t minus 15. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, ignition. full power. and liftoff. go crew 5. stage one alpha. copy, one alpha. equal is pitching down range. stage one propulsion is nominal. nominal power and telemetry. stage one throttle down. stage one throttle up. stage one bravo. copy, one bravo. you have seen the space launch. tom costello is is standing by. it looked like it was picture perfect. spacex is pulling it off. this is crew 5 on board. four astronauts, including one russian cosmonaut on their way to the international space station. this is the sixth spacex flight. as we look at all things are perfect. the crew members here are the commander [ no audio ] the first female native american ever to go into space. we have got anna, the first russian to go on an american spacecraft in 20 years and russia s only female cosmonaut. we have the pilot and a japanese astronaut on his way to the station. this is going to be a five-month mission. they are go
said about how they are preparing in case china attacks. in just two hours, spacex will launch a spacecraft with five astronauts to the international space station. we ll take you live to the kennedy space center and explain the significance of this historic mission. we begin with our top story this morning. this hour president biden and the first lady will head to florida where crews are working around the clock doing door to door searches in neighborhoods hardest hit by hurricane ian seven days after this monster storm battered the gulf coast. and these communities, particularly those outside of major cities, are still suffering. they are saying they have no power, no water, no food and help is not getting to them like it did in the past. this is the scenario many florida residents are dealing with right now. at least 105 people have lost their lives in the wake of this storm. the sheriff says crews are more likely to the recovery phase. heartbreaking development for
no one is perfect. i even said at a meeting, i m a sinner. we all sin before the dploir of god. but every day i pray to god to let me do his will. that s the reason i m in this race right now. when i see people getting hurt on the street, the crime going on, i see the crime like nobody wanting to hold anybody accountable for. plus president biden and the first lady just arrived in florida. they will get a firsthand look at what s left of that city. reeling from hurricane ian s direct hit one week ago. the death toll from the storm is now at 112, half of those happening in lee county, where fort myers is located. and finally, former president trump now asking the supreme court to step in to negotiate the fight over classified tmts found at his home in florida. could it be a winning legal strategy or another tactic to delay the doj s investigation as long as possible? we re going to dig deeper into that in just a moment. i want to bring in washington correspondent yamiche a
welcome to the beat. i m katie fang, in for ari melber. we begin with the disturbing, violent rhetoric that s surging on the far right about a quote civil war. the new york times reporting, talk of civil war ignited by the mar-a-lago search, is flaring online. that search happened on august 8th. just hours after trump made the search public, mentions of civil war on twitter spiked a whopping 3,000%. the times says similar spikes happened on facebook, reddit, parlor, gab, and truth social. of course, some trump allies are fanning the flames. at a campaign event in arizona, michael flynn talked about governors declaring war. states rights, did you know that a governor can declare war? a governor can declare war, okay? and we re going to probably see that. that comes after margorie taylor greene said this at a trump rally in michigan. i m not going to mince words with you all. democrats won t republicans dead, and they ve already started the killing. when joe biden g
forces working against him and his allies. concerns are mounting that we could see more than mere spikes of violence as we near the midterm elections. a motley crop of trump acolytes are running on the ticket in states across the country. it includes, and this is by no means a comprehensive list, election deniers, covid vaccine skeptics, a celebrity doctor pedaling quack medical cures and a former football star under fire for allegedly paying for a girlfriend s abortion while advocating for a near total ban on abortion. this is one of the great tricks that i think the sexual revolution pulled on the american populous, this idea, okay, these marriages were fundamental, you know, they were maybe even violent but certainly they were unhappy. and so getting rid of them and making it easier for people to shift spouses like they change their underwear, that s going to make people happy in the long term. 250,000 illegals cross this boarder every month. this is an invasion. i p