Good morning, everyone. We are so glad youre starting your morning with us. Good morning. Happy monday. Its good to be back. A lot of news. A lot of news to get to, so lets get started with five things to know this monday, august 14th. Breaking overnight, 96, that is the death count so far from the hawaii wildfires and only 3 of the Disaster Area has been searched. The governor calling it a Fire Hurricane. It spread faster than a mile a minute, and now a new lawsuit against the states main electric provide r. Hours from now the Fulton County District Attorney is expected to present her case to the grand jury in the Georgia Election subversion case. This means a potential fourth indictment looms over former President Trump. Cnn learns exclusively about key evidence obtained by prosecutors. And a home explodes outside of pittsburgh killing five. Gas systems were operating as designed, according to officials, who say it could take months to figure out what happened. A new serious concern
and water is rising. were you looking at the screen? just some of the scenes as hurricane ian made a devastating land fall in southwestern florida. the category 4 storm left a large path of destruction and millions in the dark this morning. we ll have a live report for you. rescue crews are busy trying to get to people who decided to ride out the storm and were then stranded by rising floodwaters. and we re still tracking ian as it slowly makes its way across florida at this hour. welcome to way too early on this thursday, september 29th. thank for starting your day with us. it made land fall as a category storm. there is widespread flooding and damage as the powerful storm batters the state with torrential rain and wind. more than two million people are without power across florida. in naples, authorities said that more than half of the streets were not passable. this video released by the naples fire department shows a power line bursting into flames as the hurrican
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
roads have been impassable. you see the devastation. you see how difficult that is to be anywhere near. carrie sanders was actually in the storm as the eye was making landfall. there is the wind speed as i m standing next to building. i can just take a knee here. okay, you guys got it. i m going back up. this is really hard. you get the idea. that s power that s mother nature that s the power of mother nature and that s what citizens have been urged to evacuate for. the journalist you see have safety techniques as well as back up to try to deal with covering the safely. but appreciate their service. it is going to push to florida. it s just gonna come in here for a second. it is a slow-moving aspect, eight miles per hour they re bracing for two months worth of rain according to estimates that will come down in a matter of days. we it is live in naples, ali, what are you seeing in your report? outer bands, it is a dirty end of the storm. obviously, this part hit us. a
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