people who are rescuing animals from dangerously high waters. and eons disastrous aftermath. plus the supreme court s new term begins tomorrow with the new justice on the bench. some say that one of the cases on the docket could be the biggest threat to democracy since the january 6th insurrection. i ll go in-depth with the journalist who s been sounding the alarm about this case for months. later, we ve heard so many stories about election workers facing violent threats and false claims, would you believe, that actually inspired people to sign up to work holds? i ll speak live to someone who made that exact choice. good sunday morning to all of you. i m katie fang. we begin this hour right here in florida, where rescuers continue to search for survivors in the wake of hurricane ian. the death toll is tragically growing to 73 s search teams reach more areas of the community initially cut off, including in pine islands where our amazon news team got a closer look at the devast
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setting the stage. until you have power, water, roads, communications, it s hard to start to rebuild. craig, unfortunately have less than a minute left but i did want to ask you, we mentioned about those warnings of a possible levee breach threatening to bearing flooding to the city of sarasota. we know levee failures made hurricane katrina a much bigger disaster. are our cities infrastructures and desperate need of improvement? yeah, i testified before congress a couple weeks ago, we built a infrastructure on the past. we re seeing it fail in these events. we ve got to built a much higher standards for future risk. chris, thank you so much for joining us. i know that you ve been on massive duty trying to find that we understand what s happening. i appreciate you taking the time to let us know how things are. thanks for having me. coming up, what happens when some residents of hard-hit
d.c. and philadelphia are included. that number is going to jump to 30 million or so once we get the big metropolitan areas included. as far as the rain fall forecast goes, mississippi, and then eventually tennessee, kentucky, west virginia, all the way through d.c. and new york. jacob, i was going through some of the flash flood warning, the maroon colors down around areas of southern mississippi and north of new orleans. there still are numerous flash flood mnchs that are ongoing because of very heavy rainfall and then there are a couple of flash flood emergencies that exist because of levee failures in areas. i think what we re going to hear and see once we get to daylight, most of the levee structures held up especially in the new orleans area. anyone that was outside the system that was told to evacuate, that s where all the problems are and that s where we re going to have a lot of water issues. we ll see that at daybreak.
hurricane ida is slowly makings it way north through louisiana leaving widespread destruction behind. the storm may be weakening but flash flooding now is one of the most pressing concerns. at least two towns reported levee failures and across the state more than a million homes and businesses are without power. and there is no telling when it will be restored. reporter: as we headed into the overnight hours from sunday into monday, all of new orleans was plunged into darkness. we are here on bourbon street. it is very dark out here. the only reason you can see light is our photo journalist is throwing a light on that house there from an independent power source. there are lights on in a taller building behind it. the only buildings with any power in new orleans are running on generator power, presenting