it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota in new york. hurricane ian has killed at least 13 people. it s the strongest storm to hit the west coast of florida in nearly 20 years. local officials say we should brace for that number of victims to rise. the life and death danger from ian continues as it pushes northeast, still pummelling florida. rescuers were pulling people from high water all day and night. survivors describe no time to wait as people had to carry children, as you can see, through chest-high waters. ian made landfall just west of cape coral. our cnn drone shows the devastation there. i mean obviously you can just see these are supposed to be streets, but they are completely flooded. nearby ft. myers and naples further south are both decimated. countless neighborhoods are still submerged in the floodwaters at this hour. the communities of sanibel and pine island are now cut off from the mainland after ian washed away parts of this causewa
Reporter certainly. That will be a challenge for some of them especially in districts where the president is very popular. If members did not side with him on this. I think the big question right now is will it get to the floor . Thats a decision that Doesnt Reside in the white house. Its really a decision for the majority leaders of the republicans, Kevin Mccarthy a long with the speaker, they run the floor. If they believe it is sort of a doomed bill, theyve got to make a calculation about tip typically you could see them not put it on the floor with that political exposure for each and every member to be recorded on something that went nowhere. Thats typically how this goes. We saw the president saying he wanted a vote. That was a point of leverage. In the time weve been talking about this and when weve been updating our own whip counts and describing the mood and the atmosphere, i can assure you, if there were people in leadership who thought we had that wrong, they would be callin
next month? the biggest obstacle is omicron, which is unbelievably infectious. the kind of encounter you might have had a month ago that would have been safe, now there s a decent chance it will cause you to be infected, even if you re vaccinated. and so i guess my take on i liked your essay very much because i think that is the world we re getting to, but i m still in hunker-down mode for the next several weeks because i do think there s just a ton of virus around. if you go into a restaurant, for example, and there are 20, 30 people there, there s almost certainty that one of the people in the restaurant has covid, doesn t know it. and so at least for the next few weeks, as hospitals are getting filled and getting overwhelmed, i think it s a time to be very careful, not to hide under the kitchen table as you might have done in march 2020. if you re fully vaccinated, the chances you re going to die of this are very low but they re
omicron, which is unbelievably infectious. the kind of encounter you might have had a month ago that would have been safe, now there s a decent chance it will cause you to be infected, even if you re vaccinated. and so i guess my take on i liked your essay very much because i think that is the world we re getting to, but i m still in hunker-down mode for the next several weeks because i do think there s just a ton of virus around. if you go into a restaurant, for example, and there are 20, 30 people there, there s almost certainty that one of the people in the restaurant has covid, doesn t know it. and so at least for the next few weeks, as hospitals are getting filled and getting overwhelmed, i think it s a time to be very careful, not to hide under the kitchen table as you might have done in march 2020. if you re fully vaccinated, the chances you re going to die of this are very low, but they re
risk. i think as far as government action goes, testing and encouraging vaccination, these are of course the tool kits we need, but we really need for everybody, everybody to recognize that this is a new ball game. they re going to have to go back to hunker down mode. they re going to have to be willing as ted rose, the head of w.h.o said yesterday, sure, it s tough to cancel an event, it s harder to cancel a life. that s where we are right now. so dr. bhadelia, to the point of miami-dade mayor, we ve been talking about the power of vaccines for more than a year now. i want to play a little clip of the protection being vaccinated gives you from getting really sick. take a listen. reporter: according to the latest cdc data, here s the difference between those who are vaccinated and those who are not. among the unvaccinated, there are 451 cases per 100,000