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coast guard, chest, department of defense, the national guard. for my context that i was talking to at fema last night about 1600 people have been rescued. along with 75 pets, so really the focus is on search and rescue. but you are right, there is going to be a lot of work ahead. there are going to be folks working in communities to make sure that they are there to support everybody. >> what about the president who is, i'm sure you heard, praised fema for the response to hurricane ian, telling workers at the agency, they are restoring americans faith in their government. give me your assessment of the response so far and by the way, has your approach changed at all since her experience in hurricane sandy? >> they have and we saw this before the storm made landfall. you had prepositioned supplies, water, generators, anything to support the state with what they would do with response. the state also had utility trucks that have been thousands of utility workers who were prepositioned in there, in the, you know, feeling the brunt of the storm that went across the

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restored for the vast majority of customers by about 8 pm tonight, which is definitely good news for those who are without power. but this is a storm that is not only affecting south carolina, not just affecting the charleston area, but all along the coast and even inland, where they dealt with real thunderstorms and severe storms in those areas. folks are still without power. so, definitely you get a sense of the widespread impact of hurricane ian. but again, you have officials and residents, when they see the images of what happened in florida and the devastation caused in florida, many of them, saying they are breathing somewhat of a sigh of relief. >> and yet historic rain for that historic city. okay, thank you so much, shaq brewster. meteorologist, raphael miranda, is with me here in the studio tracking the path of even for us. so, where is it now, what can we expect next? >> well alex, thankfully the worst of ian is over. we can breathe a bit of side relief there. but it's still going to be causing problems for the next several days across the northeast, even as we've seen some heavy rain.

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state. but ready to help and we are seeing this in the restoration of power with about 700,000 folks who regained power over the last 24 hours. so, there are lessons learned after every storm. i'm sure there will be lessons learned after this one, but the tragedy that we've seen in the past does help us to prepare better. >> yeah, okay, don watson, thanks for sharing your expertise on all of this as being a former fema spokesperson. it's good to see you. stay safe. we are so monitoring developments from florida and south carolina, later, we will take a look at what role climate change may have had on the ferocity of hurricane ian. up next, division within the ranks of donald trump's team of lawyers. what action one lawyers advocating trump to take. which will maybe make him for a avoid prosecution, but it would be a rare turn of face for trump to do it. turn of face for trump to do it trump to do it 's got double pepper jack and juicy steak. let's get some more analysis on that, chuck. mmm. pepper jack. tender steak.

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even over here interacting with the warm front moving through new york city area, bring some flooding concerns. the latest stats show, it's a much weaker storm. a shadow of its former self. a 25 mile per hour winds drifting through the northeast and continues to weaken. that is the good news with ian. it's not don causing problems, as i said, though. you can see as it dissipates, we will see that heavy rain threat continue for the next several days from west virginia right through new england. this is a slow mover now, so it's going to be hanging around the tropical rains certain areas in the northeast again tomorrow. we will see showers and storms fire up. another air flow pressure pulling away gradually and all that saturated soil increases the risk for flooding. now, by monday, ian is just finally emerging off the coast. the remnants of in here, that's that low pressure. this is two days from now. we are still talking about in, still feeling the effects of heavy rain near the coast and breezy conditions as well. this will be a very slow mover, even into tuesday. i expect we will see some coastal rain. we've seen some very strong

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what is the biggest issue? >> yeah, alex, we see this all the time, go from absolute devastation, fear, and loathing, to this beautiful day on the south carolina coast that people are out and out and about but we planned it from charleston this morning where there was some damage yesterday and georgetown and we were certainly worried about this being in charleston and we can do this on any given stormed a. some flooding and wind damage but not anything that i had seen before in florida. here in pawleys island, right, now we're in the policies beer village, which is a community of about 500 people. they host about 300 guests per year, in behind me in the shot you can see the pawleys island pier. half of that pier alex was washed away yesterday when ian came through here. there was an american flag pole on the end of the pier flying out there. and it went away and that

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let's take a listen everyone. >> your nature is to respond, in spite of your own families being in peril, in spite of your own health and safety many times. so we are here to check on them and make sure that we have health and safety needs, basic human needs, that they, need while they are continuing to respond, and the aftermath, and the ongoing chaos and risk that even escalates now. as hurricane ian has moved on. one of those is certainly their behavior and health impacts. so we are making sure and checking that they have behavior healthy sources that are checking you with periodically as well. we will continue to monitor those resources. >> i also wanted to acknowledge the tremendous assistance that we have a c -- received from the federal emergency management association. all of you know the orange county was also recently declared one of the eligible areas for fema reimbursement.

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with residents but -- for most of the day to fill their gas tanks. the problem is a lack of power because, of course, without power, you can't pump the gas. frustration, though, boiling over at times. >> i had some of my family with me, but they had to leave because it's been so long. we just want some gas. >> this is ridiculous. we've been here since 7:00 waiting in the line for gas. they've been sent a gas truck has been going to compensate o'clock. two hours after that, no gastric. people are fighting in lines for gas. it's getting crazy out here. there's no police out here and security thing or nothing. >> well, now let's go to the white house, a new word on a meeting about hurricane ian between the biden ministration and oil executives. it turned tense. white house officials lambasted executives over the industries high prices, low inventories,

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beach on the panhandle of florida after michael and it looked like an atomic bomb had gone off their. that was the worst overseas in 30 years. i've been doing this for the weather nation for nine years. seeing that devastation, in fort myers, it looks like michael to me. but if anyone didn't know what it was, they would think it was the worst. it would look like a large bomb, or multiple bombs, have been dropped. it'll take many years to get back. >> big picture here, john, what does hurricane ian tell us about earth's climate crisis? do you think more intense storms like this are the new norm? >> it seems to be, you, know a lot of people try to say that global warming or climate change isn't a big deal. we've had hurricanes for years. lots of hurricanes -- and last, year this is been quiet, last year we ran out of names. the year before we run out of names and got out of the greek alphabet. it's not necessarily that we have more storms, because the

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what those folks do. so, bless them for all their efforts and i'm really glad you put that story on your show. so, we will see you next sunday, my friend. >> see you next time. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> meantime, a very good day to all of you from msnbc headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex -- reports. we are tracking hurricane ian at this hour. it is now a post-tropical cyclone. it's making its way north along the east coast and leaving a trail of devastation in several cities and states. in fact, right now, at least 34 people are confirmed dead. and rescue efforts are ongoing, with crews searching for survivors inside flooded and destroyed homes across that state. the coast guard is out today, assessing damage in several areas. survivors say, it has been a terrifying experience. >> it was terrifying. i've never experienced winds, the howling, ears popping. i will never forget it.

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administration has been really focused for weeks on this particular concern. particularly as they were preparing for hurricane ian, president biden, making specific reference to the need for these companies not to price gouge during the hurricane when he spoke on wednesday, and then again on thursday. take a listen. >> for give me, i want to add one more warning. this morning to the gas industry executives. do not, let me repeat, do not, do not use this as an excuse to raise gasoline prices and gouge the american people. >> do not, do not, do not use this storm as an excuse to raise gasoline prices or gouge the american public. the price of oil has dropped in recent weeks. the price of gas should be going down as rapidly, it's not. >> one of the data points that president biden always hammers on this issue is exactly that. they've seen the price of a barrel of oil fall, but they

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