won the week two. all in with chris hayes starts now. l in with chris hayes starts now. good evening from new york. i m chris. hayes i want to get ahead of the story. it appears this long week may be coming to a close and more ways than one. if grading on a curve, strong curve, would be speaker of the house kevin mccarthy had his best day yet today. i should say he still lost two more rounds of votes. he did manage to win over most of his detractors, including some previous hard-liners. and, for the first time, he actually won more votes in the democratic challenger, hakeem jeffries. so, clap. negotiations are still underway. they are adjourned right now when they reconvene just two short hours from now, mccarthy may finally become speaker of the house. they seem confident that is the case. we will see. but based on everything we ve seen, it s obvious, even if mccarthy does clinched the gavel, it will be a victory. this will leave him the weakest speaker in modern polit
south carolina as category one storm with wind speeds up to 85 miles an hour and and a life-threatening storm surge is expected up to 7 feet. we are monitoring the strike of the storm and will take you to governor desantis as soon as we start speaking but we want to switch gears. a disturbing trend of law enforcement coming under attack. outrage sweeping the nation s following the murder of 9/11 first responder in new york city, 24 year f fdny lieutenant alison russo was walking in uniform less than a block to her station when she was stabbed. over 20 times, barbaric and completely unprovoked attack. the suspect was taken into custody after barricading himself inside of a building. he is charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon. nypd commissioner condemning the senseless attack. this deadly, senseless broad daylight attack on a former fdny team member is in the soul of the society. it is the latest consequence of the violence and the relentlessly fight. je
mayra flores speaking out be being rejected from the congressional hispanic caucus. we are the voice. we are the real voice. who doesn t love a yellow all the important issues. raise the hands if you love yellow. that s a beautiful shot of this going to be kind of chilly today. take sweater, a coat. layer. look at the cars going over that bridge. steve: speaking of bridges. they have three rivers in pittsburgh that s why they had the three rivers stadium, of course. ainsley: their rivers, the bridges and are steel industry. look up famous for p perogies. steve: it s a dumpling essentially. brian: flies in the face of the toughest steel pittsburgh people. if you have a dumpling, that s not a tough. ainsley: come on, easy. steve: wait a minute. brian: if you are a tough guy you don t go give me a dump bring. ainsley: filled dumplings by wrapping leefn leafn. steve: wait a second you haven t even had one. they are delicious. brian: reading a d
top of the hour, this busy thursday morning, i m jim sciutto. i m poppy harlow. welcome to our viewers. the breaking news we are following this morning, hurricane ian leaving just stunning devastating destruction in florida as a hurricane then a tropical storm. still pummeling the state though. 14 million people in florida are currently under flood alerts. 2.5 million businesses without power along with homes. they re rescuing people trapped inside flooded homes. governor ron desantis spoke about the devastation so many are waking up to this morning. there s 1.5 million outages in 7 southwest florida counties. lee and charlotte are basically off the grid at this point. the amount of water that s been rising and will likely continue to rise today even as the storm is passing is basically a 500-year flood event. the impacts of this storm are historic. and the damage that was done has been historic and this is just off initial assessments. well, the risk of storm surge and
been sentenced to 3.5 years in prison. and millions of catholics around the world prepare to say a final farewell at the funeral of pope benedict xvi. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the us house of representatives has adjourned for a second day without electing a speaker, extending the paralysis at the heart of american politics. president biden said having a congress that can t function is embarassing for the country. republican kevin mccarthy has been stopped six times so far by a group of hardliners within his own party who refuse to back him. without a speaker the chamber is unable to swear in members, fill vital committee roles or adopt rules for passing legislation. let s speak to our north america correspondent peter bowes. what has just happened, what is going on? good question. another rollercoaster david the end result is the same, voting for the new speaker, in that there is no result, the impasse, the deadlock continues because kevi