hire, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york on a very busy day of news and more details on what promises to be a blockbuster hearing on the january 6 hearing and we ll have much more on that. we begin with the verdict in the alex jones trial where a jury has just awarded nearly $1 billion in damages to the family members of the sandy hook victims, people who suffered from the lines that alex jones started spreading hours after the massacre. harry lipman joins us, a former u.s. attorney and former deputy assistant attorney general. let me just not go the down the rabbit holes of alex jones but the families had pain and suffering from the massacre being described as a hoax and the nearly billion dollars in damages does nothing, nothing to deal with their grief but it was as signal, it seems harry, that the jury felt that it was represent henceible. even his defense attorney said in close, nicole. this is a despicable human being and, of course, he s the vilest vermin out there on
Now. We are rocking it. Theyre throwing grenades, shooting people with paint balls but were in here. Be safe, be safe. God bless and godspeed and keep going. Get it, jess. Do your [ bleep ]. This is what we [ bleep ] lived up for. Everything we trained for. We begin tonight on the start of hispanic heritage month, when americans are supposed to celebrate the culture and contributions of americans with ancestors from mexico, the caribbean, and central and south america. It was president lint Lyndon Johnson who created hispanic Heritage Week after appealing the most xenophobic antiimmigration law. Today, while Many Americans are honoring those hispanic contributions, last night, Florida Governor ron desantis had a different idea. Proudly taking credit for sending two plane loads of latino migrants to Marthas Vineyard in massachusetts. Roughly 50 venezuelan and colombian migrants, many fleeing Venezuelas Maduro regime, said they had gun from san francisco, texas, where they were offered f
hello, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. just nine days to go until the midterm elections. and the political heavyweights for both parties are hitting the trail, as the campaign hits the homestretch. president joe biden, former presidents barack obama and donald trump all fanning out across the country. this weekend, obama perhaps the democrats best messenger, rallied voters in key battleground states, trying to boost turnout. we have team covercoverage, cnna mckin is covering the final debate in georgia. let s catch up with kevin traveling with the president in delaware. what is biden s primary message this week? well, we should start by noting where the president is not this campaign weekend. and that s on the campaign trail. he is here in wilmington. he did join the 19 million americans who have cast early ballots yesterday. and we will start to see him campaigning more next week when he travels to florida on tuesday. and this is a tri
vladimir putin illegally annexes four regions. there s no checks on mr. putin. can the west keep him under control? plus the road to 2018, virginia becomes a battleground for one of the most competitive house races in the country. you look across the spectrum, the number is 218. i spent time in a district that could prove decisive. hello, i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is picking up the pieces after a devastating storm. the numbers and images are staggering. at least 67 are dead in florida, four in north carolina, more than 850,000 still in the dark this morning. hundreds of thousands now essentially refugees days after hurricane ian swept ashore and swept away life as many know it. already more than a thousand civilians have been rescued and evacuated according to the governor s office. we re getting a clearer view of ian s map-altering impact. entire stretches of florida s coastline are gone. once sprawling community like sanibel island
that number could rise even higher as search and rescue crews work to reach cutoff areas, removing debris from destroyed homes and businesses along florida s southwest coastline and we re learning that miami-dade fire rescue crews are conducting helicopter evacuations on sanibel island. boris sanchez is there in fort myers, florida. boris, you just spoke with the lee county sheriff a few moments ago. what was said? reporter: fred, there have been a lot of questions today about the timing of when lee county ordered evacuations. we re in lee county right now in fort myers. what we ve learned is lee county ordered its first evacuations more than a day after forecasts met the county s criteria despite the fact the county has an emergency plan that suggests evacuations should have happened earlier. the county s comprehensive emergency ma or more of water would indicate the need for hurricane evacuations in the most vulnerable areas. a lot of lee county is a vulnerable area. one