we re just getting kind of cranky. that s all. understood. thank you very much. all right. thanks so much. i want to bring in now congressman francis roony. he joins me on the phone. we watched marco island get hit. i appreciate you joining us. are you doing okay? i m doing great, john. thank you for having me on. irma made its second landfall yesterday afternoon right there in your district with 130-mile-per-hour winds. how extense is the damage there tonight? well, there are some areas where it s very extensive. marco island was almost devastated. big parts of bonita spings have huge flooding. collier county took a pretty good hit. when you move on up north into li county, not as much when you get north until you get close to the river which over ran its banks and flooded around downtown. so we ve dpot a lot of flooding
seriously. they need to continue to monitor the local news sources, these things can change pretty quickly. when you look at the images of 2008, you can see the pleasure pier, big tourist destination how badly it got hit and since completely renovated and rebuilt. it would be a sin to see that get hit so hard now. mayor city manager, i have a question, what is the height of your wall, protects you, barrier, your sea wall? sea wall height is 17 feet. so right now the predictions for the storm surge are 6 to 10 feet. you know your geography better than i do. all of the towns down the beach line have similar sea walls heights or more vulnerable? no i think they are a little more vulnerable than we are. i m not totally up to date but we have one of the sea walls to get into corpus proper.
your fiance there. this is a moment you lost a friend. you became part of something that was much bigger than anybody anticipated it being. you also got a really unusual measure of the love of the man you re going to spend the rest of your life with. yes, sir. it s not a given, marisa, that somebody is going to push you out of the way when a car is coming when they may get hit and, in fact, do get hit. what does it mean to you, what your fiance did? oh, my god. it means i feel like i m alive today because of him. he always told me he loves me more than any anything in this world and he would do anything for me and always protect me from anything and anybody. and he proved it. i believed him before, but he proved it. who thinks to push someone out of the way when a car is coming? a split second to think and he thought to push me out of the way. i m forever grateful. he s my hero.
their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information. rob: turns out of hillary is not the only one to break the rules. brand new bombshell report accusing comey of also putting our national security at risk. that is the allegation. according to the hill, the former fbi director s personal memos detailing private conversations with president trump, remember, he took all those notes, a lot of those memos contain top secret information. comey testified leaking that material to a friend hoping to put pressure on the alleged russia-trump team collusion investigation. but he insisted that the information was not classified. heather: more to come on that for sure. rob: terrifying mommy s caught on camera showing a cyclist get hit by a car and the driver fleeing the scene. check this out.
insurance because they d no longer be fined. but let me ask you about jake, jake, jake that is true i m pivoting to the medicaid i understand that. that is true, but we re the only nation who doesn t cover all. you have 20-year-olds who geout, get hit by a bus, and they re life is destroyed. ipmy nation, we should join every other nation, guaranteed health care to all. i just want clarify. i heard you say this before about tens of thousands of americans will die. where does that come from, and can you explain how they will die if they don t have insurance? sure, it comes from politfact. they checked the out and what they ended up saying during the week, said this was right.