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all of the work youre doing there on the ground to help so many people in need. for more information about how you could help these victims of hurricane ian go to cnn.com/impact. and the next hour of "cnn newsroom" starts right now. >> ians death toll in florida is rising today. >> could we get some help down here. we have need for gas. >> there are four boats that just arrived moments ago. >> this community is never ever seen this high of fluiding before. >> now were going into day fo...

Annual red mass in washington d.c. the red mass is held every year by the archdiocese of washington and the john carol society before the start of the supreme courts new term. supreme court justices are usually in attendance and the next term begins tomorrow as it does every year on the first monday in october. we end this hour in the same way we began. wrapping up with the latest from hurricane ian. officials confirming tonight at least 75 p4 people have died bu that number could rise higher ...

Those values and tries to really wrap their arms around soldiers, whether theyre familys in need. whether they come home and they are in need, for medical care or psychiatric care. you know, whether their children need special accommodations in our schools. our community really is focused on supporting the military that we value so much. >> what -- im sorry. go ahead. finish your point. >> caller: i was going to say, in times like this, to see that character really come out in the community, and...

Can have a duty roster where certain members of a unit are able to carry and we know who those individuals are. and you rotate that duty and responsibility. >> let me stand you by because i want to bring in pete who is an iraq war vet. pete, your thoughts on that? were not trying to put blame on anybody other than the shooter here but we want to look at how we can better protect our men and women on the >> i think the colonel is on to something here. you talk about the marine corps that brought ...

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...

Right now who cant get on. >> there were some people trying to get offer the base as the warning came over, the big voice as they call it, and couldnt get off because the base goes into lockdown. you cant get on and you cant get off. and people were trying to get off, afraid for their lives, and they were unable to. you raise a good point. those who are off the base now have nowhere to go. how present in the mind of those folks in that area is the last ft. hood incident? it wasnt that long ago. ...

>> 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...

People. same question with the 2009 incident. >> absolutely. >> and theres a reason for that. they werent armed. >> theyre not armed. and if you go back and look at ha happened in 2009, you look at what happened at the navy yard, those were not military personnel that shot those two assailants. it was contracted police officers, and there at the navy yard it was d.c. police officers that came in and shot. so you did not even have military that could react and take these assailants down. we do ha...

2011. it mentions chip michaels twice. first mention indicates he has just left the emergency services unit command and the second mention is an announcement that lieutenant chip michaels has joined the george washington bridge command. a transfer, by the way, came in the same general period of time that wildstein and bill baroni were installed as chris christies point men at the port authority. now why is this so interesting? why should you care if lieutenant thomas "chip" michaels is the guy w...

up support for today, and essentially it would raise the debt ceiling and also save some $917 billion in spending over the course of the next decade, so were keeping an eye on that as always, but first lets get to that developing story for you out of texas. an awol muslim-american soldier has been arrested near ft. hood with what the fbi is saying is a large amount of bomb-making materials. private first class naser abdo is now in custody after a sales clerk at a gun shop alerted polic...