plus this hour live near russia s border where russians try to avoid putin s war on ukraine. going there next. the new lawsuit. the challenges president biden s plan to cancel student loan why what it could mean if you thought you would get the loan forgiven. welcome to the lead. hurricane ian barrelling toward florida. it is a category 3 storm meaning ian s winds could reach up to 129 miles per hour. ian is expected to strengthen into a category 4 storm later tonight with winds up to 156 miles per hour. as it churns over the warm waters of the gulf. mandatory evacuations are in effect. airports in tampa and orlando will be shut down. today the governor is warning people should expect to lose power once the storm hits and it could be days or longer before power is restored. parts of cuba lost power today with ian slamming into the western part of that country earlier. already the outer bands of ian are lashing the southern tip of florida in the keys as you can see in th
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rebuild do it right is all i am asking. the bottom line is when we ask people to evacuate, and we clearly asked people to evacuate and the governor asked people and we used the wireless emergency alert system to warn people the ocean was going to rise and do this type of destruction, people still failed to heed the warnings and lost their lives. i expect the fatality count to climb today and tomorrow as we get through the debris, and i am very frustrated by that. we seem to not learn this lesson in this country, and, you know, these guys behind us, they get to deal with the aftermath, and they are often the source of blame when everything goes wrong after disasters and it s a vicious cycle, and a bigger fema is not the answer. better building codes is the answer. i know search and rescues are still under way as we speak.
whose states have been hit hard. and finally, colorado on fire with their governor. i m candy crowley. and this is state of the union. twice a week for the white house, a major victory in the supreme court followed by history of a different sort on the house floor. the president used the trappings of the white house in this case the formality of the east room to suggest in picture and in word that the supreme court ruling settled the controversy over his health care law. today s decision was a victory for people all over this country. as the president tried to close the book on the health care debate, his republican rival was writing the next chapter. obama care was bad policy yesterday. it s bad policy today. well, trying to ring the politics out of health care, the administration was equally determined to underscore the politics of capitol hill s investigation into a botched federal gun running sting. the resolution is agreed to. the republican-led house cited
and this is the vertical version. there s a vertical surface wave and horizontal surface wave. the vertical has an up or down motion and the horizontal has a back and forth motion. some type of hybrid, as well, where it can go both ways. it can go both ways. both of them will arrive. they will be two separate waves. first the vertical wave, then the horizontal. which does more damage? it really depends on the structure, i think, so they re both damaging. we are getting a lot of reports of violent shaking, yet the reports of fatalities is significantly lower than haiti. well, yeah. tell me about that. i think that probably has to do with having building codes, better building codes and more importantly, enforcing those building codes. and the other thing is that, you know, people in chile, they experience earthquakes on a more regular basis so they re more prepared for that. i think those combinations of