Right now theres widespread devastation, and an urgent search for survivors. The storm decimated towns with historic flooding washing out bridges and roads, and leaving some neighborhoods completely under water. Take a look at asheville, North Carolina, where homes and trucks were swept away by Raging Waters that have turned roads into rivers. At this hour, more than 2 Million people across the south are without power, hundreds are still unaccounted for. Well have live Team Coverage from across three states this morning. Joining us now, nbcs reporter, florida was the first place the Storm Hit. What are you seeing there . And im seeing George Solis there, who we will have on shortly. There is guad, also with us priscilla thomson. Guad, lets begin with you. Reporter total destruction in this area. So we are on treasure island. This is one of the islands on what they call the barrier islands, furthest west from the Tampa Bay Area, and i dont even know where to start here. So, the sand you
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very good monday morning to you, i m jim sciutto. and i m erica hill. overnight president joe biden arriving in mexico this ahead of his one-on-one meeting with mexican president obrador this afternoon. the president also making a brief visit, it is his first since taking office to the u.s. southern border on sunday where he spoke with border enforcement in el paso, talking about the rising surge of migrants and the growing fentanyl crisis. plus in brazil a spectacle all too, sadly, familiar here in the u.s. after false stolen election claims, supporters of brazil s former president bolsonaro laid siege to the capital. they smashed windows, clashed with police, they broke into congress, the presidential palace and the supreme court. officials say at least 400 people have been arrested. sadly familiar images there. in washington kevin mccarthy now face has critical test after finally being elected speaker of the house, a major vote expected today on the rules package tha
president, a terrifying and very familiar scene out of brazil. supporters of former brazilian president jair bolsonaro who attacked the countries congress over the result of their presidential election, they ve been climbing on top of its roof, breaking the glass and a windows and crowds of demonstrators also gathered outside at the supreme court and the presidential palace. where is bolsonaro right now? he is thousands of miles away soaking it up in orlando, florida. he has yet to comment on these riots back home. let s bring in ap result news director david miller. david, the images we ve seen today, they look a lot like january the 6th 2021 here in d.c.. what went on there today? what is the latest? they look a lot like january 6th. we ve been warning that this, or something like this, it could happen for a long time, jair bolsonaro sowed doubts about the election results for a long period, the voting system was susceptible to fraud and many of supporters came to believe
the house voted in a nighttime session tonight to adjourn until noon eastern tomorrow. still don t know why 9 am wasn t a possibility, more now with day three of trying to get speaker, that s fine. we re gonna go into a second and third day tomorrow about this very issue, of course, republican leader, kevin mccarthy, has been enduring a c series of stinging defeats. now losing a total of six rounds of voting. in his attempt to become speaker of the house. he is saying tonight, well there s no deal yet, the emphasis on yet, there s a lot of progress that has been made in talks with some of the holdouts to end the ongoing impasse. it s possibly now paved the way for him to become the speaker. of course, it seems to be far from certain, knowing that there seems to be at least 20 who have not budged in many a vote at this point. his most strident opponents are vowing again tonight, they are going to block his bid. i want to go now to cnn s melanie zanona who s on capitol hill