i was on the police department for 25 years, saw a lot of storms here. this is by far the worst storm i have ever witnessed. i promise you, i m never going to sit through another storm ever again here. i am one of the lucky ones. just some of the survivors of hurricane ian after the storm decimated wide sections of florida, and now the storm is on track to make a second u.s. landfall threatening the carolinas and georgia. good morning, and welcome to morning joe, it is friday, september 30th. joe is off this morning, but we ll get right to the latest with ian. intensing into a hurricane again, heading to south carolina after leaving a trail of devastation in florida. it is expected to make landfall near charleston around noon today as a category 1 storm. the national hurricane center is warning it could unleash life threatening storm surge, floods and strong winds. a state of emergency is in place for the carolinas, georgia and virginia. the damage from hurricane ian is
turf after he was pushed to the ground. you can see here, he gets up wobbling and stumbles down to the ground before going in the locker room. the doctors said it was a lower back injury, and not a concussion, and tua was allowed to finish the game. the nfl players association responded by saying it is launching an investigation into the dolphins handling of concussion protocols. the nfl pa wished tua a speedy recovery and said its investigation is ongoing. nbc has reached out to both the dolphins organization and to the nfl for comment overnight. jonathan lemire, this is very very difficult to watch, and when you put those two pieces of video together, you watch him staggering and falling after taking a hit on sunday to go through the concussion protocol. then the official word from the dolphin was it s a back injury, he s going to play five days leader. to look at the video of him lying on the ground with his
it will allow states to invest in opioid education, and increase accessibility to overdose drugs. there was a highly anticipated nfl game last night. miami dolphins quarterback, tu tua, you can see his head violently hit the ground as he s sacked in the second quarter. this is hard to watch. the quarterback s arms and fingers seemed to seize up immediately. he was taken off the field on a stretcher after laying on the field for almost ten minutes. after the game, the team s twitter account posted that tua was expected to be released from the hospital and fly home with the team. this morning, we ve learned that he was, in fact, discharge from the hospital. many are asking whether tua should have been playing at all given what happened just five days ago. this is on sunday against the bills, to his head hitting the
her testimony and her time with the committee sounds like it was very interesting. we ll be following it. we ve got a lot to cover this morning pertaining to hurricane ian as it heads up the carolinas to virginia. states of emergency have been declared. we ll take a look at the front page newspapers across the country including a controversial decision from the fda on a drug to treat als. also ahead, a moment that was tough to watch last night in cincinnati, the quarterback for the miami dolphins carted off the field after a head injury. we ll explain why some are questioning whether he should have been on the field at all. morning joe is back in a moment. t aall. morning joe is back in a moment the tenth pick is in the new all-american club.