It states Hurricane Helene was just upgraded. A powerful category three storm. Its already wreaking havoc on bridges and roadways such as this one youre looking at in Southwest Florida for those in the Big Bend, thats where the Florida Panhandle meets the peninsula. The storms Outer Bands all already have brought extensive flooding. And were told that works is yet to come. Listen to what federal and state officials are saying right now, it looks like its dead on hit to tallahassee. This is an unusually dangerous storm that threatens to bring Heavy Rain and potentially catastrophic flooding. This will be a statewide event. We expect strong winds throughout date with hurricaneforce Winds Wind Gust up to 8,200 miles an hour you just heard from the North Carolina Governor and the Georgia Governor we are standing by to hear from florida governor Ron Desantis in the next hour. And as you heard, it is not just florida in helenes pam, georgia, south carolina, North Carolina, are all all facing
and there was infanticide at scale to the western mind. therw the whole thing was repugnant and alien. but maybe the most un-american thing about the chinese, one child policy was a policya h itself. the idea that government could ment cf into the moste deta intimate details ofilof your private life struck most americans at a gut levell as incomprehensible. the whole point of america was to avoid plans like that. the whole point of america is personal freedom. that s where the country was founded. what you do in private on your own time, with your own money i within the boundaries of the law wanesss your own busines and nobody else s business wasn foundational point. and on that question, therequesi appeared to be thankon god , bipartisan agreement. conservatives believed in the bill of rights. liberals believed in personal choice. my body, my choice, they said government out of our personal ths. didn they said thatt for decades now we know they didn t mean it turns out th
majority in the house. so, it s understandable that and almost justified that mccarthy is not wanting to ruffle any feathers before this important vote on january 3rd. all right. nbc news capitol hill correspondent allie raffa thank you so much. thank you for getting up way too early with us on this thursday morning. morning joe starts right now. and there it is, the u.s. capitol. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, december 29th. and we re going to get right to the news. prosecutors are turning up the heat on congressman-elect george santos, after the revelations he lied about his resume. we re going to have more on the investigation by a fellow republican district attorney. plus, the very latest on the weather emergency in buffalo, new york. first, the snow, and now concerns about flooding and questions about the response to the deadly blizzard. and we re following the latest on the southwest airlines meltdown. more cancellations and delays