Electricity. Most in lee county. Some customers might not have power for months. Governor ron desantis says 2,000 people have been rescued. State officials are trying to determine how many people are still unaccounted for. The window for finding survivors is starting to close. Cnns Carlos Suarez has more. Reporter unrecognizable in parts. Still underwater in others. Hurricane ians destruction and path so vast Search And Rescue efforts continue days after the storm tore through florida. We kent get over the bridge. Reporter residents in Desoto County are stopped. Air boats are key to getting supplies in and people out. These air boats are going out taking people into town and its been going for a while now. Reporter the death toll across the State Climbing rapidly. A lot of sick people running out of medications. A lot of people running out of water and until we can get everything up and going, were trying to get them out. Reporter hundreds of Sanibel Island residents cut off from the m
it s top of the hour on cnn newsroom. the death toll from hurricane ian has just gone up. it s now 104 lives lost. 100 of those in florida. search teams finding more bodies as they reach some of the hardest hit areas. more than half of those killed were in lee county which includes ft. myers beach. that city is now closed to everyone but search and rescue personnel. the mayor says there is no time line yet for when residents can return. lee county officials coming under some criticism for the timing of their evacuation orders. now dozens of miles inland in western florida in arcadia, river flooding is still causing problems. . this is five days after ian hit. cnn team on the ground says that part of the highway has disappeared under the water. and many people there are trapped. we were on the ground in arcadia, florida. you re hearing from people panicked there. what is the situation? well, allison, we re entering day four now of people not having electricity. so they don t
airtime we have assembled a team of correspondents and experts to tell you what is known, but it could mean, and where it may lead. cnn s kaitlan collins starts us off. caitlin what are you learning about this fbi operation? john, it s a remarkable development with the former president himself confirming that the fbi has executed a search warrant on his home in palm beach, florida today. he said in a statement that his beautiful home, mar-a-lago in palm beach, which became s primary residence after he left the white house is, quote, currently under siege, rated and not occupied by a large number of fbi agents. he says after working in cooperating with the relevant government agencies, the sun announced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate. he adds, quote, they even broke into my safe and he compared it to water gate or worse than water gain and maintains it s an effort to stop him from running for president in 2024. we should note we have now learned this search
Stretching from wichita down towards san angelo, texas, the particularly dangerous situation is the one that is for the north sliver of texas and includes much of oklahoma, including oklahoma city, and then goes up into wichita until 11 00 central time this evening, again, labeled that particularly dangerous situation for the possibility of violent long tornadoes that would be ef2 and strength or greater. We already have found a couple of Tornado Warnings that have been issued for the northern part of texas here as these storms start to respond to the daytime heat and fire up, we also have a batch of storms that have been on the decaying trend and a severe thunderstorm. Watch him parts of georgia. This is the threat. You can see that red bulls eye goes from Wichita Falls up towards wichita and then into springfield, missouri were intense tornadoes, baseballsized hail, and those damaging wind gusts or possible, and again, its that fear for the very strong tornadoes, some of the ones tha
Potentially playing out, or at least the training for which on the chinese side playing out in real time error all right, well, thank you very much. In taipei tonight. Thanks for joining us. The news continues now, right here on cnn it is friday, may 24, right now on cnn this morning, donald trump Porting Black and hispanic voters in the thanks will President Biden tries to convince Nikki Haley Borders to stand with him. Cnn on the front lines as Ukrainian Forces tried to keep their second largest city from falling to the russians. And the us senate failing again depends as a sweeping border bill that once had bipartisan support is 5 00 a. M. Here in washington. This is alive. Look at New York City on this friday good morning, everyone. Im jessica dean in for kasie hunt, 80s. Great To Be With You. Donald trump and joe biden looking to gain an edge in the race for the white house by targeting voters in unexpected places, trump is reaching out to voters in the bronx in one of the most de