griff: hour two, here we go, i m griff jenkins. aiming to keep the focus on the latest jobs report amid the fallout. lucas tomlinson is live on the north lawn with the latest. reporter: good afternoon. all week the white house has refused to rule out the biden family from its list of suspects of who brought cocaine into the white house. white house press secretary karine jean-pierre even called it irresponsible to even can th. earlier you had a former justice department attorney asking the question that many americans are asking today. she s the one that s irresponsible in not giving a direct answer. it s very simple to come out and say no member of the biden family had anything to do with this cocaine, and the white house intends to insure that whatever staff member or guest put this cocaine in the white house is fully prosecuted under the law. we ve not heard that from the white house press office, and you have to wonder, why not? reporter: there s the question. now,
al sand alexandria hoff with the latestest on all of this. reporter: so the president tried to the use the 2003 heroes act as a route to usher in this loan forgiveness plan. of course, the supreme court shot that down yesterday. now biden administration is looking at something called the higher education act as a means to the become a plan b. we re not going to waste any time on this. we re getting moving on it it s going to take longer, but we re getting at it right away. reporter: president sd the higher education act will allow the secretary the of education to waive or release are loans under certain circumstances. very few details on how or why this route could work, and it s likely to face the the same legal challenges. as part of a joint statement released yesterday, republican senator bill cassidy wrote, quote: president biden s sunt loan scheme is still illegal and does not forgive department, but with instead ares it to to those who willingly took on the d
and we ve got we re celebrating our first responders and heroes this morning too. rachel: absolutely. pete: let s head there right now, head back down to 1 world trade center, the freedom tower, where rick reichmuth is live from the tunnel to towers 104-story tower climb in new york city. rick. [cheers and applause] rick: i m not doing this to the act like i m on tv with this, i literally it s really how old in here, i can barely here you. you recognize abby hornacek? she was really nice to come on with us morning. i was not prepared to go on television this morning. [laughter] rick: we all look like this when we re not prepared to go on television. no, no, not at all. rick: talk about this team and how this experience was. this experience was unlike anything. this organization is one of my favorite organizations. to be here with our amazing coworkers and also amazing people here, there were three cats catastrophically injured veterans who did the stair climb, so ev
they were covered, water over the mailboxes. i need you to get up in there, and i m going to hand her to you, and and you ve got to hold her. [background sounds] i m surrounded here by stress is els that were in this marina, tossed around really like tinker toys. that was my house. my house is gone. a lot of people can say that today here, lost everything. neil: an incredible week, and it s not over. just some of the incredible images we ve seen throughout this week brought on by a pretty ruthless hurricane ian. many southwest florida homes leveled and communities destroyed. more than three dozen lives lost and now warnings of a potential levee break that could cause a 15-foot surge. in the carolinas, some similar scenes. hundreds of thousands still in the dark there as they try to assess the havoc caused by ian. we re following it all with nate foy in myrtle beach, south carolina, alexandria hoff in hard-hit fort myers, florida, and ache rick reich newt reichmuth
erin shaun. the storm making eric shawn. in ohio at least 3 people were killed in a 46-car pile-up in whiteout conditions. also chaos at packed airports across the country where millions of passengers are stuck. more than 2 the ,000 flights canceled, 6,000 delayed already today. anita spoke to montana s governor earlier today about the bone-chilling conditions there. we saw wind chill factors up to 75 degrees below 0, almost every community in the sate saw wind chill factors north of 50 degrees below 0. and what we learned in this time is that reliable energy supply is not a nice to have, it s a must have. it s a matter of public safety, and i m just proud of the work that the state has done to keep the power on. rich: getting relief from all this, let s go right to meet rolingsz adam klotz for the latest. adam: hey there, rich. you know what? things today slightly better than yesterday. that big winter storm that was the bringing the snow, the rain and the sleet, that s