storm in florida s history. right now, more than 1.2 million people are still without power. duke energy, which provides flower power to central florida, says it could be days until it s restored. here is ron desantis earlier today, on the latest efforts. over the last 72 hours, there have been over 1100 confirmed rescues made by first responders and likely many more than that and those are the reported ones as of 6:00 this morning. we have called in the army corps of engineers at the request of the counties to help with the damage to the water system, and i know that some of this is lee county water utility. some of it may be the platinum line as the core is working with all of those groups. they are meeting again today to figure out what the best ways to go forward. clearly, having those core services, like the water and like the electrical, are really top priorities after the life rescue mission. one of the most hard-hit cities and florida was fort myers. check out thi
this hour in our country s history stands in contrast to a republican party devoid of an agenda, other than serving a disgraced twice impeached ex-president who tried to overturn and steal the results of the 2020 election. president biden described the 2022 election has a, quote, defining moment for the country, denouncing the gop s embrace of rhetoric that all too often has resulted in or coincided with violence, most recently with the attack on speaker pelosi s husband paul pelosi and his democratic predecessor president barack obama used his talent as a speaker, as a message deliver, as a leader, and lent his credibility as a popular two-term president to that message that democrats are right now the only ones, the only party, that believes in democracy and fundamental american values. it was something. watch. what we have to remind ourselves is that there s this common thread, there s this thing that binds us together as americans, a belief that no matter who we are or
the washington wrote of peace will always promoted unproven and questionable products on the television show and that marks legitimate those questions dog just before he got into politics but nbc used an unbelievably cheap shot the columnist said the doctor is an investigator for columbia university lab with over 300 dogs, 31 pigs and 661 rabbits and rodents. not only has every doctor in scientist and animal research and testing new medicines it s required by law, the columnist by a professor who had the group devoted to reducing animal products nbc never should ve let him smear oz as a part of a puppy killer, yoga journalistic question why are most of the negative stories and candidates from one political party i am howard kurtz, this is mediabuzz . . howard: how the networks are handling the leak report that federal agents have enough evidence to bring criminal charges against hunter biden, the unnamed woman was accusing herschel walker with pain for her abortion or than
robberies brought several democrats are now backing away from defending police movements, both sides are now ramping up their messaging and up several tight races including in georgia. eric: is a topic and charles watson is live in atlanta with a look at how crime is affecting some of the races in the peach state, hi charles. had good afternoon eric and arthel. republicans appeared to have found their footing and have a winning message with voters, certainly in terms of rising crime and trying to connect democrats to lawlessness. stacey abrams said yesterday funding the police. abrams even joined a radical anti- police group. republican incumbent governor brian kemp made it a key issue crime here in georgia and the georgia governors race against democrat stacey abrams. campus criticizing his opponent for defending place by highlighting the task force decreed as governor to target street racing and violent crimes in cities like atlanta were only burglaries and shopliftin
this is your well red world. a lot of major averages down on the prospect that we re looking at higher rates down the road. we got our third 3/4 hike in a row with signs that year s end, rates could be a point to a point 1/4 higher than they are right now. we re north of 4%. some wondering if that is enough to deal with inflation that is double that. let s get the read on what happens today and why. jackie deangelis. jackie? good afternoon. this is the fed s fifth rate increase this year. it s the fourth increase in a row. as you pointed out, the third time the market is seeing 3/4 percentage point. the market was trading higher most of the session before the decision indicating they were expecting a 75 basis point hike rather than the full point percentage point that a small group of market watchers thought was possible. then when the news broke about the hike, the fed hikes rates trying to tame persistently high inflation, the economy will slow. consumers and corporations