I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley.

It's Monday, August 28th, and this is your morning wire afternoon update.

Tropical storm Adalya is barreling toward the sunshine state and is expected to make

landfall as a Category 3 hurricane after intensifying across the Gulf Coast.

The Sarasota area all the way up to Tallahassee can expect strong winds, rain and flooding,

while the Tampa Bay areas expected to escape much of the brunt of the storm.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has already declared a state of emergency for half the state

with mandatory evacuations underway in numerous counties.

Here's Governor DeSantis.

We have a disaster fund in the state of Florida that we are able to dip into, to be able

to help doing all this stuff.

I mean, all this pre-staging, it doesn't happen for free.

You've got to put resources behind it.

You put resources behind it to prepare.

Sometimes you may not need to use all these resources, but I would rather put money out,

be prepared, and then not have to use it than the opposite.

With Hurricane Ian, when we rebuilt those bridges, we just paid for it.

The state paid for it.

I didn't wait for the federal government.

I didn't wait for local government.

We just took care of it.

Also in Florida, a shooter who authorities say was racially motivated, opened fire on

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