trying to avoid this outcome for months and paid a visit to saudi arabia in july after he vowed to make the country a pariah over its human rights abuses. dagen: the fist bump fell flat along with the president s promises to lower gasoline prices for americans struggling with inflation. president biden: i m doing all i can to increase the supply for the united states of america, which i expect to happen. i m using every lever available to me to bring down prices for the american people. i have a plan to bring down the cost of gas and food. i m doing everything in my power to blunt putin s price hike and bring down the cost of gas and food. i led the world to could odd nate the largest release of global oil reserves in history. dana: jacque heinrich is live on the north lawn waking up to difficult headlines. there were reports they were trying to work the opec members up until they lost. there sure were. tough day here for officials at the white house. yesterday they a
special master and that has turned out to back fire on him. when we were locked out it was something like a war zone. it s going to hit home. it s going to be emotional when they see their properties up close. everything that you see is being contested by the ukrainians. the russians have completely dropped any pretexts that this is going well. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is wednesday, october 5th, 9 a.m. here in london. 4 a.m. on the u.s. east coast. it s been a week since hurricane ian slammed into florida and u.s. president joe biden is expected to visit hard-hit fort myers in the coming hours. he ll meet with governor ron desantis, fema and officials to assess the damage there. meanwhile, florida residents are returning. it will be a difficult transition for those who call the island home. what they ll see is really an up close look at destruction that they ve seen from the video clips on the news and some other ph
thousands of people cut off from the mainland 6789 the only way to get there, air, helicopter or boat. you see semitrucks bringing supplies, we re moving as fast as we can, we are here to support as long as needed. carley: alexandria hoff joins us live from fort myers beach. what an experience. the pictures look like a bomb went off. what did you learn? alex: how complicated it has been to get to people in need, those in barrier islands that have been completely cut off. recovery operation or the operation to get to some form of state of recovery, 24 hours ongoing and quite impressive. latest numbers, 430,000 floridians still without power, down from 2.6 million and hardest hit places, though, they could be in the dark for weeks and months, some are anticipating. as number of those without power comes down, ian s death toll is rising. report of 78 deaths, 71 in florida, even survival plagued by trauma. a resident put it, it is the most horrible thing in the world really
the midterms. alexandria hoff has more on that live. right before the president left the area this week and hugh pointed finger at saudi arabia and opec for slashing oil production. the state fired back saying that american refinery production is to blame or lack thereof at $3.91 per gallon, 60% higher now than when president biden took office. while the chief officer for alliance told face the nation predicts that it ll come down to 8% as the price consumer indexes released this week. core inflation is likely on the rise. it ll all be coming up to push members of the media into moments like this. listen. i think the economic headwinds are so tough and biden doesn t have the umph, he can t really make his case, i do not think the democrats are in any
0 it is so frustrating the media goes on with it. we are out of time. i know you have a strong view but the media are so corrupt. thank you for watching. never miss a show and we will see you next sunday when the across ukraine set to meet with his security cancel days after the humiliating explosion that shut down a strategic bridge linking russia to its annexed territory. calling it an act of terrorism. russian born former u.s. defense intel officer and she joins us now. quite a morning to have you on the program. did you expect this level of retaliation following the explosion of that bridge? 100% i expected it. based on the attacks in russian territory to be met with forceful retaliation. just because the rest of the world does not acknowledge crimea as russian the putin regime do consider it russian territory and the same with the four annexed territories. and so he will not stop to hear, he will only escalate and our own president joe biden she has recently warned us about