storm in florida s history. right now, more than 1.2 million people are still without power. duke energy, which provides flower power to central florida, says it could be days until it s restored. here is ron desantis earlier today, on the latest efforts. over the last 72 hours, there have been over 1100 confirmed rescues made by first responders and likely many more than that and those are the reported ones as of 6:00 this morning. we have called in the army corps of engineers at the request of the counties to help with the damage to the water system, and i know that some of this is lee county water utility. some of it may be the platinum line as the core is working with all of those groups. they are meeting again today to figure out what the best ways to go forward. clearly, having those core services, like the water and like the electrical, are really top priorities after the life rescue mission. one of the most hard-hit cities and florida was fort myers. check out thi
are questions from the state legislature about the potential misuse of state funds. let s start with the civil suit. that s coming from a legal group representing more than 30 of the asylum seekers, fiemg a claim against governor ron desantis and other state officials saying that the migrants experienced, quote, cruelty akin to what they fled in their home country of venezuela. it claims florida officials manipulated them, stripped them of their dignity, deprived them of their liberty, bodily autonom autonomy due process under the law. that s what they claim. basically they say desantis lied. and their lawyers are looking into these brochures used to entice those seeking a better life to travel under the guise that resettlement support was available to them. the governor keeps insisting the asylum seekers knew what they were signing up for. it was all voluntary and he claimed the humane thing to do. those migrants were being treated horribly by biden. they were hungry, home
you. i m mehdi hasan. just like daylight saving time, showtime this sunday. special addition of the mehdi hasan show. alicia melendez she will be with you from 7 pm eastern for a special two hour look at the math dash to election day. that is where we begin this hour, with the question of whether american democracy will and/or. in two days time, the biggest test yet of this great american experiment, if you think election day is just about the next two years, think again. also tonight, young voters, there are 8 million new eligible voters this time around. joins may live tonight to talk reproductive rights and why it is nonsense to say this election is pitted between abortion and the economy. nothing short of a national emergency. good evening. i m mehdi hasan. this is a perilous and precarious time for american democracy. the future is on the ballot in these critical midterm elections. over the weekend in key swing states like wisconsin, the final early voters were cutti
handed over to sara sidner. a special master basically telling team trump, put up or shut up. he is not buying maybe he did it, maybe he didn t dance over declassification, and raymond dearie calling trump s bluff pointing out that his lawyers haven t given any proof that documents were declassified. and saying that if they don t make that case, but he is going to determine that there are classified. this may not be going the way that they hoped when they ask for him to be the special master. the doj is suggesting, and it may go all the way to the supreme court, to carve out about 100 documents marked classified from the special master s review. and there is the return of the january six committee. their next hearing set for september 28th at 1 pm, with new video of what happened on the day the seat of our democracy was attacked. and witness testimony that has not been used another hearings. and chairman bennie thompson is hinting that it may not be the last time that we hear
gathered here in new york for this united nations general assembly talking about the death and destruction russia caused in ukraine and wants action, specifically that court dedicated and created by the united nations dedicated to punishing russia and holding them accountable and also he wants russia to be denied its veto vote it has right now on the united nations security council. special should be created to punish russia for the crime against our state. this will become signal to all would-be aggressors that they must value peace or be brought to responsibility by the world. reporter: and, wolf, those are comments president zelenskyy made just a few hours after president biden himself spoke. he stopped short of calling for russia to be expelled from that security council where they have used the power of that veto vote to block action when it comes to russia s own actions and when it comes to ukraine though he did issue his own warning message. you cannot seize a na