devastating some of the most important tobacco farms used to produce iconic cigars. you are watching fox and friends first, i m carley shimkus todd: i m todd piro, our reporters are live this morning. janice dean is in the fox weather center in new york city. carley: we begin in st. pete s beach, on track to be one of the first places hit today. lauren, what are you seeing on the ground right now? still dry at this moment and looking ago, later today that will not be the case. this morning ian is expected to strengthen to a category four hurricane, before moving to a hurricane three in cape coral. storm surge could reach 10 to 15 feet. tornados reported last night near miami, thousands are without power. that number is expected to go into the millions, 30,000 personnel are standing by to get the lights back on once the worst of the storm passes. ian devastated cuba as category three, knocking out power to the entire island. 2.5 million people have been told to evacuat
obama returned to the white house yesterday for the unveiling of their official portraits. president biden resuming a tradition that stalled under donald trump. we ll play more from the white house reunion. it was lovely. including poignant remarks from mrs. obama about why traditions like this are important for democracy. plus, former attorney general bill barr continues to speak out about the trump records case, saying the justice department is close to having enough evidence to indict him, but shouldn t. we ll discuss his reasoning. and the 60-day sprint to the midters begins today, and it seems whoever is managing the money for the republican senate candidates can t get it right. how republican senator rick scott explains burning through loads of cash with little to show for it. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, september 8th. along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of way too early, author of the big lie, white house bureau chi
what s happened at sandy hook you get most invest relay reaction because it s so disturbing, listen to think here s what he said after that jury award cam down, it wasn t like he took it seriously. 11 to this. 57 million. 20 million, 50 million. 80 million. by the way, you get 100 million, you get 50 million, do these people think they re getting money? i can keep that in court for years appeal the stuff we can stand up against travesty who is the they? i was like he was on trial but trying to appeal to it s us against the families. the guy is despicable. think of a bad adjective to describe a human being, these a five, 6-year-old kids that were murdered in cold blood and he s mucking and he goes on television and pulls himself and gives an interview, says he s an actor, he makes fun of the guy, they say no lower form of life and then he turns it and says they re trying to come for your guns this is false flag put on by the u.s. government. it s despicable, no other wor
supplies. and today governor desantis activated 2500 members of the national guard and cnn correspondents are every angle. let s get started with tom sater. this looks like a very powerful storm that could unleash a lot of fury on the gulf coast, something we haven t seen so far during this hurricane season. and it sounds like people need to wake up and pay attention. everywhere from pensacola to ft. myers. we didn t haven would named storm for the entire month of august and now we have four of them. if it wasn t for ian, we d be talking about fiona, massive damage up in canada. notice how wide it is, the sun is out here and getting the reflection, but you can see the circulation. there is the yucatan. but the infrared satellite imagery is a mess. it doesn t look impressive at all. at 8:00 a.m. this morning, hurricane hunters had a hard time finding the center. they did find it. it can jump around a little bit. and if that center jumps around, it will change the track. and
important moment for the u.s. to tell viewers what you are learning. this is about to be a major announcement that we hear directly from president biden. we expect that president biden will be addressing the nation around 7:30 tonight. is senior administration official told us this was a counterterrorism operation of a significant al qaeda target. we are learning this was in fact, ayman al-zawahri. the senior official also noted that the successful operation did not result in any civilian casualties. keep in mind, this comes about one year after the u.s. withdrew fully from afghanistan. of the last military plane leaving afghanistan in august of last year. this will raise questions that perhaps, the president, himself, will address on how the operations were conducted, given no u.s. military prison in afghanistan. also, what the assurances are that we hear from the president, himself, on the note that there was no civilian casualties. the president has been isolating becaus