no one is perfect. i even said at a meeting, i m a sinner. we all sin before the dploir of god. but every day i pray to god to let me do his will. that s the reason i m in this race right now. when i see people getting hurt on the street, the crime going on, i see the crime like nobody wanting to hold anybody accountable for. plus president biden and the first lady just arrived in florida. they will get a firsthand look at what s left of that city. reeling from hurricane ian s direct hit one week ago. the death toll from the storm is now at 112, half of those happening in lee county, where fort myers is located. and finally, former president trump now asking the supreme court to step in to negotiate the fight over classified tmts found at his home in florida. could it be a winning legal strategy or another tactic to delay the doj s investigation as long as possible? we re going to dig deeper into that in just a moment. i want to bring in washington correspondent yamiche a
missing alive. with each day, the death toll has also gone up. it is now at 112. moments like these are when we are supposed to see the best 0 n-our politicians, the rare moments when politics don t seem to matter and that is what we should see again today as president biden gets briefed by one of his chief critics, governor ron desantis, i don t need to tell you that the two don t see eye to eye. and for all of those dealing with the damage, having to start all over again, politics is not what is needed. relief is. to help, you know, and it s not one person and the other person, it is everybody here, we re all, you know, citizens of the united states, and you know, you always see it on tv, these places destroyed and gone, and you always say the poor people, and now all of a sudden it s us. is there anything you would want him to know? the insurance is coming, make a move fast. i m glad the president has okayed whatever the fed has helped and i know they don t see eye
there is new information had about those documents to mar-a-lago. sources confirming to cnn that the former president asked one of his lawyers back in february, to tell the national archives everything they wanted had been returned, but the lawyer refused because he wasn t sure it was true. the washington post also said that it was trump himself who packed up the boxes that were returned to the national archives in january, we are bringing out cnn law enforcement correspondent renewal. and former assistant special watergate prosecutor, nick akerman. good evening, one and all, nick let s start with you, what does this new reporting mean for donald trump and the classified documents? it is all bad news. it shows that he is the guy who packed the documents, for starters, so he knew it was there, he knew what he was taking, he can t blame it on anybody else. and then he tries to get a lawyer, basically it alive for, him and he refuses. there are going to be at least two or
electricity. most in lee county. some customers might not have power for months. governor ron desantis says 2,000 people have been rescued. state officials are trying to determine how many people are still unaccounted for. the window for finding survivors is starting to close. cnn s carlos suarez has more. reporter: unrecognizable in parts. still underwater in others. hurricane ian s destruction and path so vast search and rescue efforts continue days after the storm tore through florida. we kent get over the bridge. reporter: residents in desoto county are stopped. air boats are key to getting supplies in and people out. these air boats are going out taking people into town and it s been going for a while now. reporter: the death toll across the state climbing rapidly. a lot of sick people running out of medications. a lot of people running out of water and until we can get everything up and going, we re trying to get them out. reporter: hundreds of sanibel isl
could be cut off from electricity, get this, for another month. also tonight, ukrainian forces are making stunning gains on the battlefield, reclaiming territory illegally annexed by vladimir putin just days ago. we will get an update on the war from white house national security official john kirby. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m pamela brown and you re in the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight with new developments in the mar-a-lago investigation. an emergency appeal from former president trump to the u.s. supreme court. trump s attorneys are pleading with the justices to intervene in a dispute over more than 100 documents marked as classified. our senior crime and justice reporter has more on this filing. kaitlyn, what exactly does the former president want from the high court here? reporter: well, pamela, what he is asking for is essentially he wants to turn back time. he wants to go