keep coming. willie? yeah. start in florida, though, this hour, mika. millions of residents are bracing for hurricane ian as that powerful storm barrels towards the state getting stronger by the hour. just this morning it became a category 4 hurricane expected to make landfall in the southwest coast of florida as early as this afternoon. the center of the storm forecast to move over the central past of the state with winds reaching more than 130 miles per hour. the national hurricane center also warning of dangerous storm surge and flooding with up to 18 inches of rain expected in some areas. more than 2.5 million people under evacuation orders along parts of coastal florida. the powerful storm passed the florida keys last night causing a couple of tornadoes and some damage there. officials say there also is significant flooding across that area. yesterday the hurricane battered western cuba knocking outing the island s electrical grid, causing a nation-wide blackout. offic
into donald trump s conduct. mika, again, this is it s just so striking. you just have to stop yourself every once in a while. so striking you still don t have republicans aggressively calling out what happened on january the 6th. still spreading conspiracy theories as we saw a couple days ago. yes. trying to say that some guy was an fbi plant. again, just why would they want anything to do with it? conspiracy theories. again, beating the hell out of cops. again, these people are the same people saying put us in charge, because democrats aren t supportive enough of police officers? they re the ones beating up, their supporters are beating up police officers. these republicans are lying saying a bunch of tourists, talking mainly about house republicans, and they just want call these people out. they won t condemn them in the harshest terms, and you still
drugs, cheaper. prescription drugs. it has limits for lower-income folks. anybody earning $400,000 or less not paying a dime more. reduction on the deficit in it, but most importantly, it has really serious money as incentive for the deployment of renewables, for the manufacture of renewables, for deployment of electric vehicles, the infrastructure for it. this is a job creator. you hear that a lot in politics. people saying, it s going to this is a massive job creator and it s going to put the united states of america in a very strong position to be leading on a global basis. former secretary of state now u.s. special presidential envoy for climate, john kerry. we ve spared you discussion about the red sox. i heard it. thank you. i suffered through it. good to see you. mika? thank you, mr. secretary.
under evacuation orders. thousands in south florida have already lost power, and we are beginning to see flooding from storm surge in the florida keys. let s go straight to meteorologist michelle grossman for where everything stands right now. michelle? reporter: hey there, mika. unfortunately received a special update from hurricane hunters and saw the storm strengthen further. 155 mile-per-hour winds. geez. 2 miles away from a category 5 storm and hours away from a landfall. the latest with ian, a huge storm. not just in size but in power. again, we expect a landfall right around 2:00, 3:00 this afternoon. it s so close to the west coast of florida. 65 miles west-southwest of naples, florida, moving northeast at 9 miles per hour. starting to slow down. the forward speed as expected will slow down. we expect to do slow down three to four miles an hour. a walking pace.
keep coming. willie? yeah. start in florida, though, this hour, mika. millions of residents are bracing for hurricane ian as that powerful storm barrels towards the state getting stronger by the hour. just this morning it became a category 4 hurricane expected to make landfall in the southwest coast of florida as early as this afternoon. the center of the storm forecast to move over the central past of the state with winds reaching more than 130 miles per hour. the national hurricane center also warning of dangerous storm surge and flooding with up to 18 inches of rain expected in some areas. more than 2.5 million people under evacuation orders along parts of coastal florida. the powerful storm passed the florida keys last night causing a couple of tornadoes and some damage there. officials say there also is significant flooding across that area. yesterday the hurricane battered western cuba knocking outing the island s electrical grid, causing a nation-wide blackout. officials say t