gulf coast more than five people rescued in charlotte and lee county so far. if you need to be evacuated step out of your front door. the fort meyers fire chief said they conducted 200 water rescues overnight. lee county was the hardest hit. this is a home on fire after the storm. fire crews as you can imagine unable to reach it. this is a neighborhood completely inundated as you can see floodwaters have yet to receive. new video from the lee county sheriff s office confirming the work worse. whole towns have been completely level and mayors giving details about their town out the day. i came here in the mid-70s and was on the police department for 25 years and saw a lot of storms. this is by far the worst storm i have ever witnessed. debris is everywhere. my yard looks like a war zone. as of this hour there is some places that are impossible to reach by road. this is the only bridge destroyed in multiple spots as a result of hurricane ian. this is fort meyers bea
and welcome back to our continuing coverage of the chaos in washington, d.c.. it has been quite a day in quite a night. first, kevin mccarthy lost his 60 vote to become house speaker. the house then adjourned around temps a deal making. consumed members reconvene briefly, only to adjourn again until noon tomorrow. the would-be speaker announcing more upbeat about his chances. cnn s manu raju first broke that news for us. he joins us again tonight from the capitol. so, why are things looking more upbeat for mccarthy? he s hearing some more positive responses from those opponents, the people who have essentially seemed immovable for the past two days. but after a meeting in which mccarthy made a number of concessions on arranging on political issues, how the outside group engages on some key issues as well as giving more power and more sway over themselves the rank and file, at the expense of the leadership. some these members sound like they re moving in his direction.
biden s nightmare. i concluded that it was in the public interest to appoint a special counsel. cooperating fully. the president plays defense as the white house grapples with a brand new political reality. plus, mccarthy s majority comes back together after a bruising battle. we are one party. what we went through last week makes us strongly. next up a spending strike. and a defiant george santos says he is not going anywhere. i will not resign. i will hold the office elected by the people. even as gop colleagues say it is time for him to go. can t be honest with yourself you ll never be honest with your constituents. hello and welcome to inside politic sunday. the white house was feeling good this time last week. the republicans emerging from a nasty public civil war. inflation is coming down and the approval ratings are ticking up. what a difference seven days can make. classified materials next to your corvette? what were you thinking? i d get a ch
poppy and i in new york. kaitlan live on capitol hill for day two. maybe there s a day three. unprecedented speaker election it s happening. see how many days it goes down. the republican leadership drama will again be center stage. kevin mccarthy thus far has failed to win enough votes. how long will the gop power struggle last? that s the question many republicans have. are there any plans for a concession candidate? we re learning now damar hamlin had to be resuscitated twice after suffering a cardiac arrest during monday football. wolf blitzer spoke to buffalo bills teammate. he ll join us in a moment. also, an update on jeremy renner on the road to recovery after a traumatic snow plowing accident. first, we want to talk about the new republican majority in the house marked by party rebellion that has kept kevin mccarthy from achieving his dream of becoming the speaker of the house. no persons having received a majority of the whole number of votes cast by surn
around the eye some distance away, what happens is once it goes through the eye wall replacement cycle, the eye collapses and we ll watch the convection around it tighten back up like getting strong again. each time it goes through one of these and it can take several hours to do so, it gets stronger and it gets larger. this has enough time unfortunately to go through this cycle before it makes landfall so on a grander scale we re already starting to see some tornado warnings in the everglades right now. they have now posted a tornado watch that will be in effect until 5:00 a.m. that s an extraordinary amount of space and time to deal with that and the problems with the tornados, they re not like in the midwest and plains, they spin without notice, usually ef 1st and ef-2s. there is significant differences, jake, as we mentioned from where it would stall off the coast of the bay and turning to the right and we still could see that happen. there is plenty of time for this to h