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plus this hour live near russias border where russians try to avoid putins war on ukraine. going there next. the new lawsuit. the challenges president bidens plan to cancel student loan why what it could mean if you thought you would get the loan forgiven. ♪ welcome to "the lead." hurricane ian barrelling toward florida. it is a category 3 storm meaning ians winds could reach up to 129 miles per hour. ian is expected to strengthen into a category 4 storm later tonight with winds up...

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Rebuild do it right is all i am asking. the bottom line is when we ask people to evacuate, and we clearly asked people to evacuate and the governor asked people and we used the wireless emergency alert system to warn people the ocean was going to rise and do this type of destruction, people still failed to heed the warnings and lost their lives. i expect the fatality count to climb today and tomorrow as we get through the debris, and i am very frustrated by that. we seem to not learn this lesson...

whose states have been hit hard. >> and finally, colorado on fire with their governor. im candy crowley. and this is state of the union. twice a week for the white house, a major victory in the supreme court followed by history of a different sort on the house floor. the president used the trappings of the white house in this case the formality of the east room to suggest in picture and in word that the supreme court ruling settled the controversy over his health care law. >> todays de...

>> and this is the vertical version. >> theres a vertical surface wave and horizontal surface wave. the vertical has an up or down motion and the horizontal has a back and forth motion. >> some type of hybrid, as well, where it can go both ways. >> it can go both ways. both of them will arrive. they will be two separate waves. first the vertical wave, then the horizontal. >> which does more damage? >> it really depends on the structure, i think, so theyre both damaging. >> we are getting a lot o...