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Idalia hits Florida; Ned BlackHawk on The Rediscovery of America

00:08 Hurricane Idalia makes landfall as a Category 3 storm

Mitch Perry is Senior Reporter with the nonprofit newsroom The Florida Phoenix. He joined us from St Petersburg.

Kasha Patel is the deputy weather editor for the Capital Weather Gang at The Washington Post, covering weather, climate change and the environment.

00:33 The Rediscovery of America

Ned Blackhawk is a member of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada and is a professor of History and American Studies at Yale University.