Right 6 00, a. M. On the east coast. A live look at clearwater, florida on the West Coast of florida as Hurricane Helene barrels through the gulf of mexico, gaining more and more strength through the day today. Good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us. The latest update from the national hurricane center, just a short time ago shows helene is getting stronger now with 90 mile an hour winds the storm though, expected to get much stronger than that. Helene is forecast to arrive as a major hurricane along floridas Big Bend later this evening, bringing lifethreatening Storm Surge and catastrophic winds widespread Power Outages are also expected. Recovery teams already mobilizing across the state to get the lights back on once the storm passes many people will lose power depending on where you are in the state. So just prepare, be prepared for that understand that Thats Something that could happen and have a plan in place. So youre able to whether that alrigh
A category 4 storm today. We are live on the ground in the Sunshine State. Carley and mayor Eric Adams facing calls to resign after being indicted by a Federal Grand Jury and we are expected it to be unsealed later this morning. Todd former first Lady Melania Trump joining Fox And Friends since the Assassination Attempt s targeting her husband. I saw it on Television And I c called again and he was okay because Secret Service were great. I think both of the events, they were really miracles. Todd ainsley will be here live with more from her exclusive interview. This is a wildly busy thursday mor morning, im todd piro. Carley im carley shimkus. Hurricane helena is expected to crash into the big Bend Coast by this evening. Storm surge warnings are in place for most of the states West Coast and officials warn the surge could be lifethreatening. Janice dean joins us. Janice not a lot of time. 5 00 a. M. Advisory, 90 mile per hour sustained wind, we are expecting this to be a category three
And 51 days to go until the election, a new poll shows a still tight race with the Vice President at 52 of likely voters while the former president stands at 46 . Now the issues, the Vice Th president leads on abortion, healthcare, and protecting democracy. While trump leads on immigration, the economy and inflation. Supporters from both sides talking about the economy on g the Sunday Talk shows. Look, i think hes always better off talking about the issues that really impacted american, and i think the economy is always the most important thing these things are the things i think are the Bread And Butter that he should be talking about. She should talk about strengthening Social Security, lowering prices by having more competition. I think shes got a very compelling economic agenda. Meanwhile, gop Vice President ial nominee Jd Vance on a number of sunday shows doubling down on the baseless claims of migrants eating Pets S in his Home State of ohio amid threats to the community. First o
Health to the amateurs. Choose doctors preferred im meteorologists Elisa Rafah on jekyll island, georgia, and this is cnn youre in the Cnn Newsroom. Im Jessica Dean in new york. And Tonight Id growing tensions in israel has spilled out into the streets. Heated and passionate protests seen across the country earlier tonight there in Tel Aviv organized theres estimating 550,000 people taking to the streets and these protesters are demanding prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reach a Ceasefire And Hostage deal with hamas. The countrys largest Labor Union is joining that fight, vowing a nationwide general strike tomorrow. And the mounting anger coming after the tragic news. The idf recovered the bodies of six hostages including an american from a tunnel in Southern Gaza the israeli Health Ministry thank all six of these hostages were killed by short range shots, likely sometime between thursday and friday of this week as the idf was closing in cnns Nic Robertson is joining us live from Tel
We need to go big. And if we waste some money now, we waste some money. Absolutely we have too many people hurting and the economy is going to sputter and weve got to get ourselves out of this mess. And this is the way we need to go right now. Let me tell you something, that man has a future in Northwest Florida politics. I like him. Or West Virginia. Mika, thats interesting. Thats from the republican governor of a state that donald trump got 69 in. Jim justice, governor of West Virginia, urging congress to go big on covid19 relief. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, february 2nd. We have columnist and Associate Editor for the Washington Post, david ignatius. Back with us, capitol hill correspondent and host of way too early, kasie hunt. And it seems more and more likely that democrats will push through the Biden Administrations nearly 2 trillion Economic Relief package with or without republicans. The president met with a group of Senate Republicans for about two hou