. . rachel: good good morn america. it is 6:00 am here in new york city. that was your national anthem. i m so happy to welcome joey, brian to the couch today. brian: that was live. i wasn t aware it goes from one nation do this. rachel: you are american history. that is why we do that. brian: i don t think that is the reason. what did you think about, the way to open the show. brian: i did not know you did it. i did not know you get real viewer pictures so people mail in different photos. joey: first time i filled in on the show, it wasn t viewer pictures but dogs. then it was cats. somebody complained about cats. rachel: we did all babies, all dogs, and because of pete we did cats. the ratings changed. started the cats. love the photo of the couple picking blueberries in the summer. nothing more american than that. that is what we do ends. brian: that is what we do. nothing more american than picking blueberries. i don t foe what kind of traditions you have in your ho
Yankee town. so you re expecting this to be worse than that is what you re saying, right? yes. and given that, clearly officials there are worried because they ve ordered the mandatory evacuation of all residents. has everyone evacuated? what is your sense right now of how many people have done so and how many people haven t? we re still having some issues out there on those out there on cedar key. one of the last reports i got, which that was earlier today, i haven t updated that yet, but there was roughly about 100 a little over 100 citizens that were still out there on the island that just refused to leave after the mandatory evacuations had taken place. we ve shoved messaging out just about every way, every social media outlet that we have, every news media outlet. we ve also done ipause messaging all the way down to going through the old school route alerting, going door to door to try to get these people to leave. if those 100 people are watching right now, what s y
Store, paying attention what is going on with the kids, schools, classrooms, culture, they are tipped off, hey we need to start paying attention. we have opportunity to shortly to make a difference with that, they re coming to the news media more than they have in the past. they re engaged. they are concerned. they don t need any news media outlet for mine that exists to tell them this is important and they already know and they re seeking out information from people that are instilling the american independence where the family unit is protected and prioritized. where we get somebody in office who will not overspend. i live across the river in the state of illinois. governor jb pritzker is a disaster. they re looking to make a difference on a wide basis. rachel: meg, annie has little kids. you have kids a little bit older. i m seeing a lot of grandmothers getting involved. what are you seeing on the ground? well i think everyone looks at our elected leaders and realizes how out of t