Some of the polling the incompetent third place out of four it s really interesting dynamic in that city. people are looking for answers. no kidding. i took a look at the early votes. the early voting numbers for this race are huge 193,000 people so far have gone to early votes compared to 113,004 years ago, 80 plus thousand more people have gone to early vote. think people are very inte interested. i remember early on the pandemic is living in los angeles and our city s rate lock down and so chicago. i member mayor lightfoot got in trouble because she went to a salon and got a haircut under the cover of night. her excuse was on the public official i have to look nice. [laughter] at that there plenty of other public officials are plenty of other important ceos and people with prominent jobs, they did not get to go do that. also average people want to
We are still getting these very strong bands of rain and wind. i do think the big story here, there is a storm surge in place. we re in evacuation area here. a few people trying to get shots. we have police patrols constantly telling them they re in an evacuation zone and should go home. i think power will be an issue. last report around the state and certainly to the south of us 193,000 people now without power. that number is expected to go much higher as it goes throughout the rest of today and into tomorrow. right now we re just at the beginning of hurricane ian. back to you. bill: good to have you down there. back with you momentarily. ashley webster in st. pete s. dana: lauren is live in st. petersburg. tell us when you re seeing there. we are on st. pete pitch a little way from ashley. police are trying to check any one trying to come over here
Deploy the dc national guard or did it come from vice president pence, which also would have skipped the chain of command is with a sitting president as commander in chief so that is a mystery that i don t think we still have the answers to right now. , ., , ., , now. some questions unanswered. thank you. now. some questions unanswered. thank you. javed now. some questions unanswered. thank you, javed arely now. some questions unanswered. thank you, javed arely for - now. some questions unanswered. thank you, javed arely for your - thank you, javed arely for your time. . 4, thank you, javed arely for your time. ., ~ ,, ali. let s get some of the day s other news. authorities in spain coordinating the response to this summer s wildfires say they fear worse is to come. 193,000 hectares of land have been destroyed so far this year and thousands of homes have been evacuated. emergency teams are struggling to contain blazes in different parts of the country, including the canary islands. italy will hold a general election on september 25. the vote was announced on the day the prime minister mario draghi resigned, prompting the president to dissolve parliament. mr draghi was seen both at home and abroad as a stabilising force but italy will now face two months of what s expected to be a fractious campaign. we ll have more on this in our business news in 20 minutes.
Make it across into the united states. this is del rio sector where we are and this sector is averaging upwards of 1500 illegal crossings every single day. they are repeatedly encountering large groups like the one are you looking at right now. just since october 1 a dhs tells me in this sector alone more than 193,000 illegal crossings. those numbers up 183%. another piece of video we want to show you. look at this. this is wild. the aftermath of a human smuggler pursuit crash in the laredo, area. texas dps and border patrol responding. the car on fire. the smuggler said he had a woman zipped up inside a duffel bag inside of that vehicle on fire. the troopers and agents immediately get into that car, pull the duffel bag out, zip it open and to their shock there was a woman inside of that duffel bag. she would have burned alive.