miles an hour. it down trees and power lines, even without power. created storm surge in areas like fort myers and naples, florida. officials are warning residents about potential for flash flooding overnight, some areas inland could see over two feet of rain. let s go now to nbc news meteorologist michelle gross. michelle, you have been following the storm all day. what is the latest? i, there we are looking at really strong storm still. it is moving inland but we are still seeing winds at 90 miles an hour. so it s still moving on to his strength. it was a very storm strong category four storm, almost category five, really wide in distance as well and moving very slow. so, it s three things that kind of came together to make the worst-case scenario. we saw a really strong winds up to 135 mile an hour wind gusts in cape coral. and i was the story with the storm surge. what storm surges is a push of wind. it s a push of water, salt water, onto dry land. so, we saw feet,
cubic meters of gas into the baltic sea. there s a toxic bubble field more than half a mile wide. you can only guess how many marine animals are being killed right now, countless. but the lasting damage may be to the atmosphere. it s 90% methane. methane, as biden has told us, is the key driver of global warming, which is an existential threat to humanity in planet. so if you re worried about climate change, what just happened to the pipelines is its close of the apocalypse as you can imagine. it wasn t an accident. the same ten leaks were det detected, there were two undersea explosions, each of which was equivalent to hundreds of pounds of tnt. nothing on nature can account for that. leaks were in three separate places. only one explanation. this was an act of industrial terrorism. that was obvious to the prime minister of poland and he wasted no time saying so. today, we are also dealing with an act of sabotage. we do not know the details of what happened yet. but we can
machines. see how long they can perform that, flying birthing people. as we honor the air force s 75th birthday we are grateful for the air force. they drop us off places and they drop bombs on people and they were preceded i was correct, u.s. army air corporation 1926 to 1941. we transformed into the air force in 1947. rachel s father a master sergeant in the air force will join us. rachel: yeah. will: that is great. i think sean went up in an army fighter jet. rachel: i think national guard. maybe it was national guard. will: i have had the honor going up with the air force with luke air force base in arizona in an f-16. in awe of what those men do, the fighter pilots, the entire apparatus of support behind them. absolutely amazing. meanwhile 50 days until the midterms. last night donald trump was out campaigning in ohio for senate candidate jd vance. this is what he had to say what is at stake 350 days from now. the choice this november is simple, if you want to continue
tonight on the reidout no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname, a speaker has not been elected. an epic fail and stunning humiliation for kevin mccarthy. who took the knee for donald trump, then gave away the store to the koo-koo fringe of his party but is still not speaker of the house. and we begin tonight with the new congress. the 118th. today was supposed to be swearing-in day, typically a big day for the country, filled with pomp and pageantry and often a feeling of hope and excitement as a new congress kicks off and implements its vision. for some, it serves as bring your kids to congress day, so that children get to see their parents or their grandparents take the oath, and perhaps make history themselves. history was certainly made on this opening day in the house of representatives when house democrats nominated their caucus chair, hakeem jeffries, of new york, to succeed nancy pelosi as speaker. i rise today a
las vegas. sources say the suspect possibly seen on video and what police are now saying tonight. just in this evening, news of an arrest in canada after a major manhunt for days. they believe the suspect under arrest and his brother stabbed and killed ten people, 18 others stabbed and injured, too. the war in ukraine tonight. and the new message from president zelenskyy at this hour. the major counteroffensive, he says, is working, outside ukraine s second-largest city. but tonight, vladimir putin also with a message, defiant. and what he claims about this war. back in the u.s., longtime trump ally steve bannon expected to surrender to authorities in new york tomorrow, facing charges involving the group called we build the wall. promising donors their own bricks in a wall at the southern border with their names on them. the group promising donors 100% of the money would go to that wall, that it wouldn t line someone s pockets. but tonight, prosecutors say that s exactl