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
this republican primary. he needs to be able to bring in a coalition of voters from all facets of life within the united states in order to really be president. harris: scott, sit tight for a second. i haven t spoken on this yet. kamala harris, the vice president, made it her business on our dime as taxpayers to go down to jackson, florida to elevate that part of the curriculum. she wanted to cherry pick some words out and used it. you know what? she may have bitten off something she didn t expect or maybe she went there to take on ron desantis. but that s an opportunity for this governor. that s a point. harris: to take on somebody who might be a backup to biden. scott, could she be? a backup to biden? she is a backup to biden. harris: i mean on the campaign trail. gavin newsom seems thirsty to take the job. he is not running for office. she is wildly popular with
story is but the point is the republicans are trying to figure out how best to respond. and one of the ways i am looking at, should they come together in a joint defense agreement or should we maybe testify in public, they re trying to gain now, trying to figure out if there are any concessions to extract from the committee but at the moment they are looking at make we should cooperate. and looking at the scoop, with the subpoena time line, well done there. sit tight for a second. i want to get your opinion on something else and i know we re on track for hearings in june from the january 6th select committee and also this. a former investigation whether former president trump mishandled classified documents is reportedly intensifying. two people briefed for the matter telling the new york times the gent department of justice has convened a grand jury and subpoena the national archives in recent days to obtain 15 boxes of white house documents. the documents have some classified, we
hours ago, at the nato headquarters in brussels, you had stoltenberg, the secretary general, coming out and saying that $8 billion so far from nato countries has been given in terms of weapon supplies to ukraine. this is a massive amount of money. and now they re talking about expansion of nato. and saying that sweden and finland, their forces meet the criteria. that would be a massive continuation of the alliance and get the attention, has already gotten the attention of the kremlin. putin s efforts to destabilize the alliance has seemed to, for the most part, it has only brought them closer together. sit tight for a second. let s get an update on this story we talked about yesterday. we re learning more about the diplomatic efforts from free a marine veteran from russia. the new york times reports that the former new mexico governor bill richardson started the negotiations on the prisoner swap that freed trevor reed, and richardson flew to moscow a day before russia invaded ukrai