75th session of the United Nations general assembly. We begin now with comments from brazilian president jair bols narro. Bolsanoro. Pres. Bolsanaro ladies and gentlemen it is an honor to open this assembly together with other sovereign nations at a time when the world needs truth to overcome its challenges. Covid19 has become the cent over attention over the course of this year. First of all, i wish to express my sorrow for each and every life lost. From the very beginning in my country i warned that we have two problems to solve. The virus and joblessness. And that both problems had to be addressed simultaneously and with the same sense of responsibility. As determined by court ruling in brazil all measures involving social distancing and restrictions of movement were delegated to each of the 27 governors in the federation. The president in turn was assigned the responsibility for outreach nationwide. As was the case, much of the world, segments of the brazil media, have also politic
rising death toll and questions being raised over evacuation orders. this morning florida continues to reel from hurricane ian. i m brianna keilar with alex marquardt this morning. john berman is off this morning. officials are saying ian killed at least 76 people in florida after the monster storm barreled through the state. governor ron desantis says more than 1600 rescues have been made since the storm made landfall. communities have been left unrecognizedable. this morning more than 613,000 customers are still without power. many floridians still without clean tap water. shocking pictures. meanwhile florida governor ron desantis is defending officials in lee county where more than half of the storm-related deaths have been announced so far. they are now facing criticism for issuing evacuation orders a day later than neighboring counties. here is what governor desantis had to say. is that something you ll be reviewing, looking at the evacuation orders. lee county, if t
Its enormous size and destructive power and where it will impact people across the United States. This is how residents of the bahamas are preparing for the storms arrival, filling up their cars, boarding up their windows, knowing this category 4 hurricane could just sit on top of them for an entire day, maybe even longer. Lets get right to cnns chad meyers, the National Hurricane center has issued an update on the storm, the location, the track, lets hear it. As it gets closer, with cooler, air to the u. S. , sheer, down 5 Miles Per Hour in speed at a time, not really all that significant. We still dont get this thing in their forecast to be a cat 5. Thats good, goes to 155. Category 5 starts at 157. I know were splitting hairs there, but theres something there. 150 Miles Per Hour storm, 170 miles from great abico, 190 miles from where it begins to stop and turn to the right, 12 hours or 24 hours later, and as you said, could be 36 hours sitting right there over the bahamas, doing sig
the two candidates will face each other at the end of october. joining us chief international anchor christiane amanpour. so great to have you with us this morning. this has been a remarkable race for many different reasons. what has stood out most to you? well, that it is really about the personalities, lulu was president for two terms, and as the world knows, the figures show he raised 20 million brazilians out of extreme poverty. at one point president obama called him i think the most popular politician in the world. he really did have that magnetism. then there were accusations of corruption. he spent time in jail. his sentence was vacated. finally the supreme court overturned the convictions based on political bias they said. on the other hand, jair bols nar rojas been called latin