law career helped me become governor. gave me advice on being a good dad. he s one of the people i talk to most in the world, and very rarely were we talking about my job. he was an incredible friend. we also lost julianna farmer, jim tutt, josh barrack, each amazing people whose families grieve them, whose community will morn and be miss. these are irreplaceable, amazing individuals, that a terrible act of violence tore from all of us. kentucky governor andy beshe making the comments about the mass shooting in louisville, hours before a fifth bank employee died at the hospital. we ll get a live report from louisville for the latest on the surviving victims and the investigation in a moment. plus, one of the two tennessee lawmakers expelled from the house floor for protesting gun violence gets his seat back. we ll have more on that development and what s next for the other lawmakers straight ahead. also this morning, we ll take you through the legal battle over a common
Crossing the Southern Border soars. And as some republican governors resort to political stunts with peoples lives, well talk about that. Later this morning, former Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton will be our guest. We look forward to talking with her as well. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is friday, september 16th. Along with joe, willie and me, we have u. S. Special correspondent for bb news, katty kay in london, and the host of Way Too Early White House Bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, also with us the president of the National Action network and host of politics nation, Reverend Al Sharpton joins us this morning. You know what people say about our show, that morning joe show is the most mindful show, we teach everybody that two things can be true at one time. Were not always that mindful. Were going to be talking about that. Were going to be talking about the crisis at the Southern Border, and by the way, i understand every two years, yes, theres the Conv
love the reading. something tells me he doesn t really believe that, because tonight we re learning that we could soon get answers to one of the most important outstanding questions, who actually had access to those documents? now, first, although the white house press corps has thrown out, we had to give him some credit. the occasional tough question, the media, for the most part, has been basically regurgitating white house talking points. why exactly are republicans démarche visitor logs from president biden s private home? they know full well there are no visitor logs. it has never been standard practice. they don t exist. white house said yesterday no such records exist. both the secret service, the white house counsel s office saying, look, we don t have those laws. not only is the secret service saying no such thing, but the fox news has learned that at the secret service is prepared to give congress the names of any visitors they have documentation of to biden
newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we re following breaking news out of south korea. a horrific chain of event and a fast rising death toll in seoul. 146 people are confirmed dead. this happened a t a halloween festival. the video is graphic. it s a chaotic scene on the streets of seoul as people perform cpr. the fire department chief says the cause is presumed to be a huge controllable crush of people. we do not know what led to that crush of people. the white house, at this hour, is weighing in. jake sullivan wrote the reports out of seoul are heartbreaking. we are thinking thof those who lost loved one. the united states stands ready to provide the republic of career with any support it needs. let s get to will ripley who has been covered this. what more are you learning about what happened? reporter: the number of people and families affected by this continues to grow. you re talk about 146 people, at least killed. that s a death toll that has almost tripled since
mid-atlantic states. after leaving florida, ian did make landfall earlier today near myrtle beach, south carolina, as a category one hurricane. it heavily flooded a local street. do you see this? this was a scene a few miles south and nearby pawleys island. the streets are turning into rivers look at this. the power of the storm surge as the hurricane was churning, the atlantic ocean, it sliced a peer into. as ian news northward tonight, a tornado watches now in effect for parts of the carolinas and virginia for at least one more hour until 10 pm eastern. meanwhile, back in florida, the extent of the destruction, well, it s staggering. this, that we re looking at, that is aerial video of fort myers beach. much of the committee has simply been totally obliterated. the result of a hurricane smashing into that part of florida as a massive category four storm. last night, the sheriff s office in lee county what you campuses the fort myers area, is releasing this new video, showin