is nothing compared to what southwest florida woke up to today. shreve seeflorida woke un house others carried away by brutal storm . carried away by brutal storm surge surge and debris, including cars ending up in bays. in some circumstances, the destruction is almost unimaginable. circumstance steve harrigan, by the grace of god , rode out the storm as close to the impact zoneow as anyone else. and tonight we find him inrigh placita, which is right acrossci the causeway connecting i the barrier island of bocasl grande. steve , you ve seen some justrii horrific destruction.de what can youstruct telion, whatc how the search and rescue attempts areue unfolding in the dark? there? ar they are going on . they are continuous. h they ve carried ouavt more than seven hundred rescues and they really got started just aftether 1:00 o clock in the morning.as o as soon as the winds die down belomow forty miles per hour, they were out there really risking their lives to try to save
did not get the merry christmas citizens wanted this year. for some , it was a downright scary christmas. there were many cities where santa stayed in the air. he was afraid of getting sleigh jacked. i think we report isolated crime events throughout the year, particularly in l.a. and new york. but the national crime picture often gets ignored. and when you look at the year it was, it takes your breath away, or at least it should. this is video of linda frickey, a seventy three year old grandmother from new orleans. who was in her car when four teens rushed it, pushing her out. frickey got caught in a safety belt and they dragged her for about a block, severing her arm from her body. she bled to death in the street. at least they captured her for tackers. but so many times these cases go unsolved. this is just one of the more than two hundred and sixty homicide in new orleans since the start of the year. my hometown of new orleans is set to become the murder capital of
liberal la la land. they don t have to do any of it. all right. well, i m going i m going to pick it up where you left off, but i love those interviews. awesome handshakes. i m laura ingram . this is ingram angle from washington tonight. thank you so much for being with us. apokolips biden. that s the focus of tonight s angle. all right. will he or won t he? as in will joe biden seek a second term or not? well, the white house is the answer to the question has been, well, evolving. my plan is to run for reelection. that s my expectation. besim going to run in 2024. is he telling staff that? yes, that s his intention. is the president running for reelection? his answer has been pretty simple, which is , yes, joe biden is running for reelection and i will be his ticket mate. full stop. please stop it. listen to president biden. he intends to run. and if he does, i intend to run with him. so there you go . and if he does, i will be running with him. probably. and t
that s the focus of tonight s angle. at the end of his speech today, i don t know if you sathw it at the white house. biden ended on a note that wase. it was sweet. iitt was hopeful.as u itni wasfy unifying or simply nothing, nothing beyondg our capacitybeyond get done if o it together. so god bless god bless you all t that we can figureo out how to come together better than we deve so far , because a lot of people s lives and futures depend upon it.ou act ua if you actually believe that, then you re juste th as ne as one of those poor rejectedthe girls on the bachelor. r never stop fighting for you, don t you?yo u.and rachel, i know you don t mean you re going to put me in this. all right. well, i could be is i promise you, it s the truth about this administration and the democrat party in general. the demoparty init s not funny . i in fact, it s dark and it s sinister. while they ve been busy destroying our prosperity, our borderrder, an and our safeo they ve also been
you prefer the soviet style prt of the democratic party s internal elections, where votes from merely a formality. all the really big decisions, the meaningful ones, are made thars in advance by donors. oh, of course, everyone sif y on board. that s what they do. but ifou prefe you prefer democy to oligarchy, if you prefer real debates about issues thatet actually matter, it s pretty. refreshing to see it . yes, it s a little chaotic, buti this is what it s supposed to be now. we re going to give you a lotth more detail on what s happening in just a minute and throughout the week. but first, t firs a quick overviewe big to frame the big points. kevi kevin mccarthy of californo was going to be speaker. he was g wants to be speaker. in fact, he wants that job, more than anything else in his life. and he was going to get it. ause but then a group ofd that kevin twenty republican members stopped him. now they stopped becausepresent they decided that kevin mccarthy is not conser