frontrunners for the 2024 republican nomination, even though only one of them is officially in the race. ahead, a veteran gop strategist explains why desantis is stealing some of trump s thunder. meanwhile, election deniers are celebrating after three states pulled out of a program to protect voter rolls with two more states considering joining them. we ll explain this latest development. plus, we ll go through the changes norfolk southern is making following the derailment of two of its trains in ohio. and we ll ask transportation secretary pete buttigieg about the federal response to the disaster and how to prevent another one from happening when he joins us later this morning. and good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, march 7th. we are live in abu dhabi, the crossroads of the world. it truly is, with our 30/50 summit, forbes and know your value has come together to create an incredible, cross-cultural, multi-generational summit that, really, t
pete: this morning a terrifying warning out of collier county, florida, 911 services are down as search and rescue efforts continue across the state. no word yet on when they ll be back online. so far 30 people confirmed dead. 27 in florida and more than 1 million people in florida still without power. rachel: ian making its third and final landfall in south carolina yesterday battering the east as a hurricane before surging inland as a post-tropical cyclone. several piers including this one on pawley s island collapsing into the water due to storm surge. will: we have team coverage with the latest and chief meteorologist mcreichmuth standing by but we have alexandria hoff in florida. good morning. we re at a distribution site that opened up at 7:00 and a line of cars waiting on it at that point and ice and water being given out here by members of the national guard and food and some basic necessities and on the other side of this site, there s heavy machinery that s been a
Enjoy it. Thank you. You too. Thanks to athome for joining me this hour. So, in north georgia, in the city of augusta, near four door with south carolina, theres business called anytime bail bonding. Heres their sales pitch. If someone you know is arrested and charged with a crime, please contact augusta bail bonds. Augusta bail bonding can help you get your loved one out of jail quickly. Apparently, it is a good slogan, because augusta has done brisk business in the state of georgia. According to the washington post. Since its founding, the company has executed more than 200,000 bonds, with a total liability of over 800 and 34 million. Now, it seems that one of the owners of augusta bail bonding, is a man named scott hall. Hall has reportedly done wall for himself. Because of that, he knows a fair number of state hes also reportedly a relative of david dawsey. Donald trumps 2016 Deputy Campaign chairman. According, again, to the washington post, mr. Hall became enthusiastic about trum
Lawrence. Good evening ali. And i am wondering if Dianne Feinstein looking down from above and heard it Claire Mccaskill saying we only had just one, i wonder what her response would. Be a caveat. Respect they just had one martini over two hours. There you go. If they had more than that, thats fine as well. They were entitled to it. They were ground breakers. Alex, have a good weekend. You too, ali. With 25 hours to go, the countries on the verge of another republicanled shutdown of congress. Kevin mccarthy has no plan. And the snow plan thats likely to stop the government from grinding to a halt. The chaos caucus, not the speaker, is in charge tonight. The house has gone home. Republicans have scheduled votes for tomorrow, but so far none of the votes that they have held have brought us closer to any resolution. So, barring some unexpected innervation intervention, at 12 01 sunday, some important parts of the government will shut down entirely, and essential parts of government will b
alert. the polls, they are officially closed in the statpoleofficialek and soon maybe the fire alarms on capitolhe. maybe they can rest easy. we are monitoring the results they pour in. but far left, congressman jamaal bowman is real jeopardy of losing his reelection bid after getting primarieead someoneimar slightly less radical. bowmanbyslightly best known forg along with the squad hating israel. g spleading guilty to ain misdemeanor for intentionally pulling a fire alarmg guil insie the capitol complex in what was an unsuccessful attempt to delay a funding bill. now, congressman bowman also suggested that america deserves the border crisis we have. whted y? because of our evil capitalist ways. that s all coming up straight ahea l comingd. also coming up, you will hear wl from the mother and the grandfather of 12 year old jocelyn nun gray, the latest victim of joe biden s border crisisth. there has been a lot of them lately. now we now know this innocent littlet litt was