Scrambling for support ahead of the big vote. Im Edward Lawrence in for neil cavuto. This is a Special Edition of your world. The first of 2023. More on the tax hikes in just a moment. First to chad pergram where the Leadership Drama is unfolding. Chad . Edward, its been 100 years since theres this much uncertainty as to who would be speaker of the house. Kevin mccarthy can only lose four votes, but theres five members that oppose mccarthy and perhaps more. Kevin doesnt have the votes. Theres more than five people. Youll see that as we go into the election on january 3. There was 36 people that voted against Kevin Mccarthy on the conference vote. Mccarthy made a concession last night to those that oppose him. They demanded that he lower the bar for members to call for a new speakers election in the middle of the congress. He agreed. Some members still have reservations. Rosendale called his olive branch disingenuous. You think the package has moved any votes to yes . Yes. What will you
Im jose diazbalart. Right now, we are tracking the very latest on the deadly storms and tornadoes that slammed into parts of the South Killing at least seven people. Well bring you a live report from alabama. Also this morning, were following the very latest on the controversy surrounding the classified documents found at President Bidens former office and delaware home. What the Special Counsel is looking into, coming up. On capitol hill a growing number of republicans are now call ong one of their own to step down after congressman George Santos admitted to fabricating parts of his resume. Well have congressman Robert Garcia about that and more. And here in miami, i had the chance to speak with the charity providing migrants with legal advice, food, and shelter. Well discuss the challenges facing Asylum Seekers later this hour. We begin with the cleanup and recovery just beginning this morning after a dangerous storm system swept across parts of the unleashing a series of destructive
and it was not til 10, 15 minutes before my flight was supposed to take off i finally found out this all happened and so it is very frustrating. the one day we leave early, we got a delay and everything. now it s all backed up. this is insane. i don t know what to make of it. trying to be like calm and relaxed at the same time, but everything is very intense. john: begin america reports with frustrated travelers sounding off after a systems outage at the federal aviation administration grounded domestic flights nationwide. flights are back up in the sky, but there could still be trouble ahead for travelers. hello, i m john roberts in washington. sandra, welcome to wednesday. sandra: flying is frustrating to begin with, put this in the mix, it s a major headache. faa system went off, preventing pilots from receiving preflight safety notices. the president weighed in saying the cause for the outage is not yet known. what is known is the system failure will cause a
congress to stop the bleeding of bad policy. then we venture into deep blue cities where independents are fed up with high crime, drugs flowing through the wide open border and sky high inflation. a hotbed of nt 4.0 protesters three years ago now gravitating towards a republican. she is here this morning to make her case. mitch mcconnell holding the purse strings. the polls titan anyway as even alaska s ranked choice has not stopped the alaska candidate to unseat the woman who often folds with democrats. the man democrats are really worried about. the celebrity who wants to be a politician. and we have seen how that goes. texas senator ted cruz on the democrats bringing out the big guns. barack obama one week ahead of the midterms as he goes all in for herschel walker. the texas senator this morning on the issues that matter. plus, the chinese communist party now inside the gates of america as another democratic staffer is exposed for doing the work of the chinese embassy.
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