they re great people, beautiful state. you know about their football team? bill: a little bit. dana: governor desantis will give a update any moment now and bring it live. florida is bracing for what could be a once in a century storm. bill: the current storm track shows landfall sometime on thursday, maybe in tampa. if that were a direct hit, it would be the first major storm to hit tampa in more than 100 years. dana: forecasters are predicting storm sturge. people are boarding up homes and businesses. the amount of water may simply be too much to overcome. bill: here is what we know. governor desantis declared a state of emergency. tampa s international airport will shut down at 5:00 east coast time. dana: evacuation orders affecting hundreds of thousands of people. folks there say supplies are running low. shelves are totally empty. people are starting to panic. it is crazy now. people are crazy, all the flights are insane. there is no flights. i would ho
on the asteroid. i was telling alex before when we were talking about this, when i kept hearing this incredible story yesterday about smashing into the asteroid, come on, what was i thinking. i was thinking aerosmith i don t want to miss a thing, hear the news story i don t want to close my eyes it was incredible. willie, stop him. a sappy summer movie. they tried to do this last night. you got bruce. you throw affleck in there, mika, if you don t know what we re talking about, this was a huge movie 25 years ago, with the plausible plot they trained oil drillers in a matter of days to become nasa astronauts and effectively do what we saw yesterday in real life, they knocked a rocket with a ship the size of a refrigerator, they knocked an asteroid off its course yesterday, nasa did this in real life. no liv tyler, now they know if something is barrelling toward earth, they have a decent chance of knocking it away. scientifically, the movie, i don t think it w
forecasters expect ian to intensify into a major hurricane in the next 24 hours before it makes landfall somewhere along florida s west coast. ian poses a formidable storm surge threat for the tampa area. let s begin with chad myers, he has the latest hurricane center advisory. and chad, something that i found interesting here, officials were saying there is a higher than usual unpredict ability about how strong this storm will be and where it is going to land. true. and i think we re getting we re anxious. we want this to be perfect. we want all of the models to line up and say this is what is going to happen and that hasn t happened. a few models on the right and the left, not really agreeing. so an 80 mile per hour storm at the 11:00 advisory two minutes ago. the storm does move across cuba overnight and into the southwestern part of florida with winds and waves already on shore by 8:00 wednesday morning. there will already be wind. but the storm is still growing. wher
into focus. crime, education, abortion on the ballot. top concern for voters by a long shot as the economy and republicans have the edge. the poll shows more voters trust the gop to handle the economy. republicans are up double digits on crime and inflation. bill: the republican plan to address the issues drawing criticism from democrats. republicans dismiss it as a desperate attempt to deflect. democrats have no plan. this he are attacking us because they have created crises across the country. if they weren t worried about the commitment to america they wouldn t be talking about it so much. they re talking about it because they know it s bad. bill: mark meredith kicks off a new week. we ll hear a lot about the economy between now and november. the white house says it doesn t view what happens on wall street as the main indicator how the u.s. economy is faring overall. americans are worried about 401k, investment and savings. 74% of voters believe the stater po
jeremy diamond joins me from the white house. what is on the president s agenda today? reporter: president biden is still at camp david this morning but he will be returning to the white house to host military families for a bar be becue and celebration. the president saying the fourth of july is a sacred holiday, sacred day in our country. make no mistake, our best days still lie ahead. at the same time president biden is dealing with messaging on the current state of the country and the current state of the economy with high inflation and high gas prices which many americans are being reminded this weekend as they hit the roads for the fourth of july weekend. the president oaf the weekend taking to twitter to encourage and push gas station companies to lower the price at the pump. to make sure, in his word, bring down the price you re charging at the pump to reflect the cost you re paying for the product and do it now. that earned the president some backlash with some, in