vowing to forcefully protect u. s citizens as his administration cast blame on iran and seeks to punish its proxies. also tonight, former white house chief of staff mark meadows is under orders to testify along with other top x trump aides. in the january 6th criminal investigation. it s another win for the special counsel after forcing trump s lawyer to face a grand jury today, and north korea threatens to unleash a giant radioactive tsunami as it claims to test a nuclear capable underwater drone. kim jong un ramping up his dangerous taunts. as we re learning more about human rights abuses on his watch , welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world is on assignment. i m alex marquardt york in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news and let s get right to that breaking news out of syria, u. s forces targeted with rocket fire tonight by suspected iranian backed fighters. this comes after a deadly drone attack on americans and retaliatory airs
newsroom. i m jim acosta in ft. myers, florida. first thing, we have some updated figures from here in the hurricane zone. sit the most current death toll of people who sadly did not survive hurricane ian here in florida. that new official death toll is now 74. 74 people here in florida have died now as a result of hurricane ian. of course, those figures are coming in. as they develop, we ll bring them to you. residents say there is a growing sense of fear that more bodies could be discovered. some areas remain fairly inaccessible to first responders. we ll show you what i saw on the ground. in the meantime, cnn has learned that a team that responds to mass fatality incidents has deployed equipment and personnel to assist medical examiners in boast counties here in southwest florida. officials in lee county where the majority of the deaths have concerned are facing a major concern. why were the first evacuation orders issued less than 24 hours before landfall? the county s ow
without power and at least 10 confirmed dead. todd: adam klotz tracking the storm, but we begin with doug luzader as ian approaches, doug, what are you experiencing now? doug: things are whipping up now, progressing, the wind is getting more intense and bands of rain are moving through, there are signs ian is getting closer. we thought ian was going to hit as a tropical storm and now it will be a category one hurricane, either way, you get a feeling in south carolina that most people are staying put. there is not a feeling of panic here, but there is concern about the flooding they will run into here. not so much about the wind, but the flooding. that tidal surge, storm surge, four to seven feet in the low country, four to seven feet doesn t just go up, it goes in, they are so close to sea level. we have not seen a mass exodus of people here, no real panic, but people are concerned about flooding because they deal with it so often. we saw image in the local newspaper of c
current prime minister fumio kishida really encapsulated the emotions felt across japan. he was visibly upset, in tears almost, you know, as he talked about the current condition of former prime minister abe and went on to say that calling the shooting an unforgivable act. abe s brother and current minister of defense nobuo kishi also addressed the media calling the attack an affront to democracy and the suppression of freedom of speech. witnesses say that abe was shot from behind, he didn t collapse after that first shot but did collapse after the second shot before receiving cpr and the suspect as you described a man in his 40s was arrested on the spot in possession of what nhk is describing as a handmade gun. now, abe was there in japan s western city to deliver a stump speech for the liberal democratic candidates ahead of the upper house election set for this sunday, while a couldn t verse figure here in japan at times and around the world for his policies, abe is an in
abe assassinated during a campaign speech by a man with a homemade gun. and a new report shows the u.s. jobs market stayed strong last month despite high inflation and recession fears. this hour what the numbers could mean for the u.s. economy and for the biden administration. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. we begin this hour with a highly anticipated testimony of former white house counsel pat cipollone to the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection. let s go straight to capitol hill. our reporter melanie is on the story for us. what do we know, first of all, about the testimony of this key witness? do we know if cipollone has been cooperating or not? reporter: well, pat cipollone has been testifying for eight hours and counting now behind closed doors and he has left several times throughout the course of the day to meet with his own down in separate side