vladimir putin illegally annexes four regions. there s no checks on mr. putin. can the west keep him under control? plus the road to 2018, virginia becomes a battleground for one of the most competitive house races in the country. you look across the spectrum, the number is 218. i spent time in a district that could prove decisive. hello, i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is picking up the pieces after a devastating storm. the numbers and images are staggering. at least 67 are dead in florida, four in north carolina, more than 850,000 still in the dark this morning. hundreds of thousands now essentially refugees days after hurricane ian swept ashore and swept away life as many know it. already more than a thousand civilians have been rescued and evacuated according to the governor s office. we re getting a clearer view of ian s map-altering impact. entire stretches of florida s coastline are gone. once sprawling community like sanibel island
i was on the police department for almost 25 years. saw a lot of storms here. this is by far the worst storm i have ever witnessed. i promise you i m never going to stay for another storm ever again here. however, i am one of the lucky ones. recovery efforts begin after utter devastation in parts of florida. while millions more people are now at risk as ian moves north. also tonight, he isn t tossing paper towels but governor ron desantis is handling this hurricane in a weirdly trumpy way. what we re learning about ginni thomas meeting with the january 6th committee when she wasn t texting the white house in the days leading up to the insurrection, she was encouraging states to reverse trump s embarrassing defeat. ian is one of the most powerful storms to ever hit the u.s. now, the state begins the colossal task of picking up the pieces. we get a first glimpse at the destruction. from what we have seen so far, it is staggering. this is ft. myers, homes completely des
the governor talked about how impressed he was. these are dangerous missions. i m grateful for the brave women and men in federal, state and local governments working as one team risking their lives to save others. and we re going to learn a lot more in the coming hours. but we know many families are hurting. many. many are hurting today. and our entire country hurts with them. because it s been all over the country we have seen so many crises. but in florida today, it s the epicenter. we re continuing to see deadly rainfall, catastrophic storm surges, roads and homes flooded. we re seeing millions of people without power and thousands hunkered down in schools and community centers. they are wondering what s going on left. what s going to be left when they get to go home. or even if they have a home to go to. some of the folks have been through this before. but that doesn t make it any easier. it makes their anxiety even higher, in my view. my message to people of florida, ti
800,000 still without power. hundreds of thousands are now homeless. it s just destroyed and it s ruined. you have to start all over again. as hurricanes worsen, are there some areas where americans shouldn t rebuild? i ll speak to fema administrator deanne criswell and florida senators rick scott and marco rubio. upping the ante, ukraine takes back a key city one day after vladimir putin illegally annexs four regions of ukraine and again threatens to go nuclear. there are no checks on mr. putin. can the west keep the russian leader under control? plus, the road to 218, with the democrats majority threat earned in congress, virginia becomes a battleground for one of the most competitive house races in the country. if you look across the spectrum in the country, this is road to 218. i spent time in a district that could prove decisive? hello, i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is picking up the pieces after a devastating storm. the number
rebuilding to the extent possible which will take years. ft. myers beach, sanibel, they ll never look the same again. these communities have basically been wiped out. so now it will be about the long term. the long term in that some of these communities may never fully recover? well, they ll recover, they just won t be the same. if you talk about, for example, ft. myers beach, this is like a slice of old florida. it was still a place where a lot of families would go and create memories, my own family included on places like san well years ago. i think it s the first beach, my daughter who is now 22, ever went to with us. a lot of families around florida made memories on those places. they will be rebuilt. you can t rebuild old florida. some of the places who have been there for so long is just gone. ian isn t the only recent hurricane causing major problems it s been two weeks since