this is all we had. we lost everything. we re with not one single thing. everything gone. tens of thousands of floridians will sleep in shelters tonight following the devastation of hurricane ian, which has now made landfall in south carolina. also tonight, putin s illegal annexation. he s unhinged, and he s dangerous. so how should the world respond? plus, the supreme court welcomes justice ketanji brown jackson ahead of what is expected to be another perilous term. it s about damn time we have a discussion about the right-wing freakout over lizzo and james madison s crystal flute. we begin tonight with hurricane ian. once again making landfall. this time on the coast of south carolina as a category 1 hurricane, the first to strike the state since 2016. the storm now a post tropical cyclone is expected to move across the carolinas tonight into tomorrow morning. the national hurricane center is warning of life-threatening storm surge and severe flooding. just take a
president s green agenda could be driving up energy costs. ed, what do you have for us? very interesting, john. in the last 24 hours the price of gas went up $0.02 a gallon. no new ideas out of the white house to deal with lowering gas prices and unwilling to talk about any changes or reversals in policies that constricted the supply of oil. so i had an exchange with the white house press secretary jen psaki about those policies. listen. topped the strategic petroleum reserve, sometimes it takes system time to be digested in the system, and worked with countries to do it similar, and engaged with the opec nations to have the supply meet the demand. and called out the record profits by oil companies. price of oil close to $90 a barrel, pushes the price to 3.46 a gallon. a year ago, 2.47 a gallon, about
ranked just below tobacco giant philip morris. and rounding out the bottom three, the trump organization. enough said on that. on the flip side, the outdoor clothing maker and retailer patagonia scored the third highest reputation. amazon came in at number two. and the best reputation belongs to wegmans, a supermarket chain in new england and the mid-atlantic, for those of you out west. and it is that time again, the annual springtime rise in gas prices. the national average $2.47 a gallon. you re going to find the highest pump price of $3.33 in hawaii. but the state with the cheapest average, that s missouri at about $2.20 a gallon, followed by mississippi and texas. those are your number ones. yours this is your invitation to a higher standard of luxury. this is the invitation to lexus sales event. lease the 2019 es 350 for $379 a month for 36 months. now thru march 31st. experience amazing at your lexus dealer.
florida s governor s race is also now in recount territory. tallahassee mayor andrew gillum has narrowed the lead over republican ron desantis 2.47 of a percentage point, even though gillum conceded tuesday night, that s changed. he tweeted today every voice must be heard in this race. in the georgia governor s race, democrat stacey abrams is counting on thousands of uncounted absentee, mail-in and provisional ballots to force a runoff. it s easy to vote and hard to cheat in georgia. camp oversaw the race and today he officially resigned as the secretary of state, although it s still not clear what his role was in the election tally. i don t think that race is over. every vote must be counted. the integrity of that election is at stake. out west, the arizona g.o.p. swing four counties over the process they use to verify
sarasota, this down three points again. getting closer to what you would have seen with mitt romney. take a look, charlotte. it s about level a point off. lee county. actually desantis is running ahead significantly ahead. i am just seeing that for the first time. that is one place at least with the early vote. that s significant. over 100,000 votes counted there. good news for the republicans there. pasco county off the mark. we showed you that. the big thing to keep an eye on is gillum leads statewide with all that vote in, the senate and the governor s race, 52/48. the numbers don t quite match up, but the margin there, 52/47. doing a little bit better there. head to head. that s what we ve got so far out of florida. big picture in florida. half the vote in. leading statewide in governor s race and senate race going county by county shows us why