news. liz truss has resigned after 44 days in office, making her the shortest serving prime minister in british history. christiane amanpour and correspondent bianca noble joins us from london. she delivered a short resignation speech stating i cannot deliver on the mandate on which i was elected. yes. she s suffered the inignominy of serving as prime minister. it was an appropriately short speech because, of course, she double have a legacy to speak of. she pointed to two economic measuresing but basically her entire premiership has voichbled controversy, taking policies too far, and not taking control of her party. let s take a listen to the moment she talks about how she finds herself. we set out for a low tax, high grade communicate that would take advantage of the freedoms of brexit. i recognize, though, given the situation, i cannot deliver the mandate on which i was elected by the conservative party. reporter: bianna, this has been a bruising week for a prime min
we begin with the aftermath of him, and what could be the costliest hurricane in u.s. history. and was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone today, the storm delivering with heavy rains from the creek of islands to new england marking. out some and delivering strangers storm surge to the south. in florida, it s climbing. in this hour it stands at 77. that number is expected to rise. they re also assessing the damage, it could amount to billions of dollars in the southwestern part of the state. businesses destroyed. homes flattened. residents, left in complete shock. i wish we should be alive right now. we shouldn t be alive right now with that storm. the power of that storm? it would ve crashed into that side of the house. we would ve been swept away. to see the damage of clothes, it s almost frightening to see just how easily he d chewed through tons of concrete and steel. but to the danger above? heartbreaking. when you realize this is the only way an entire community c
because they have to go through that debris to make sure that they re looking for people that could hopefully still be alive, we can rescue. the coast guard is still on the job, carrying out much of that critical search and rescue work as hundreds of thousands struggle with lack of basic necessities, like power, water, and cell phone service. there s no water, there s no electric, there is little food. the problem, is you can t get in your car because those are all wrapped. there s no place to buy gas. you can t go to the grocery store because you can t walk there. cleanup certainly underway in south carolina. up and down the east coast as residents from the hardest hit areas in florida get a first look at what is left of their homes in the most vulnerable coastal areas. president biden announced yesterday that he hopes to visit florida tomorrow, and puerto rico on wednesday. puerto rico is still really from hurricane fiona. 75 people were killed, there more than 148,00
from an mess nbc rolled headquarters, welcome in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. we begin this hour with the big story of survival and recovery, mostly in florida that state hit hardest by hurricane ian. the total death toll from that storm is estimated 78 people. power outage numbers are down from reporting last hour, now it s over 21,000 in north carolina and just over 7000 in virginia without power. 1200 in south carolina. search and rescue operations are still underway, with the coast guard leading most efforts as 100 of thousands struggle with basic necessities like power, water, cell phone service. here is fema director demon chris just short time ago. we have well over 2 million people without power immediately following the storm and the power companies there have done a numbing job of getting the majority people back online. i think where the difficulty comes in, jonathan, is that there are so many homes especially in fort myers beach, area that are compl
the scope of hurricane ian s devastation is becoming clearer for days after the category four storm slammed into the coast of southwest florida, with record-breaking strength. 85 people are dead, 81 in florida, and four in north carolina. the death toll rises each time rescue crews reached new areas. and searches are going on around the clock. but some people are still stranded and waiting for help, like these residents of sanibel island. there has been no communication, nobody official has come on to the island to tell us what is going on. we don t have places to go, we have no cars to get their. lack of food, medicine, clean water, and electricity. these are all on the list of tops concerns. more than 1 million people are still without power across four states. now, president biden says he and the first lady will travel tomorrow to puerto rico, which is still reeling from hurricane fiona, and tour damage in florida on wednesday. our hearts, to state the obvious, it