ashore yesterday afternoon, we were knew it was one of the strongest storms to hit the united states. day tligt day brought harrowing evidence of the destruction a storm like that brings. this is ft. myers beach, one of the barrier u lands that ian slammed into as a category five storm. before the hurricane, it was a popular beach defendant naugs destination. much of it is leveled. one local resident told the local paper, ft. myers beach is gone. this is the causeway leading to sanibel island to the west of for the murz beach. it s the only road to that island. it impassable. all the bridges to pine island also failed. this evening nbc nightly news anchor spoke with the mayor of sanibel for her concern about the people that didn t evacuate before the storm and maybe trapped there. we have significant numbers of people contact us, people they knew that were on the island. we ve been logging those meticulously and getting those out to our first responders. we had about 200
he promised the russian people. this is not a war. it s a special military operation inside ukraine. he was losing after seven months, right? he didn t overthrow the nazis. he didn t demilitarize ukraine. he didn t take kyiv. he lost the battle of kyiv. he lost the battle of kharkiv. he was compelled because he was losing to do this and now it s having these very dangerous results for him inside his own country. when we talk about the people who are being called into the army, i want to call your attention to a statement advising americans to get out of russia. otherwise, they are at risk of getting drafted into putin s army. russia may refuse to acknowledge duel nationals u.s. citizenship, deny access to u.s. counselor assistant and con script duel nationals for military service. residing in russia should depart russia immediately. what would cause the u.s. state department to what level of