the body was and then, when they were just about ready to take her out, they said, you don t want to see this. she had been floating for three days. even to describe that, what does that feel like? it is horrible and i am an ex nurse. i don t want to see that. all right. let s cross over now to fort myers beach, where we are finding bring us up to speed on the latest. it is nighttime there. do these rescue and search efforts continue in the night even though there are challenges of working in the dark. no electricity and the perhaps the weather may not be cooperating. what is going on there? those search and rescue efforts are taking place 24 hours a day. we have been speaking with authorities who say they have people there during the day and at night. in fact, they have shared videos on social media, the sheriff s department, where you can see officers using lights. of course, it s not the same to do this at night as it is during the day. but the efforts do not
they were just about ready to take her out, they said, you don t want to see this. she had been floating for three days. even to describe that, what does that feel like? it is horrible and i am an ex nurse. i don t want to see that. all right. let s cross over now to fort myers beach, where we are finding bring us up to speed on the latest. it is nighttime there. do these rescue and search efforts continue in the night even though there are challenges of working in the dark. no electricity and the perhaps the weather may not be cooperating. what is going on there? those search and rescue efforts are taking place 24 hours a day. we have been speaking with authorities who say they have people there during the day and at night. in fact, they have shared videos on social media, the sheriff s department, where you can see officers using lights. of course, it s not the same to do this at night as it is during the day. but the efforts do not stop. unfortunately, today,
still too cowardly to take a stand against insurrectionists ex president. the idea of political violence is being normalized. he held newspaper published a piece this weekend underlying its stark terms what this new post trump post january 6th world looks like. the number threat in vests launched by u.s. capitol police in 2021 was 100 and 50% higher than it was in 2017. trump s first year in office. lawmakers who are critical of trump remain among those most frequently targeted for violence. the long and diverse listening clues republicans who voted for an infrastructure bill he opposed. democrats who manage the former presidents impeachments. republicans who supported his ouster after the january 6th capitol attack. and most recently, the nine lawmakers on the select committee investigating the 2021 a riot. all of whom have around the clock security details. end quote. president biden addressed the normalization of violence this week in his soul of the nation s speech. y
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that s barely over 300 feet. the international atomic energy agency warning this heightens the risk of a potential nuclear accident. radioactivity levels are within normal range right now, but that could change at any moment and thousands of residents living in the shadow of this plant are all too aware of the dangers as city authorities are now handing out iodine pills in case of a nuclear disaster. cnn s sam kiley has the latest from zaporizhzhia in ukraine. reporter: jim, the ukrainian authorities remain deeply concerned about what might happen at the zaporizhzhia power plant. for the first time now issuing iodine tablets to the population here in zaporizhzhia. we re only about 20 miles from that nuclear power station. of course iodine being given out as a potential pro-phylacticrop. this boils down to the problem that the nuclear power station is on the frontline being used as a firebase by the russians. the russians claim the ukrainians are shooting back at it. there s