Regarding his political colleagues, he spared no sympathy for Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) second health scare.
On Wednesday, the Senate Minority Leader appeared to freeze up while taking questions from reporters, the second time in the past several weeks that caused him to stop speaking during a press conference abruptly.
In no surprise, Biden cracked a joke during a White House briefing in response to McConnell’s health scare— which, by the way, the 80-year-old president, whose health is declining, has no right to joke about.
"We are not gonna tolerate any looting in the aftermath," DeSantis said, noting that signs in yards that say "You loot, we shoot" should be taken seriously. "People have a right to defend their property."
"In this part of Florida, you've got a lot of advocates and proponents of the Second Amendment," he continued.
North Carolina authorities issued warnings ahead of the storm's anticipated arrival Thursday morning, reminding residents to avoid travel on the coast as flooding and strong winds are anticipated, FOX Weather reported.
Much of eastern North Carolina and the state's coastline remain under multiple warnings into Thursday night as Idalia is forecast to bring winds up to 55 mph, storm surge up to three feet and an average of four to 10 inches of rainfall, according to the National Hurricane Center. The southeastern part of the state is also under a tornado risk until 9 a.m...Read more, see tweets, photos, and videos here.
Idalia, which has strengthened significantly in the past 24 hours, had briefly been categorized as a Category 4 storm before winds tapered off at a relentless 125 mph as it made landfall at 7:45 a.m. near Keaton Beach in Taylor County.
The National Hurricane Center still cautioned, “This change in wind speed does not diminish the threat of catastrophic storm surge and damaging winds.”
The threat of storm surges spans about 200 miles of Florida’s west
coast, including the state’s Big Bend area, a sparsely populated area
where the peninsula merges into the Panhandle, which was expecting
anywhere from 12 to 16 feet of storm surge. Read more, see photos and videos here.
