2024 gop president ial candidate delivered the state of the state address from the capital in tallahassee. The governor talked about the states population growth, the business sector and a state budget during his remarks before the legislature. This is 35 minutes. [applause] thank you so much. Great to see you all. You seem a little restless to start the year. Thank you so much mr. Speaker, madam president , members of the legislature and fellow citizens. 2024 is going to be a better year for the free statest of florida. [applause] now, this is somewhat of a unique start s to the legislatit session because every government building except this one is closed in tallahassee because of the weather and weve had a lot of weather move three northwest florida. We issued an executive orderue o declare a state of emergency and we do what we do in florida. We respond when those things happen so those just know the state of florida stands with you and we will handle whatever the fallout is from t
seemingly contradict walkers denial. you should know, msnbc s hasn t independently verify those documents. just for a second, look, if these allegations are true, walker s apoxsee is quite obvious. there s one rule for him, another for everyone else. but it is more than that. republicans response to this walker news illustrates a much deeper cancer that is been factoring the party. that is their religious hypocrisy. i want to pause here for a moment. look, we are not trying to demonize some of these actions as the right routinely test everyone else. be proportion isn t a problem unless you are forcing a woman to get an abortion. at the same time, the right routinely demonizes personal social issues in this country. you can condemn abortion in the lgbtq community, and then be surprised when the news media focuses on gop candidates who talked the talk, but don t walk the black. that brings me back to herschel walker. despite all of the scandals that he has hissed, his christian
you have trees that are down, you have a lot of hazards right now. we do anticipate a lot of the water will subside in some of the barrier islands and some of the coasts but some of those inland places of rivers and these inlets, you are likely to have standing water there throughout all of today and even in the days ahead, so that is a hazard and just please be aware that that is something that if you have weathered the storm to this point, going on doing and getting involved in that is totally not worth it and we want to minimise any harm to anybody as a result of what we are seeing right now in the streets. it s gonna be put to use, i don t think we ve seen in effort mobilise for this minutes rate rescues this quickly, but we appreciate and we will make good use of it. we want people to be safe, those people who are in need of life supports, health is on the way help. they are able to see the areas that were hardest hit, and they are focusing assets there. obviously the
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
Everyone. Welcome to cnn this morning. Im amara walker. Im omar jimenez in for victor blackwell. You woke up, youre here. You didnt scare me off. It was intimidating but we made it. We want to start with, look, we have a lot to talk about. Lawmakers getting ready to return to capitol hill. Will they be able to avoid a Government Shutdown . Plus, stranded in the desert. Tens of thousands of people stuck at the burning man festival in the Black Rock Desert after torrential rain in the area. They are being told to shelter in place and conserve food and water. And those scorching hot temperatures just wont let up. How hot its going to get if you are heading outside for labor day and when you could see relief. This week we will talk to an expert about the impact on the opioid crisis. Congress is getting ready to work and hit the ground running. Senators are back in d. C. On tuesday followed by the house the next week. Both chambers are facing a time crunch on a number of key issues. On octo