to the mainland. and above the shear scale of the wreckage, the storm left some areas completely unrecognizable. one person told the tampa bay times lee koth looks like a bomb has been dropped. momentarily, we ll go live to fort myers beach where this side by side shows the destruction to the popular pier. here s a man from fort myers who had a terrifying experience. i stayed here as long as i could until i got scared for my life and went across the street. the it didn ts last too long. the big bad wolf puffed it away. i watched my house disappear with everything in it. right pfr my eyes. right before his eyes. i want to bring in kat park in south carolina where hurricane ian is expected to make landfall soon. what are the conditions you re seeing? what are you hearing about what you re expecting in the next couple hours or so? reporter: so we have been out here for several hours now. i can can tell you the landscape has changed dramatically. behind me is the ashley riv
now it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. ll good evening, alex. we are of course going to discuss the pennsylvania senate debate tonight. we are also going to consider a local race in pennsylvania, a state in legislature race, as an example of how important all of those other offices are on those big long ballots that we are all going to fill out that we have governor and senator and all of that. but we have to keep going down and concentrate on all the rest of them. and at the end of this hour, we are going to be joined by a guest i have been trying to get for a full three years now. the three year campaign to get jen o malley dillon succeeded. succeeded she was, of course, joe biden s presidential campaign manager. i will never forget that it was jen o malley dillon who gave press briefings the day after election night, saying, joe biden has this won, which i then communicated to everyone any with complete confidence. and then on
and all of that. but we have to keep going down and concentrate on all the rest of them. and at the end of this hour, we are going to be joined by a guest i have been trying to get for a full three years now. the three year campaign to get jen o malley dillon succeeded. succeeded she was, of course, joe biden s presidential campaign manager. i will never forget that it was jen o malley dillon who gave press briefings the day after election night, saying, joe biden has this won, which i then communicated to everyone with complete confidence. and then on saturday, when joe biden was officially called by the networks, all my friends thought i was wicked smart because just listen to o malley dillon, i remember that moment too, it was the opposite of what triggering is. i guess reassuring is the world. yeah, exactly! she spoke with such confidence, such normalcy, such intelligence. it was actually an incredibly important role she played in what was a chaotic moment, as s