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Idalia’s One-Two Punch

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ABC News

Politics, Daily News, News

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Storm Idalia wreaks havoc in Florida before flooding roadways and downing power lines in Georgia and the Carolinas. Rudy Giuliani loses a defamation lawsuit filed by Georgia election workers. And what Ukraine’s surprise drone attacks could mean for its war with Russia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's Thursday, August 31st, a powerful storm slams into Florida's big bend, then keeps

0:06.5

on going.

0:07.5

We start here.

0:11.6

Hurricane Italia's landfall was just the beginning.

0:14.7

This is the most powerful storm to strike that big bend section of Florida ever.

0:20.2

The massive storm barrels through Georgia and South Carolina flooding roadways and flipping

0:25.2

cars.

0:26.5

Rudy Giuliani loses a defamation case filed by election workers he compared to dope dealers.

0:32.4

So now the only question left for a jury would be to decide how much Giuliani has to pay.

0:37.8

We'll talk about what a judge called Giuliani's blobs of indecisurable data and Ukraine launches

0:43.8

a wave of punishing drone attacks deep inside Russia.

0:47.0

Taking the war right to downtown Moscow, hitting skyscrapers there.

0:50.8

Why that tact might be successful enough to make even the U.S. nervous.

0:56.7

From ABC News, this is starred here, I'm Ann Flaredy.

1:04.3

Hey, Brad's off today.

1:05.8

I'll be taking you through the news.

1:08.7

When Hurricane Italia slammed into Florida's Appalachia Coast yesterday as a category three storm,

1:14.3

officials said don't try to compare this to others because no one has ever seen this.

1:19.6

In fact, since records have been kept, there's never been a hurricane of this magnitude,

1:23.6

hitting Florida's big bend.

1:34.4

But that storm making landfall wasn't the end of it.

1:37.9

By the time Hurricane Italia became tropical storm Italia,

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