counties. that s along the gulf of mexico, southwest corner we pointed out a moment ago. you have 40,000 linemen on the ground. they will need them in order to restore power. dana: they have restored power to a significant portion already. it is impressive the work they ve done. there is a long way to go. 14,000 people in shelters. also a call for everybody to make sure they are being very smart in using their generators in order to protect people from any problems there and from electrocution and also from carbon monoxide. follow those instructions very, very carefully. bill: we are tracking ian and get back to that in a moment. we listened to governor desantis. pine island, sanibel, those are going to be rebuild efforts. the sanibel bridge had breaks in multiple parts of it. it was not where the water and pylons were. those held up well. it is where you had it on the sandbar and it got washed out. dana: the scale of the wreckage is southwest florida is staggering. m
plus russia meeting with allies in vienna and may announce up to 2 million barrels a day production cut. bad news for you and president biden. dana: the president visited saudi arabia this summer in hopes of convincing the kingdom to increase its oil output. that strategy now appears to have fallen flat. the white house is in damage control. when the president went to saudi arabia, he said i m doing all i can to increase the supply for the united states of america, which i expect to happen. what happened? you know, his trip to the middle east was not about oil. it was about america s position. as i just mentioned, he took action these past several months. every day in the summer you saw prices tick down at the pump. bill: james freeman on deck with analysis. jacque heinrich is live at the white house where we begin this brand-new hour. good morning. good morning, bill. we re seeing the first reports of these cuts could be much deeper than expected between 1.5 and 2
The cause of the deaths of three residents of the Holmesburg section of Philadelphia remains a mystery but investigators seem to be focusing on carbon monoxide poisoning as they issue a warning Friday.