marcus coleman, thank you. >>> we have much more to cover on hurricane ian. less than 48 hours before potential catastrophe strikes in florida. check out these live pictures, dark skies in florida. we're going to head to st. petersburg where people are trying to get out of town before the storm makes landfall. >>> plus any minute, president biden is expected to peak on cutting health care cost. we'll go live when he starts and ask is this a glimpse of a new midterm message for democrats? >>> also coming up, seditious conspiracy, the big trial just now starting that could reveal new information about the insurrection. you're watching "chris jansing reports," only on msnbc. frz ly on msnbc. fr we spent our whole pension but couldn't keep up. so my husband just stopped taking his medicine. and then he had a stroke. i can't get back what i lost, but thanks to aarp, a new law will protect seniors with a cap on their prescription costs. that could have changed everything for us. i'm just grateful that no one will have to face the terrible choices that we did think

let's bring in marcus coleman from fema. he's the director of the dhs center for faith based and neighborhood partnerships. thank you for being here, director coleman. what is the federal government to do? the storm is not over. it's traveling up as you can see from the forecasts bill karins showing that map, it's still moving and there's still a lot of standing water and still a lot of emerging damage. at this stage, what is the role of the federal government? >> good evening, and thank you for having me. so the role of the federal government is to continue to listen to our local leaders, our local officials, and the community to insure that we are prepositioning commodities and people to meet the immediate needs of the life-saving and life-sustaining mission and that's exactly what we're doing alongside our colleagues in florida, we're also working closely with communities in georgia, north carolina, south carolina, and all other states that are bracing for impacts from the remnants of hurricane ian. >> and we know that th