united states, and flying basically west to east. it attempted to surveilled very sensitive military sites. in some cases it loitered. or return to them. as it progressed east. so there is no doubt in our minds at all that this was a surveillance balloon and be it was attempting to engage in active surveillance. as for the meeting with the china diplomat, blinken said as a direct conversation about the spy balloon. there is one thing blinken did not get from china, an apology. i will tell you know, there is no apology. i told them that was unacceptable. oh, but the rest of the bite administration seem to love his unacceptable message. believe me the message was clearly sent to china this is unacceptable. secretary blinken was able to deliver that message in munich. what secretary blinken said to the chinese it was very clear what the chinese did was totally unacceptable. i am sure china is shaking in their boots. appreciate the audible laughter from you, charlie dur
the cold war. if you thought ozwald wasn t a lone gunman they called you a crackpot. later, if you thought the fbi spied on trump, you were putin s puppet. and then came covid-19. if you didn t like that the government shut down your business, you were branded an outlaw. if you didn t think mask mandates worked, you were called a murderer. if you thought the wuhan virus might have come from a lab in wuhan that made viruses, the government called you crazy. they even censored you. the virus had to have come from a wet market. the sea the the sea sequences they evolve and mutations that it took to get to the point where it is now is totally consistent with a jump of a species of an animal to a human. many of us feel that it is more likely this is a natural occurrence sars cov 1 animal reservoir to a human. we still don t know what the argument is. it is more likely to be a natural jumping of species from an animal reservoir to a human. jesse: but the first liberals who da
storm in florida s history. right now, more than 1.2 million people are still without power. duke energy, which provides flower power to central florida, says it could be days until it s restored. here is ron desantis earlier today, on the latest efforts. over the last 72 hours, there have been over 1100 confirmed rescues made by first responders and likely many more than that and those are the reported ones as of 6:00 this morning. we have called in the army corps of engineers at the request of the counties to help with the damage to the water system, and i know that some of this is lee county water utility. some of it may be the platinum line as the core is working with all of those groups. they are meeting again today to figure out what the best ways to go forward. clearly, having those core services, like the water and like the electrical, are really top priorities after the life rescue mission. one of the most hard-hit cities and florida was fort myers. check out thi
this is all we had. we lost everything. we re with not one single thing. everything gone. tens of thousands of floridians will sleep in shelters tonight following the devastation of hurricane ian, which has now made landfall in south carolina. also tonight, putin s illegal annexation. he s unhinged, and he s dangerous. so how should the world respond? plus, the supreme court welcomes justice ketanji brown jackson ahead of what is expected to be another perilous term. it s about damn time we have a discussion about the right-wing freakout over lizzo and james madison s crystal flute. we begin tonight with hurricane ian. once again making landfall. this time on the coast of south carolina as a category 1 hurricane, the first to strike the state since 2016. the storm now a post tropical cyclone is expected to move across the carolinas tonight into tomorrow morning. the national hurricane center is warning of life-threatening storm surge and severe flooding. just take a
got, less than a thousand power outages, but also just be prepared in case something turns or something happens this afternoon. ainsley: down in florida, desperate search and rescue efforts are underway this morning. at least ten are confirmed dead. but officials warn that number will likely be higher. the damage i saw was on fort myers beach. but they have been more than 700 confirmed rescues and is likely many more than that. ainsley: florida s governor will give a press conference, at 8:45 a.m., with an update on ian. we ll bring you that life. you will see some before-and-after shadows showing the intent of the damage fort myers. a crew is being sent down to prevent all the looting. can you believe that people would actually steal from other people when they are out of state? brian: more than 2 million people across florida still have no power. we have team coverage this morning. fox weather correspondent robert ray is live in fort myers with a look at the damage.