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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 ....
Seen one hurricane, you have seen one hurricane. the important thing is all this damage will be local to somebody and we will be there to support the local authorities as they address those damages. shepard: brigadier general glenn hagler, domestic operations at the guard bureau, great to see you. thank you to the men and women of the guard. we appreciate you. .assert. shepard: thank you very much. some pictures coming in. a live look at some video ride along the shore. it is still really kicking up in southeast florida. listen. ewok overhear this way. the wind has just been relentless out of your in the area. look at the sailboats over there. easily pushed up against the shore, rocking back and forth at an angle. i want to put this one boat over here. you can see wave after wave, that is a very bad situation for whoever owns that vote, really ....
Epic hurricane. category four storms, directed in a small town like that. it is not going to be pretty. the hope is that people in monroe county from key to shining key will get themselves back up and running as they always have. they will need our help. if you want to give, it is an easy google. red cross is a good place to go. they have been giving suggestions, but we are following the storm with rapid urgency as we go from reporter to reporter and see a slight little slice of what is happening. the big picture, category for storm in bonita springs, fort myers, cape coral, senate bill island, captiva. ....
This hurricane and that was while predict it. we will see this week and a little bit. that doesn t take the potential storm surge along the coast, but certainly you can see some of the drier air workingmen. i don t say we will think we will see the storm strengthened anymore, which is great news. potentially where it goes if it remains a little more offshore, shepard, i m concerned about the northeast quadrant going into all of these areas. this is the latest track and we would get we would get a new track at 2:00 p.m. right now it is the worst-case scenario for all up and down the west coast of florida. back to you. shepard: janus, it will either come in land in the next few hours and if it stays over water, it s hard to imagine what the whole post will look like. absolutely. difference between 30 and 50 mouth of short is going to be the difference between a worst-case scenario and the not so bad scenario. at this point in time, we are ....