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top of the hour, this busy thursday morning, i'm jim sciutto. >> i'm poppy harlow. welcome to our viewers. the breaking news we are following this morning, hurricane ian leaving just stunning devastating destruction in florida as a hurricane then a tropical storm. still pummeling the state though. 14 million people in florida are currently under flood alerts. 2.5 million businesses without power along with homes. they're rescuing people trapped inside flooded homes. governor ron desantis spoke about the devastation so many are waking up to this morning. >> there's 1.5 million outages...

Senator bill cassidy of louisiana joins us right now. senator, thank you for taking the time. this looks like a monster, senator. >> neil, now it's hitting st. mary's parish further west jefferson parish and/or liens and when we call the river parishes, the maximum strength hurricane winds will be a little further west than the populated areas worried about morgan city but gives a blissitt respite to those more densely populated areas. neil: you know, it all comes on the 16th anniversary of katrina. of course, we all remember that one.

Welcome back. google says it has disabled that bug that targeted about a million users yesterday. the phishing attack came in the form of e-mail asking users to open a google document. if they clicked, they were asked for permission to their account. allowing the bug to send itself to the user's contacts and other parts of the application. google says the attack lasted for about an hour and affected fewer than a tenth of a percent of their users. if you click the link you're activated to google documents. let's get to bill karins. this area hitting st. louis and then hit us in the northeast....

understand this financial crisis was the worst since the great depression, but ultimately they say, look, he's the president. we think he has good intentions, but we're impatient and we want to see things move faster. i understand that. i'm sympathetic to it. we'll keep on putting forward ideas that will be good for the country. we're going to need a partner from congress. on the other side of the political spectrum, listen to what governor rick perry said in iowa and he's not backing off. you might hear him catch more heat for it today. politicians from president obama to rick san...

So a loss here only sits in one person's hands. and it's president obama. polls close in west virginia at 7:30 tonight. president obama has had a tough time selling his political achievements to a very frustrated elect rat. he's trying to sell his political vision instead. >> when you tick down which approach the american people generally prefer, they'll say mine. now, what they'll say is, he hasn't been able to get it through congress. you know, i'm the first one to acknowledge that the relations between myself and the republican congress have not been good over the last several months, but...