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a shot of a predawn los angeles. welcome to the fourth hour of morning joe. it is 6:00 a.m. out there on the west coast, 9:00 a.m. here in the east. i m jonathan lemire alongside the bbc s katty kay. we re happy to report that msnbc contributor mike barnicle is joining us for the hour. we re in for joe, mika, and willie. catty, a lot of headlines to get to in this hour. the biggest one got mike off the ice rink earlier. landed a couple triple axels and came upstairs and i m sort of disappointed he s changed out of his outfit, but there we go. and took the gold medal off. right. let s get to the headlines, mike, beyond yours. the latest from buffalo where the national guard is going door to door checking on residents who lost power during the deadly blizzard. we ll have the latest as officials face scrutiny over that. and southwest airlines cancels more flights as it struggles to recover from the winter storm. the unions are speaking out about how the dis ....
[inaudible] more on this in a moment, but let s get right to the very latest on capitol hill. cnn s monumental mona is there tonight, you have some new reporting i understand with negotiations. any movement, what is going on? not quite yet, laura. all the negotiations have wrapped up for the night, the people who are in some of these key meetings have left the building, and not a single person who voted against kevin mccarthy on the house floor has said they are going to change their votes just yet. now kevin mccarthy did make an offer to these members, there is some sort of agreement on paper and some of the holdouts were invited to look at that and review it over. they have been doing that all throughout the evening, coming in and out, coming out various moments and looking at it. but looking out of all these meetings, they have been very tightlipped. so they have not agreed just yet. kevin mccarthy is still projecting confidence, he is saying they are making pr ....
right? it also buys time for more negotiations to take place behind closed doors after kevin mccarthy suffered five more defeats today for a total now of 11. so, what s gonna happen in just a few hours? how will that change things, he hasn t seen the progress yet? plus, we have new news on the buffalo bills damar hamlin. he is awake and making remarkable progress just three days after he collapsed on the field in cardiac arrest during monday night football. the nfl has officially canceled that game, and cnn has newly-obtained audio from the moment hamlin collapsed. i don t like how you went down. a minute everybody on-call. bring everybody. we need a helicopter, everybody. we need all of this. we never went down here. more on this in a moment, let s get down to the latest from capitol hill. melanie zanona is there for us tonight. melanie, you ve got some new reporting on the negotiations. any movement, what s going on? not quite yet, laura. all the negotiation ....
this afternoon it came ashore as near category 5 strength, as a high category 4 after bidding for hours as it approached. oh, you got to be kidding me! you got to be kidding me right now! right now it is still a category 3 storm, still a major hurricane with damaging winds spanning out 175 miles from the center. oh, my god. no less troubling than the winds tonight, potentially even worse hurricane ian is still pushing a massive storm surge onshore. forecasts as high as 18 feet in places where buildings living close to the water was why so many people moved there. take a look. this is fort meyers beach, and that is a community outreach center knocked off its foundation and floating down the street. making matters worse, the flood waters affecting residents who are doing the same to rescuers. a fire station here in naples is what first responders are up against along with anyone needing emergency help. and again, these conditions are not expected to improve throug ....
multiple illnesses at once. whit johnson in houston. 12 days until the midterms. and tonight, president biden in syracuse, new york, celebrating the new numbers on the economy today. unexpected good news on gdp. the president saying the deficit caught by $1.4 trillion this year. and the semindtor company investing $100 billion in factories in central new york to make those chips in america. terry moran tonight. also tonight, in arizona, where about 90% of ballots cast are mail-in ballots, among the highest in the nation, the new images tonight, allegations of voter intimidations. voters being watched closely by groups in camo. what s going on? jon karl on this. and the moment on the tarmac today. president biden and senate majority leader chuck schumer. what schumer can be heard telling the president about the pennsylvania debate between john fetterman and dr. oz. the war in ukraine. new video tonight of a raging fire in eastern ukraine and vladimir putin s new th ....