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The headlines. You need to know the eye of hurricane Azalia has officially passed through Florida and is moving across South eastern Georgia. The hurricane has now weakened to a category one storm in a press conference around 12 30 pm eastern time. Governor Ron DeSantis said no fatalities have been confirmed despite reports of two storm related deaths, he also addressed some of the damage the state is seeing so far including the over 270,000 people without power. Utility workers are actively working to restore power in all affected areas and they have started doing that as soon as it was safe to do so. So those restoration efforts are ongoing. We do anticipate you could have that these power outage numbers could go higher but the restoration numbers are going to go higher as well. All eight urban search and rescue teams are deployed. Our National Guard has folks in places like Taylor County, they're getting on scene there. We're still assessing what is going on on the ground in the places that had the initial impact made landfall this morning as a category three just before 8 a.m. eastern time on the Gulf coast with winds of up to 125 MPH and a 16 ft storm surge, some areas received over five inches of rain. The storm and the upcoming Labor Day holiday are expected to increase gas prices. Experts say the storm's destruction could take gasoline refineries offline and limit some Gulf oil production and supplies. Plus there will be a higher demand for gas from people trying to evacuate areas of the storm's path. This is an addition, two drivers packing up their cars for those long labor day weekend getaways at $3.82 a gallon bespoke Investment group says gas is currently at the second highest price for this time of year. Since at least 2004, these rising oil and gas prices could stay well into the fall. Multiple airports in Florida closed and hundreds of flights are impacted as a result of hurricane Adalia. According to flight aware as of 2 30 eastern time, over 1000 flights within the US have been canceled. 2600 have been delayed. The most affected airlines are Southwest Delta and American Governor DeSantis Tampa's airport will reopen for incoming flights at four pm eastern time and will be fully open at 3 a.m. Gainesville Airport will resume flights tonight and Tallahassee Airport will reopen tomorrow. This comes as the TS A is expecting 14 million Americans to take a flight over the long labor day weekend. And in Atlanta. 11 people on a Delta Airlines flight were taken to the hospital after experiencing severe turbulence last night. The flight was on its way to the Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport from Milan. According to Delta, the injured people included passengers and crew. An airport spokesperson said none of the injuries were life threatening. First responders met the aircraft on the tarmac to transport the injured to the hospital. In a statement, the airline said our priority is taking care of our customers and crew who sustained injuries in other news while speaking at a press event in Kentucky this afternoon, Senate Minority leader, Mitch mcconnell has once again appeared to freeze, unable to answer questions very similar to the scene last month when the 81 year old froze and was escorted away by colleagues during a press conference in Washington. There is yet to be any comments on this latest incident from mcconnell's office the first over the counter drug to reverse opioid overdoses will be available in stores. By next week, the manufacturer said it was being shipped to drugstore and grocery chains nationwide. The US Food and Drug administration approved Narcan in March after opioid overdoses in the US reached a record high. Narcan is a nasal spray version of the drug naloxone which can revive a person from an overdose within minutes. Narcan will be available at all retail pharmacies including CBS, Walgreen Rite aid and others. It will sell for about $45 for two doses of the drug. A top official at the Department of Health and Human Services is recommending to the DEA that restrictions on marijuana should be eased and that the drug should be reclassified. This would change its label from a schedule one substance which includes drugs with high risk abuse like heroin to a schedule three, which are defined as having a moderate to low potential for dependent as part of the Biden administration's push to pardon federal offenses based on marijuana. They've also asked the HHS Secretary and the US Attorney General to begin the process of changing how the drug is scheduled. Ukrainian officials have accused the Kremlin of hitting their country's capital with drones and missiles killing two people. Officials called it a quote massive combined attack. Meanwhile, the Kremlin says Ukraine attacked Russia via drones in a four hour assault overnight, the Russian news agency, Tass reported the drones hit an airport and damaged military transport planes. The attack targeted at least six Russian regions. It's believed to be the most extensive Ukrainian drone attack on Russian soil since the start of the war.