that number could rise even higher as search and rescue crews work to reach cutoff areas, removing debris from destroyed homes and businesses along florida s southwest coastline and we re learning that miami-dade fire rescue crews are conducting helicopter evacuations on sanibel island. boris sanchez is there in fort myers, florida. boris, you just spoke with the lee county sheriff a few moments ago. what was said? reporter: fred, there have been a lot of questions today about the timing of when lee county ordered evacuations. we re in lee county right now in fort myers. what we ve learned is lee county ordered its first evacuations more than a day after forecasts met the county s criteria despite the fact the county has an emergency plan that suggests evacuations should have happened earlier. the county s comprehensive emergency ma or more of water would indicate the need for hurricane evacuations in the most vulnerable areas. a lot of lee county is a vulnerable area. one
the struggle is real for southwest. the lead starts right now. six days in, southwest has canceled more than 15,000 flights. tomorrow may not be better. southwest s stock is taking a hit. then, new details emerging about the final days of the trump administration. a witness told the january 6th committee donald trump s chief of staff regularly burned documents. gives a whole new meaning to fireside chats. plus, why celebrities and social media are driving a shortage of a life-saving diabetes drug. welcome to the lead, i m phil mattingly. relief is still a few days away for southwest airlines passengers. the airlines canceled 2,500 flights today. more than 2,000 others already canceled tomorrow. putting the total number north of 15,000 since bad weather hit last week. airports are filled with long lines of southwest passengers trying to rebook as piles of lost luggage continue to grow. now, while other airlines recovered from the winter storm fairly quickly, southwes
search warrant served on monday. that s right, victor. we didn t expect attorney general merrick garland to come out today but he is going to be making a statement from the justice department building in downtown washington. they haven t disclosed yet exactly what it is going to be about, but you re right, there has been pressure building in recent days since this search on monday, this unprecedented search of a former president s home, that we are watching to see whether garland may want to make a statement about this. now, this isn t something that the justice department typically would comment on. it is an ongoing investigation. we don t believe that there have been charges brought at this time. we haven t seen any emerge from this. it s also about national security issues. on top of that, garland is not the type of attorney general that makes a lot of public statements, does a lot of press conferences, even whenever there were charges for seditious conspiracy, another u
todd: the battle of the buses continues between texas governor greg abbott and new york mayor eric adams as adams threatens to take on abbott s reelection campaign by sending buses of new yorkers to campaign against abbott and texas vis-a-vis bus. you re watching fox & friends first on a thursday morning i m todd piro. carley: adams and abbott it s tough can one change their name for us. i m carley shimkus, as the biden administration keeps the boarders wide open, where is democrat outrage over this? a new report from the dhs inspector general reveals the biden administration is obtaining illegal immigrants for ten times longer than the legal limit with some migrants being held in confined spaces for over a month todd: ashlolight the o struggles of the open border policies and the effect it has we have to, for the good of america, we have to get him out of office. ashley: abbott responding with the quote from the clint eastwood classic dirty harry. go ahead, mary, m
himself will be investigated by kevin mccarthy as we reported earlier. all the justice department people and i ve been speaking to from a book i ve been working on saying that have been incredibly careful, and they would only act if they had crystal clear evidence. this is gonna be perceived as political by half of the country so it s a monumental development and we ll see if their evidence holds up in court, but it s just a shocking series of events tonight. given what s going on at the u.s. justice department now. we are blessed that david rohde, pulitzer prize reporter and executive editor for the new york stock com is working on a book that s what s happening at the justice department. david thank you for joining us. tonight thank you. all right, that s gonna do it for me for now. ali vultures gonna be here tomorrow but don t go anywhere because right now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell good evening lawrence. good evening rachel and this is one o