wonderful, wonderful, laura, is a reference to steve martin s great film l.a. story when he says he s falling in love. and here i thought it came to mind because you saw me in canary yellow. that s what inspired it. anyway, it was a cinematic theme. i like the trivia. i like the fun facts to start the show. that s awesome. next i ll work on a pop up video for it. very good. and you re awesome too, jake. good evening, everyone, i m laura coates in washington. and i m allison camerota in new york and this is cnn tonight. we re also here with our panelists across the political spectrum there s actually one team in washington with me. and the other team here in new york with me. basically we have so much work we need two studios. it doesn t fit in one. so let s start with all the developments heading up to the mid-terms. the big guns from barack obama to donald trump are about to hit the campaign trail, and we ve also got new polling that tells us a lot abou
yeah, that s right, look, as you mentioned it s weakened now to a tropical storm, but weakened or not, ian is still one for the record books cutting this brutal path across florida s west coast. as much as 20 inches of rain fell in some areas. this morning, there s 14 million people under flood alerts. more than 2 million homes and businesses are without power across florida. and that intense flooding that berman mentioned there in places like fort myers and naples, here you re seeing pictures of those areas, it s leaving people who decided to ride out the storm just trapped in their homes. berman. yeah, the sun will come up soon. cnn has live team coverage up and down the coast. up into orlando, where the storm has yet to hit. our first report is from our randi kaye in punta gorda, florida, rand di, i am so happy to see you well this morning. thank you, john. good to see you as well. we got up early, we re trying to make our way to fort myers, which we know was so hard
folks are coming from all over the world. funeral on monday. bret: 2,000 guests are expected to attend. what s going on in chicago. mcdonald s ceo difficult time getting people to come back to work. rising crime and tough economic conditions made it harder. mcdonald s executive relocate to chicago. tipped off at the out in front all the way for the touchdown. it don t get better than that. ainsley: good morning, ocean city, new jersey. look at the american flag flying there on the left side of your screen. beautiful lights. and it looks like it might be on the water i would assume so if it s ocean city. it is going to be # 7 degrees there today without a cloud in the sky. a perfect sunshine if you look up the weather. brian: i was there in the winter, it is lonely in ocean city. ainsley: yes. everyone moves out. brian: foot as you will tournament went in there. ainsley: why were you there without all the people. brian: a foot sul tournament. ai
sovereign border to the south under biden s watch. desantis is now sending illegal immigrants to the blue state of massachusetts where the vineyard is, as you know. two planes filled with those illegal immigrants arrived at martha s vineyard yesterday. a state representative for that area with this angry tweet. republicans who call themselves christians have been plotting for some time to use human lives as political pawns. here is former ice director tom hoe man. they say it is imhumane and cruel and invoking religion. the open border is inhumane and cruel. they incentivize immigration. harris: it s showing up at the doorstep of the vice president s resident. greg abbott sent two more illegal immigrant buses to d.c. the drop-off point outside the naval observatory where the vice president, kamala harris lives. remember how she keeps saying our border is secure. let s go to griff jenkins who was outside the v.p. s residence now. griff. governor abbott has sent over 190
president biden: yes. you are? president biden: that s a commitment we made. it s a commitment we made. here is the situation. we agree with one china policy. we signed onto it and all the attendant agreements made from there. but the idea that it could be taken by force, just taken by force is just not appropriate. dana: jacqui heinrich is reporting live. those comments stole the show away from the economic message the president wanted to deliver and the white house is constantly finding themselves in this position and the president saying this on asian soil makes it different this time, jacqui. no kidding. very significant, dana. the white house is claiming that the president did not announce a policy shift but everything that we witnessed shows that it was. it was a clear break from strategic ambiguity for years has supported helping taiwan defend itself but september very vague about whether the u.s. military would come to its aid if china attacked. the question