residents of sanibel island today will be able to return to see what is left of their homes. residents have to access that barrier island now by boat. it remains cut off from the mainland. ian ripped apart a causeway. cnn s layla santiago just arrived a few moments ago and is able to file this report. reporter: this is west gulf drive, one of the main streets here on sanibel island. it s also a place where the residents tell me was the worst hit. this is now a street that s lined with debris. can you see straight into homes and see personal belongings everywhere. you also have part of a roof that is sitting on the side of the street. to make the point of exactly how powerful this storm was, residents tell me that this was actually across the street. now you can see straight in what was once a kitchen, a family room, no longer here. the equipment and refrigerator now partially on the the door. not much left to be salvaged. i believe we have leyla you want live. what more a
jersey as much room as that takes up. and the reservoirs out west are down to almost zero. we re in a situation where the colorado river looks more like a stream. there s a lot going on. and i think the one thing thas finally ended is discussion of whether or not there s climate change and we should do something about it. folks, i also want to jill and i have had you all in our prayers, and i mean that sincerely. and we re here today because we wanted to tell new person that we re thinking of you, and we re not leaving. we re not leaving until this get done. i promise you that. you know, you walk around here, what s left of fishermen s wharf, and you don t have to have much imagination to understand that everything is historic, titanic, and unimaginable storm just ripped it to pieces. you got to start from scratch. got to move again. it s going to take a lot, a lot of time. not weeks or months. it s going to take years for everything to get squared away in the state of fl
to get a closer look at the devastation on sanibal island as residents returned home for the first time. it was an emotional romoment fo so many people. reporter: absolutely, pamela. we took this boat ride with a couple of women who brought their home on sanibal island two years ago. it was their dream home, and they had to hire a driver, a captain, because it s the only way to get to the island now, because that causeway was destroyed by hurricane ian. so, it was about an hourlong boat ride and then about a mile walk from the beach to their home, and what we saw along the way was just horrible. and so sad. there were cars that were turn around over. there were buildings collapsed, resorts just destroyed. as we approached their home, they could see the screen around their pool had caved in. then, it took them about an hour to get inside because the hurricane shutters were down, and they re powered by electricity, and there is none. once inside, the upstairs level was dry. t
defense ministry pointing to a map that acknowledges significant losses on the battlefield. this is the map that russia showed today of territory it claimed is under its control. in one day they show that russian forces have been pushed south. you can actually see it in the change in the shades. they re showing that themselves, and the russians are talking publicly about their significant losses. a war correspondent for russian state media today said that russia s special military operation is undergoing a, quote, operational crisis. and drenched in the blood of our soldiers. that s a direct quote talking about retreat, a brutal retreat and that it has been a disaster. these are graphic and brutally honest observations of the counteroffensive for the ukrainians that has been gaining steam. today, ukraine, once again, raising its flag over multiple liberated towns all in the kherson region. also posting this video of a modern russian tank abandoned. this is one of their more i
the 100 or so classified documents and not even going after this part of the case. this is strictly going at this issue that exceeded the jurisdiction. you can look at this one way the first sentence of his argument goes at the issue that he says this is an investigation by his political rival and success sore joe biden. thank you, evidan perez. what jumps out at you from trump s emergency legal request? two things. first of all, jake, the narrowness of the request by trump, all he s asking for is that the special master review the documents presumably so that his team can receive them, he can get early discovery in the case and also, i just have to say it s sort of move that on its face is a head scratcher to me. frankly, the request by the doj was very narrow. it was very well tailored and the court of appeals decision was well reasoned. so i don t know why this would ordinarily be a wise choice of resources by the trump team. kerry, in a separate case the justices ha