how that s not only culminated with the new tapes tonight. that s one of the special reports we work on around here. that s coming up if you want to stay with me. as for the top story tonight it is another win in accountability, a new defeat for one of donald trump s closest indicted aides. today a federal judge in washington ruling giuliani, trump lawyer giuliani defamed two georgia election workers with lies with legally false claims. that s a legal determination. he did that on his way to trying to get the election to be stolen. those workers, ruby freeman and her sure shane moss have come up before. if you follow this show or the jan 6th committee hearings you recognize the name. while different people in public life and most poll workers don t enter public life, have to deal with some public scrutiny, what they went through legally, i can tell you today, was way over the line. it was defamation, lies, threats and intimidation. i mentioned the hearings. they spoke memorab
this is what that actually looks like or looked like in keaton beach, florida. and gabe showed us the aftermath there. some boats are being sent in to check for survivors. the water thankfully seems to be receding here after all of the storm surge. but i just wanted to show you the national guard here. with response to your question where we could see the wind, we saw a lot of tree damage. a lot of tree damage. downed power lines. you can kind of tell where the worst of it was. as it blows through. and in some places it looks like a tornado came through. it is remarkable when you see the intensity of this storm. the power of a hurricane as it comes on shore. that is our colleague gabe gutierrez. he spent his morning in perry, florida, about a half an hour north. where roaring winds blow over this gas station awning before knocking out a billboard right where gabe was doing some of his reporting. a few minutes later, gusts nearly lifted him and his crew and their equipment
hurricane idalia, which is a category 2 hurricane which has just strengthened. the wind speeds are now at 105 miles per hour, and they are gaining. but it is not the wind that has people the most worried about this hurricane. it s the water. it is the storm surge, predicted to be 10 to 15 feet right where i m standing in steinhatchee. the steinhatchee river right now sat low tide. at high tide, it s another 5, 6 feet higher than where it is. add 10 to 15 feet on top of that, and the area where i am standing right now is feared to be just completely covered in water about eight hours from now. that is the concern along the florida gulf coast. about 45 minutes south of where i am in the town of cedar key, the mayor there issued his town and his people a stern warning. we re here to beg our citizens to heed this warning. this storm is worse than we ve ever seen. it is worse than we have ever seen, he said. a storm like this has not passed in this direction in over 100 years.
an economic and national security crisis. but for president biden, the chaos is doing something different. he wasn t counting on it. it is making americans take another look at if they want to reelect him. fox polling shows voters trust former president trump to do a better job on immigration by a double digit margin. look at your screen. 18 points difference here. we will monitor the news conference by ice officials and keep you updated. more breaking news right now. court action on donald trump s georgia election interference case. it is the first hearing since the judge decided to leave left leaning district attorney fani willis on the case. of course, there was a catch. fani willis had to ditch her former lover and lead prosecutor nathan wade. she called him a southern gentleman and he was cheating on his wife. anyway, with wade gone, the case moves on. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. arguments are underway on motions to dismiss the case from trum
was good, and it could be again. oh, people will come, ray. people will most definitely come. yes, they will. that will start today. i mean, mika got chills and wiped tears from her eyes a couple times. actually kind of hot in this sweater. i understand that. i have to watch that movie again, willie. i watch movies over and over again, by the way. sure, same. why not? that s an amazing scene, also. kevin costner drives off and the van comes around, james earl jones says two words, moonlight graham. getting chills. you know, some people see that and don t understand, think it s very hokey. when i hear that, i think of my dad taking me when i was a 5-year-old kid to atlanta, fulton county stadium. he d get the scorebook out. my dad would always keep score, taught us how to keep score. by the time we got a little older, we d be keeping score. like doris kearns goodwin talks about in ken burns documentary. i remember taking joey, my son, to fenway in 99 to the all-s