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Hillyard. vaughn, what more can you tell us this morning? >> reporter: yeah, mika, this was the two-pronged concern. one, the demolition of the building. that was successful. second was the impact of tropical storm elsa. just around 4:00 eastern yesterday afternoon were when we first saw the outer bands of that storm hit the surfside coast. you can see from that video strong gusty winds as rain began to downpour here on this area. there were at least two different times yesterday afternoon and evening that we're aware of that rescue teams had to come to a halt. they had to suspend their operat...

They challenge -- or they champion reasonable, rational regulations, reasonable, rational taxes. that, you know, we need a small government party out there. we certainly don't have one right now. deficits and debts rose at the highest level ever during the trump administration. he was the biggest spending president in the history of the united states. i'd love for main street republicans to take control of that party again, mika. right now, though, if that's going to happen, they're going to have to push back on these democracy ddeniers. one out of three candidates, according to this report is...

War. >> and they -- i don't think they understand how precious and fragile our democracy can be. and a large portion of our population, as liz cheney put it, has been misled. >> they're miss leading themselves, too. i'm sorry, mika, i didn't mean to interpret. those people, those 70%, they're misleading themselves, too. they could know the truth if they wanted to know the truth. they could go out and google and find out the lies they're reading on chinese cult conspiracy websites or that they're getting from russian disinformation campaigns or people who hate america, who want to undermine ame...

Tomorrow, mika. >> thank you for that update on the scene. let's go to bill karins. what will the effect be of elsa in the next several hours? >> i'm concerned with storm surge and isolated tornadoes. those are my biggest concerns over the florida peninsula in the next 24 to 36 hours, and surfside itself, i don't think you'll get much worse than what we saw yesterday with squalls coming through. it will be similar at times today throughout the day. we just got the latest update in in the 5:00 a.m. hour. the storm is closest to key west right now. maximum wind gusts are only 35 to 40 miles per ...

Blaming the democracy deniers in washington d.c. or running for office, we have to look at the people who go along with this big lie. >> still ahead on "morning joe," new details about what cyber security experts are calling the single biggest global ransomware attack on record. including a new multimillion dollar demand from hackers. plus the latest on infrastructure negotiations, could we see a possible second bipartisan package? also ahead, a new warning from the former head of britain's mi-6 about withdrawing troops from afghanistan. you're watching "morning joe" -- >> mika, i apologize ...