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speaker after four days and 15 rounds of voting. this was the moment that the longest speaker contest in 164 years came to a close. [ cheers ] but before the house selected its new speaker, the cameras captured a stunning political soap opera playing out on the house floor just before midnight. mccarthy and his allies thought they had the votes locked up in round 14, but florida congressman matt gaetz waited until the end of the ballot process to vote present even though mccarthy needed just one more yes vote to win. a stunned mccarthy walked up the house floor to confront gaetz. as ...

Like that from happening in the future. i don't think it was -- >> that was what i was going to ask. i was wondering whether or not because gaetz was one of the last holdouts, whether you had felt in in way he had been january tagnizing colleagues to the -- january tagnizing colleagues to the point where something like that was about to happen. sound like you don't put this on gaetz. >> i don't. i don't. he's a member. he has a right. he represents the constituency. if you ever go down to the very nice area of florida where he -- my wife and i occasionally get to go down there about once every...

With our cell phone. and they identify that this cell phone was in the area of moscow, idaho, presumably right around this residence where the offender was likely gathering intelligence, who lives here, he's -- knows his targets live there. but who else lives there. where are they arranged in the residence, where do they sleep in the residence. so when he goes back at 4:00 a.m. on the night of the attack, he knows where they're sleeping and immediately he guess to the third floor where he kills madison and kaylee, the first victims. it's really interesting -- and also during that time, the pho...

The first crew to see through our own eyes how bad mexico beach is. >> you are flying over the coastline there. what are you seeing below you there? what is the state of the structures and the homes, et cetera? >> reporter: sure, sure. so far we are around the destin area. if you think back to the cone from yesterday was on the western edge of the cone. so it still suffered, you know, high winds, storm surge, three to five feet. but looking down, i mean, these are -- i don't want to stick my hand out the window. i'm missing a door. but the homes are absolutely beautiful and intact, if you can ...

Appalachian co apalachicola. let's begin in panama city beach, right now where hurricane michael is hitting the area with full force. diane gallagher is there for us. tell us what you're experiencing, diane, and i want you to be very careful over there. >> thank you, wolf, we're being extremely fsafe right now, we need to get inside, if we need to take shelter, we only have a few feet to walk. it sounds like a cliche, some stereotypical words. it almost feels like little needles are prick us with rainfall that will just smack you in the face. this isn't the worst of it. i want you to take a lo...