they know we can do it. we have american grit in our blood, they will going to vote republican november 8. send dr. oz back to new jersey, send to us dc. fight together together we stand divided we fall. i m running for the united states senate, paula i m running to win. god bless ugod bless america. live free or die. dana: bringing in our panel, james freeman from wall street journal editorial page, matt gorman for national republican congressional committee and vice president of targeted victory. and you all know jessica tarlov. one of my co-hosts, don t look now, james but the heading over past 5 days look really good for republicans, is it as it has been. i thought in spring it would be ain t inflation election. i think a lot of democrats maybe hoped for some glimmer of good news in last week s inflation report, they didn t get it, i think that voters done need that official government didn t need that official government pronouncement to note that prices
torrential rain. hundreds of miles away from where ian first came ashore as a hurricane at this hour they are inundated by water. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. breaking news with new developments now. let s go to orlando. look at these pictures. tropical storm ian hitting that metro and already our reporters are showing us conditions where high water rescues are underway. some 127 so far. returning now to sanibel island. look at the left side of your screen. those were the moments just before hurricane ian hit. look at the right side of your screen. the height of the storm with 155 mile-per-hour winds and a massive storm surge that left sanibel in ruins. the way in and off the island, the sanibel causeway major destruction. this was the only option for vehicle travel between the island and florida s mainland. we ve had coast guard rescues, urban search and rescue teams from the state of florida, the national guard down in southwest florida. people
we are going to catch up with austin davis, he is a democratic candidate who could become the first black lieutenant governor ever. and that battleground state. plus we are continuing our series on the by nine, and their efforts to get out the vote in midterm elections. today we have the international president, stacy grant is here. she will give us the details, i am simone sanders thompson. and i have something to say. that s what a 22 midterms are now just 31 days away. it is a busy weekend for candidates on the campaign trail. this final stretch, it cannot be more urgent y all. early voting will be underway in more than 30 states by the end of this month. i m talking arizona, ohio, georgia and the next ten days. in some states, early voting has already begun. and in the crucial state of georgia, there is a senate race of course and republican ominous for senate, herschel walker continues to deny the daily beast report that he allegedly paid for his ex girlfriend s aborti
southwest. of. 2800 u.s. flights already canceled today, 2500, about 90% are southwest. challenge for our flight crews being stuck in locations not where they need to be along with the aircraft. at this point we re working to accommodate our customers as best we can and offer the most options we can. cnn s lucy kafnov is in denver. i wasn t anticipating a nightmare but it is. reporter: christmas is over but for thousands of customers the travel nightmare goes on. they canceled our flight. they said they can t help us so we don t know what to do. reporter: southwest airlines at the top of the list for cancellations. the airlines ticketing counter at baltimore s bwi airport a zoo. denver s lines for the southwest ticket counter even longer. we had to wait in a line that was four hours and it was horrible. nobody is giving us a direction on what line to get in. it s a total you know what show here. reporter: for those tlieg to call to get through, good luck get
no person, having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname, a speaker has not been elected. so, they voted again. no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname, a speaker has not been elected. so, the third time was not the charm. and this lasted for almost five hours. we re talking about three consecutive ballots. and they could not elect a speaker of the house. and this was frankly a once in a century occurrence. this hasn t happened in the last 100 years, not to be able to finalize who was going to be your speaker in that first round, let alone after three rounds and there s still no conclusion. a tough day, everyone can say, for kevin mccarthy. after all of this time, his dream of being speaker was within his reach. and he believes it still is. but so far, it has succeeded his grasp. so, the question tonight is where are we now? so, there s still no speaker of the house. and they re going to do the wh