6:00 a.m. out west. 9:00 a.m. on the east coat. we have a lot to cover this hour including the republican party s increased optimism about regaining the senate majority despite the new allegations against their georgia candidate herschel walker. kristen welker has the latest reporting on that. also, donald trump asks the supreme court to intervene over the legal fight about the classified documents the fbi seized from his mar-a-lago resort. we ll explain why justice clarence thomas plays a big role. now elon musk wants to buy twitter again. why it seems he s serious this time? the thing is it s so fascinating that he s going back and will be talking about getting it at the same price he talked about at the beginning which most people thought was way overvalued. maybe he can t get out of it. willie, for our friends waking up on the west coast aaron judge hit his 62nd home run. what an incredible guy, what a special moment. yes. 62 home runs. it was a long wait, but
said about how they are preparing in case china attacks. in just two hours, spacex will launch a spacecraft with five astronauts to the international space station. we ll take you live to the kennedy space center and explain the significance of this historic mission. we begin with our top story this morning. this hour president biden and the first lady will head to florida where crews are working around the clock doing door to door searches in neighborhoods hardest hit by hurricane ian seven days after this monster storm battered the gulf coast. and these communities, particularly those outside of major cities, are still suffering. they are saying they have no power, no water, no food and help is not getting to them like it did in the past. this is the scenario many florida residents are dealing with right now. at least 105 people have lost their lives in the wake of this storm. the sheriff says crews are more likely to the recovery phase. heartbreaking development for
i m jose diaz-balart. in just a couple minutes, president biden and the first lady will head to florida to see firsthand the damage left behind by hurricane ian. one week after the monster storm made landfall here in the u.s. this is everything we worked our whole life for. and it s gone in a flash. people s entire livelihoods destroyed. meanwhile, donald trump is appealing to the supreme court over classified material in the mar-a-lago documents case. we re going to break down where things go next. in ukraine, resistant forces were greeted with flowers and ukrainian flags after pushing russian forces out of another village in the kharkiv region. we ll bring you the very latest from kyiv. and on the cusp of an unprecedented third term, the chinese leader pledged to take control of taiwan by any means necessary. what taiwan s foreign minister
have time to evacuate. we re now trying to make our way to mexico beach. we re about ten minutes from there, from where this monster storm made landfall. and we re going to try and see if we can get there and give you firsthand accounts hough things lo look. a lot of the local people wondering if their homes are okay, their friends and relatives another. i m standing here with julie. she s an employee of the mainstay inn who took us in while the storm was really moving in. and she moved here from tampa in 2006. she s in tears because she hasn t heard from her neighbors in mexico beach. she doesn t know what state her home is in. so i ve got to say, yesterday when we were there, talking to folks, again, a lot of them really caught off guard by this storm and didn t have time planning to evacuate. we ll give you a firsthand
typhoon-ravaged country. reaching desperate families more than a week after the monster storm made landfall. this as the disaster agency there reports at least 3600 people now confirmed dead. william lajeunesse reporting from outside the hard hit city of taclava. reporter: in disasters, there are stories of life and survival. this is likely to be the deadliest typhoon in philippine history. for every casualty, there are dozens more who now see life as a second chance. where were you when the typhoon hit? we actually in the structure of the house. our house. reporter: he and his wife julie and two sons live in a coastal town and he works in a hotel. he very, very strong winds. reporter: winds more than 100 miles an hour hit in the morning.