for the first time and he was like whoa! true, it s been a while since the supreme court treated the constitution as anything but a paper powell for when biden spills his ensure and the reason for the change is also the reason for tonight s monologue. it s been over 150 years since america banned slavery but here s an interesting fact that folks at reuters just dug up. i love reuters. a lot of powerful people descended from slave owners. that includes republicans, mitch mcconnell. i would say he took one on the chin, but we all know that s not possible. [laughter] greg: but also lindsey graham, james langford and tom cotton. his name sort of gave that away. [laughter] greg: if you ever run for president should not use the slogan pick cotton. not going to work in the cities. [laughter] i would not advise that either. greg: all right. if those old white men didn t surprise you, how about tammy duckworth, jean and liz warren, right? that s got to be tough for those wom
you can see the piece on the bottom of it. that is the piece that gathers the intelligence for this what loan. we ve known about this being in the skies over our country illegally for several days at least. some say going back months. so far, we have not done anything to impede this balloon from collecting surveillance over the country even though it s of clear violation of u.s. airspace. no word from the president of the united states at 3:00 eastern time. we ve known about this since last night really. twice now he has avoided shouted questions. watch this. mr. president, when will you remove the balloon? when and how will you remove the balloon, mr. president? [question inaudible] are you worried about the balloon? martha: apparently not worried about the balloon as he walks across the lawn there. we know that it launched this instrument from china. you can see on that quick animation. maybe we can play it again from mainland china. now it has hovered over montana, h
it s forecast to reach major hurricane status baring down on cuba. the storm s path otherwise uncertain, but floridians are prepare ing for the worst. people are filling sand beings to protect against the heavy rains and storm surge. long lines outside of stores as people look to stock up on supplies. you can see the empty health ises there. bottled water, wasn t of the hot est items. florida is under a state of emergency. governor ron desantis activated the national guard. joining us is michael brennan, acting deputy director for noaa. thank you so much for being with us on this morning as we re watching ian approach here. give us a sense of where you are watching and when you re expecting landfall. well, you can see ian right now is located about 90 miles southwest of grnd kay men with intense activity developing near the center. we have seen this intensify rapidly. if we look at the forecast now, we re expecting ian to turn from its northwestern motion and move towar
on the base it was also once used to help survivors of hurricane katrina. they will be given temporary housing, food and legal help assistance. florida governor desantis ch chartered two flights to drop the migrants off. miguel marquez talked to an immigrant. reporter: there were three options. washington, utah, massachusetts. the plane left and brought us here. when you step on american soil you feel at ease that you are here and well protected. you lose the stress of the journey in seven countries. very stressful across all of central america. a u.s. wants the justice department to get involved to see if the actions of governor desantis are legal. what s the latest on the island? reporter: the 50 or so immigrants that were here have moved on. it was emotional. they were here for about 48 hours in total. it wasn t impossible or difficult for martha s vineyard and the towns to step up to help the people. but it was confusing. they come with a lot of not a lot of bag