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keep coming. willie? >> yeah. start in florida, though, this hour, mika. millions of residents are bracing for hurricane ian as that powerful storm barrels towards the state getting stronger by the hour. just this morning it became a category 4 hurricane expected to make landfall in the southwest coast of florida as early as this afternoon. the center of the storm forecast to move over the central past of the state with winds reaching more than 130 miles per hour. the national hurricane center also warning of dangerous storm surge and flooding with up to 18 inches of rain expected in...

Under evacuation orders. thousands in south florida have already lost power, and we are beginning to see flooding from storm surge in the florida keys. let's go straight to meteorologist michelle grossman for where everything stands right now. michelle? >> reporter: hey there, mika. unfortunately received a special update from hurricane hunters and saw the storm strengthen further. 155 mile-per-hour winds. >> geez. >> 2 miles away from a category 5 storm and hours away from a landfall. the latest with ian, a huge storm. not just in size but in power. again, we expect a landfall right around 2:...

Editorial board even raised the question, we are in a time, say this very carefully, certain things that should be, that should be hands-down, we are all on the same side of this. i could bring up january 6th. you would think, that anybody who looks at that would call it violence. yet there are partisan disagreements on january 6th, and i think that raises the bar here and makes it perhaps more difficult. i don't think difficult for joe biden. >> maybe -- maybe, mike barnicle, because as a member of congress when three or four hurricanes came through and every time i dealt with bill clinton, i...

>> all right. time to go to church with this group. >> we'll learn a lot. >> so david french, i think i'm probably a little older than you are. but you and i grew up i'm sure in the same culture. everything mika was reading about explain -- describes my family. life long democrats who became republicans in the late 1960s and so much of it had to do with, you know, we were southern baptists, first baptists in chamblee, georgia, first baptist -- wherever we went, first baptist church, right? but this happened time and time again. over time, we felt like our beliefs, our culture was not only unde...

At what point rudy giuliani says this, how does every republican woman soon capitol hill stay silent? >> i don't want to be pretend hopeful. i think a lot of them will stay silent. we saw in the primaries the other day a congress member not beat a runoff, right, she's in a runoff, and people assign that to the fact she didn't support trump's election. so, look, the republicans have been cowards, they've been scared. i think we'll continue seeing that. everything mika said was correct. you have to remember, this white house is so wrong and so devastatingly discriminatory that what they may see ...