i spoke to some of the people in this area to see what they can expect. so you can see some of the water behind me. this is water going up because of the tide. they told me what we have to keep in mind, if they see more than 6 or 7 feet of a surge here, then the water will be going into some of these houses into a hotel that s right next to us and they ve already said we could see maybe 12 feet of a surge in florida. so if that s the case in this area here in citrus county, we would be getting the water inside of these buildings and we know what can happen when the storm surge has that water going into the residential areas as we saw with hurricane ian. so the people here have been preparing, understanding there s a mandatory evacuation order in place. we saw a lot of people in the stores. home depot, buying what they could, evacuating the area. others told us they re going to wait because they re not in zone a but as of now, authorities are
today, florida governor ron desantis reminded all in idalia s path to shelter from wind and run from water because idalia will bring both and time to prepare is running out. you ve got time. you ve got the ability to do. i know all these counties have opened up shelters. you can go stay with friends, family. i know there s deals on hotels. you still have time to do that if you re in this big bend area but time is running out very, very rapidly. and the slightest shift in its path could have huge impacts along florida s west coast where nearly two dozen florida counties are under evacuation orders. more than 20 shelters have been opened for those in the low lying areas. over 500 star link internet devices are ready to deploy to keep that state online and 450,000 gallons of fuel have been staged along evacuations in case of interruptions. in tampa, the timing could not
in the mark meadows case. what do you know on that? so, it was interesting. prosecutors played that infamous recording of the call mr. trump made to raffensperger and then they took him through it and had him debunk various false statements mr. trump made. for example, mr. trump said he won georgia by 500,000 votes. raffensperger said he obviously didn t. the judge also heard meadows on the recording telling raffensperger his office was wrong, saying that only two dead people were recorded as voting in georgia saying i promise you, there are more than that. raffensperger testified investigators found four people statewide who were deceased but reported as having cast ballots. he said you add that up, none was able to come near the total of votes and mr. trump famously said was needed to change the result. there were limits to raffensperger. for example, he declined to call that call disturbing. he said he didn t think it was appropriate. nonetheless, the upshot was raffensperger rais
Former chief of staff Mark Meadows's request to move the charges against him in Georgia to federal court could be a benefit for himself as well as his co-defendants, including former President Donald Trump, if granted.
be getting under ware and voters will go to polls. it is a real problem here and a cl challenge for him. and the big thing we re watching is the mark meadows case, the white house chief of staff and arguing that he wanted to move this case, kyle, to federal court, get it out of georgia. explain what he s trying to do here. sure. so his argument is all of the conduct i m charged with, everything that they re saying i did was in the course of my duty as the white house chief of staff and that entitled me to have my case adjudicated by a federal court and dismissed because states are not supposed to be able to criminalize the work of federal officials if it is part of their official duties an that is the key fphrase and that is what the state will say. you were trying to help subvert an election. so we re going to see a mini trial play out where the d.a. wants to call witnesses and to talk about you know, what their experience with mark meadows was and it could be an interesting