Electricity. Most in lee county. Some customers might not have power for months. Governor ron desantis says 2,000 people have been rescued. State officials are trying to determine how many people are still unaccounted for. The window for finding survivors is starting to close. Cnns Carlos Suarez has more. Reporter unrecognizable in parts. Still underwater in others. Hurricane ians destruction and path so vast Search And Rescue efforts continue days after the storm tore through florida. We kent get over the bridge. Reporter residents in Desoto County are stopped. Air boats are key to getting supplies in and people out. These air boats are going out taking people into town and its been going for a while now. Reporter the death toll across the State Climbing rapidly. A lot of sick people running out of medications. A lot of people running out of water and until we can get everything up and going, were trying to get them out. Reporter hundreds of Sanibel Island residents cut off from the m
Florida from Hurricane Ian. Majority in lee county where officials face questions whether Evacuation Orders should have been issued earlier. This morning Fort Myers Beach is closed entirely, even more residents, so crews can search for survivors. Power could be out for a month. Theres been nearly 2,000 rescues in southwestern florida since Hurricane Ian hit the state. A man in naples says he swam nearly a mile to save his wheelchairbound mother. Feels like im swimming forever. Were arriving at grandmas. Or im arriving at grandmas. Whats the time . 5 41. When he arrived he found his another neck deep in floodwaters. Needless to say, thrilled to see him. It was a sigh of relief. As i was approaching the house, i couldnt get through the front door. Water up to the windows, and i heard her screaming inside, and she was actually on the phone with my youngest son who was giving status updates to her, and it was, it was a scare and a sigh of relief at the same time. Scared thinking she might
Top of the hour on cnn newsroom. Im victor blackwell. And im bianna golodryga. President biden is in florida to rally democrats ahead of the midterms. Meantime two major developments in the two separate investigations involving the former president the Supreme Court has just rejected senator Lindsey Grahams request to block a subpoena into the 2020 election in georgia where a District Attorney is demanding that he testify before a grand jury. The Committee Investigating the january 6th insurrection they could be one step closer to getting former President Trump to testify. The committees in discussions with President Trumps attorneys, and he has an obligation to comply and we, you know, treat this and take this very seriously we havent made determinations about the format itself but it will be done under oath, it will be done potentially over multiple days, we have significant questions based on the evidence that we developed and as i said what we know already about the extent to which
were declassified. on that subject overnight, trump offered a, frankly, odd defense. if you re the president of the united states you can declassify by saying it s declassified. even by thinking about it. because you re sending it to mar-a-lago or wherever you re sending it and there doesn t have to be a process. there can be a process but there doesn t have to be. you re the president. you make that decision. so when you send it, it s declassified. i declassified everything. he seems to be creating a new security category. declassified in his mind. more on that in a moment. in new york, trump, his children and empire accused of fraud over the value of his properties for more than a decade. the new york attorney general wants the trump organization dissolved. also trump is facing a new sexual battery lawsuit from eg carroll, who accused him of raping her in a department store in the mid 90s. genie thomas, wife of clarence thomas, has agreed to sit down for an intervi
ensuring that the storage of classified records did not result in exceptionally grave damage to the national security so they said d.o.j., you get the documents, not going to trump, not going through the special master. so what happens next? the special master is still doing something here? the special master still has his job. we are here. it s not necessarily over. trump can still ask the 11th circuit to rehear the case en banc, which means all the judges. it wouldn t surprise me if trump tries to get the case to the supreme court. i don t think they take the case. the special master still has to go through the other 10,000 documents. trump wants it done by mid-october. d.o.j. wants to get it done quicker than that. d.o.j. has the 100 classified documents and can use them in the investigation. they more or less have everything that they really want. exactly. they cared about those 100 classified documents more than all the others. ginni thomas, the house vetting c