and as you would expect, time is running out to get to them. there are also questions about what officials should have done before the storm, and regrets from those who stayed. we were just about ready to take her out. and you so don t want to see this. you re right. you re right. three days. three days. the water came up to me on here. and when it got to there, the way they were saying on the news, i thought it was going to eventually go over our heads. i called my daughters and said goodbye. it was very traumatic. i actually, i went into the water and saved three people, and i lost one friend, i couldn t save her, she got washed away. the devastation is unbelievable. you know, i was a paramedic fireman for 25 years, and it s just devastating. the confirmed death toll is 88. state medical examiners say many of ian s victims were older than the age of 60. bodies in flooded cars and inside destroyed homes. the president will see all of this with his own eyes on w
we will bring you that speech live. and in florida, grim new details about how many people were killed by a different hurricane, ian of course. and the new number just coming in. some officials now responding to criticism about their initial response to ian. we ve got our team standing by live on the ground. also this hour, we re live in district court in dc with opening statements happening now, in the conspiracy trial of leaders for the oath keepers. why the defense is hanging its case on something former president trump didn t do, and what prosecutors are saying today about what the defendants said were not enough weapons. we will talk about it coming up. and october, not spooked yet. rare good news lately from the market. the dow up 800 points. we will talk about what is behind the rally on wall street later in the show. i m hallie jackson on assignment for a story you will see later on in the month. joining me is gabe guiterrez in san germane puerto rico and shaq bre
taking action naacp going to bat for jackson, mississippi residents, over the water problems will talk to the president ceo. this is american voices. we begin this hour with the aftermath of hurricane ian. a storm that left 87 people dead and counting. most of those deaths happened in florida, some of the worst of the storm. more than 700,000 florida residents still do not have power. the president of first lady will travel to florida wednesday to survey the damage. also a visit with puerto rico tomorrow to address the construction that hurricane two weeks ago. the storm killed at least two dozen americans there, and power still not fully restored. just a 10% of the island is in the dark. last night, president biden acknowledging widespread devastation left behind by these two disasters. our hearts, can t go without saying or heavy. the devastating hurricane, the storms of puerto rico, florida, south carolina. we owe puerto rico a hell of a lot more than they alread
mister president, one quick follow-up. one of the things that they re asking for a public health emergency, is that something you re considering? that s something i ve asked the folks, the medical people in the administration to look at. whether that is i have the authority to do that, what impact that would have. in just a moment we re going to get the latest from in robot speech. let s go to today s other headlines. some major developments in the january six investigation. two here in set for this week. new intel this morning into what former white house counselor pat cipollone said in his more than seven-hour testimony. a member of the panel, congressman stephanie murphy, told msnbc choctaw that cipollone provided a lot of relevant information. some of this we may here on tuesday. are we going to see much of mr. cipollone s testimony on tuesday? or in the first hearing this week? we are always receiving new information from a lot of different sources. we are tryi
good morning. it is saturday, july 30th. i m michael steele in for my friend ali velshi. the january six select committee s historic public hearings may be done for the short term. but, the investigation into the insurrection continues on multiple fronts. the two former senior officials at the center of the latest leaked controversial chad wulf, and former beauty secretary, ken cuccinelli, has responded to a report in the washington post but their text messages leading him to january 6th and vanished. by saying, they did not do it. both former officials took to twitter to blame the former department they worked for, dhs, for the missing text. with wolf adding, quote, dhs has all my texts, emails, phone logs, and schedules. speaking of wolf, the ap report of the select committee has reached out to him could potentially appear. as an act of talks are looking to bring in another high-ranking trump official, including the former director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe