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
as 13 feet in some areas. the storm strengthened into an extremely dangerous category 4 overnight. the national weather service is calling this an unprecedented event, noting that no category 4 storm on record has ever made landfall along florida s panhandle. let s get right to bill karins with a check on the timing of all this. still strength ing for the hour. we have about 10, 11 hours to go for the landfall. we are going to see areas of the florida panhandle uninhabitable for days, weeks, possibly. panama city and panama city beach are right in the area. they re all veektsed, they re out of there, but they re not sure what they re going to have to go back home to. let s get to the latest from the hurricane center. gusts, 170. the last time we gave a forecast like this for a hurricane was hurricane charlie. this is stronger winds than what
basically folk count core issues. going to new hampshire, a long week of events already there to talk about the american family strengthening the economy. i mean other thing about the new hampshire, not one republican who is running for president talked about and introduced a plan about strength.ing the economy. no one talked about education. might that come maybe in iowa? many republicans are now heading to iowa. like a ping popping match.ng match. sher in iowa. she is now in new hampshire. she is a marathon h just starting this, a long way in happening. because republicans have changed the way the debates are going to happen not going to have four debates in south carolina and four debates in iowa. actually going to have one debate in each of those states and you don t get to iowa until the sixth debate. so i think if you look long terp, actually going to change the way the race is structured. i would just encourage the people watching to stay tuned. the clinton campaign they
that we can to help strengthen our recovery, to help ensure that our recovery continues. most importantly, i would say is continuing the payroll tax cut. congress, as you know, voted to extend the payroll tax cut for two more months to give it more time to figure out how to do it the rest of the year, also to continue the extended unemployment benefits wit nonpartisan congressional budget office concluded has the biggest bang for the buck in terms of strength.ing economic growth and helping job creation. alan krueger, the chairman of the council of economic advisers, thanks very much. good luck over there. my pleasure. thank you, wolf. mom jeans and sweat vests, jeanne moos brings us up to date on the latest on campaign trail fashion. [ female announcer ] splenda® no calorie sweetener is sweet.
i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with a stunning turnd around in south carolina where mitt romney has nearly downed his support in the past month to take a solid lead. in our latest cnn orc poll, 37% of likely voters are now backing romney in south carolina. santorum and gingrich are battling for second and 18% respectly. but santorum is soaring. while gingrich has dropped 25 points. paul has jumped up to 12%. perry has slipped to only 5% in south carolina. jon huntsman stands at 1%. with a look at what s behind romney s south carolina surge, let s go to joe johns. wolf, taking a detour from new hampshire, mitt romney decided to go somewhere he thought he could use some help, hoping a little extra attention to the palmetto state would pay off. looking stronger than expected in south carolina, mitt romney wrapped up his brief swing with a rally in conway. it s a state where the candidate came in fourth in the last presidential primary, but this ti