john: we are going to talk to the first term assemblyman looking to unseat one of the most powerful democrats in congress and in a district that president biden won by double digits. welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. i m john roberts in washington. boy, sandra, getting exciting. sandra: here we go, two weeks from election day. sandra smith in new york, crime is the talk of many here in this city, but it s happening in american cities and towns all across the country. we begin with covid at this hour. president biden and his party accused of exploiting it and what critics called the consequences of their refusal to move on from it. it s a fox news alert. john: kicking things off, more than a month since president biden told the american people the pandemic is over. the damage done from how the president and other democratic leaders handle the pandemic may last forever. sandra: the worst drop in children s test scores in decades, after the most
be used in next month s midterm elections. and finally, huge parts of florida and the southeast still struggling to get back on their feet after hurricane ian. no doubt it will take months, if not years in some places. check out these pictures from yesterday in orlando. 107 people have been confirmed dead, more than 2rkz 300 have had to be rescued. for many survivors a big problem is lack of electricity. more than 400,000 floridians still without power nearly a week after the storm. we start today with that dramatic oath keepers trial. i want to bring in justice reporter ryan riley who are is outside the u.s. district court in d.c. civil rights attorney, former prosecutor and an msnbc legal analyst. so take us inside the courtroom. how is the the prosecution making its case. fds. what you have here is testimony from an fbi special agent who was there on january 6th and helped escort senators back to the senate on that evening. but you have this breakdown of this go-to m
the body was and then, when they were just about ready to take her out, they said, you don t want to see this. she had been floating for three days. even to describe that, what does that feel like? it is horrible and i am an ex nurse. i don t want to see that. all right. let s cross over now to fort myers beach, where we are finding bring us up to speed on the latest. it is nighttime there. do these rescue and search efforts continue in the night even though there are challenges of working in the dark. no electricity and the perhaps the weather may not be cooperating. what is going on there? those search and rescue efforts are taking place 24 hours a day. we have been speaking with authorities who say they have people there during the day and at night. in fact, they have shared videos on social media, the sheriff s department, where you can see officers using lights. of course, it s not the same to do this at night as it is during the day. but the efforts do not
they were just about ready to take her out, they said, you don t want to see this. she had been floating for three days. even to describe that, what does that feel like? it is horrible and i am an ex nurse. i don t want to see that. all right. let s cross over now to fort myers beach, where we are finding bring us up to speed on the latest. it is nighttime there. do these rescue and search efforts continue in the night even though there are challenges of working in the dark. no electricity and the perhaps the weather may not be cooperating. what is going on there? those search and rescue efforts are taking place 24 hours a day. we have been speaking with authorities who say they have people there during the day and at night. in fact, they have shared videos on social media, the sheriff s department, where you can see officers using lights. of course, it s not the same to do this at night as it is during the day. but the efforts do not stop. unfortunately, today,
still too cowardly to take a stand against insurrectionists ex president. the idea of political violence is being normalized. he held newspaper published a piece this weekend underlying its stark terms what this new post trump post january 6th world looks like. the number threat in vests launched by u.s. capitol police in 2021 was 100 and 50% higher than it was in 2017. trump s first year in office. lawmakers who are critical of trump remain among those most frequently targeted for violence. the long and diverse listening clues republicans who voted for an infrastructure bill he opposed. democrats who manage the former presidents impeachments. republicans who supported his ouster after the january 6th capitol attack. and most recently, the nine lawmakers on the select committee investigating the 2021 a riot. all of whom have around the clock security details. end quote. president biden addressed the normalization of violence this week in his soul of the nation s speech. y