people are now in 257 shelters like this woman right here. florida says it needs 5.5 million meals to feed them all. and 6.6 million liters of clean water. 2 million people still do not have power. water isn t running in five counties. 19 counties have boil water notices. and more than 200 health care facilities are evacuating, or considering doing so. 10 airports are closed. along with 24 ports. 31 transit systems. and nine railways. and then there is the death toll. the official number is now 14. though those same officials say that number is very likely to rise. and they are warning, just because it has a weaker wind speed, making it a category one storm, hurricane ian, that does not mean that the danger has passed. as we have learned over and over again, it is the water, the rain, the storm surge, and the flooding that is often the most dangerous. that right there is where we begin, looking at what the storm is doing now, joining me from charleston, south carolina, is nbc
two nations pointing fingers after an attack on a prison holding prisoner of war. we re live in kyiv with the latest. how russia is getting around sanctions by plundering sudan s gold. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. it s 5:00 a.m. in eastern kentucky where a humanitarian tragedy is unfolding and will likely get worse. president joe biden has issued a major disaster declaration for the state as catastrophic flooding has killed at least 16 people, including 6 children and that death toll is expected to rise. raging waters decimated entire neighborhoods, scores of people are still missing. kentucky governor andy beshear says it s hard to know how many. he explains why here. listen. there are so many areas we still can t get to. the water hasn t crested in some parts of eastern kentucky. so we can t even get in to some hollers and see who is there. there are people out there all across kentucky and america that are scared bec
lives, mountainous terrain where the water feeds in. the water has to go somewhere, unfortunately it was just too much to handle. look what it did to one of the river gauges here. it allowed for a peak observation, shy of 43.5 feet. the old record was 43 feet. major flood stage, record flood stage for many locations. it is currently receding, but any amount of additional rain falls will allow for the rivers and creeks to swell allowing for the potential for more flooding. radar is dry. radar is quiet. we ll take it. still our flood warnings across many of the local rivers over eastern kentucky. we ll monitor if this storm prediction center or the weather prediction center starts to increase these watches going forward, but this is really the culprit there. the stalled frontal boundary. this is allowing waves of precipitation to move from the texas panhandle right through kentucky over the days to come. something we ll monitor very closely.
cruz had said in part, quote, they want us to be just like california right down to tofu and silicone and dyed hair. it s worth noting that cruz s wife heidi is a vegetarian from california. let s get a check on your weather with bill karins. here s what we re dealing with in north carolina. eastern north carolina, the remnants are just about cresting in most cases. then they re going to come down from here. the cape fear river is one of the biggest ones and also the noose river, the river that flooded new bern with the water that same from the sound. a lot of places still under what we call major flood stage. a couple gauges near the lumberton river also in record flood stage. it s continuing to come down in areas of the east. heavier downpours just outside