zone, particularly in the southwest florida counties, your time to evacuate is coming to an end. you need to evacuate now. a life threatening category 4 storm headed right towards florida. i m john berman live in tampa this morning. brianna keilar is in washington and that is the news from overnight. hurricane ian strength jentd to a category 4 storm with sustained winds of 140 miles per hour. wind gusts of 165 miles per hour. the storm forecast has adjusted somewhat south of where i am in tampa headed right towards the fort myers area in florida about 100 miles south of here, but the threat to florida is enormous. more than 2 1/2 million people under some sort of evacuation order. yes, the wind speed is a serious threat now, a category 4 storm. storm surge where i am in tampa, they could see storm surge of 6 feet which would put the water pretty much right where i m stand going it hit the maximum levels down towards where the storm is expected to make landfall. they could
brian: sickening, no one who wants to talk about it making sure you pay attention to it despite claims from the white house that few americans were stranded in afghanistan last month. the pentagon confirming more than 400 u.s. citizens have been left behind. nearly 200 of them want out immediately. i m sure the numbers are higher. our next guest served on the frontlines war on terror as elite navy seal teams running for congress. their service not done. navy seal commander former interior secretary ryan zinke running for montana s second district. luttrell served multiple tours in iraq and afghanistan. represent the 8 congressional district replaced congressman brady. retired seal sniper brady duke is here running for florida s seventh congressional district retired navy seal. derrick van orden wants to represent wisconsin third congressional district almost won last time. eli crane remarkable entrepreneur. they join us now to react from the new numbers from the chaotic
stationed there to about 8,600. this is the president s second trip to visit troops in a combat zone, traveling to iraq last christmas. but this mission comes amid controversy at the pentagon, after the president intervened on behalf of a navy s.e.a.l. at the center of a war crimes case. the navy secretary forced out after president trump refused to allow top leadership to strip edward gallagher of his elite navy s.e.a.l. status. in the washington post , ousted navy secretary richard spencer calling it a, quote, shocking and unprecedented intervention. saying, the president has very little understanding of what it means to be in the military, to fight ethically or to be governed by a uniform set of rules and practices. but today, president trump eager to show off his military support. the president all smiles as he served thanksgiving dinner, joking about missing out on his own helping. i never got to my turkey. it s the first time in
insularity. are you asking for a bribe? reporter: attorneys for huffman write, she is remorseful, indeed, deeply ashamed about what she did. her attorneys requesting she be punished with one year probation, 250 hours of community service plus a $20,000 fine. her husband william h. macy and her former desperate housewives costar eva longoria writing in her support. adrienne bankert with us from california tonight. we know that felicity huffman will find out if she has to serve prison time in the coming days? reporter: that is correct. sentencing set for the same time next week. she s the first of dozens of parents charged in the allege scam. scheduled to be sentenced lori loughlin is set to go to trial. we re going to turn to pentagon and word that the elite navy s.e.a.l. team seven have
officials we talked to had never heard of this happening before, that top three members of an elite navy s.e.a.l. team being fired for a loss of confidence by their boss. i hear you on how rare this is. this is just the latest incident involving the navy s.e.a.l.s. that s right. there have been real concerns in the navy s.e.a.l. community and wider special operations community, but specifically in the navy s.e.a.l. community, they sent a memo recently talking about what they perceived as a series of ethical failures and lapses. members of s.e.a.l. team 10 were accused of cocaine use. eddie gallagher on trial for actions in iraq. some of these instances have come together and created a real concern among leadership in the navy s.e.a.l. there are some ethical breakdowns. they issued a memo ordering the subordinates to carry out a series of changes, reviews, implementing tighter standards, more regulations. everything from uniforms to haircuts to disciplinary measures. these things ha