southwest florida as a category 4 hurricane, making it the most powerful storm to ever hit that area of the state. the death toll now standing at 45, but that number could rise as crews reach areas cut off by flooding. people who chose to ride out the storm describe their harrowing experiences. the water was up to my balcony here. it was just you could dive off the balcony. just water everywhere, stuff floating on it. i never stay again. they say evacuate, go. right now the remnants of ian are moving along the country s northeast after the storm hit georgetown county, south carolina, as a category 1 hurricane. let s send it down to boris sanchez anchoring our coverage from fort myers, florida. boris. fred, as the sun rises on another day here in fort myers and southwest florida, the scope of the damage from hurricane ian is becoming more clear. communities are reeling as many folks are getting back to their properties and seeing what was left behind by this near categor
a crisis with no ordinary solution because this was no ordinary storm. look at the staggering scale of destruction. complicating hundreds of rescue efforts. it laid waste to entire towns, robbing people of their homes and livelihoods. some residents are now beginning to pick up the pieces. others have no pieces left to pick up. i just returned from a boat ride with the cageous navy where i saw some of the destruction for myself. this is what ian did to matt lachey in lee county where most of the deaths occurred so far. in matlacha. they find one of your neighbors? yeah. yeah. they found, like, i think three bodies so far in the water. i know there s more. cnn s nadia romero is in arcadia. we begin with brian todd in naples. officials said it could take months to recover. we have seen evidence all day long from our boat ride to where you are right now. where do things stand today where you are? jim, we re going to show you more evidence of why it s going to take so lon
the pandemic. this is a story that unfolds in three parts. first, the fraud. just yesterday we learned that nearly 400 department of homeland security employees took pandemic unemployment aid, even though they were working. this is just a tiny fraction of the massive and brazen covid theft that has incurred since the government started doling out billions in so-called relief. the official who was in charge of overseeing the distribution of the belief has called this the biggest fraud in a generation. it was the theft of as much as $80 billion or about 10% of the $800 billion it was handed out in that paycheck protection program. that s on top of the 90 billion to 402 billion believed to have been stolen from the 900 billion covid unemployment relief program, that is a lot of money. the second part of this story surrounds the title wave of inflation but all of this unchecked spending and the fraud actually caused. the adverse effects of pumping trillions into the u.s. economy
attended burke college in nyu, but either school has record of his attendance. he also lied about his work history as well as making several false claims about his personal life. he said he was in quote unquote proud to only to backtrack and say he was -ish. he claimed that his mother had died on 9/11. 9/11 clave my mother s life. but a few months later, on twitter, he wrote that his mother had died in 2016. spoke directly to try to better understand his side of the story . here is part of the conversation . my question is do you have no shame? do you have no shame in the people who are now you are asking to trust you to go and b their voice for them, their families and their kids in washington? i can say the same thing about democrats, look at joe biden, he has been lying to the american people for 40 years, h is president of the united states. democrats support him, do they have no shame? i made this very clear. ally is not an embellishment on a resume, you said you worke
acknowledges were false. for example, santos claimed that he attended baruch college and nyu, but neither school has a record of his attendance. santos also lied about his work history, as well as making several false claims about his personal life. he said he was a quote unquote, proud, only to backtrack and say he was jewish. now on twitter, santos also claimed that his mother had died on 9/11, quote, 9/11 claimed my mother s life. he wrote . but a few months later on twitter, santos wrote that his mother had died in 2016. on tuesday, i spoke directly to santos to try to better understand his side of the story. here s part of our conversation. my question is , do you have no shame? do you have no shame? and the people who are now you re asking to trust you to go and be their voice for them, their families and their kids in washington policy. i say the same thing about the democrats and the party. look at joe biden. joe biden s been lying to the american people for 40 ye