Thank you so much for being here, everybody. It's the brain. Kill me, Joe. Thanks for being with us all week long. The governor of Florida, speaking right now, Ron DeSantis, 40 billion in damage, at least 10 have lost their lives.

It's not over yet in Florida as the hurricane bears down in South Carolina. We'll give you the latest as governor DeSantis, so let's go to update everybody. There were about 15 minutes late. There was scheduled for 845 that's Eastern time. So we'll bring you the latest as it happens. John Levine at the bottom of the hour. He's been all over this Hunter Biden situation as well as what the House Judiciary Committee will do. Should they get the majority of the majority come November. So let's get to the big three now with the stories you need to know.

It's Brian's big three sponsored by Crunch Fitness. Interested in owning your own business in a growing $30 billion industry? Check out Crunch Fitness at Crunch.com. Number three, what we're going to see is some kind of horizontal escalation. In other words, instead of using the conventional troops on the ground, which are failing, he will move to a carpet bombing other parts of Ukraine. He could conceivably go to a chemical weapon.

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And race is tightened. And that's what we're seeing right now. And it's tightening in favor of Republicans. Jeff Mason weighing in on special report last night issues tracking Republicans who attacking Republicans way like immigration crime and creating a kind of cratering economy. Have Americans looking away from Democrats and Joe Biden. We're going to look at those trends race by race. Number one.

This could be the deadliest hurricane in Florida's history. The numbers of still are still unclear, but we're hearing early reports of what may be substantial loss of life.

There is the president of the United States, Hurricane Ian, historic and enduring. We'll look at the damage, the lives, the livelihoods lost, and how some are using this as an opportunity to scream climate change and slam governor DeSantis.

With me right now is Mark Teason. He never screams climate change. He knows this is part of hurricane season. And it's never good. Right, Mark?

Absolutely. No, it's a look. The reality is that there's no evidence whatsoever that this has anything to do with climate change. In fact, the last year was like the week of hurricane season on record in the Atlantic.

And this year, it's it hasn't until now. It hasn't been strong either. So, you know, but with this is why they change it from like global warming to climate change.

Climate change can mean anything if they're fewer hurricanes is because of climate changes. There's more hurricanes is because of climate changes like it is. It's like a, you know, they can turn it into whatever they want.

Exactly. For here's the example of them turning it into whatever they want. This is other media outlets cut 11.

There are two a season would happen now with climate change in these extreme warm waters. It's almost, you know, it's happening all the time.

This storm in a way is kind of bad news for the people that are still trying to deny climate change as a factor.

Florida Republicans deny climate change as a monster storm barrels towards the coast.

This will be a first time test for how you adapt to these new stronger storms on a warmer planet as a result of climate change.

The threat exacerbated, of course, by climate change. Charleston like Miami gets water that comes up on a good sunny day. That's climate change because water levels are rising.

Our earth is getting warmer and there is just no doubt. I think left that it is feeding these beasts.

Do you feel, do you feel differently now, Mark? You being converted? I've been converted. Absolutely. We got to do something about this.

Literally what they were saying was factually incorrect. We've had fewer hurricanes in the last year and a half and then at any time in years.

So no, it's not there's not more storms going on that might be more intensity, but this is the problem is that the left can't figure out the difference between weather and climate, which are two very different things.

And so every weather event that they don't like, they harness it to a PR stunt for climate change.

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