and i am trying to be brave and know that my family and i are safe and i will worry about all of that other stuff later. i am 67, lived here for five years. and now it is gone. it is underwater. underwater. so much of that area still underwater there, want to go to matlacha in florida. where liz mclaughlin standing by for us. let s take us there if you will once again. joining at the top of the last hour, as you are still in that area that is just completely devastating to see a road completely broken up really. crumbled upon itself. water still surrounding the area. what more are you seeing? absolutely yasmin this does not look like the result of a hurricane. this looks like an earthquake or something. it is just crumpled concrete, the only artery to the height of pine island behind me. matlacha, this idea like kind of fishing village now just completely crumbled. and in fact there are some remains of homes here. one zahra behind it are completely gone. just washed out
declaration in north carolina. this is as the state is bracing for up to six inches of rainfall. we are going to talk about it with the democratic candidate for senate in north carolina, jerry beasley. and we are talking about the state of the race, less than 40 days until midterm elections. i am simone sanders townsend, and i have something to say. unprecedented, biblical, just a few words to describe the impact of hurricane ian. now taking its place as one of the worst natural disasters in our country s history. in just a few minutes, we are expecting an update from florida governor ron desantis, which we will bring you live. this week, hurricane ian slammed into florida s west coast, just shy of a category four hurricane. with winds of 155 miles per hour. ripping through south florida. then, coming back to slim south carolina and now, north carolina. we are hearing from residents who survived. we shouldn t be alive right now. we shouldn t be alive right now with that sto
as a downgraded tropical cyclone. the historically destructive storm made landfall for the second time yesterday. this time in south carolina. more than 180,000 residents lost power almost immediately. that number, reported to have grown to nearly half 1 million as the storm has carved its way through the carolinas. of course, nowhere has been more devastated than florida, where ian s wrath after touching down was deadly, as 77 people confirmed dead. homes literally washed away. entire communities, recovering from being nearly submerged. the president, planning to visit the state to thank its first responders. said yesterday that eons destruction in florida is almost unmatched for our nation. the situation in florida is far more devastating. we will just be beginning to see the scale of that destruction. it s likely to rank among the worst in the nation s, and the worst in the nation s history. you have all seen the scene on television. homes and property wiped out. it s go
its missile attacks on the sports city of odessa. the w.h.o. now emergency. we will look at what that means for you. home, we are following the global heat wave impacting millions of people around the world right now. plus hopes that steve bannon s criminal conviction for defying the january 6th committee could force other reluctant witnesses to get in line. all of this as the former president lashes out at the committee and at a rally. dueling appearances from trump that is former vice president. we want to begin with the state department confirming today to americans have died fighting in the donbas region of ukraine. no further information has been released about their identities or their nature of their deaths. news coming as russia attacked a critical port in odessa, which transports millions of tons of grain through the black sea, just hours after signing a deal with the ukraine and russia give us more information about what you know with the loss of these two ameri
scott, who would not attack something trump said. don t we also have a responsibility to not only not do it but also to say when someone does it, that that s wrong or we disagree with it forthright and not try to kind of pull out punches? absolutely to i agree with you. one of the things that just shocked me early in trump s presidency was when he would use words like deranged and human scum to describe his enemies, enemies of the state. and i m from a generation when we would address our opponents by something like my right honorable opponent. what a what a fall in just the civility of our nation that was introduced by trump. and i don t think anybody can really justify that. i don t think it helps them at all. i agree with you. yeah, it should be renounced and called out. we re at the top of the hour. i just want to underline one final thing here because you brought this up, and i remember when nancy pelosi said that she prayed for donald trump, and he said, oh, that