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down. it is now falling from the sky. bill: that was an incredible moment only seen live on this channel from over the weekend. american f22 shooting down the chinese spy craft off the carolina coast. the air ship dead in the water. political fallout has just begun. hope you had a great weekend. monday, bill hemmer. nice to see you. dana: a good catch-up already. we ll fill you in as we go along. i m dana perino and america s newsroom. remarkable over the weekend. president biden s decision to shoot down the spy flight drawing a heated response from china. beijing saying it is an overreaction and threatening to retaliation. they insist it was a machine used to track the wets. the pentagon says that s not true. the unmanned aircraft came from mainland china. first defected january 28th over alaska. made its way through canada crossing into northern idaho on the 31st when the white house says the president was first briefed on it and gave the order to shoot it down when
. right know, on msnbc, the massive winter storm bringing holiday travel to a virtual standstill, a dangerous weather system marching across the midwest, toward the east coast, as we come on the air. high winds and bitter cold keeping planes on the ground and many cars off the roads. threats now of a so-called flash freeze, in parts of new england, as heavy rain turns to ice. we ve got the latest forecast, with our reporters standing by. also this hour, new fallout from the final report of the january 6th committee, what committee members are telling us about how it all came together, and what former president trump is saying after the panel said squarely that he is the one to blame. plus, the clock ticking down to a government shutdown. the house voting now on a bill to keep everything open before the midnight deadline. our nbc news reporting on the last-minute vote wrangling on capitol hill. good to be with you. we start this hour with the latest on this monster storm t
is almost 10% of the population of florida. that means over 90% of people in florida to have electrical power. the number of people without electrical power is expected to rise as these slow-moving storm cuts across florida with hurricane-force winds. a major concern right now and overnight would be flash flooding caused by the heavy rains. more than two feet of rain is predicted in some areas, officials are warning residents to shelter in place if they have not evacuated. as many cities today are suspending rescue efforts until the storm passes. we begin with nbc news meteorologist bill for the latest. bill, what is the situation now? we are watching a storm that is weakening overland, but we still have areas that are losing power at this hour. we know we have people who need rescuing, need help from us. what happened during the day today, that is the situation as we go throughout these overnight hours. the center of the storm is over sebring, florida. it is about halfway
category 4 storm leaving a huge path of destruction and millions in the dark this morning. we ll have a live report in just a moment. meanwhile, rescue crews have been busy trying to get people who decided to ride out the storm to try and save them. they re stranded now by rising flood waters and we re still tracking ian as it slowly makes its way across florida. at this hour, it still has more to go. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it s thursday, september 29th. joe is off this morning. along with willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. without power this morning, first light this morning will begin to show the damage in florida. that s right. that s when we re going to start to see the story of what happened last night, what happened overnight. tropical storm now ian downgraded from a category 1 hurricane. in just the last hour, but still wreaking havoc across florida as it made landfall as a