hopefully people have heeded the orders to evacuate. angie, thank you for that. we ll check in with you in just a few minutes. coming up on way too early we ll have much, much more on the massive hurricane pounding the gulf coast. we ll have a live report from tampa straight ahead. we ll also look some of the days other headlines including a new reporting on special counsel jack smith s team questioning witnesses about rudy giuliani s drinking. plus we ll bring you the latest from fulton county, georgia, where district attorney fani willis is looking to expedite the trial for all 19 defendants in that state s sprawling election interference case. those stories and much, much more when we come right back. wk