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in port charlotte is just north of where ian made land fall. they were hit from above and below. the storm surge flooded the emergency room and tore apart the fourth floor roof which is where theic intensive care unit is. doctors there forced to evacuate the hospital s sickest patients. the top of the hour, ian is posing a serious flash flooding risk. it movesin closer to orlando. the he feblgts are being felt along the west coast. this is video here from daytona beach. this morning we haveon an nbc tm covering it all over florida. standing by to give us live updates of the impact of ian. we re getting a clear look at just how hard hurricane ian hit cuba. let s bring in our reporter. what more can you tell us about the conditions on the island. good morning. what s going on in cuba is an unmitigated disaster. and as we remember that ian slammed into cuba, a cat 3 hurricane focusing primarily on this area. it is the center of cuban f cigars. it was devastating. a ....
parts of the state getting hit with wind gusts up to 126 miles per hour. this report coming out of redfish pass, a sform surge up to 18 feet is threatening important charlotte and the fort myers area. we have fox team coverage with steve harrigan where ian is making the direct hit. robert ray is in fort myers on how folks are dealing with this and rick reichmuth is in the fox weather center on how long the heat could last. given the slow movement, quit awhile. welcome. i m neil cavuto. a busy day right now and a monster of a hurricane that is big and also slow. that is the problem. it hangs around awhile. steve harrigan with more. steve? neil, we had the illusion for the last 15 or 20 minutes that things might be dying down. that was the eye of the storm. part of that eye passed over us. the skies got lighter, the heavy rain which has lashed for hours stopped completely. the winds died down. now the tail end of that storm is beginning to hit us, the back side of it. w ....
if we lose more time we may lose the ability to leave. if we leave we are going to do it now. the jury takes the steve bannon case after a wild, wild day of final court arguments and the white house physician said the president is doing better one day into fighting off coronavirus. we begin the hour with donald trump and new details in the second by second reconstruction of his insurrection day negligence. the panel wrapped up their first round of public hearings with a promise to reappear in september after spending the past month laying out the factual record. the republican chair says the committee is completing pieces from the insurrection puzzle. last night they had more than enough to establish this. then president trump did not try to move any arm of his government to stop the capitol attack, no calls to the military or homeland security or fbi or d.c. officials or to check in on his vice president. he called rudy giuliani and senators. former white house aid ....
spur the justice department to launch a criminal case. nobody wants an organized crime prosecution where the d.o.j. lawyers or prosecutors go after foot soldiers and lieutenants but don t go after the people that are ordering the crimes and putting all of the criminal events into motion. so, i agree with that. you know, i think that as a matter of justice it is just wrong to punish the people that are seduced by a criminal mastermind but not the mastermind himself or herself. the hearing provided this jaw-dropping account of just how much danger vice president s secret service detail thought that they were in. members of the v.p. detail were starting to fear for their own lives. there was a lot of yelling. there was a lot of very personal calls over the radio. it was disturbing. i don t like to talk about it. there were calls to say good-bye to family members, so on and so forth. for whatever the reason was on the ground, the v.p. detail thought it was about to ge ....
acknowledging that americans are, quote, really, really down right now after this strain of the pandemic. and as they struggle with inflation and rising interest rates. we want to welcome our viewers here this the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with the first public response by former president trump to the damning evidence and testimony presented by the january 6th select committee. cnn s jessica schneider is following all the new developments in the investigation. i never called mike pence a wimp. i never called him a wimp. mike pence had a chance to be great. he had a chance to be, frankly, historic. but just like bill barr and the rest of these weak people, mike, and i say it sadly, because i like them, but mike did not have the courage to act. former president trump using his platform at a conservative political conference to deny the evidence against him and blast the january 6th committee. they ....