While. That does it for us this morning. Morning joe starts right now. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. On an extremely busy wednesday, october 10th, were following a number of fastpaced developing stories this morning. Chilling new reporting from the Washington Post and the New York Times on the disappearance of Washington Post columnist jim malkashogi. Well talk to David Ignatius about that and get the very latest. Well have him about the political and Foreign Policy implications of the sudden resignation of u. N. Ambassador nikki haley. Plus, the audience at president trumps rally last night, again, breaks out in a lock her up chant, this time for someone other than hillary clinton. Steve kornacki will be here to make sense of a slew of new polling out this morning. But first, we are just hours away from Hurricane Michael making landfall in the Florida Panhandle, bringing with it life threatening storm surge as high
as 13 feet in some areas. The storm strengthened into an ex
winds. the storm surge one to 13 feet over a 100-mile section of the florida coastline. a lot of this is small fishing towns and little oil towns. joe, you ve been to these areas here. picturing panama city beach later on, you know the building codes are very strict in florida, but they re not strict for this keep of hurricane damage. if it goes in at a cat 4, this will be the strongest one in such a long time. back in 2004, hurricane ivan hit pen pensacola. the impact was devastating. talk to people in that area about just how devastating a category 4 will be if it s a direct hit on panama city and panama city beach.
we don t have it about donald trump because we know him and his talents. and he s a new yorker. but we ve had a complete blind spot about ben carson. yes, of course, we all have opinions. this is your opinion, but that is where he belongs. i still have a blind spot about ben carson. i have seen guys and women running for city counsel in pen pensacola, florida who were good people that because they got in there and didn t know how to govern, no experience, didn t know how to negotiate, didn t know how to do deals and didn t know how to work with other people and didn t know how to handle c handle services, they were a disaster. i have seen people on school boards that were good, christian people. that got elected because they
united states? white house press secretary said the voters have decided about the president. although polling is low. seen senators call for franken s and connier s resignation, does risk losing. endorsing roy moore? backed by rnc as well. i ve addressed this in depth. we think allegations are troubling and ultimately this is something the people of alabama should decide. why not call him out? the president failing to lead? kristen, i m going to move around you. president endorses moore. not billed as campaign rally in pennsylvan pen pensacola but people can see broadcasts from there. and rnc is supporting moore.