intensefying to a category 3 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 115 mile-per-hours. the mayor called it catastrophic. some seeing three feet of rain. look at this. most of the island remains without power and a electrical grid with a checkered past and a bad history. it could be a while before it is restored. two deaths have been reported so far in puerto rico which is still struggling to rebuild after hurricane maria hit five years ago today. crews have rescued more than a thousand people but more could be trapped by the floodwaters. the storm killed at least one person in the dominican republic. cnn meteorologist chad myers is tracking this storm for us. and chad, the latest update just came in from the national hurricane center. what is it showing? it does show one good thing for bermuda. the storm turned a little bit left. you re out of the cone for now. not every storm stays in the cone but one-third could sneak out. that is good news for the people of bermuda.
its highest level since the 1962 cuban missile crisis. biden saying about putin, quote, he s not joking when he talks about potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapon as he continues to lose ground in ukraine. we also have an important snapshot of the u.s. economy that we must discuss. u.s. employers have added 263,000 jobs this september. a modest slowdown from august. a slowdown that could actually be good news, though. the federal reserve looking for the jobs market to cool off to help fight stush stubborn inflation. and arlette saenz is live. the president laid out this warning last night. should people be expecting another walk back from the white house then today? reporter: well, kate, so far no official walk-back from the white house. but u.s. officials have said that they have not seen any evidence that russian president vladimir putin has decided to move forward with using a nuclear weapon. but still, the president s comments that he
teenager and on off-duty police officer among the dead in north carolina. donald trump ignoring a subpoena from the january 6 committee how so how will congress an the justice department respond. and an ominous warning that this year s flu season could be the worst in years. this is what we re watching at this hour . and thanks for being here. i m erica hill in today for koib. five people are-v been killed in a mass shooting in raleigh. a teenage boy and an off-duty police officer are among the victims. shooting suspect, a 15-year-old white male. he is in custody with life-threatening injuries. and officials briefed the media this morning. ryan, good morning. reporter: good morning, erica. when you think about it, there is so much going on this morning alope. we had the fuse conference and now we move to this location because we wanted to show you that this still remains an active crime scene as police are still trying to figure out exactly what happened here. we re stil
have made a difference? plus how is russia going to respond now that ukraine is taking back land that putin wants to say is his. and what kind of roller coaster ride are we in for as the supreme court kicks off its new term today. this is what we re watching at this hour. thank you for being here. i m kate bolduan. the dem toll from hurricane ian is rising still in florida. as rescuers are now working through some of the hardest hit areas. at least 76 people have died in the state from this monster storm. governor ron desantis said more than 1600 rescues have been conducted in parts of southwest and central florida. more than half of those people killed are in one county. lee county. and now county officials are facing questions about how long they waited to order a mandatory evacuation, despite repeated forecasts of the life-threatening storm projections from the national hurricane center. i m going to speak with a top fo official in just a moment. still over 600,000 are w
surveillance video of the actual fbi search of his home. now, in a separate case, moments ago, allen weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of trump s family business, he pleaded guilty to a 15-year tax fraud scheme. we ll have more on that in just a moment. let s begin with katelyn polantz. katelyn, set the scene for us here. reporter: this afternoon, kate, we re going to be listening for justice department prosecutors and how much they re willing to say about this ongoing investigation into the handling of classified material, potentially kept at mar-a-lago after the trump presidency. it is going to be about this affidavit, but this say court hearing over secrecy. the justice department says that this is a serious ongoing criminal investigation. it implicates highly classified materials, and that they need protections of confidentiality to keep their investigation going, to keep doing the work that they need to do to decide whether there should be a charge here.