weather wreaking havoc this holiday weekend, many in the united states are facing their coldest christmas in decades. right now more than 175 million people are under windchill alerts. the arctic blast extend interesting montana all the way down to, get this, yeah, florida. some temperatures in the midwest dipping into the negative 30s, even atlanta is seeing negative windchills. the bitter cold proving extremely dangerous. at least 15 people have lost their lives across the country so far. in tennessee, people are seeing intermittent power disruptions as the bone-chilling weather pushes the state s power grid to the absolute max. more than 840,000 customers are now without power nationwide. whiteout continues make it too perilous to travel. new york officials are issuing a driving ban for several counties amid blizzard conditions there, and if you are trying to fly this weekend, i got to give you some good luck and a prayer because pacific raceways than 1,700 flights have be
southwest florida, where nearly five days after hurricane ian made landfall, the death toll continue it is climb. hundreds of thousands of people remain in the dark without electricity as some communities are now essentially unrecognizable. this morning we have the very latest on rescue and recovery efforts taking place as president biden prepares to tour the damage here firsthand. good to be with you, boris. and i m amara walker. overseas more than 100 people are dead after violence erupts at a soccer stadium in indonesia. we re learning about what started the deadly chaos. plus ukrainian forces make critical gains. and mortgage rates climbing to their highest level in 15 years. what that means for home buyers should be doing amid soaring inflation. new day starts right now. good morning, everyone. it is sunday, october 2nd. thank you so much for spending a part of your morning with us. boris, i know you have had quite an event full morning already. yeah, amara. it h
to lure shooting victims out in houston. and on the streets of d.c., an nfl rookie shot in an attempted robbery. with a busy summer travel weekend just days away, customer complaints hit new highs. it s not just airlines taking the calls. welcome to the lead. i m kasie hunt in today for jake tapper. we begin this hour with the national security legal and political shockwaves still reverberating from the fbi s search of mar-a-lago three weeks ago. the director of national intelligence says the u.s. intelligence community is conducting a damage assessment of the documents that were taken from the former president s home. remember, we learned last week that trump still had 148 unique classified documents in his possession after he left office. 25 of those were marked top secret. this review is separate from the doj s criminal investigation and will help intelligence officials determine if any harm has been done to our national security. meanwhile, sources close to the form
boosted. let s get back over to the white house to get an update from cnn s jeremy diamond. jeremy, what is the latest you re hearing? reporter: we just received a letter from joe biden s physician, dr. kevin o connor, confirming the news that the white house put out, saying that joe biden has tested positive for covid. he writes that the president tested positive this morning as part of our routine screening program. he says he tested positive on an antigen test that was confirmed via pcr testing. he confirmed what we reported on air just last hour, which is that the president is experiencing mild symptoms, including runny nose, fatigue, with an occasional dry cough, which he said started yesterday evening. i spoke to dr. jha, the white house s coronavirus coordinator. he said the president last night went to bed feeling mostly fine but did not sleep well and tested positive this morning. dr. o connor, the president s physician, is writing here that the president is fully
americans clearly do not approve of the president was my policy is. biden s approval at 31%, a record low. that includes only 19% of hispanics and 23% of independents. with the truth. can we handle the truth? good morning, todd and carly. i m not sure. the president i don t know if you saw, i started out by butchering massachusetts representative s name then he called him a she. he praised the climate conference in glasgow, england, which is in scotland, and announcing as a result of fossil fuel emissions, he has cancer, which he doesn t. president biden: rather than is being able to walk, guess what? you had to put on your windshield wipers to get literally the oil slick of the window. that s why i am so cancer. for the longest time, had the highest cancer rate in the nation. that raised eyebrows, and a few hours later, the white house attempted to clean up telling fox news biden was saying he was referring to past skin cancer, which was removed and documented in h