it is the top of the hour. good morning, i m poppy harlow. glad you re with me. right now officials in florida are working trying to identify and locate those still missing after hurricane ian ravaged several parts of the state. and while the search and rescue missions continue, more than 2,000 people have been pulled to safety despite that the death toll has risen significantly over the last 24 hours. at least 101 people across 11 florida counties died as a result of the storm. hurricane ian is also to blame for at least four deaths in north carolina. well this morning more than 400,000 people across the state remain without electricity. officials warn residents and businesses may be in the dark for weeks or even months and the storm could have a major impact on the u.s. economy. the shrimp industry is devastated. all of those people are without a lot of them lived on the boats. they have no home now and no work. we have got a disaster going on here. our infrastructure
and in ukraine, ukraine racking up more battlefield devastation. that is what we re watching at this hour. the search for survivors in florida, rescuers going door-to-door in neighborhoods decimated by hurricane ian still nearly 2,000 have been rescued so far an the death toll from this monster storm jumping to more than 100 people now. more than half of the deaths are in one county alone, lee county. the sheriff there is about to hold a press conference. we re going to bring you that live when it begins, when it happens. there is so much tragedy from this storm. we ve seen this for days now. but we re also hearing incredible stories of survival. a fort myers man who clung to a palm tree for hours as the storm surge flooded everything in site. his daughter fearing the worst after their last desperate phone call. they re now reunited and they will join us this hour. let s get started with the very latest on the recovery. boris sanchez is live in fort myers. in this press con
plus, the damage is so bad florida authorities can barely make out where property is, let alone search the property. and rescue missions are now recovery missions. six days after ian, crews cannot confirm who is missing and who might still be alive. areas getting food drops. and audio recordings of oath keepers with a plot to reverse the will of the american people and keep trump in office using force. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we begin with that breaking news. president trump asking the u.s. supreme court to intervene over the seizure by the fbi of documents from his home at mar-a-lago. the latest shocking development in this legal battle after fbi agents searched his home in august and seized more than 100 classified documents. trump s request is to ask the supreme court to reverse the 11th circuit court ruling. that ruling of course gave the justice department access to review those classified documents recovered from trump s florida estate. his latest requ
are so many on the west coast, even the midwest, feeling new pain of the pump? fox news @ night investigates why some areas are actually seeing prices rise. i know if nancy pelosi was no longer here there would be a lot of democrats that would feel free to do exactly what they know is best: vote for a secure border and work with us to have a bill on immigration reform. trace: what do democrats really think about border security? we asked some of them, including dhs secretary mallorca s. bill melugin joins us. fresh reaction from jim jordan about the ongoing crisis that are seven border. taking one for the team, that s what a democratic senate candidate said about steve scalise after the house republican was shot nearly killed at a congressional base for practice. our panel will have a lot to say about that later. we begin with the white house in cleanup mode following controversial remarks from vp kamala harris. white house white house corresponding kevin corke gets us
president biden looking to flip the script on republicans when it comes to crime the call to refund the police. could he be risking use of the unprecedented rate on mar-a-lago to score political points ahead of the midterms? will it work? our bream team panel. a university refusing to allow an lgbt club on campus. they say it s an issue of religious liberty. bombshell claims by the justice department in the formal objection to the trump team request for the neutral party to look to the documents taken from mar-a-lago. bill melugin. good evening. this doj filing came in moments ago. the doj filed this as their latest response tonight to former president trump s lawsuit over the fbi search of his home in their filing tonight, doj is saying that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the federal probe into the classified documents that were taken by the fbi from mar-a-lago. specifically here s what doj is writing. in particular the government developed evidence that a search l