watching and covering not the speculation but the facts. katie benner, shannon mccaffrey, barb mcquade, ladies, i take you. you know my absolute favorite way to start this hour is with a group of brilliant women. and what you did that for us. when we come back, president biden making big moves to try to save americans money on prescription drugs. we are going to compare that with the republican front runner is up to. robert gibbs and matthew dowd are here, and later, we are following hurricane idalia as it takes aim at florida s gulf coast. the latest forecast says the storm is expected to be extremely dangerous, a category four hurricane at landfall. we re gonna have the latest on this track and how people in its path are getting ready. the 11th hour just getting underway, on a very important tuesday night. tuesday night. (smelling) ew. gotta get rid of this. tell me why because it stinks. have you tried downy rinse and refresh it helps remove odors 3x better than detergent alone.
question. he will not be able to talk about it, especially if they were interviewing somebody about an act of an ongoing investigation the dealt with some kind of conduct in the previous administration. and they re going to hit him with questions about hunter biden. so it will be a contentious hearing. this issue that we re discussing right now is going to probably take main stage. we will certainly be watching and covering not the speculation but the facts. katie benner, shannon mccaffrey, barb mcquade, ladies, i take you. you know my absolute favorite way to start this hour is with a group of brilliant women. and what you did that for us. when we come back, president biden making big moves to try to save americans money on prescription drugs. we are going to compare that with the republican front runner is up to. robert gibbs and matthew dowd are here, and later, we are following hurricane idalia as it takes aim at florida s gulf coast. the latest forecast says the storm is expecte
mandatory evacuation this morning for all those residents that meet that classification in that order. and we just want everybody to really get to a shelter or evacuate out of the state or with family that has a strong are more solidified home, definitely not in a mobile home or camper, something like that. mandy, we hear the warnings to evacuate, but for those who choose not to, what should they be doing? absolutely, so our the dixie county sheriff office along with florida highway patrol just started going out knocking door to door this morning in the coastal communities and giving them the evacuation order and talking to them about where the shelters is and stuff. and if they choose to stay, they are actually writing down their names an address and how many people is in the homes so that way here in the operations center when the storm passes and
coast of florida right now that are under hurricane warnings and at least 22 florida counties that have issued some level of evacuation orders ahead of hurricane idalia. joining us live to discuss is the public information officer with dixie county emergency services. so dixie county is located in the northwest part of the state in the big bend region and has issued a a mandatory evacuation. mandy, we appreciate the time. good morning. we heard from governor desantis about 30 minutes ago and he talked about big bend specifically, he said that that area hasn t really had a hurricane strike in this area in a long time. these coastal areas are not been through this before. what are you most concerned about? yeah, absolutely. our last incident was back in 2016 with hermine where we had seen some storm surge but nothing of this magnitude. and back then, we had some major destruction to not only homes but, you know, commercial
coordinating, he have resource request we ve received has either been filled or will be filled by the end of this morning. we do have 420,000 gallons of fuel staged and ready to deploy and additional assets are expected over the next few days. and the gas stations that will be prioritized will be the ones along the heavy evacuation routes. we have 8 urban search and rescue teams activated and over 580 rescue personnel ready right now. we have delivered 431 pallets of water, 303 pallets of mre and over 1200 tarps to communities that may be impacted. we have more water and mres ready to be deployed as needed. there are over 20 shelters open and additional 20 special needs shelters are mobilizing or on standby throughout the state of florida. we have 5500 national guardsmen that have been activated. we have deployed 247 starlinks