What a nightmare for so many in North Carolina. Survivors enter their second week of heartbreak since helene made landfall. Everything is devastating. It is eyeopening. I havent been to my house since the Storm Hit. Everything was thrown around and broken. For homes washed away down the river. We lost everything. It flooded or floated away. We are borrowing a camper and a car. We are borrowing everything. These arent even my clothes. Story after story of so many in need of help. I am in for john roberts. This is america reports. Survivors are set up and frustrated with the federal response. Many relying on themselves to pick up what is left of their homes. Private organizations are stepping into action. They are present, in the way, interrupting our ability to conduct operations. They have a Security Guard and said we are so hardy, the hotel has been booked. For federal employees and no, i have people just pulled out of a mountain. This is biblical level devastation, apocalyptic. Lets
still don t have drinking water or power, and more than 1,000 people have been rescued so far. in the dominican republic, mudslides and sinkholes are a big concern. this is just what we can see. rescuers are still trying to reach remote areas that are cut off. and also the immigration fight, a texas sheriff now look into the florida s unprecedented move to fly immigrants to martha s vineyard. donald trump s legal team has one more hour to respond to a justice department request for a partial stay of the march largo special master order, and in three hours, that same special master will hold a hearing with the trump team and doj, and it comes as trump s team is pushing back one of the requests made by one of the lawyers they retained. and what will you be watching for once this conference gets started at 2:00 p.m. eastern? right, i think there s going to be a lot of lead up to that 2:00 p.m. hearing at the brooklyn courthouse, and you will see trump s attorneys meeting alo
hurricane-stricken puerto rico and are set to visit florida later this week. in cuba, another wave of protests sweeping the island following a nationwide blackout. cuba is once again demanding freedom. meanwhile in washington, the new supreme court term begins today as the court prepares to take up a number of consequential cases. also this morning, opening arguments are happening right now in the conspiracy trial for five members of the oathkeepers militia group in connection to january 6th. and with 36 days to the midterm elections, the power of latino voters and how they could shape key races. and we begin this very busy hour with our top story. the daunting search and rescue missions happening right now after hurricane ian hit florida. over 1,200 fema personnel are trying to reach survivors and recover remains five days after this storm pummeled the gulf coast in florida. this as the death toll continues to climb. at least 87 people have now lost their lives in
and its damage from fiona even as it is focused so much now on hurricane ian with the president set to head to florida to visit the damage there on wednesday, jose. josh letterman and gabe gutierrez, thank you very much. if you would like to help those struggling to recover in florida and puerto rico, visit redcross.org or call 800-red-cross. or text redcross to 90999 to make a $10 donation for our viewers who watch us and speak most live sphraeurb [ speaking non-english ]. well go back to florida and talk to a member of the army corps of engineers.
and as it makes its way to the north, and it makes its way to the east as well, and then later wednesday into thursday as a category 3 storm, and on the right side we are looking at bermuda, the island, and then we could see the category 4 storm and then it become a category 3 storm. we have really warm waters to the north, and a marine layer that has been in place all summer long and we are looking at a category 2 storm still by saturday, and north atlantic canada could see a historical storm by this weekend. back to you. michelle and gabe, thank you both very much. red cross teams are in puerto rico right now, and if you would like to help visit redcross.org, and you can text the world red cross to $90999 to make a $10 donation. coming up the flights of immigrants to martha s vineyard