of storm surge, which is a new record here. if you go to the beach, 12 miles away, fort myers beach where i started the day with my photographer and we were reporting from there, the s

robert ray shows us how the federal government is promising to help fiona victims in the u. million people still do not have running water and thousands of others are without power. the island was already struggling to recover from previous storms. now fiona has made that worse with local officials say flooding and landslides have cut off major roadways, making it difficult to assess damage. it's also left people stranded with no way to get basic supplies. parents have had a bad experience with maria , but this was definitively worse. disaster declaration from president biden has cleared the way for fema to send aid and hundreds of additional personnel to help on the ground were surgery. federal resources puerto rico do everything everything we can to meet the urge. indeed you have, the department of health and human services says it will also send teams throughout the us dozens of volunteers and non profits are rallying together to collect medical supplies and essentials really wound care, first aid supplies and personal hygiene supplies, and we're also collecting those now

robert ray ktvu, fox two news alright, so let's bring in ktvu meteorologist rosemary oroczo with a better look at the current track of the storm. now, roseberry andre. so fiona, of course category four very powerful storm at this time as a barrels towards the canadian coastline, giving you a look here at where it is. you can see well off the eastern seaboard of the united states. but as we give you a look at what is expected into the coming days at a category four will continue its path to the north and slightly to the east. it does look like it's going to lose steam as it moves closer to canada's nova scotia and prince edward island area. but again, it looks like saturday into sunday does begin to die down a little bit. the winds expected to be right about 60 mph. of course, this is just a projection, as it could change into the coming days. we'll be tracking that for you as well as your local forecast. coming up in just a little bit will see you. then this newness search underway into what sparked a massive fire early this morning at an industrial warehouse in san jose. it started short

let's go to robert ray in f fort myers that got really clobbered. robert? >> yell, exactly. a good word for it. it's a nightmare right now. i'm surrounded by vessels that were in this marina, tossed around like tinker toys, snapped in half when the wind and the surge moved in. i'm standing on top of one of the blocks of the piers. concrete that was moved in and pushed like dominoes by this incredible surge of over eight feet here in fort myers. these boats, i have to say, surrounded by debris. all of this debris is floating on water. wood piles, vegetation, garbage cans, people's belongings all over. an incredible scene here. two blocks from here downtown fort myers, that took the surge as well, the historic streets turning in to rushing rivers last night. the wind at its most intense last night and myself and the crew, my photographer, had to try to leave this area because of the surge. incredible. we could barely stand. my photographer literally got knocked off of his feet. he's okay, by the way. but as we left the region and just went about six miles away, the debris fiel

reporting in fort myers, florida, robert ray fox weather.in, it's not done with the united states yet, because just as it's moved across florida, it's kind of coming back around here. mark yeah, that's right. once it moves back into the atlantic, we are expecting the warm waters to help this storm strengthen a bit, and as a result, it could be talking about another hurricane. ian moved into south carolina, but it seems like whenever you get such a such a devastating storm like this, it takes time to actually realize how damaging it all the damage it produced. so unfortunately, that will be the real reality for today. as we get more, um, visuals of what's happening coming out of florida. here's a satellite in the radar. you can see ian right now moving out approaching the atlantic actually. a tropical storm, ian , but for us here in the bay area, we have the complete opposite. we have such a quiet to weather pattern in place and patchy fog out toward monterey bay. when you think of the fog, you can think it's kind of a stable weather pattern.

foxes robert ray has more. fiona turned up large swells along the east coast on friday, the storm, continuing its track through the atlantic ocean on its way to eastern canada. forecasters there expect the worst of the conditions to occur by saturday afternoon, but up and down the eastern us recurrence and strong surf will be an issue for beaches throughout the weekend. ways could reach heights of up to 10 . ft were watching it from days ago. where is it coming? where is it going to track? how close is it going to get early friday , fiona brushed past bermuda dropping heavy rain and whipping up high winds. according to the local power company here about 70% of the island woke up without electricity officials, open shelters and closed businesses ahead of fiona's arrival. i have lots of water. the next to meet not so many perishables. um most people non perishables like purchased for the storm. and in puerto rico, hundreds of thousands are still without power or running water. five days after fiona made landfall.

. >> bermuda bracing for hurricane, a monster bracing its way, robert ray live in hamilton parish bermuda they are battening down the hatches. >> indeed, john, bermuda bracing for hurricane bermuda, trucking into the atlantic at its one to brush the island of bermuda which is only 21 square miles out there on the atlantic, fiona's going to be about a hundred miles off of the coast here. but it is going to bring tropical force winds very soon here, affect of debris' is starting to pick up as the swells, and sometime between three and 8:00 a.m. on friday, we could experience upwards to a 100-mile-an-hour gusts from hurricane fiona. they are literally boarding up as we speak. people are getting their rations. and we are expecting a big time blow over tonight. it is going to sound like a train on this island because there is no protection here. just under 7 miles from the north carolina coast as the cat four will make its way up here, and brush the area and potentially put power lines down trees drawn. people he already as our way. >> we are playing for the people of bermuda that they will be

in bermuda, robert ray ktvu, fox two news. let's get over to steve.take a look at the local forecast here, steve the weather last partial day of summer. that is correct. we'll go back and revisit real quick, though fiona because it has more impact, maybe next couple of days as it moves north into the atlantic and the warmer waters halifax, nova scotia. it may merge with a developing system. we're going area of low pressure right here and as it does it, make what we say bomb out over atlantic canada, so that will be something to watch. as we head into the next couple of days as it moves northwards, so they're already batting down the hatches in parts of atlantic canada. there that could be a huge, substantial system. there goes our low that we had on the weekend monday, tuesday yesterday. well now what? that's all the way up and idaho and montana also look at all the moisture streaming into arizona . the surface dew point are in the mid seventies. that is almost unheard of really get that this time of year really into areas areas around phoenix , but t

reporting in fort myers, robert ray fox. >> whether. all right. thank you so much for sticking with us. right here on fox weather. a hurricane in a water log in southwest florida. streets and buildings completely flooded, as you can see here. power knocked out to two million people. and one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the united states . the hurricane making landfall wednesday afternoon near jocasta. a protected barrier island just west of fort myers in the hours since landfall in have moved inland, hurricane force wind

robert ray is there in fort myers, that looks like that are devastation to me. >> this is really as bad gets in the aftermath of a hurricane. this is some of the damage ian did. look at these boats. look at this boat on its side. another one on its side, another one over there is turnover, a massive yacht that is on top of all of these pushing them all down and look at this. these peers that i'm walking on below these peers styrofoam so they float but these concrete piers broken apart by the force and surge of hurricane ian yesterday. this has been a tremendous seen since it came in, two or three blocks away, the streets of downtown fort myers completely underwater yesterday evening, looked like a river, debris flying everywhere from roofs coming off to palm trees to powerlines blowing up and people here that we have been talking to describe this scene you are looking at from a high rise, many people sat and that high-rise and watched these boats unfold. it looked like a dominoes game as different pieces of concrete kept moving around and smashing of the boats kept colliding into each o

robert ray fox weather all right , robert. thank you, thomas for 48., this may sound like the plot of a movie. but this is real. nasa is now on a mission to strike and asteroid millions of miles away and try to push it away from earth. now what's called the save the world experiment is the first of its kind. a spacecraft named dart is set to slammed right into that asteroid going speeds almost 10 times faster than that of a fighter jet. the idea here is okay. let's make sure we have at least a good idea how to prevent the city killers from coming because you certainly you know, it's going to be a pretty bad day of something like new york or paris gets wiped out, so we need a good system in place to be able to proactively handle something like that. for these approximately 5000 objects out there. now the target is technically a small asteroid. it's about the size of a football stadium, and we're seeing yet another incredible out of this world damage. it was captured by nasa's james webb. space tellers telescope. this time we're looking at neptune, pam s

. >> harris: we want to thank robert ray and as news warrants, we can bring him back. one thing i want to ask amy robert about, for peopled in their homes we are not high tide yet. storm comes in, high tide was a nightmare. they are saying it will take two tidal cycles for the water to recede, if you're in a house and the water reached the roof and you have a little space to breathe in the attic, this is like new orleans, you got to get on top of the house for the next tidal point. >> kayleigh: in fort myers, top surge in history and not only did it get top spot, it demolished the second place, by three feet. surge was unbelievable in fort myers, up one to three feet, just applying to the tide cycle. the storm moved to the other coastline, we have warnings in place. this is not over, serious and destructive storm, latest forecast coming out shows it could reintensify from tropical storm status to hurricane, think about when the storm can go into open water, reintenseification, rapid intensification means the storm gets strong fast, that happened before it approached wes

fox weather reporter robert ray is live in bermuda, what are you seeing this morning? >> yeah, good morning from bermuda, the small island out in the atlantic ocean, been getting pummelled anyway t-- by the hurricane issue the category 4 hurricane fiona, it is about parallel with the island of bermuda, look at the video from overnight and the wind is coming in, gusts up to 71 miles per hour and the past few hours that is almost hurricane strength. next two or three hours, it is expected to get more intense and taper off into the afternoon as it makes its way up into canada. if we can, take a look at this sail drone video from out in the atlantic ocean, this was yesterday, just a few hundred miles from the island of bermuda. look at the swells, 50-foot wave and that is happen ing around bermuda, just from the north carolina coast. thus far we are right on the virge of those gusts into the world of hurricanes, hurricane winds are 74 miles per hour and the rain continues to come in, this is not a rain maker here in bermuda like we saw in puerto rican, this is a wind machi

robert ray in fort meyers, florida. it really cuts to the chase and cutting co-the chase is not ovet over. even though the devastation is behind in florida, we're not expecting that nearly now in the carolinas and parts of georgia, but we are expecting a category 1 storm to hit the areas, particularly charleston, south carolina, where it seems to be doing a b line. let's have guidance on all this with steve bender, fox meteorologist. steve, what do those in south carolina what are they likely looking at? >> good afternoon. heavy rainfall they've seen through the morning time and triggering flash flooding and the storm surge threat from charleston up through myrtle beach and the on shore flow in southwest florida, that'll happen again, albeit a calmer condition. we're looking at 85 to 90 miles an hour gusts pushing in the water leading to 4 toe 7-foot storm surge from really charleston to the north state line into north carolina. this is the latest advisory still sustained winds at 85 miles per hour meaning gusts north o

fox team weather starts with robert ray in fort myers right where the hurricane hit. robert? >> good morning guys. look at the devastation on the streets of fort myers. this was completely under water yesterday evening as the surge came in you could see some of that video will remnants of what was published in and around downtown here. there is just debris everywhere. the window field here yesterday was just tremendous we could barely stand by. this vehicle coming through. it's an active scene here this morning as believe it or not, there is some power that has come back at least in this part of fort myers, shockingly enough, the water system is totally out, of course at this point. but my gosh, fort myers just took it on the chin yesterday yesterday evening at 6:00 p.m. as the water was rushing through the streets literally creating white caps and the window pushing in so hard that the water from the river just a block away was coming in. we could make our exit. as we left to try to safe ground away from flooding surge water. zigzagging through the streets. unsafe condition

robert ray is live in fort myers with a look at the damage. robert? >> good morning.we are starting to see the beginnings of sunlight on this friday, which normally would be paradise down here in southwest, florida. but, indeed, is a nightmare. look at this disaster here. the boats, the vessels, yachts brought up by the surge here this morning. a business, a tiki restaurant bar and the top of it just destroyed. as you can sees a search and rescue continues here this morning. and people will wake up to the disaster that is ensuing across this part of florida and many parts of the peninsula of florida, unfortunately. as you stated, there are 10 confirmed dead. there are hundreds of individuals who have been rescued from the barrier islands down on the gulf of mexico and those rescues and that search is going on 24/7 and will continue around the clock over the weekend. look at this, guys, too, if you can up at this building. this is the tallest structure in fort myers. there's no power. there is one tiny light on in one of those apartments or condos. clearly they have so

. >> dana: moving southwest let's go to fox weather robert ray in hard-hit fort myers, florida.r and now you are on one of the big boats that got pushed up onto land. >> indeed, dana. i just talked to the yacht broker who had just sold this boat for about $350,000, he said. the boat next to it was contingent for $650,000. it is a mess with the logistics and insurance and what will ensue with these deals and brokers that all these things that they have done here. you see the mess behind me. all these boats. they're on roadsides all the way down to the barrier island of fort myers beach where search and rescue is going on actively there right now devastated. as governor ron desantis said in a press conference last hour this area is ground 0 for hurricane ian in the state of florida. we'll continue to monitor this. confirmed 21 dead. choppers above and folks starting to take debris from their homes and put them to the side in compartments as the officials have told them to do. in the meantime you see behind me this is what people are seeing and dealing with and business is super af

seen evermeteorologist is standing by our team fox coverage starts with robert ray live in fort myersthat's where it hit robert, right? did sure did good morning to you from the devastated streets from downtown fort myers. you see this debris field i'm walking through with garbage cans, mud, palms that were literally projectiles when these hurricane force winds were coming through here yesterday and into the evening. this guys, if we look at the video was i am not even exaggerating and not to use a cliche a rushing river yesterday evening street after street here full of storm surge water that came up from the bay and the river about three blocks behind me made its way into streets here destroying businesses and now business owners are starting to come in and take a look look at things like this. look at the size of this palm. probably 10, are 15 pounds ripped off trees flying around in hurricane force winds yesterday along with rooftops and other debris these items can cause a ton of damage. beautiful to look at but when they are flying through the air like that. just very very inten

we have robert ray. he was with us throughout this storm. t that scene where there are just so many badly damaged boats and ships there. robert, over to you. good afternoon to you on a very tough day for folks in fort myers. >> good afternoon, martha. from a and water, standing water still as helicopters were riding above, search and rescue teams and no power and no water, martha. i apologize. it's a bit of a trek back here. i have a boat owner and a man that survived this hurricane. sir, your name? >> patrick knew. you have a boat here. you decided to sell it all and live on the boat. what did you do? >> we decided to go to the motel. the coast guard left. they usually harbor here. we thought we would go to a hotel instead. we went into the hotel. the water started rising so fast, we had to take our belongings and rush them upstairs. my key card would open some rooms up. i opened myself up for other boaters. they came up. we put everybody up in rooms because it was roaring by. >> and your boat, tell us the situation with your boat. we look a

robert ray reporting for us live in bermuda . as the storm continues to track toward canada, and perhaps even iceland as well. do not forget you can get more on the story and more like it on the fox weather app. just use your phone to scan the qr code on your screen or go to fox weather .com. well hundreds of 911 calls are flooding dispatchers in oakland every single day, and it's getting tougher for them to keep up with all the emergencies. the fire department's communications center is severely understaffed . some dispatchers are working mandatory overtime from medical emergencies to massive fires, car crashes and increasing crime dispatchers are fielding at least 300 calls a day. i leave in the afternoon. say goodbye in the same dispatchers that i said goodbye to have beat me the next morning and are working a shift. and that is that breaks my heart. and fire department says it has seen a 20% surgeon calls since the start of the pandemic , and they are hiring. the communications manager says the dispatcher can earn up to $100,

fox news weather we start with robert ray in fort myers. robert? >> good morning. you know, as light is about to come up here and these rain bands and window really intensify, conditions are deteriorating here in fort myers beach. the gulf of mexico, just a football field over there. churning up. i was just over there. when it gets light, we will show you that. you can see right now, these heavy bands as hurricane ian is right out there. the eye center is about 70 miles from where i'm standing it's 30 miles wide and the window fell well over 300 miles. as this is coming in. it's very cross to the potential upgrade to a category 5. and where i'm standing right now, the bridge that takes us over into mainland fort myers, we are here strategically because when conditions begin to get too intense, and this storm surge begins to come, in which could be up to a foot, we will leave as will emergency officials we are told. as a matter of fact, in cape coral, just to the north of us, emergency officials have suspended operations because of this window that's coming in. when

robert ray, thank you again very much. thank you for joining us here on out numbered. massive search and rescue's are underway a and i was wrong why robert was saying if you are out on one of those barrier islands, they have to reach those people now. and some people are trapped inside flooded homes in the aftermath of our hurricane ian, governor ron desantis reporting today, a few hours ago, that there have been more than 700 rescues so far. finding a loved one, was all too real for one florida woman as you might imagine. it was a harrowing 24 plus hours for beth. she lost contact with her mom, carol, who decided to write out the hurricane in her fort myers home. will robert just gave us 99 reasons as to not do that. will keep ending in constant contact with her mom, beth tweeted storm surge outside of my moms house on fort myers beach. i am so sick. you can just see the floodwaters lapping at the roof. and beth went on to say this is my family's home of 24 years. we survived charlie, and our amount, we will survive ian, my mom refused to evacuate with me because she h

and what's really curious to me, too, we were talking with robert ray, who was in downtown fort myers and he was just down the street from the maria he's been reporting from all day today, and all the boats were tied up as the eye came ashore. so it was the back side of the hurricane that blew all the boats out of the water with the storm surge. so you know when the eye comes ashore, it's not over. let's check back in with jonathan live in atlantic beach outside of jacksonville, he was getting the microdermabrasion from the sand earlier today. how is it now? >> blustery out here, keeping an eye on the atlantic ocean on the oat side of the natural dune here. you can see the sea oats blowing in the wind. the natural dunes protect the island communities from more severe flooding and so far they have been doing a good job keeping the waves at bay. now, over here you see one of the boardwalks that people would of ordinarily be taking to the beach, but as you look over here, you can see that it's padlocked. the city is shut down, the public beaches, local authorities don't want anyone getti

where robert ray was is dryer than where steve is, when you look at the satellite picture, you see the red bands, that's why steve is in all of that rain, right on the north side. >> sandra: he's back. >> john: oh, he's back out. >> sandra: steve, how is it going? >> i'll tell you, sandra, i can't hear anything or see anything, so -- someone has to shout for me to keep talking. >> sandra: thank you for staying with us. >> i guess the real concern is, oh, it's a pleasure. i think the initial concern is going to be this wind, right. 155 miles per hour, catastrophic, it could take buildings completely down, could take roofs off, could knock out electric power. but we are already seeing a major storm surge in places like naples far from here, they have hit more than a record. oh, there goes the light, he's ok, though, hit a record storm surge. so we could see 12 to 18 feet after this goes through. so punched by the wind and the storm surge and then flooding. i'm starting to see bits of metal fly off of this condominium behind me. >> john: steve, if i follow the track of this correctly as w

robert ray ktvu, fox two news 9 38 is the time and sunday marks the start of russia tiana, the jewish new year, it's the first time many jewish families will gather in person since the pandemic happened and joining us now to talk about this jewish holiday of russia. tiana is rabbi mark bloom of temple beth abraham and oakland. thanks for being here. thanks so much for having me ali. i want to start by, you know, for non jewish people, many people think of hanukkah as the premier. jewish holiday. but where does russia shonda rank in terms of important holidays in the faith , right? this is our big season. russia shauna is the beginning of the year and it marks a 10 day period called the high holidays or high holy days. the 10th day is yankee pour the day of atonement that's probably the most important and serious holiday other than the weekly sabbath, but the new year begins at all different from, you know , the new year and the gregorian calendar key, absolutely 5000 something right? it's 57 83. we don't welcome the new year with painted fireworks. i mean, it's quite a bit more solemn

reporting in fort myers, robert ray fox. >> whether. all right. thank you so much for sticking with us. right here on fox weather. a hurricane in a water log in southwest florida. streets and buildings completely flooded, as you can see here. power knocked out to two million people. and one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the united states . the hurricane making landfall wednesday afternoon near jocasta. a protected barrier island just west of fort myers in the hours since landfall in have moved inland, hurricane force winds likely to be felt well into central florida. yeah, thanks again for sticking with us right here on fox. whether i'm local customer. >> and i'm jim enah. thank you for joining us and a special welcome to those watching on fox news channel. well, the 2:00 a.m. advisory is in mike lindell, still a category one hurricane. so no major changes there, although and continues to shift and land continues to weaken just a bit, right? >> not necessarily under that threshold. of a category one hurricane just yet. usually if it

fox weathers robert ray assess the damage at a marina in fort s. r tucker, it scenes like thist se that just take your eyes and your senses away here. look at this destruction. c i'm standing on concrete slabsn that were once piers, cutsco by the wind and the energy of of hurricane ian and the storm surge came in. look at these vessels, tucker, if you can, piled up likeheir tinker toys snapped on their sides. some of them crashing intoel s the land here. one vessel so large , all of this as if it were nothing.e ia that's what hurricane ian did to this area with thoserrican hurricane-e force winds. and downtown fort myers tookm su the storm surge. many of the businesses in, th the historic area and theme streets look like rushing rivers as the storm came in, inn the evening. some of the toughest conditions were wednesday night as thatigtt dirty side of the hurricanee la rolled through and madndfae landfall about twenty miles tocr the north of here. and tucker. and the situation was just absolutely nasty. eaveas we tried to leave thisng downtown area

robert ray is at the atlanta hartsfield airport. morning to you, robert.bout it a lot. should we be prepared for more of that this holiday weekend? >> reporter: good morning, ashley. you know, it depends on where you're at and the weather and any other glitches that occur. but, you know, almost 13 million people are going to take to the skies this weekend for labor day weekend. and, you know, i don't know if our viewers know this, labor day weekend created -- designated back in 1894 by president grover cleveland. because most of the workers across the country were union members, and he said people need a break for a few days. so now here we are modern day, people hitting roads and the air. here in atlanta, the world's busiest airport, they are preparing for about 1.6 million people to come through here starting today all the way through next tuesday. ashley, the three busiest airports across the country if you're traveling, here in atlanta, denver and los angeles, lax. so be prepared. we are told by officials here also that, you know, if you're going to co