determined generation of iranians, more embolden than ever. they re risking, everything, erin. rising up for freedoms and rights they have never known under this oppressive regime. thank you very much. thanks so much to all of you for joining us tonight. ac 360 begins right now. even as the remains of hurricane ian are still causing havoc, even tonight with major flood ago long the virginia shore, the storms death toll is rising. mostly in florida. especially in lee county where the storm hit hardest in at least 54 people have now died. john berman here in for anderson. all hurricane ian is responsible for at least 104 deaths and just as did it today, that number is expected to rise. five days since the storm came ashore, barrier islands are
many people could still be missing. of course, that is not good news for loved ones who cannot reach their family members. they don t know if they re trapped or alive or dead. so the task force and the search teams, john, will continue here 24/7 for as long as it takes, they say, until their mission is complete. john? work goes on. randi kaye, thank you very much for that report. more now on the broader sweep of the story in what emergency teams across the area have been finding today. carlos suarez has that. reporter: unrecognizable in parts, still underwater in others. hurricane ian s destruction and path so vast, search and rescue efforts continue days after the storm tore through florida. we can t get over the bridge. residents in this area hit by river flooding are stuck. air boats are now key to getting supplies in and people out. you see the air boats taking people into town. it s been going for a while now. the death toll across the
until their mission is complete. work goes on. randi, thank you very much for that report. more on the broader sweep of the story and what emergency teams across the area found today. cnn s carla suarez has that. unrecognizable in parts. hurricane ian s destruction and path is so vast search and rescue efforts continue phase after the storm and florida. we can t get over the bridge. residents in the county hit by river flooding are stopped. airboats are now key to getting supplies in and people out. they are going out and taking people into town. it is going for a while now. the death toll across the state climbing rapidly two of the hardest hit florida counties in charlotte each adding a dozen deaths today alone. a lot of sick people are running out of medications. a lot of people are running out of water. we can get everything up and going. we are trying to get them out. hundreds of sanibel island residents cut off from the mainland have been rescued so far. no time
state climbing rapidly. two of the hardest hit florida counties, lee and charlotte, each adding a dod deaths today alone. a lot of sick people running out of medications and people running out of water. and so we can get everything up and going, we re trying to get them out. reporter: hundreds of sanibel island residents cut off from the mainland have been rescued so far. no timetable to rebuild, the only road to the island. we are encouraging everyone to get off the island. but we also need to understand that this is everyone s home and they need to get back and protect it. reporter: there are mounting questions in lee county over why the first mandatory evacuation orders there came just one day before land fall. county officials are there and standing by the decision making saying they based the orders on the storm s forecasted path. he this made the call as soon as the forecast called for them to make the call. monday afternoon we were telling people you do not want to wai
pressed florida republican senator rick scott who is overseeing republican efforts to retake the senate about these comments. you remember the senate gop leadership, are you okay with this? well, i can never talk about the response, and why anybody else says what he said. you know, the president likes to get people nicknames. you can ask him how he got came up with that nickname. i m sure he has a nickname for me. nicknames are one thing. but this is, this is pure racist. is that okay? it s never ever okay to be eight races. laura joined now by cnn chief political correspondent, dana bash, co-anchor of cnn state of the union. dana, what did you make of how senator scott responded or didn t really respond to you, just how quiet the republican party has been on this? extremely quiet. now, it s been several days about this comment has been out