yeah, you can hear. this is the beat with ari melber, where one week at official voting of 2024, launch of these presidential primaries. candidates already barnstorming iowa this weekend. you re seeing just some of what happened on your screen. and for many reasons, these first few primary states at the pivotal and possibly last test of the republican party deciding whether to bring its trump passed into the future. nikki haley, trying to emerge as the one alternative to trump, arguing voters can get mugshot without trump chaos. by just picking her. i agree with a lot of his policies. he was really good at breaking things. he just wasn t good at fixing them. and now, we look at the fact, rightly or wrongly, chaos follows him. chaos follows him. and that may sound like a pretty team contrast that she s drawing, but trump views haley now as his main possible threat. an establishment hack of sorts. trump s pivot toaley after months of unrelenting attacks against desantis
normally would have people fearful the federal reserve will be inclined to start hiking rates again in the face of this. again, that was not a worry for the markets. maybe with a strong jobs report, there s a lot less worry about a decision and a lot more hope that we could dodge one altogether. welcome. i m neil cavuto. because you ve got that juxtaposed against republican candidates criss-crossing battle ground states talking about how awful things are. we re following the principals and how the economy is going and the debt ceiling package and relief that we have a package and avoided default fed into this rally today. let s go to rich edson in pella, iowa. how that is going down there. rich? good afternoon, neil. got a couple of republican candidates in iowa today. many more coming tomorrow for senator joni ernst s roast and ride in des moines about an hour drive from pella. governor ron desantis will be at that roast and ride event. he s finishing up a full day of camp
about jobs, making his first indictme. whe s learned tonight about tomorrow s arraignment and adding to the legal team, the key edition on the eve of making history the first time a former president has ever been criminally charged. also tonight, 95 million americans on alert right now, a major storm system bring life-threatening tornadoes, damaging winds across several states in hein the north, major snow. the national weather service warning this is a level 4 out of 5, the s ttrong tornadoes. the alarms reaollhooting in. what they ve revealed about the shooter, how many shots, how long it was planned and what the shooter studied. overseas in russia and the explosion with the blast that kill add prowar, proputin blogger and new images from the caffey and the moment the blogger was hand add statue of himself that then detonated. here in the u.s., the case that returned to the spite light with so much spotlight with the attention and the murdaugh family and the death of th
top of the hour, this busy thursday morning, i m jim sciutto. i m poppy harlow. welcome to our viewers. the breaking news we are following this morning, hurricane ian leaving just stunning devastating destruction in florida as a hurricane then a tropical storm. still pummeling the state though. 14 million people in florida are currently under flood alerts. 2.5 million businesses without power along with homes. they re rescuing people trapped inside flooded homes. governor ron desantis spoke about the devastation so many are waking up to this morning. there s 1.5 million outages in 7 southwest florida counties. lee and charlotte are basically off the grid at this point. the amount of water that s been rising and will likely continue to rise today even as the storm is passing is basically a 500-year flood event. the impacts of this storm are historic. and the damage that was done has been historic and this is just off initial assessments. well, the risk of storm surge and
we had some of the strongest winds here so far. good evening, once again, i am stephanie ruhle. we are continuing live coverage of hurricane in, the category four storm made landfall on florida s west coast this afternoon, and it is still battering the state with heavy rain and hurricane-force winds. right now, more than 2 million homes and businesses in the state of florida are without power. let s get right to nbc meteorologist michelle grossman for the latest. michelle, i know you just got the 11 pm update for the national hurricane center. what have you learned? i will look at it with you, because it s right at the presses. we re still looking at a strong storm. we re looking at heavy rainfall, gusty winds, and we will look at what we are seeing in terms of wednesday, because we are holding on to the strength. let s hold back for a second because you saw wind speeds up to 135 miles per hour. this was a historical storm, if it is the big historical, catastrophic. we ll