category 4 storm leaving a huge path of destruction and millions in the dark this morning. we ll have a live report in just a moment. meanwhile, rescue crews have been busy trying to get people who decided to ride out the storm to try and save them. they re stranded now by rising flood waters and we re still tracking ian as it slowly makes its way across florida. at this hour, it still has more to go. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it s thursday, september 29th. joe is off this morning. along with willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. without power this morning, first light this morning will begin to show the damage in florida. that s right. that s when we re going to start to see the story of what happened last night, what happened overnight. tropical storm now ian downgraded from a category 1 hurricane. in just the last hour, but still wreaking havoc across florida as it made landfall as a
it will severely impact millions of people and put the barrier island communities completely under water. joining me this hour, the acting director of the national hurricane center to update the track of the storm. i will talk to mayors up and down the coast as ian comes onshore. let s go to our meteorologist with the latest on the hurricane s path. what are you seeing from the latest updates? with each update, the conditions continue to grow dire. right now, we are seeing lots of rain and strong winds moving into ft. myers. if you look at the latest trajectory, we have this making landfall as a mjor hurricane, a strong category 4, 155 miles per hour winds. once you are in 157, you are in cat 5. they are seeing strong winds move into areas. streets are under water. i want to note that it s not until the center of the eye makes landfall that we call it a landfall. we are anticipating within the next three to four hours this will make landfall just outside of ft. myers and so
the election cycle. you are watching fox and friends first s, i m carley shimkus. todd: i m todd piro. 500,000 people have cast their votes and in 2018, only jacky. jackie: with just two weeks until the midterm, candidates in three races will square off on the debate stage tonight. in pennsylvania, senate hop hopefuls, john fetterman and mehmet oz will meet in their only debate. polls show john fetterman with a two-point advantage over the republican nominee, democrat team is tempering expectation lgs saying let s be clear about this match up, dr. oz has been a professional tv personality for two decades. we ll admit this is not john s format, look at the primary earlier this year, oz clearly comes into tuesday night with a huge built-in advantage. as he s done in recent press interviews after suffering a stroke, fetterman will use clclose captioning and dr. oz believes john fetterman s thoughts do not match with that of the people of pennsylvania. his goal would be
across the country. i m fredricka whitfield. thanks so much for being with me today. jim acosta is next. you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with new details on president biden s classified documents saga. the president s special counsel confirming that several additional pages with classified material were discovered at biden s wilmington home thursday evening. the documents in addition to ten documents discovered in a biden affiliated think tank. a small closet to the left of biden s desk and storage spaces in the adowning conference room including top-secret material and dealt with matters involving ukraine, iran and the united kingdom. also a memo from biden to then president obama as well as two briefing memos prepared for biden s phone calls with british prime minister and president of the european council. all under investigation. arlette saenz has more. what more can you tell us? reporter: jim, so many twists and turns in th
country are waiting for a court decision that could change their lives and put them at risk of deportation. there are fears an appeals court could rule daca illegal. also this hour, we ll get the latest from cain ukraine, where forces have broken through from the south pushing russians. moscow claims it has annexed. a new report details systemic abuse within the women s national soccer league. we begin with our top story this morning. in florida where right now it is a race against time. for first responders to rescue people in hard-hit communities in the wake of hurricane ian, six days after this monster storm decimated the gulf coast. and while some have lost everything they own, others are expressing gratitude for their safety. my colleague kerry sanders spoke to a woman who is relieved to find her father alive in the wake of the devastation. there s no words. the destruction is mind bog thing, but just know that our loved ones are okay, that s most important thing