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sure what the king of late night is up to but we do know he s not riding roller coasters at six flags because they have a height requirement. i love you greg, don t ban me from the show. as for our country, where the hell are we? after indicting a president for the first time in our 246 year history, that s right america s 246, same age as dianne feinstein. like a lot of you, i watched trump fly home today after getting indicted and i have to be honest i found the whole thing disturbing but i will admit after two years of biden it was refreshing to see the president make it up the airplane steps in one try. now the good news for the country is they didn t handcuff trump so we were spared the banana republic image of a president handcuffs. alvin bragg was in a really tough spot on that one after all he if he handcuffs a president next thing you know he d have to start handcuffing robbers and rapists and murderers. come on, bragg. come on, man. no, no, under alvin bragg s ....
at local high schools to aid residents. still no word on what started the fire. but thankfully nobody has been hurt. for the latest on the jersey wildfire, head to the fox weather app. or stream fox weather on any tv or connected device. should point out that april is peak wildfire season in new jersey, the garden state. ainsley: very rare. we think of wildfires out in california and not new jersey. steve: you do. look at that this is literally 90 miles south of where we are sitting. not too far from the jersey shore inland a little bit. but, a lot of people waking up this morning along the jersey shore where it smells like smoke. ainsley: you will probably be able to smell that from several towns over. steve: it s a big mess. be careful down there. ainsley: no fatalities. steve: none so far. it looks like they are getting a handle on it. meanwhile the u.s. defense department is still scrambling to try to plug that leak of classified documents that poses a v ....
we go up this beautiful mountain, this incredible town, back to the 12th century, people charge up the hill to the beautiful church to take the walk at michael coreleone. now and forever more, it will be sort of the godfather theme park, where they are just playing the godfather theme over and over. most are disgusted by it. imagine not waking up every day as one bus after another field with japanese tourist go up there. look, michael coreleone got married there, it is so fantastic! [ laughter ] is one of the most beautiful places in europe, a place whose roots are very much the town where i live, but somehow, i ve never been able to get it right. to tell the story, any story of sicily. it is the biggest island in the mediterranean, two main towns of palermo and catania on opposite sides. i ve done a show in palermo before, it was an epic goat rodeo, a failure of humiliating scale. this time, i was going to get it right. there is the sicily we know from films, an ....
category 4 storm leaving a huge path of destruction and millions in the dark this morning. we ll have a live report in just a moment. meanwhile, rescue crews have been busy trying to get people who decided to ride out the storm to try and save them. they re stranded now by rising flood waters and we re still tracking ian as it slowly makes its way across florida. at this hour, it still has more to go. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it s thursday, september 29th. joe is off this morning. along with willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. without power this morning, first light this morning will begin to show the damage in florida. that s right. that s when we re going to start to see the story of what happened last night, what happened overnight. tropical storm now ian downgraded from a category 1 hurricane. in just the last hour, but still wreaking havoc across florida as it made landfal ....
just after 3:00 p.m. east coast, the eye crossed over a barrier island near ft. myers, florida. this is a live look at the satellite right now. you can see the immense size and strength mof the hurricane. the winds are 150 miles an hour. that s just shy of making this a monstrous category 5. this was the scene just ahead of landfall captured by a storm chaser in pine island, florida. these conditions are expected to worsen in the coming hours, believe it or not. more than 850,000 customers are without power across the state of florida. another major concern today is the storm surge. the storm surge is the abnormal rise of ocean water that s generated by the storm. the lee county sheriff expects that to be, quote, life changing today. that area includes ft. myers and the city of cape coral where the emergency management manager tells cnn, hurricane ian will likely be one of the worst the region has ever seen. we are covering the storm as only cnn can with our team of jou ....