Harris we are keeping a very close eye on capitol hill, the house floor has just opened and members of the house could vote on their next House Speaker any time, were told. Republicans are hope louisiana congressman mike johnson will be the man for the job and can get the votes needed. He was named the partys fourth nominee last night. It was eight, then to four, then to two and now to him and it is ticking there. We will be following the action as it unfolds and bring you updates as they happen. We are also waiting for President Bidens first News Conference since october 7. He is set to take News Conference alongside afghanistan Prime Minister. That should happen next hour around the 1 00 hour now. He is facing Mounting Pressure to draw a red line with iran as Tension Mount in the middle east and our men and women have become targets of militias more than ever before. Youre watching outnumbered, im Harris Faulkner here with Kayleigh Mcenany and emily compagno, also ceo of Law Fair Pro
Were on the west coast but the effects of Hurricane Irma are being felt all over this state still. Theres a lot to report over the next two hours. Were going to be focusing on what happened in the caribbean where the storm has passed by the misery is remaining. There are now 16 deaths in the United States contributed to the storm. Twelve of them here in the states and at least others in the caribbean. Fema estimates 19 homes were damaged or completely destroyed. Over the next two hours well hear from survivors who rode out the storm and people who coming home to see whats left behind or not left. Virgin islands, the people there have told us theyre feeling neglected. The three largest islands in the virgin islands, st. Kroiks, st. Thomas. Here in the western side, they are shooting for september 22nd, thats next friday. More on that situation in a moment. First, we want to start in the keys. Lisa, is a nurse who wrote out the storm in key west. I spoke to her by phone a few moments ago
Very shallow. They felt this all the way down to mexico. They have felt this in las vegas. You would feel a 7. 1 magnitude and everyone is heightened alert. And to say that these aftershocks are going to occur for years is very unnerving to people who wont even sleep in their own homes. Karen joining us from the cnn weather center. Well speak again very soon. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. We continue our live coverage of the tremor that was felt about two, 2 1 2 hours ago in california. A followup to thursdays tremor which we now know was a fore shock. Thursday was a 6. 4 earthquake in ridgecrest, california. Friday saw a 7. 1 earthquake. That is five times bigger than what we saw on thursday. Were getting all reactions from our teams on the ground, from sarah sidner, our metrologist. I want to speak to the owners of a Super 8 Motel in ridgecrest. Thank you for joining us. What did you experience . Caller i was checking a customer and i was at the front desk. And we had this lit
Did you guys notice anybody from the theater leaving . To gate no. We were in view of the theater. Sir, what is your name . To get my name is robert. Tell me what you felt tonigh compared to yesterday morning . Did you feel it also yesterday . Yesterday morning i was lucky. I was at work and i hadnt noticed anything at all until m coworkers or did you feel that and i said feel what. She was like well, we felt this. I said no. And then as i can later my boss called and said hey, can you make sure that there is no leaks , no breaks. I was like sure, of course, bu honestly i didnt notice anything at all. Today it was the same thing. We are glad you are both okay. We thank you for taking some time to talk with us this evening. Have a nice weekend to you both. We want to welcome to you what would normally be the fox news at 11 at 10 00 p. M. We have been on for coverage. Here is the latest. We now have experienced a 7. 1 earthquake that hit at 8 16 p. M tonight that makes yesterdays quake a
ma in his own dhs officials are guesstimating that they will be 18,000 people per day trying to enter the united states. and right now would look in a 7,000 to 10,000 and brandon is right. and when you look at the gnome got a ways, these are people that have not been batted, this is a national security crisis. nsf humanitarian crisis, i mean what we saw bill miller she reported on is the same things that i ve been seeing and he s been seeing for the last several years. and now that is going to be double, quadruple, triple, we had a hundred and 30,000 just in 2022. unaccompanied minors entering the united states. a lot of the strange and abuse, and some of them actually sold. into the market, into slavery, we seen women taken advantage of, we see in the cartels amass hundreds of billions of dollars. and they ve been able to buy some i am submissive of submarines. the equipments. weapons. this is so out of control and