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
rachel: that s rick. he is making tortillas. these are the aoc style, the ones she wants us, to way she wants us to make it. look at that, he s making to have tee a yas. tortillas. that s my tortilla press, by the way, i brought it in today. people might not know this about rick, he is an excellent cook that specializes many mexican cooking. pete: this is a fact. rachel: he s amazing. pete: he is. let s see what he can do in the green room on a hot plate. rachel: we had that big debate about corn or flour. he s making fresh tortillas for us. pete: you said you can t make electric stove tortillas. i prefer to heat hem over a flame. you have to make them like that when they re fresh on a skillet, but if you want to reheat them, they re nice over a flame. but the point i think you guys said you chose flour over corn. let s see if you try fresh corn tortillas, if you peel the same, because that s what rick is making. will: if i want a straight taco, it s a corn tortilla. if
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that s a quote. they view it as part of their territory. that s why it s a big deal. will ripley is there. tell us about what you re learning. so i ll start with the response because that s the new information we re getting from the chinese side. they have actually put out a map showing a number of different military exercises that are going to be happening at various locations that encircle the island of taiwan. some of these locations are very close to the shore line of taiwan. so we don t know exactly details yet about what these military exercises are going to entail, but theoretically, if they re loud enough, there could be some people living in taiwan along the coastline who can actually hear the sounds of this. and that will be incredibly escalatory and exactly the kind of point that beijing is trying to make to express their fury over nancy pelosi visiting home to 25 million people who elected their president, a president beijing does not feel is legitimate. he does
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