Are you ready to run down the headlines? I am. I hope you are. It's Thursday, September 29th, 2022. Good morning. Good morning.

Good morning. Welcome to first thing with Kevin Mano. Some celebrity birthdays. Today, Halsey is 28. Happy birthday.

Halsey, Kevin Durant, Zachary Levi and Chrissy Metz of this is us all celebrating today. Happy birthday.

Also, I mentioned this yesterday. Today is National Coffee Day. That's sweet, sweet coffee.

I'll repost all of those National Coffee Day deals in our Instagram stories this morning. Some

freebies out there. Go get yourself a cup. Tell them Kevin sent you.

All right. Okay, let's go. We'll start the show again today with an update out of Florida.

Hurricane Ian is still making its way across the peninsula. The latest numbers I saw this morning

say that more than 2.3 million people in the state are without power. That's a lot.

Boyle water notices are in effect now for parts of Florida as the water systems have gone down.

Since Hurricane Ian made landfall yesterday afternoon, winds of 150 miles per hour were reported.

A few reports that I saw said that it is the fourth strongest storm to ever make landfall there.

That's saying something. It has weekend. It's a category one now, which is good news. But it is still,

you know, working its way up the state. And regardless of that number, the rain is one of the main

concerns. And it is still producing heavy rain. This leads to the catastrophic flooding that we've

already seen. That's a big problem for a lot of reasons. The true devastation of the storm has

yet to be seen. But it is life changing for so many people. I was watching on the news last night.

Hospitals and prisons were being evacuated. I can't even imagine the stuff. One video that's

been making the rounds, whether Channel reporter Jim Cantori was hit by a very large branch on

live TV as he reported on the hurricane. I have that in our Instagram stories if you haven't seen it.

I still don't know why these news organizations insist on sending reporters into the streets

while urging everyone to stay inside it. So it's so dangerous. We can see how bad it is. We don't

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