desantis. the massive search-and-rescue effort entering a grim new chapter. it s possible there are still people out there, possible. but most likely we re on recovery now and, you know, that s very difficult. we are live this morning at a minor league hockey arena serving as an emergency shelter. former president trump taking the legal fight to the highest point that it can go. the supreme court. his emergency request and how justice clarence thomas could be instrumental in deciding what exactly happens next. and then we got georgia. hershel walker doubling down on his denial of a major daily because report that he paid a girlfriend to have an abortion back in 2009. republicans now circling the wagons around the staunchly antiabortion candidate. will that be enough for the gop to flip that crucial senate seat from blue to red. we want to begin in florida this morning where president biden is on his way as we speak. starting us off is shaq brewster, and also dasha b
nobody thinks they ll ever need to come to a place like this. but my goodness, when there s a disaster, you really need to have a place like this for people to come to because there are about 500 people here right now. this shelter is at capacity. the red cross has 22 shelters in total and other places do have some room. but the majority of the 500 people here, they have lost their homes, they have lost everything. and they have harrowing stories of survival. i want to tell you one of those, i spoke to a woman named barbara. she is in remission from stage four cancer. her and her husband rented hotel rooms to try to stay safe from the storm. they got to the hotel. the hotel was closed. they ended up having to make their way to a neighbor s home through the storm surge. take a look to what she told me. the surge went on and kept getting higher and higher and then it stopped luckily while we
look at all that talent. embattled georgia senate candidate hershel walker is speaking out this morning doubling down on his denial of a report that he paid for an ex-girlfriend s abortion. take a listen to this. it s sort of like everyone is anonymous or leaking and they want you to confess to something you have no clue about. they see me as a big threat and i know that and i knew it when i got into this race. i think they came for the wrong one. they energized me. that was hershel walker on fox news earlier today. coming two days after the daily beast published his story claiming the republican got a woman pregnant in 2009 and paid
for the procedure. the outlet which did not identify the woman said it corroborated the details with a friend who took care of her in the days following the procedure. that s according to both of them, by the way. nbc news still has not independently confirmed this story. joining me now is correspondent and moderator of washington week on pbs yamiche alcindor. also with me, patricia murphy and david jolly. yamiche, let me start with you. you hit the ground in georgia just over the last 24 hours or so. trying to talk to voters there, seeing how their reacting to the fallout of all of this. the big question is how is this going to affect the midterm elections. what are they telling you? reporter: as you mentioned, i m here in georgia 30 minutes north of atlanta. it used to be a deeply red part of the state that s been shifting blue. i ve been talking to voters about this october surprise in this race and most of the voters
gets really cold here and that s what they re trying to do. overnight, there were some attacks by russia. drone attacks, south of the capitol here, about 80 kilometers south of here. some of the drones were shot down and some hitting targets. they are precise. they use civilian components. they re hard to shoot down. it s possible that this is a way that putin is lashing out because of the losses that he continues to take on the battlefield. cal perry for us. thank you. let s turn now to iran, everybody. the country has now entered the third week of protests over the death of a young woman in morality police custody. the ayatollah has broken his silence blaming the united states and israel. he says this cannot justify the conduct of such actions. these were not normal actions. these were not natural. the riots, the chaos was planned. the protests have also been unfolding at schools and elite