deadline right now. hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. the gop is entrenched in another civil war today, this one intrastate, not intrachamber, but gop versus gop all the same. in one corner the talented mr. ripley of kevin mccarthy s house republican conference, and in the other his hometown republican detractors who say he should resign for telling, quote, lie after lie. the second political thrilla in manila political-style duel isn t at all how the republicans planned to roll out their new grip on power, but it was happens when a party lowers the bar to subterranean levels. here are the fireworks from new york republicans today. george santos campaign last year was a campaign of deceit, lies, fabrication. he s not welcome here at republican headquarters for meetings or at any of our events. as i said, he s disgraced the house of representatives, and we do not consider him one of our congresspeople. today on behalf of the nassau county republican committe
tropical storm force winds. the greatest concern right now is in the gulf coast where a combination of heavy rainfall, massive storm surge and rivers already at flood stage could send up to 12 feet of water into low-lying areas. the january 6th smcommittee canceled tomorrow s hearing because of the storm. jennifer gray is in the weather center. i want to start with a new bulletin. so what have we learned now? we have 120-mile-per-hour winds with gusts of 150. it s still moving to the north-northeast at about 10 miles per hour. basically it s paralleling key west right now. the lower keys have received tropical storm force winds, and conditions are only going to deteriorate across the southern peninsula of florida throughout the overnight tonight. tropical storm force winds will be arriving across south florida within the next couple of hours and throughout the day tomorrow and the early afternoon. or early to mid afternoon. we should be seeing a landfall. so 8:00 tonight, b
zone, particularly in the southwest florida counties, your time to evacuate is coming to an end. you need to evacuate now. a life threatening category 4 storm headed right towards florida. i m john berman live in tampa this morning. brianna keilar is in washington and that is the news from overnight. hurricane ian strength jentd to a category 4 storm with sustained winds of 140 miles per hour. wind gusts of 165 miles per hour. the storm forecast has adjusted somewhat south of where i am in tampa headed right towards the fort myers area in florida about 100 miles south of here, but the threat to florida is enormous. more than 2 1/2 million people under some sort of evacuation order. yes, the wind speed is a serious threat now, a category 4 storm. storm surge where i am in tampa, they could see storm surge of 6 feet which would put the water pretty much right where i m stand going it hit the maximum levels down towards where the storm is expected to make landfall. they could
flank, including new troop movements, equipment, shipments, and military installations. some of them permanent. all of this as russia s relentless war on ukraine grinds on. so many significant developments to get to there. back here in the united states, groundbreaking testimony from a former top aide in the trump white house, cassidy hutchinson, describing in great detail the former president s state of mind that on and around january 6th, and his actions, also testifying that trump was personally aware of the potential for violence that day. listen. i was in the vicinity of a conversation where i overheard the president saying to the effect of, i don t effing care they have weapons, they re not here to hurt me, take the effing mags away, let my people in, they can march to the capitol from here. she also testified that former white house counsel pat cipollone warned that trump and others could be criminally liable if they had gone to the capitol that day. as she testi
let s go to bill melugin. bill? good afternoon to you. that federal court hearing wrapped up earlier this afternoon. it ended with the judge deciding to take no action yet. what what that means is title 42 will drop may 23. that can change when the judge comes up with his decision. he could decide to do an injunction or something else. meantime, it s chaos down here. i want to so you video here. this was this morning where we re standing in eagle pass. this is a single massive group of about 150 illegals that crossed in the middle of broad daylight in front of the texas national guard around border patrol here in eagle pass. this was mostly made up of cubans, venezuelans and columbians, this was the third day in a row where we say more than 100 people crossing in this exact same spot at the same time. 10:45 a.m. local morning like clock work. these huge groups are a massive drain on border patrol resources. this wasn t the only group today. look at this group. another group