destruction in its wake. governor ron desantis says more than 1,600 rescues have been made so far. after the storm turned roads into rivers, destroyed or damaged thousands of buildings and homes, leaving some coastal communities just unrecognizable. that s right. and right now nearly 600,000 homes and businesses are still this morning without power in florida. some floridians still have no clean water. officials say they are only now beginning to really assess the full scope of the damage. in lee county where more than 42 people died as a result of the hurricane, that is more than half of the deaths from hurricane ian, officials in that county are defending their actions after facing quite a bit of criticism over the evacuation timeline there. critics are asking where mandatory evacuations were not issued in lee county until one day before ian s landfall. while surrounding counties had already been told to evacuate prior. our reporters, correspondents, are all standing by t
plus an explosion kills the daughter of a key ally of vladimir putin. raising questions about whether the ally himself was the target. in confusion reigns as florida school year starts with the don t say gay bill in full force. we will have a live report ahead. next hour, the two democratic candidates hoping to unseat governor ron desantis. the man behind that bill, it will join me live. nikki frieden charlie crist ahead of their tuesday showdown. you don t want to miss this. we re going to begin in georgia this hour way circuit court of appeals. a short time ago, temporarily blocked senator lindsey graham from having to testify before a fulton county special grand jury on tuesday. this blocking comes just two days after a judge had denied graham s attempt to delay the testimony. fulton county district attorney fani willis whose investigating possible election interference in georgia during the 2020 race wants to question graham about the calls he made to georgia secretary of
. will: there is some beautiful pictures this morning of back to school amid the patriotic sunday morning on fox and friends. send in your photos to friends@foxnews.com. happy sunday to both of you. a lot of kids are not starting until next week. pete: still kids have not seen the inside of a school yet, that is true. the last sunday of summer. the last summer before football. pro football. i don t know how it went yesterday. i didn t watch any games. will: sleep is already, i woke up this morning, this will be a rough couple months. i did not go to bed on time. what time did you go to bed. will: it was 10ish, not good for me. because college football kicked off yesterday. yesterday was the big kick off. pete: big day for tight ends. rachel: hats off to you, pete. tighteneds. he brought up my comment. will: you said hats off to you, like getting a tightened award? [laughter] rachel: i don t know anything about that. hats off to you for your mullet. pete: apparently you c
that s how it starts. that s the very beginning. this was written by jeffrey berman who ran sdny in southern district of new york for half of trump s time in office. he was fired from that job at sdny and fired loudly in a way that made a difference. we ll have more on that in a second. that s important. but now since he is the former u.s. attorney, he has written this book. to put it in the public record how trump and his administration tried to force federal prosecutors to go after trump s political enemies to go after democrats, to help trump s allies. regardless of the law. regardless of the crimes committed or lack thereof. geoff berman was told to bring the prosecution before the midterm elections. told to do so because some republicans had been prosecuted and so now it was time to prosecute a democrat. he was told to even things out. berman refused to do it. he didn t bring that prosecution. so, yea rule of law for a second. what happened after geoff berman refused
we ll have much more on this latest action from the justice department. meanwhile, there s also progress this morning in the legal fight over the documents seized from mar-a-lago. the doj and donald trump s attorneys appear to be close to agreeing on a list of potential special masters for that case. and in ukraine, citizens and soldiers celebrating major gains against russian forces. but the latest intelligence from the pentagon says wart is far from over. the war is far from over. good morning. welcome to way too early on this tuesday, september 13th. thank you for starting your day with us. we ll begin with the widening criminal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. nbc news has confirmed that about 40 subpoenas were issued over the past week to people associated with former president donald trump. according to the new york times which first reported the news, former trump adviser is among those subpoenaed. his attorney has declined to comment.