all of this. i m going to get to it. i ll see you tomorrow night. thanks. this is don lemon tonight, and i m in orlando florida, and being here, what s really amazing is the amount of water. as i said last night, this has been a water storm. it s all about the water. it s not about the wind. this hurricane dumped so much water on the state of florida. what you see behind me, these trees are usually under water behind me, so people would normally be walking behind me on this path. but now, if you go there, you re at your own risk. the destruction it s caused here is amazing inland, and it didn t even see the worst of hurricane ian. their whole neighbors, homes, everything people had in the world under water right now. also, it s important to talk about the bravery of the first responders risking their own lives, rescuing strangers, some of them people who stayed in their homes that were at risk. i went out on a small boat with orange county fire and rescue today. we talked wit
guys are pushing out of the bay. see if it can catch on fire, it s on fire and we didn t want the station to go down. of trace: water kills, whether it s flooding, whether it s driving into it. whether it s storm surge, that s what kills you. one of the top five hurricanes to ever hit the florida peninsula, but the fact is there s going to be damage throughout the whole state and people and other parts of the state be prepared for some impacts. top five hurricanes, could be top three hurricanes and more than 2 million people are without access to power as hurricane ian batters this on trsunshine state. you might imagine the storms a long way from being over. still a category two tonight to and headed inland direct pass to orlando where he could sit 24 hours. it will drop feet of rain. we ve got team coverage tonight and we begin with will nunley. here s where it landed in fort myers and it s been a long day for you. good evening, what s the latest? good evening. for
category 4 storm leaving a huge path of destruction and millions in the dark this morning. we ll have a live report in just a moment. meanwhile, rescue crews have been busy trying to get people who decided to ride out the storm to try and save them. they re stranded now by rising flood waters and we re still tracking ian as it slowly makes its way across florida. at this hour, it still has more to go. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it s thursday, september 29th. joe is off this morning. along with willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. without power this morning, first light this morning will begin to show the damage in florida. that s right. that s when we re going to start to see the story of what happened last night, what happened overnight. tropical storm now ian downgraded from a category 1 hurricane. in just the last hour, but still wreaking havoc across florida as it made landfall as a
to back starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern time this morning. cases on abortion and free speech are still undecided and then there is the biggest case of all on whether former president donald trump is immune from criminal prosecution. we could get one or all of those in our second hour. we will bring you that live as soon as we begin. but first this. dana: the deadly consequences of an unchecked border, a 12-year-old girl found strangled to death in houston, two illegal immigrants now in custody. good morning everyone, i m sandra smith and a big welcome to you, bill and dana are off. jackie, great. always a pleasure, this is america s newsroom. the suspects illegally immigrated from venezuela, the first in march, the second in may, both caught by border patrol and released in to the u.s. jocelyn nungaray on monday she was found strangled to death in a creek. it is just the latest, in a string of violent crimes linked to illegal immigrants, police say they are overwhelm