I came to office determined with the duty to care and get us through one of our toughest periods in history. And we have. President joe biden continues to hit the former president on the Campaign Trail as the former president yesterday appeared to float cutting Social Security and medicare. Meanwhile, trump is also now flipflopping on tiktok, the platform he pushed to ban when he was in office. It comes as the house is set to vote tomorrow. Plus, theres more fallout from alabama senator katie britts state of the Union Rebuttal and how her speech highlights republicans fears of losing women voters this election. Good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, march 12th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. Former President Donald Trump is vowing to release Hundreds Of January 6th defendants currently behind bars if he were to be releected this november. On truth social last night trump explained that one of his first acts as president would be to, quote,
but it s early. and as you can see. it s continuing to come in. we will monitor the situation for you. guys? steve: all right. griff jenkins live in port st. lucie. jensen beach. griff, thank you very much. griff, yesterday was in palm beach. ellison barber is in west palm beach. and i believe palm beach is behind you. ellison, i was reading this morning in the palm beach post that apparently last night at 5:00 they only allowed local residents in palm beach on the island because they didn t want anybody sightseeing or any other problems. yeah. that s right. we were over there this morning. the police are still on the other side of the bridge blocking access to get over to palm beach. obviously there are various places in palm beach county where evacuations are mandatory and a lot of people have left the area. as we have been here over the past couple of days we have seen people venturing down the beaches in areas where they are not supposed to be, and we have seen police officers ge
this is why we are showing it to you. this is why it is not safe to come out from st. lucie county, martin county, and all the way up north when this storm begins to move. you need to listen to officials. it seems like you spared dodged a bullet so to speak, but it is still tropical storm winds that janice could talk about may even bring stronger winds as it whips around. we are just feeling the north the top right quadrant will begin to give us that outer band whipping. this ain t nothing. it has barely begun and it is going to pick up throughout the day, guys. brian: griff, thanks, we will check back in with you. griff jenkins over in port st. lucie over in the east coast of florida. and i think a lot of people are saying okay, as much as we feared, as much as we are worried, get on with it. we have been worried about this thursday, friday, saturday, sunday, monday, tuesday. you are actually asking for the first time that i can remember when it comes to a
hurricane warning where we are. expecting surge to damage the communities here along the barrier islands. and there are mandatory evacuations for several communities, especially those communities of mobile homes, of manufactured homes, which often show the strength of a storm first. this morning i spoke with a couple, jack and violet honey, that s their names, in port st. louisy in an almost st. lucie in an almost deserted mobile home community. still hadn t decided if they were going to make the move. here s part of the conversation. you re sitting here, and dorian is about 100 miles off the coast. yes. reporter: have you made the decision to stay or go? no. i m going to depend on what the storm does. if the storm comes closer, we re leaving. if it turns and goes toward the north, we re going to stick it out. reporter: you think it will be too late to make that move
now. back now live here in melbourne, florida, up for roughly three hours. continues to hug the eastern coast of the state. national hurricane center said the eye wall brushed against cape canaveral generating gusts well over 100 miles per hour but the most powerful winds remain offshore at this point. one death has been as a result of this storm just south of us in port st. lucie, a woman had a cardiac event. first responders couldn t get to her. hundreds of thousands across the state waking up without power. matthew now moving up the coast towards georgia. just heard from rehema ellis in savannah moments ago. i want to bring in nbc nightly news anchor lester holt here with us in melbourne, florida. you got in about the same time yesterday evening as well. conditions now versus conditions then. the bands of rain and all