and i don t think everyone was prepared for anything. my heart is broken for them. how do you recoup? we couldn t cross our fingers and hope for the best. we have listened and have listened. this is a huge defeat for moscow. this is not going well. he s facing an unprecedented amount of criticism from within. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. hello on this tuesday, october 4th. 9 a.m. here in london. 4 a.m. on the u.s. east coast. it s been six days since hurricane ian made landfall. the number of people killed has climbed past 100. authorities are holding out hope they will find survivors. so far the governor says they ve made close to 2,000 rescues including this one here. incredible video shows the u.s. coast guard saving a man and his neighbors from flood waters on sanibel island. that s in heavily damaged lee county where recovery efforts have been very difficult. that region accounts for about half of the state s 450,000 powe
brittney griner is pleading guilty to drug charges stemming from that february detainment at the moscow airport. she faces up to ten years in a russian prison unless negotiations can get under way for a prisoner swap. more on the reporting from the new york times overnight that former fbi director james comey and his deputy mccabe were both subjected to intensive, intrusive irs audits during the trump presidency. the odds of a single person being selected for that kind of audit are one in 30,000. for two men who basically had the same job, well, it s kind of like winning the worst lottery. certainly raising suspiciouses about the trump appointed leadership at the irz. we begin with keir simmons. how are the people reacting to this shakeup? another at the top of their political leadership. reporter: there will be those who are breathing a sigh of relief. there will be those who are disappointed because he s a colorful character. there are people and many people who liked
parliamentarians talked about the army, how they don t have enough equipment, commanders are making the wrong decisions in the eyes of some of them. none of these from putin s party questioning why they re signing the agreement in part of territories which are occupied by the armed forces of another country. questions are arising even as these annexations take place. people will remember the viral moment when a news editor stood up and gave an anti-war protest placard in the studio. she was put under house arrest. she s escaped? yes. she s a journalist with state tv 1. yes. see this in march, she ran in front of a live broadcast with this no war poster. she left russia, came back. she was then arrested again in august and placed under a 2-month house arrest for charges of disseminating false information about the russian forces, charges which carry
west wing as they hear this friendly fire coming from their own party questioning whether the president is the right person for the moment. they sort of discount it on one level. this is the same white house staff that was the biden campaign staff that heard that he is not as progressive as elizabeth warren or not as that he is not as progressive as elizabeth warren or not as fiery as bernie sanders, not as young as pete buttigieg and could win the nomination. they discounted, because he won the nomination became the president. dating some of this criticism is a little too in the moment, too knee-jerk and not founded in reality. they knowledge the president has not necessarily been part of the conversation in the way they would like him to. you mentioned present s trip to ohio yesterday. that was just the third standalone trip the president has made outside of washington to promote his domestic agenda in the last two months for part of that is because he has been so consumed by a serie
than 60% of the party questioning whether you should be the nominee. that is one poll. another poll that we ve seen democrats give president biden low marks on the direction of the country. upwards of 40% of democrats saying we re heading in the wrong direction. when you have those numbers in your own party i ve not even gotten to independents. when it s within your party, that s not something that we experienced in the trump administration. very real having to deal with in a practical way. martha: absolutely. right track, wrong track, guy, 71% say that we re on the wrong track. i went back to look at the most recent time we ve seen a number like that. it was during the heat of covid. so as the pandemic was sweeping the country, it would be understandable that the country would feel like things were not going in the right direction. now we have that in this environment. so what do you a tribute that wrong track number to? so many different factors.