the five people on board. america s crime crisis showing up on the doorstep of one of the navy bases in mississippi. we put up more than 0 shipping con stainers to protect sailors from stray bullets. if you can believe that, that about says it all. you re watching fox & friends first on this wednesday morning. i m carley shimkus. and i m todd pyro. we begin with a fox news alert. lawmakers are meeting to discuss recommendation from special council john durham after his very eye opening testimony on fbi failures in the trump russia probe. lucas tomlin sson is live in washington. hey, lucas. mr. durham, did the government receive a plan to they had tried the plan to rush hawaii yes. was that intelligence important enough for director brennan to go brief the president of the united states, the vice president of the united states, attorney general of the united states and director of the fbi? yes .x was that then put into a memorandum. a referral memorandum? yes
cnn tonight. listen, one of the most catastrophic storms in florida s history, possibly the deadliest, regained strength to become a category 1 hurricane tonight. south carolina is now bracing for ian s wrath sometime happening tomorrow. and the very latest on its track in just a moment. we have yet to learn the full scope of the destruction caused by hurricane ian in florida. but what has certainly come into focus today truly is hard to find words for. at least 17 people have died so far, and that is linked to hurricane ian. president biden warns there could be substantial loss of life, perhaps more killed by a storm in florida than ever before. but it s really too soon to know more. and also too soon to say that the danger has now passed. i mean, there is debris everywhere. there s water everywhere. power lines are down. trees have been shredded. boats thrown on top of one another. countless homes destroyed, entire buildings washed away. fort myers beach took the brunt of
what he says doesn t match the facts. joe biden was communicating with hunter biden and his associates. we ve heard the voicemail where the president was keeping up with the investigation. the facts don t match what the president continues to say. carley: brooke singman has the developments ahead of today s vote. brooke: will vote will decide if president biden has to hand over documents. 32 senate republicans writing a letter to merrick garland asking david weiss to receive special counsel investigation. evidence is mounting hunter biden committed numerous federal crimes including but not limited to tax frud, money laundering and foreign violations. it involves the president s son, we believe it is important to provide special protection to allow him to investigate potentially criminal conduct. houseoversight committee james comer s request was denied. unauthorized disclosure of information can undermine potential or ongoing investigations. on 60 minutes, president bid
in the united states and all around the world. i m john vause at the cnn center in atlanta. i knelt when i am in florida where hurricane ian bringing record storm surges, flash flooding in an unknown amount of destruction. it made landfall with winds just under category five, now it s a category one slowly moving into central florida with winds around 145 kilometers an hour. millions of homes and businesses have been left in the dark. some so badly damaged by ian that there is concerns that they may not be able to be rebuilt. the governor of florida warns about the dangers that lie ahead. overwhelmingly it s been that surge the biggest issue and the flooding that as resulted of that in some areas we think it s hit 12 feet. this is been a big storm and it s done a lot of damage as it is. it s gonna continue to move through the state of florida. you are gonna see hurricane-force winds in places in central florida perhaps. it s clearly a very strong tropical storm. a storm w
i told each one of them, my conversation separately, whatever they need. sincerely, whatever they need, contact me directly. joining me now jamie rome, acting director of the national hurricane center. good to have you with us this hour. we saw in the most recent update, the 2:00 p.m. update that the storm was rapidly intensifying. the major concern at this hour seems to be the storm surge and also just how long this storm could sit. what are the areas that you re most focused on at this hour? i think water is going to be the big issue with this storm, both the incredibly heavy rainfall. you can see it starting to sweep over the southern portions of the florida peninsula. and the storm surge near to the east of where the center makes landfall, and those two when they combine together, it creates a lot of flooding issues. speaking the the mayor of tampa in the last hour, she was pointing to the separate saturation that they re already seeing on the ground there that they