what exactly do we expect to hear from him? reporter: yeah, that s right, bianna. president biden is going to be tackling head on what has become a political liability for democrats less than three weeks away from these midterm elections and that s the price of gas in the united states, which is now 20 cents higher than it was a month ago. we have seen those prices come down some over the last week, but there are still a lot of concerns, especially given the cut in production announced by opec plus earlier this month, the conflict that is still ongoing in ukraine and so president biden today trying to do something to tackle the rising price of oil and in accordance with that the rising price of gas. 15 million barrels of oil is what president biden is directing the administration to release from the strategic petroleum reserve and that is going to be the last of the 180 million barrels of oil that president biden announced last spring that the administration would release t
that we helped to rescue, to evacuate from those flood-prone areas. we are still out in the community today going throughout each of the communities assisting with placing taxpayers and removing tree limbs so they can get to their cars and anyone who is trapped and cannot get out, if it s a emergency situation, they dial 911 and we will be there to assist them as well as the partners that stand behind me. i will stand ready to assist the community. okay. other questions? i had a question. jacqui: fox weather a letter, live images from sarasota county florida where firms issued alert earlier this morning of possible levy break sending deputies door to door in hidden river community to advise evacuation and 14 miles of major interstate in the area, i75 now shut down deemed unsafe for travel as water rises from nearby river. welcome to fox news live, i m jacqui heinrich. griff: i m griff jenkins, thousands of residents without power in the wake of powerful storm as cleanup a
could be cut off from electricity, get this, for another month. also tonight, ukrainian forces are making stunning gains on the battlefield, reclaiming territory illegally annexed by vladimir putin just days ago. we will get an update on the war from white house national security official john kirby. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m pamela brown and you re in the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight with new developments in the mar-a-lago investigation. an emergency appeal from former president trump to the u.s. supreme court. trump s attorneys are pleading with the justices to intervene in a dispute over more than 100 documents marked as classified. our senior crime and justice reporter has more on this filing. kaitlyn, what exactly does the former president want from the high court here? reporter: well, pamela, what he is asking for is essentially he wants to turn back time. he wants to go
quote, for weeks or months. there you see the calm waters now. that was nothing like that in the midst of the storm. in lee county officials try to defend their actions after facing hard questions over just how soon they ordered people to evacuate. critics asking why those mandatory evacuations were not issued there until one day before ian s land fall, surrounding counties have been told to evacuate. this morning the death toll from hurricane ian is climbing. boris sanchez has the latest. reporter: the death toll rising from hurricane ian. as people recall harrowing tragedies and those lost. storm surge came all the way up and they had the windows were sucked out. these guys pushed their wives out the windows to where a tree was and they were looking at them and the guys were holding on and they just looked at their wives and they said, we can t hold on any more. we love you, bye. and that was it. does they make it. no, they didn t make it. speaking to john sayin
special coverage if the eclipse across the country are covered starts at 1:00 p.m. eastern or you can stream it on max. we ve got a lot of developments in our major stories. cnn news central, next hour starts. now rejected and denied he not one, but two new legal setbacks for donald trump today a grave mistake, the idf releasing its initial findings into what led to this strike that. killed seven aid workers in gaza mistaken identification, and now military officers dismissed and cashing in on the solar eclipse. i was cities in the path of totality or preparing for the big boost from this rare solar event. i m kate bolduan, the sara sidner in john berman. this get cnn news central this morning, former president donald trump dealing with a cascade of major legal blows, judges and two of his criminal cases, rejecting his efforts get those cases thrown out. judge aileen cannon dismissing trump s theory that he had the authority to take classified documents when he left the