and for some reason we welcome back mike baker. let s hope he can complete a sentence using only 50 ums in 24 groans. when you need a coherent thought and 24 hours, don t call him. all right. ever since joe biden s speech from the innermost circle of hell, i ve been think about the future of this country. not that he ate fiber before boarding the roller coaster at six flags. it s the extreme maga republican who apparently number in the dozens or perhaps millions. we really never get a head count on the threat. we are not even sure they have heads. the vagueness of the threat certainly is convenient mainly because it s hard to count something that doesn t really exist. unlike the persistent and violent crime we now experience everything the day across this country. oddly none of that is caused by people in red hats. extreme maga aren t like sheep. you can t count them to fall asleep because there s really not enough of them. for a democrat it s best never to know how truly big
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
fiona dealt a devastating blow to puerto rico. most of puerto rico without power this morning. it could be days before it is restored. many people there also have no running water. at least two deaths have been reported from the hurricane which dumped up to 30 inches of rain. emergency crews have rescued well over a thousand people including this woman who had to be carried to safety. many more may still be trapped in the flood waters. parts of the island, puerto rico we re talking about, are still struggling to recover from maria that made landfall five years ago today. let s go to layla santiago. what can you tell us? brianna, john, it has been continuing to rain this morning. these are the outer bands of fiona. we are in the northeastern part of the island, san juan. where a small portion of customers have actually had their power restored, but in the interior, in the southern part where we spent most of our time it s a different story. they are waking up without pow
helping a woman in the floodwaters. an official says 1,000 people have been rescued so far, and more resources are on their way from the u.s. mainland into puerto rico. an official now saying that some areas have seen record levels of water. more rainfall and rivers even higher than after hurricane maria. jennifer gray is standing by in the weather center for us, but first, let s go live to puerto rico and cnn s leyla santiago, and you re there on the ground. what are you seeing? well, we re in the northeastern part of the island, but i just got back from the southern part of the island, which was really hit hard, and i guess the story right now is that there are catastrophic floods. this has already taken an impact. and it is not over yet. i want to show you video and talk to you about what i saw. this was an area where the national guard had to rescue people overnight. i talked to the mayor. she said they have more than 2,000 families that have been impacted by this, and
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