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sources are telling us that house republicans are on a conference call right now. theyre trying to figure out what is the path forward to get a speaker in place. just within the last couple of minutes, we saw kevin mccarthy telling our team on the hill he thinks he will get to the magic number, 218, same game plan, he says. look at that right there. we have new reporting this morning into how hes trying to make this happen. hes been deploying five trusted allies to negotiate with these...

no path to becoming speaker of the house because a bunch of conservative members of the republican conference have dug in against him. what has changed this morning? why should today be any different after the three failed votes yesterday? a couple things mccarthy is doing like send his allies fanning out across the conference, trying to get some members voting present instead of no. well talk about that in a second. keep in mind, the numbers here. mccarthy can only atord four defector...

needed to be the speaker for a fourth consecutive time. florida republican byron donalds appear to have received just enough support to prevent kevin mccarthy from getting to 218. so what happens now? the house remaining paralyzed this hour. no committees, no legislation, elected members cant even be sworn in. they dont even know if they are getting paid at this point after they have tried and failed again four times to elect a speaker. its a level of dysfunction unseen in modern polit...

buck? buck? bucshon? mccarthy. budzinski? jeffries. burchett? mccarthy. burgess? mccarthy. burlison? mccarthy. bush? jeffries. calvert? mccarthy. caraveo? jeffries. carbajal? jeffries. mccarthy. carl? mccarthy. carson? jeffries. carter of georgia? mccarthy. carter of louisiana? jeffries. carter of texas? mccarthy. casar? jeffries. case? jeffries. casten? jeffries. castor of florida? jeffries. castro of cicilline? jeffries. ciscomani? mccarthy. clark of massachusetts? jeffries. clarke o...

are going to push as far as they can in russian territory. what do we know did the counter offensive that continues?, right? >> reporter: yes. it continues even as the referendums continues. the state agency putting out new numbers this morning. this is in the 1960s. as you say, this counter offense continues. and ukraine president zelenskyy said it addressed on monday evening. and now it is the priorities. they said they want to cain goal over it. that is one of the key object...

>> this could be the storm that we have hoped would never come to our shores. >> the one thing i hear most common after these disasters is if i had only known it would be this bad. and so i think thats my message to them is were trying to communicate to you that it can be that bad. >> okay. many in florida are heeding those warnings with long lines for water, fuel, sand bags and other supplies. schools and parks are closing and tampas international airport is set to suspend operations...

the best team toet get the job b done? done? now, if the answer t now, if the answer to thoseimagn isestions is no, and i imagine it is fo fr most of you, then neither man is really capableatr of serving as a us senator or the u.s. president . at least not without a lot of people making decisions for him. r protecting him from scrutiny and hiding the truth from the voters. from thand of course, this is t whats happening in both cases. now, nbc news reporter dasha burns dared to provide...

we have teams on the ground as we prepare for the eventual landfall. we are in florida, and carlos suarez is in tampa in gulfport, and carlos, as weve been discussing, tampa, that is where the real worry is because theyre worried about storm surge and a lot of the residential areas there are vulnerable. >> reporter: that is exactly right, jim and poppy. the concern is the forecasted five to ten foot storm surge with hurricane ian. we are in gulfport. that is about a half hour drive out...

now hitting south florida and the storms eye is off of cubas coast moving into the warm waters which means the storm could grow and get for powerful. it hit werp cuba hard overnight with winds and heavy rain just at-battering the island. the forecast models have it projected to make landfall in tampa bay as a major hurricane. storm surge is one of the biggest threats from the storm. and as much as two feet of rain could be falling in some parts of florida from this. officials there say...

new mexico to campaign for democrat gubernatorial candidate michelle. nothing on his schedule and he plans to stop by the southern border while he is there. >> todd: in the meantime, we did not mention the border crisis one single time nor did he talk about crime, conflation, gas prices were many of the other issues boaters they actually matter to them. brooke singman wrapping all of it up for you this morning, good morning. >> hey, good morning, guys president biden will go the final ...