do i have the courage? is it worth the sacrifice? america has been worth it every single time. harris: desantis is likely to be one of the most well-known in the pack outside of donald trump. trump s lead among gop candidates is widening since march. some top republicans including former presidential candidates say the governor has his work cut out for him. what s happening to desantis, he is beginning to shrink from being 1 of 2 and 1 of many. is there an opportunity to grow in the polls? absolutely. at this point president trump is way ahead so it is a daunting task for any of these other candidates. i think desantis has to run his own race. he has a crowded field. he has to show he is the alternative to donald trump. but he has an uphill climb. harris: jason chaffetz, former utah congressman in focus now. jason, now there are seven by tonight with desantis. yeah, look. donald trump is clearly out in front. it feels like he is lapping people at this point bu
strength and swirling off the northern california coast. a second landfall expected hours from now in south carolina. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. the after math of the storm, destruction, loss of life. i always caution everybody when we give out numbers they do fluctuate. right now it is believed 21 people have died from this and we have been told to expect that number to fluctuate again. so we ll report the news as we get it. this side-by-side comparison shows fort myers, people describe it with one word and you hear it over and over and over, gone. boats and cars in piles. homes and businesses shredded. florida governor ron desantis calling the magnitude of the assault biblical, historic. the governor with an update a short time ago. there is life rescue making sure people are okay, following up on any type of calls. there has been really a great effort. the power is a big issue. there are 1.9 million people customers without power. the other
to argue the negative, that electing republicans in the future would be akin to electing terrorists who would seek to blow up our entire system. this is just an extra ordinarily dangerous course for republicans to be taking in terms of our democracy. the republican party can no longer say they don t agree with the insurrectionist, the bigots, the racists. there may now be people aligned with what s a premises or in congress. how you protect the country from them? it could be that we have a republican majority in congress this fall, and if that happens, you may see republicans in congress wanting to cut the money to the department of justice to turn the lights out. we may lose our democracy. laura: the attorney general issued ominous warnings. the top domestic threat comes from racially or ethnically motivated violence, extremist, specifically those who advocate for the superiority of the white race. laura: they announced new task forces. i decided to establish
Office by state interns. Its not the first time this member of congress and his team have been threatened. Im bill spadea, this is chasing news. World check in with john who has a story about student journalist who broke a story about deplorable conditions in the new York City Public School cafeterias. Bill, what is for lunch . How about 600 mice droppings and to roaches sprinkled in. Middle school and ozone park, queens how about 1500 flies. That is what Health Inspectors found. Those are some of the findings and the new report called food fight. Its from a new york city new service, and operation out of the school of journalism. Here is what the report found. The department of education provides Information Online about the cleanliness of school cafeterias. It has to do this to comply with state law. The reports are not complete. They dont indicate the severity of the violations. The students went digging, they found nearly 700 school cafeterias, half of those inspected lester had at
Meteorologist, we are looking at rain moving across. A mild day, a wet and gray day as we continue this see this rain stream in. Pockets of more moderate rain mainly northwest into bethesda, kensington and out towards 270. This is the way it will be for the remainder of the day. Maybe a break here and. There but then we have a chance for some severe storms later this afternoon. Just in time for the evening commute. And with these severe storms, some of them, what were looking at, the main threat is damaging winds. I know its breezy out there now, were talking about severe damaging winds coming our way. Temperatures mild. In the mid to upper 60s. Well top out there today. Well time everything out for you coming up. What you need to know hour by hour coming up. Im Dennis Hastert has pled guilty in a 3. 5 million hush money case. He 73yearold republican agreed to pay that money to someone to hide past misconduct. Anonymous sources have been reporting that payments were to conceal claims o