taking action naacp going to bat for jackson, mississippi residents, over the water problems will talk to the president ceo. this is american voices. we begin this hour with the aftermath of hurricane ian. a storm that left 87 people dead and counting. most of those deaths happened in florida, some of the worst of the storm. more than 700,000 florida residents still do not have power. the president of first lady will travel to florida wednesday to survey the damage. also a visit with puerto rico tomorrow to address the construction that hurricane two weeks ago. the storm killed at least two dozen americans there, and power still not fully restored. just a 10% of the island is in the dark. last night, president biden acknowledging widespread devastation left behind by these two disasters. our hearts, can t go without saying or heavy. the devastating hurricane, the storms of puerto rico, florida, south carolina. we owe puerto rico a hell of a lot more than they alread
the decision not to lie even though donald trump told them to, it s their turn next in front of the january 6th select committee. one of them set to testify in the coming days, the election s boss in the state of georgia, brad raffensperger. he was on the other end of that infamous phone call with the then president of the united states who was desperately scrambling to come up with votes that didn t exist. so look, all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state. raffensperger is expected to appear with his deputy gabe sterling, and now we know that rusty bowers, the arizona house speaker who backed trump s re-election but also refused oto go along with his scheme will be joining them. earlier i spoke with the committee member of the january 6th committee, congresswoman zoe lofgren. these individuals are republicans they voted for trump. they are, you know, supported him, but they wouldn t do illegal t
the worst drought in 1200 years . it is scary to think we cannot do this because we know have water to do it. there is this assumption that it will always be there, still, it s always not there. they might have been captured by the russians they have been fighting. we expect they were from the tank shooting with a blast. he had this and this big burden on him to serve the people however he can. i want to see him back safely. i am jessica dean in washington. pamela house tonight off. you are in the cnn newsroom. we begin this hour with your wallet, and the beating it has taken in recent days, weeks and months. the s&p 500 ended its first week since march of 2020. that is when the pandemic hit. for a second straight day, the dow closed between 30,000. americans are filling the worst inflation now since 1981. consumer prices shot up by 8.6% ending in may. record gas prices and skyrocketing airline tickets are battering summer travel plans. just a few days ago, the federa
the battleground state of georgia, where trump hand-picked several 2020 election deniers to run for critical offices that oversee elections like secretary of state, attorney general, and governor. now, the primary race for governor is the race to watch today in georgia, incumbent brian kemp is trump s number one target in what s being called his vendetta tour. trump is on a mission to bring down republicans who refuse to go along with his 2020 election lies. he enlisted and then endorsed kemp s rival, david perdue, and headlined a tele-rally there for him yesterday. on the same day, trump s former vice president, mike pence, stumped with kemp in georgia. we have a team of correspondents covering election day in georgia, so let s start with cnn s jeff zeleny, who is reporting on governor kemp s campaign. jeff, what s the latest? reporter: alisyn, we are outside a polling location here in atlanta, and there are several hours to go until the polls close, about five more ho
Airstrikes overnight onto locations in Eastern Syria used by irans revolutionary guard, and quote, affiliated groups. Defense secretary lloyd austin saying in a statement that the stripes were a response to a series of ongoing and mostly unsuccessful attacks against u. S. Personnel in iraq and syria by iranianbacked militia groups. That began just over a week ago. And in those instances, millicent used drones and rockets to attack multiple u. S. Installations in the region. The pentagon says those attacks left 21 americans with minor injuries. One u. S. Contractor died of a cardiac event. Now there is a precedent here. The u. S. Is launched similar Aitrikes Including Last March One another u. S. Contractor was syria. By a malicious drone Defense Secretary austin described the launch aquote, selfdefense. Anin a statement called them separate and distinct from the israel hamas conflict. But of course, iran is a backer of hamas. All of, it putting u. S. Forces in a delicate position. Tryi