let anyone know that if they have a boat, get people. our coverage of hurricane ian continues now with anderson cooper 360. the sheriff here in lee county told reporters about the afternoon destruction that is everywhere tonight. no words to describe what we saw and are seeing in the present tense, which is important to note, because this is an ongoing disaster in florida and potentially in coastal carolina. hurricane in yes, it is a hurricane again taste is taking ada. this is what it did to fort myers beach. is the most impressive storm ever to hit this part of florida. here is our first look at the area from above. it is far from the only look at the destruction that can be revealed from the air. in struct the barrier islands hard severing the bridge to pine island, as you can see here, along with the santa bell causeway which is impassable tonight. it also did considerable damage to marinas up and down the coast, pushing even larger boat around like toys. florida
trump still way ahead. we want to talk about state polling. this morning, the ajc has one. that was national polling. ajc has a new poll out this morning, georgia after everything that s gone on. after the mugshot and the booking and everything else. donald trump still enjoys a 42-point lead over ron desantis in the state of georgia. what convinces you, governor, that that dynamic changes over the next several months, that, somehow, voters who have stood by donald trump and, in fact, in some cases intensified their support as they bought his case that he s a martyr and victim in all this, what changes that dynamic? i think what you re seeing right now. all of this stuff beforehand, willie, in terms of the impact that his conduct and the subsequent charges are going to have on the election have been hypothetical. now, people are going to see what they really mean. they re going to mean that a candidate can t be out there campaigning.
did is serious, but likely i m going to vote for him anyway. exactly. we spent a chunk of our at the ajc calling poll respondents who said that. they are worried about these charges. they think he did wrong when he called raffensperger and urged him to find exactly the amount of votes to overturn the defeat. at the same time, they re willing to support donald trump in the primary. that is going to be the difference here in be georgia. the atlanta journal constitution s greg bluestein, always plugged in. great to talk to you. we appreciate it. ken, let s put the calendar back up. put yourself in the shoes of a trump attorney navigating this. we have the trials. mix in the e. jean carroll defamation suit. the pyramid scheme, civil action suit january of next year. we re waiting to see where georgia falls in terms of starting the trial there. first of all, how did the
indications are that it will be trump again as the republican nominee. so in that hypothetical, let s say those poll numbers hold and trump sweeps through georgia and he is the gop standard bearer again. what do you think then happens for, like, governor kemp and secretary of state raffensperger who have opposed trump every step of the way in the last two odd years. would they fall in line and be good republican soldiers again, or would they try to keep him, as best they can, at arm s distance? that s an important question. not only have they opposed donald trump and rejected his efforts to overturn the election, they also could be star witnesses in the trial that could happen as early as next year here in georgia. look, they ve brian kemp, in particular, has said he will support whoever the nominee is. he s not said any kind words about donald trump, though. he even called him the loser of the debate last week because he refused to show up on stage. at the same time, i think he ll
guilty. not yet on the calendar, the election interference case in fulton county, georgia, where his former chief of staff mark meadows testified about this call from then president trump to georgia s secretary of state brad raffensperger. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state. reporter: meadows is pushing to move his case to federal court, which would mean jurors from outside atlanta, not just heavily democratic fulton county. all of it is spilling from the courtroom to the campaign trail, where the trump campaign says it s raised more than $7 million since his surrender last thursday, including selling campaign merchandise featuring mr. trump s mugshot. blayne alexander reporting there. let s bring in former u.s. attorney, senior fbi official, chuck rosenberg. chuck, good morning. great to see you. let s talk about that date. march the 4th, on the eve of