jeanne moos, cnn, new york. cnn newsroom continues with jim acosta right now. you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. good evening. we begin this hour with 70,000 people estimated stranded in the nevada desert. they came for the normally sun-soaked and raucous burning man festival, but extreme weather crashed the party. a storm dumped two or three months worth of rain in just 24 hours. one death during the downpour is being investigated. attendees are now bogged down in thick, ankle-deep mud, making driving impossible and walking a slog for many people. they re being told to conservative water, food, and fuel at this point. earlier on someone, one woman described her efforts to escape the mudfest. it was kind of a crazy thing, but i hitched a ride with an atv that was heading out that needed to get somebody more important than me out. they were willing to let me sit in the back. so got a ride out to the main road. then when i got out there,
and he d still have an overwhelming lead. the maga base doesn t need to see him repeating applause lines, and most view the indictments as a partisan vendetta, and each charge has pushed up his polls. now, let s say my calculation is off and reporting on the courtroom dramas knocks so points off his 10 points off his total. so what? trump is at 59% in the latest wall street journal poll and could still win the nomination without breaking a sweat. the biggest possible pitfall i see is that he loses iowa or new hampshire and that upends the race. love him or detest him, trump knows how to drive the the news cycle. he can attack his critics on truth social, post videos and do tv interviews. the idea he ll somehow be silenced is a fantasy. i m howard kurtz, and this is mediabuzz . howard: with a federal judge setting a march 4th trial date for the justice department s indictment do on election interference charges, that s the day before super tuesday, the commentators
inquiry on joe biden. i will not fundy government because i will not fund the weaponized part of the government. we won t continue to fund the biden regime s weaponized government, so there should be no funding for jack smith special counsel. i will get reaction to that threat from marjorie taylor greene, in just a bit. and former president trump, and several of his codefendants want to distance themselves and avoid facing the same jury in georgia. we will have that story ahead as well. we want to begin with the president, right now on the ground in florida, surveying the devastation from hurricane adalja, biden arrived in the state just a couple of hours ago. and is expected to speak in just over an hour for governor ron desantis, he will not be meeting with the president, claiming a meeting would hinder response efforts. we want to bring in who is live for us in live oak florida. just down the street, we ve been following the president meeting with local officials there
pete: thank you. will: you guys are just vibing on the music. pete: everyone at home is too. muck. will: they won t even interact with me. [laughter] they re just done. rachel: too busy grooving. we only have an a hour left of the show. it just kind of flew by. pete: by the way, it s national v-j e day, victory in japan. big day. it s also world beard day. you look better in a beard, but you re not allowed to wear one. rachel: i ve never seen him in a beard, have i? pete: he rocked one for years. will: it wasn t that great. pete: national blueberry popsicle day as well as play outside day and and world coconut day, so take your pick. rachel: i love coconuts, and i would like to try a blueberry popsicle. pete: sounds good. as you careen out of her into the fall which will: now i m okay with that. pete: now you re okay? will: it s almost september. pete: it is september. will: is it september? if i don t pay attention to details like that. [laughter] so it s september, it s
billion medicare beneficiaries use one or more of these ten drugs in the past year and paid a total of 3.4 billene hours out of pocket for those medications. that is on top of the 55.9 billion dollars that the government spends on the safe checks every year. the federal government is the largest buyer of prescription drugs in the united states. now theoretically, in a market system, that would mean it has some measure of influence over the drug prices. power that has been specifically nullified by something called the non interference close. back in 2000, three when congress and president george w. bush passed the prescription drug benefit to medical care, pharmaceutical lobby added something called the non interference clause, which prevented the government and prescription drugs and the country s negotiating drug prices directly with pharmaceutical companies. in some cases, that has resulted in americans being double or triple the same amount for the same exact drug as