we cover the devastation caused by hurricane ian. here is the newest information coming in this saturday evening. the storm s death toll in florida now stands at 66. this is the scene in north port, which is in sarasota county. state officials say the latest known death is that of a 62-year-old woman also from that county. she apparently drowned after getting trapped in her vehicle. take a look at the massive amount of water people risked traveling through today east of sarasota. they re in their car. this is a car, not a boat, makes its way down a very flooded state highway. sheriff s deputies and firefighters went door to door in the community of hidden river warning people about a potentially levee beach. on cape coral, they are checking on victims who may need urgent help. fire rescue say they have been collecting people and pets and taking them to a fire station where helicopters are ferrying people to safety. this afternoon, governor ron desantis said while more than ha
and his warning tonight to the oil companies. will it work? and that news on your taxes. how the tax brackets are shifting to take into account inflation. will you get more back to ease the pain, and how soon? mary bruce at the white house. she ll break it all down. what american families need to know about gas and your taxes. there is also major news in the war in ukraine. tonight, vladimir putin declaring martial law in four territories in ukraine. what does this now signal? what s coming next? and what secretary of state antony blinken told our george stephanopoulos late today. ian pannell inside ukraine. in the u.s. tonight, the alarming scene playing out at hospitals in at least 22 states. the alarming rise in children now hospitalized with respiratory illnesses. this isn t covid, but what authorities are warning about this and what parents should look for. here in florida, three weeks to the day since hurricane ian hit. our team making their way across that destro
we begin with the aftermath of ian and what could be the costliest hurricane and u.s. history. ian o was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone today, the storm delivering heavy rains for the carolinas to new england, knocking out power to sum and delivering dangerous storm search to the east coast. in florida, the death toll is climbing. at this hour, it stands at 77. that number is expected to rise. they are 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. we should not be alive right now. we shouldn t be alive right now with the storm. but the power of that storm, if that would have crashed into the side of the house, we would have been swept away. to view the damage up close, it s almost frightening to see just how easily ian true through tons of concrete and steel. but the view the damage from above, heartbreaking, when you realize that this
it must have shocked you when d you found out that there wasn tt a carbon monoxide detector at the preschool. what every parent needs to know. and the top-secret j.f.k. assassination files. both a republican and a democratic president pushed off the release. is there something they don t want you to know? this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on this wednesday night. we ll get to that breaking news about those guns found near the supreme court and the arrest in just a minute. but we want to begin overseas amid russia s failing invasion. the kremlin continues to target ukraine s infrastructure, including power plants and the nation s water supply, as the winter cold sets in. as russian troops suffer setbacks on the battlefield, president vladimir putin is gp g martial law on four regions martial law on four claimed by moscow. well, tonight, we
heat. senator raphael warnock and his republican challenger, herschel walker, neck and neck. senator warnock and what he said today about herschel walker. and tonight walker making his closing argument. republicans needing just one seat to take back control of the senate. just five seats to take control of the house. what we re seeing in these final hours. eva pilgrim and steve osunsami live in the battlegrounds. rick klein and rachel scott at the big boards tonight. the key numbers to watch as we head into election night. also on this monday night, the state of emergency at this hour in florida. a hurricane watch now in effect along the eastern shoreline. nicole gaining strength, possibly hitting as a category 1 hurricane then making its way up the coast through several major cities right into new york and the northeast. rob marciano standing by with the timing and track. he is in florida tonight. speaker nancy pelosi for the first time describing the police at her door,