n ordered to evacuate as hurricane rita now is bearing down on the state shr gulf coast in just a moment.t. florida governor rhonda santos will join us first herest with the very latest from thisrs category three storm weather. in meteorologist ian oliver is with us in thisoliver. looks like it s going to be a direct hit right over. looks like somewhereoks li nortr fort myers, right towards tampa. yeah, anywhere from naples. igto the southern part of tampa bay, the mouth of tampa bay: stl still a reasonable scenaril o ao here. this is a monster of a storm, still a category three , as your mentioned,ee max, winds at 120we miles per hour. we actually had this inner eye wall that s been degrading, but there s an outer one that s forming. what that does is it spreads out the wind field overh a much larger area. we ve seen these impacts starttw already. tornado warnings throughouarnint the afternoon and evening across much of south florida. we ve got some active onesh flom right
sans speaker. kevin mccarthy failing again on a fifth ballot to capture the necessary number of votes, the number of opponents among house republicans has actually gone up from 19 to 20, to 21. now republicans are looking for a way out, an exit strategy. is that tossing mccarthy to the curb? is that brokering a deal with democrats to lower the vote? they have to get these 23 rebels on board. me melanie zanona is with us. what s happening here? reporter: republicans are searching for an offramp as it s become clear that kevin mccarthy s efforts to win over his opposition not working. i m told republicans have approached democrats on the house floor and tried to feel them out to see, what would it take for you to vote present or not show up? we re told these are informal conver conversations. it s still early. democrats said they would not bail out mccarthy, but they would be willing to talk about a consensus candidate. we ll see. the fact that republicans are even thinking a
fire. a gunman opening fire inside one of the offices, people running for cover. video surfacing online showing another recruitment center firebombed. and tonight, the new drone video showing the wait. up to 50 hours to cross the border to get out of russia into georgia. will russia now crack down on those border crossings? and vladimir putin s new move tonight involved edward snowden. ian pannell on it all from ukraine. also, from inside russia, the death toll rising after a horrific school shooting there. at least 17 people killed, including 11 children and two teachers. tonight, also the images coming out of iran. authorities cracking down now on protesters across that country. dozens killed. police reportedly firing tear gas and stun grenades into the crowds of protesters showing their support for a 22-year-old woman who died while in the custody of iran s morality police. martha raddatz with late reporting tonight. and iran s new warning for the u.s. and the west. in
possible way forward on gun safety legislation. the senator leading those talks, chris murphy of connecticut, will join me a little later, but after yet another community has been devastated by yet another mass shoot, we twin the reidout tonight with a hard conversation about the gun because we need to understand how we got here, and we can in the avoid talking about the ar-15 and the industry that gives murderers the tools to success. former prosecutor ryan busy explained how the ar-15 conquered the american market. prior to about 2010 or 2012 there was never a gun sold in the united states commercial market that was desert tan color. now a significant percentage of guns are sold in desert tan color. why? iraq and afghanistan? adding about 1999 in the columbine shooting, the nra set its political course. we re in the culture war business. then you have these you have these wars happening, ar-15s, patriotism, islamophobia all of that in the culture at the same time. busy
Welcome to hannity and tonight, former lawyer for Stormy Daniels and darling of the media mob, Michael Avenatti, will join us from prison. Now, apparently, Avenatti Hab J developed a new perspective as it relates to donald trump and americald trumps sysl of justice. Now, were going to hear from him straight ahead tonightl hea but first, anarchy at americast College Campuses. Students harassed, police assaulted, University Grounds littered with antisemitic signs. Chants of death to america, death to israel. And we are hamas. An ham out and far left. A agitators are now disrupting lifegi and spreading hatred all across the country. But your cowardly has little t to nothing to say. Infar away from all the chaos. Joe biden, well, talked about doing work and boots. He also repeated the debunked tall tale about driving a big rig, 18wheeler. And for the second time this week, he asked americans to, second te over democracy. Does he ever know what hes saying . W what hehe then accidentally e s