more than a dozen states. that includes some of the most critical battlegrounds on the board, pennsylvania, florida, wisconsin, just over the last couple of days, ohio, arizona, and a georgia early voting set to begin this coming monday. it is the peach state where we start tonight with our breaking news. a head to head televised showdown this evening between democratic senator raphael warnock, and his republican challenger, herschel walker. all year, the georgia senate race has been one of the most closely watched in the country, but that has been even more true that ever over the last ten days. it began with that reporting first from the daily beast by the new york times, that walker had pushed for and paid for his then girlfriend to have an abortion in 2009, a charge that walker has denied. since that reporting, this has become the question when it comes to the battle for control of the senate. will it cost walker the voters? if it does, will it cost republicans a seat the
running out. governor ron desantis declared a state of emergency for all 67 florida counties. six of them now under mandatory evacuation orders. live just a short time ago desantis gave this warning. the impacts will be far, far broader than just where the eye of the storm happens to make landfall. in some areas, there will be catastrophic flooding and life-sleetening storm surge. you don t want to put yourself in harm s way unnecessarily. and doesn t mean you need to go across god s creation to evacuate. just get to the higher ground, get into a safe structure. harris: fox weather and fox news reporters are stationed across the state of florida. we re tracking the storm 24/7 to keep you continuously updated. fox weather s nicole valdez reporting live from tampa. nicole. good morning. mandatory evacuations have been expanded for the tampa bay area and additional 90,000 people are now being told it is time to get out. that as we watch home and business owners put plywood
aide move boxes of documents at trump s request this happened for the fbi search, he the t is hot, i want to focus on january 6th. something that became abundantly clear during the committees file a public hearing is that the la-z-boy was to capital get sacked on tv, probably in an actual la-z-boy, he completely advocated his duties as president. listen, we saw we had a commander-in-chief and that. they heard a name was nancy pelosi. i have something to say, mister secretary i am going to call the mayor of washington d.c. right now and see what other departments have said. and also, that we can deliver the good news that you are now going to, instead of blocking the national guard it is still not safe enough for us to go back and they are still trying to penetrate the building. it is not a safe thing because we are trying to figure out how we can get this job done. i worry about you being at the capitol. i am not capital building, i am literally standing in the capitol
it isn t just because opec plans to cut oil production. more on the refinery issues in the u.s. that are also contributing. and what we just heard from the president. also this morning, we re following the growing scrutiny of hershel walker scrambling to respond to another bombshell just 33 days out from the midterms. the daily beast reports that the staunchly antiabortion former football star not only urged a woman to have an abortion in 2009, but he also had a child with her, casting doubt on his insistence that he doesn t know who she is. it s a story nbc news has not confirmed and one that walker is also denying saying overnight, quote, there s no truth to this or any other daily beast report. now he s out with a brand-new ad about his mental health battle. we ll talk about that and the rest of the story with the daily beast reporter who broke it all. that s where we start today. yamiche alcindor is in georgia. also joining us, the daily beast reporter who broke the sto
and hurricane irma, which veered at the last second. businesses are putting plywood up on windows. this is an ice cream shot trying to inject some levity, no ice cream for ian. sandbags are on the ground to prevent flooding. that s small potatoes in terms of mandatory evacuations. pinellas county and hillsborough county have about 2.5 million people collectively. the whole tampa bay area is 3.2. 75%, 08% of the people are in two counties that have mandatory evacuations. they re looking to move a million-plus people. that process started last night, 2:00 for hillsborough, 6:00 for pinellas. but you ll see the biggest chunks of people fry trying to get out today. the topography of this area, there are bays and inlets, barrier reefs, the bay on one side, the gulf on the other. the water has nowhere to go. storm surge right now certainly the biggest concern as the projections are between 5 and ten feet. for historical context, the last time a major hurricane struck tampa direct