Set to make landfall in florida roughly 24 hours from now, weve just gotten a new advisory this very Hour Milton is currently moving towards floridas gulf coast, tracking towards the Sarasota Area and potentially inching even further south and its going to get a lot bigger before it gets there. That means a life lifethreatening Storm Surge potentially reaching up to 15 feet but this hurricane is going to impact the entire state. Everyone on edge because any wobble in its trajectory could actually impact which part gets hit the hardest, and to make matters worse, the area, as you know, is still recovering from Hurricane Helene. Just to show you how strong this storm is, take a look at this video showing no current and hunters that are flying inside of milton, the turbulence is so severe their belongings are actually being tossed all across the airplane. And heres The View from even higher up in space in space itself a Nasa Astronaut sharing this time lapse that captures the growing size
very good to be with you. i m alex witt in for katy tur. what jack smith s case, that is the question being batted around before judge aileen cannon in court today as major questions about her own role in the trial hang over proceedings. there is still no trial date in sight. instead, to the frustration of many, cannon is hearing out what several legal experts have called another long shot argument to dismiss charges against the former president. yesterday, the new york times reported cannon rejected urges from two federal judges that she not take the case when it was firsthanded to her last june. the question is why, when a huge chunk of her rulings have drawn criticism from the prosecution and legal scholars. is it inexperience, she was only on the bench just over a year. is it potential bias? she has shown unusual favor to trump by intervening in the mar-a-lago investigation before he was indicted or is it simply judge cannon s way of proceeding over such a high stakes h
was a prosecutor in michael jackson. so the bad blood has remained even though chris christie helped throughout the campaign but i can say about chris christie even though he was heading the transition, even though he was nominally involved in a lot of things and debate prep and the 2005 apology for that audio tape, he has been strikingly less apparent on the campaign trail since he did not get the vp role. heading the transition team a couple of days ago redulsced to smaller role but talk of this purge of everybody he hired who was loyal to him. we find out if he s preparing to have a role in this administration. that s unclear at the moment. to say he s absolutely going away, we just can t confirm that at the moment. i can tell you, in talking to intelligence sources, those
opposed a romneyizing of paul ryan. those bolder ideas, popular for some on the conservative base definitely bold are nonetheless going to attract some criticism, as they did in this situation. and they would, i think, probably his supporters would say that you take the bad with the good. nonetheless, we re seeing very little of really a chance for him to even get to that point where his ideas are being debated on their merits. he s towing the romney line and serving in a vp role. we should point out that s traditionally the role running mates take. he s number two. if romney loses with enhanced stature or not, i think that s when you start getting into this idea that his brand may be compromised here. or that he may actually smell now. here s the thing.