remain flooded five days after the storm hit. the death toll now at 87. relief efforts also under way. but they re just barely making a dent for the thousands of people who have seen their homes damaged or destroyed and their lives changed forever. i ve lost everything. everything. my life savings. my tools, everything. you hope for the best. yeah. but it s the worst. all the way to the ceilings. ceiling fans are down, walls gone. a half foot of mud everywhere. . nobody could get a hold of us. we couldn t get a hold of anyone else. it was just you felt like you were in, you know, you were the only person in the world. heartbreaking. plus, we re watching president biden, who is headed to puerto rico later this hour, to survey damage from hurricane fiona, which hit two weeks ago. he will travel to florida on wednesday. opening statements in a trial that could end up as a blueprint for prosecutions stemming from january 6th. stewart rhodes, the head of the far righ
Reopening. Icu capacity for the houston area has hit 100 . And on the same day, when the government reported nearly half a Million People who lost their jobs during this pandemic enrolled in healthcare coverage under obamacare, the administration filed a late night brief to the Supreme Court to wipe out the Affordable Care act. That move could cost about 20 million americans their Health Insurance in the middle of a pandemic. Lets get right to nbcs monica alba at the white house, sam brock in houston and joe fryer in phoenix. In recent days we have seen yet more disconnect between what the adventu Vice President and his boss have been saying and what Anthony Fauci and even republican governors have been worried about. What can we expect at this briefing today . Reporter i think it is really a sign of the seriousness the white house acknowledging this uptick in cases is something that needs to be addressed, by the task force, which, of course, has continued to meet throughout the pandem
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is covering this in ft. myers beach. rescue missions are into the thousands already. what are officials telling you right now that they are up against? reporter: chris, we got a firsthand look at exactly what they re dealing with here. what you see behind me, this bit of damage here, multiple that over and over and over again. and that is what we witnessed when we imbedded with a fema team, florida task force 2, the same group, by the way, that was at surfside and that disaster. so this team has seen a lot. but this is a scale that even to them is overwhelming. we saw just how much they have to comb through to look for signs of life. also, chris, signs of death. it s something we saw as a team had to look for a potential deceased individual in one of the homes we watched them bring in what they call a human remains dog to try to narrow the area where they might be able to find this individual.
overthrow the government. and i will tell you watching jeff nessler s opening statement this morning, they have a really powerful case. i was impressed they are introducing the words of the defendants themselves. when they said things like, we are taking the capitol. and then after it was all over they said, we took the capitol. and seditious conspiracy can be proved if you seize the property of the united states. even if only temporarily without authority. so at least early on it seems to be a pretty compelling case for the prosecution. would you agree with that, ken? reporter: yeah, absolutely. now, the defense in this case, chris, is that they re going to argue they were an unofficial militia ready to be called by former president trump under the insurrection act. they believe this was a corruption of the election and that they were there to act in