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>> this is all we had. >> we lost everything. were with not one single thing. >> everything gone. tens of thousands of floridians will sleep in shelters tonight following the devastation of hurricane ian, which has now made landfall in south carolina. also tonight, putins illegal annexation. hes unhinged, and hes dangerous. so how should the world respond? >> plus, the supreme court welcomes justice ketanji brown jackson ahead of what is expected to be another perilous term. >> its abo...

Beach, all lit up. overnight, a much different view. so many families in the dark here. abcs chief national correspondent tom llamas on the effort to get the power back on and in many places, get the water running again. hes in ft. myers. >> reporter: tonight, an army of utility crews on a mission to restore power to more than 6.5 million florida customers. >> it absolutely could be weeks, if we have to rebuild parts of the system. >> reporter: those sparks, with irma hitting, a sign of the cris...

Know. almost half, maybe even more than half, of all florida customers are without power right now. this thing still hasnt worked its way through some major, major population centers in florida. these are your storm surge warnings. you still have to worry about this. it is not nearly as serious on the east coast, southeastern coast, atlantic coast of the florida but there is some serious weather there and well take you there to show you how serious it is and a lot of damage. here in the keys wev...

Specifically, about ft. hood, well address them. we dont have any choice here but to address what happened. and do everything possible to assure the safety of our men and women who work on these bases and their families. that isnt an option. it isnt a matter of a question or a challenge too tough. we will do it. >> colonel alan west joins me now. he was a commander on the ft. hood base for two years and knows it well. good to have you. >> good to be hire. >> in september 2013 a man opened fire a...

Years later. and trying to turn it into a positive, trying to look towards the future, trying to build a memorial for the people who died november 5, 2009, these are things that our community is working toward trying to make something positive out of something that was so terribly negative. >> hillary, thank you. >> caller: youre welcome. >> and joining us now by skype. staff sergeant sean manning who survived the first ft. hood shooting after being shot half a dozen times. thank you for being h...

Again has hit ft. hood. its really incredible to see this nightmare reoccur once again. >> in the earlier ft. hood massacre, there, this happened at a medical unit. and once again, tonight, we find out that it was at the first medical brigade, which is a medical unit. is there any significance to that? >> none that i can see at this point in time, although, i agree with you. its very coincidental at the same facility. >> is there anything going on with the shooter though? as far as you know, was...

>> joining us now with more. sergeant alonzo lunsford. he survived the first ft. hood shooting. very good for you to be with us tonight. weve talked before and youve been very open about the post-traumatic stress that have suffered in the wake of the is the massacre. i can only imagine what this does to you on a night like tonight. >> caller: hello? >> are you with me, sergeant? >> caller: yes, i am. >> how are you tonight? you talked about your post-traumatic stress from the first incident. how...

>> the president in chicago for a fund-raiser. he is at a fund-raiser now. fox news correspondent jen everyone griffin has the very latest. >> we just heard from officials from scott & white member olial hospital. they say they have four patients that were brought to them in everything from critical to stable condition. two more are being brought by air. they were brought by ambulance and helicopter from ft. hood. they are expecting more casualties as the night progresses. we spoke to sources on...

And i actually had to play dead for a while to prevent hassan from essentially coming up and finishing me off. >> is there, you know, the military has resolved in the wake of the first ft. hood and in the wake of what we saw not long ago in washington that they were going to tighten securi en on these bases and protect our men and women in uniform. obviously more needs to be done on that. do you have any thoughts on that? >> obviously soldiers should be able to defend themselves. you can conceal...

Heres whats left over of that storm that rolled through oklahoma. some rains in minneapolis, back through chicago. were starting to see those taper off and spreading out towards pittsburgh and washington, d.c., but this isnt really amounting to a whole lot so its beginning to kind of spin itself out with the exception of the southeast, where were starting to see a fair amount of rain. actually weve been seeing it about four hours now from birmingham to montgomery, back up through atlanta. rain o...