residents are urged to stay inside. our team is on the ground, crews mobilize before sunrise and senior meteorologist is here tracking ian in new york city. todd: phil keating, where we begin our coverage in st. petersburg, we got the latest update the hurricane has been downgraded to a tropical storm, what are you seeing right now? good morning, had u.s. coast guard helicopter land across the water at tampa general, now flying off, they have a real busy day doing search and rescue operations all day, still unknown whether they have numerous people that need to be rescued or whether the day will actually be better than they feared. here in tampa right now issue most people are still sleeping after a night of heavy pounding rain and wind, but for the most part, the bulk of the storm right now, not raining here issue mostly moved east by now, slamming around orlando and the east coast along i-95 corridor and the winds here, you can see, not too blustery, only maybe in the 2
category 4 storm leaving a huge path of destruction and millions in the dark this morning. we ll have a live report in just a moment. meanwhile, rescue crews have been busy trying to get people who decided to ride out the storm to try and save them. they re stranded now by rising flood waters and we re still tracking ian as it slowly makes its way across florida. at this hour, it still has more to go. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it s thursday, september 29th. joe is off this morning. along with willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. without power this morning, first light this morning will begin to show the damage in florida. that s right. that s when we re going to start to see the story of what happened last night, what happened overnight. tropical storm now ian downgraded from a category 1 hurricane. in just the last hour, but still wreaking havoc across florida as it made landfall as a
americans only finding out about this now? plus republican congressman jarj santos even more scrutiny tonight over a mysterious $700,000 contribution to his campaign concerns about how, where it was spent and where did it go. in a story you ll see first outfront russians speaking out against putin s war, one calling it a terrible mess, complete chaos. all of this on camera to cnn. you ll see it first here. let s go out front. and good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight on the defensive. more classified documents and a special counsel. president biden says he does want to tell the american people everything he knows. let me i m going to get a chance to speak on all of this, god willing, soon. he says he wants to speak but right now the white house isphasying a barrage of questions over the classified documents and so far the administration is speaking very little. but, again, i m just not going to go beyond what the president said. i m just not going to go
every week i go out for groceries and another dollar. i work a minimum wage job and, i mean, just buying food takes over a third of my income. i don t think the administration gets what the average person has to deal with. we live paycheck to paycheck. dana: inflation is on the minds of americans not to mention rampant crime and energy crisis. they are on the back burner for president biding heading to california today to talk up his infrastructure agenda. gillian turn for the white house. the president is in the golden state to raise money from democratic political doaners and tout his infrastructure bill. californians want to talk about crime and gas prices going into the mid-terms according to polling. president biden touched down last night in santa monica and greeted by the city s democratic mayor. white house is accusing congressional republicans putting medicare and social security on the chopping block cuts they insist would push most families over a cliff.
chance to speak on this soon. as i said earlier this week, my corvette is in a locked garage and they aren t sitting in the street. in a locked garage. president biden: as well as my corvette. people know i take classified documents and material seriously. i also said we re cooperating fully and completely with the justice department s revuchlt as part of that process my lawyers reviewed other places where documents from my time as vice president were stored and they finished the review last night. they discovered a small number of documents with classified markings in storage areas and file cabinets in my home in my personal library. harris: he is reading that. that statement was being read talking about the economy. he to go lid after he opened himself up to a couple shouted questions. this all comes after we learned about the first batch on monday of classified documents. some of which were top secret. marked top secret. those discovered were at the penn biden center