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gio benitez reporting. here in new york city tonight, the mysterious fire breaking out in a luxury building, just hours after the fbi arrest of an exiled chinese billionaire. and a one-time close ally of steve bannon. and what authorities have just revealed tonight. aaron katersky in new york. this new cross-country storm moving east tonight. 18 states now on alert from california all the way to michigan. the midwest and south bracing for this. and then the northeast. rob marciano t...

we come on the air with new demands for answers from the head of intel, airlines scrambling to get planes back in the air and the congressman being put on the back burner, lets start with what is going down in the senate where key leaders are asking the director of national intelligence for more information on the classified documents found at president bidens former office, with the white house press secretary, and what she is saying now in the first comments from the podium, just in ...

category 4 storm this week, and we continue to follow ian as it moves into north carolina after making landfall as a hurricane there. it is now moving inland as a post-tropical cyclone, posing all sorts of problems for that part of the country. even though its been downgraded, officials warn it still threatens the area with herb rain and flooding. in south carolina the storm flooded homes and vehicles along the shoreline, and as high winds pushed the storm surge even higher, two pier...

in fort myers beach, it is even hard to bike through the destruction. the messages from residents there, if you can send help, we need it. sanibel and cap teva islands cut off from the main land, only accessible by boat or air after, as you know, ian destroyed this major bridge that connects them to the main land. many of the homes there are in pieces or completely washed away. the coast guard is now going door to door, still trying to rescue people. >> make sure you have a bag for you...

the southwestern part of the state. >> claudia, what are you doing now? >> im so owe -- im getting important stuff. my paperwork. my husbands personal things. i lost him two months ago. now ive lost my only home. so im packing it up, taking it to my car. >> youre packing it up in a garbage can? >> yeah. >> have you the goe gotten any p yet? >> no. but thats okay. im strong. i can get it, get the important things. >> all right, claudia, god bless you. >> thank you. >> all right. >> ill ...

i was on the police department for 25 years, saw a lot of storms here. this is by far the worst storm i have ever witnessed. >> i promise you, im never going to sit through another storm ever again here. i am one of the lucky ones. >> just some of the survivors of hurricane ian after the storm decimated wide sections of florida, and now the storm is on track to make a second u.s. landfall threatening the carolinas and georgia. good morning, and welcome to "morning joe," it is friday, s...

city -- >> are you okay? >> rescuers, helping guide residents through submerged intersection, since, having been turned into a lake. >> then, there is this. the electricity crisis. the storm, knocking out power lines, in more than 2 million homes, and businesses, which have been plunged into darkness, across the state. meteorologist, pedram javaheri, tracking ian. he joins me. pedram, ian may have weekend, but is unleashing very dangerous conditions. where does it stand right now? >> k...

climb along with the flood waters. were learning at this hour that sheriff offices across the coast getting a number of calls from people trapped in their homes they didnt evacuate but as the lead county sheriffs office said winds need to drop to 45 miles per hour for them to safely attempt these rescues. were going to have every corner of this disaster covered from reporters on the ground to residents in its path. but we begin in an area where residents have been advised to shelter in...

guys are pushing out of the bay. >> see if it can catch on fire, its on fire and we didnt want the station to go down. of >> trace: water kills, whether its flooding, whether its driving into it. whether its storm surge, thats what kills you. >> one of the top five hurricanes to ever hit the florida peninsula, but the fact is theres going to be damage throughout the whole state and people and other parts of the state be prepared for some impacts. >> top five hurricanes, could be top th...

washington. president biden is about to arrive at fema headquarters. the president approved a major disaster declaration for florida and spoke with governor ron desantis. >> you have power lines that are down. you have trees that are down. you have a lot of hazards right now. today is about identifying the people that need help, who may still be in harms way, but also beginning the process of rebuilding some of the things that we need. >> the tropical storm continues to barrel towards ...