- [announcer] do you have an invention idea but don t know what to do next? call invent help today. they can help you get started with your idea. call now 800-710-0020. new covid travel requirements for this coming from china, i will talk to a doctor about these restrictions, and whether they can be effective. after days of delays and cancellations, a southwest airlines slowly but surely seems to be working its way back to normal. but it won t get there right away. a representative for the pilots union says it looks like the flight schedule will be mostly full by friday. the airline has canceled more than 2300 flights for the coming day but that number jobs to only 39 cancellations by friday. airports are filled with long lines of southwest passengers trying to re-book as piles of luggage continue to grow. while other airlines recover from last week s winter storm fairly quickly, southwest has not. on tuesday, southwest accounted for 84% of cancellations among all airlines
people are now in 257 shelters like this woman right here. florida says it needs 5.5 million meals to feed them all. and 6.6 million liters of clean water. 2 million people still do not have power. water isn t running in five counties. 19 counties have boil water notices. and more than 200 health care facilities are evacuating, or considering doing so. 10 airports are closed. along with 24 ports. 31 transit systems. and nine railways. and then there is the death toll. the official number is now 14. though those same officials say that number is very likely to rise. and they are warning, just because it has a weaker wind speed, making it a category one storm, hurricane ian, that does not mean that the danger has passed. as we have learned over and over again, it is the water, the rain, the storm surge, and the flooding that is often the most dangerous. that right there is where we begin, looking at what the storm is doing now, joining me from charleston, south carolina, is nbc
off of the gulf coast there. we re not going to get a sense of it until tomorrow. but yes, it looks pretty path down in. and we ll be talking about this later in the hour. thanks, chris. and thank you for joining us. hurricane ian continues to create a swath of in made landfall just after 3:00 this afternoon in southwestern florida, near k o connor, a island off of the coast of fort myers. ian came ashore as a category four hurricane with 150 mile per hour winds. just a few miles per hour shy of a category five. only for hurricane stronger than that have made landfall in the united states ever. but it is not just the strength of the storm, it is the size. this is the view of hurricane in from the international space station this afternoon. just showing how massive the storm is. the national river describes in as battering the florida peninsula with tied and winds, and flooding. ian has just now weakened to a category two storm with maximum sustained winds of 105 miles
what they are applying to themselves and that is the truth. you can t hide from. that was good to see you, my friend. great monologue there as well on mlk, remembering his legacy as it was and how he conveniently wants to remember him. well then, my friend. coming up on ayman, targeting trump s special counsel jack smith s investigation kicks into high gear as the georgia election probe enters its final stage. plus, supreme four year. democrats are calling on the courts liberal justices to retire. yes. we will explain the rationale. and gop in disarray after a messy first week in charge. house republicans threatening even more chaos over the debt limit. i m ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. all right, so after releasing a trove of bombshell witness transcripts in its final days, and now seems like the january six committee was still holding back. according to new court filing from the justice department and its prosecutors, 30 gigabytes worth of more evidence from the commi
i m pamela brown from washington. more classified material is found at the delaware home of president biden on the same day the attorney general names a special counsel to the case. ukraine says russian missiles are responsible for a new air strike on an apartment building in dnipro. right now, at least a dozen are dead and nearly 60 more are injured. plus, more than 25 million are under flood watches across california as heavy rains soak already water logged areas. you are in the cnn newsroom. new disclosures from the white house today. president joe biden s aides found additional pages of classified material at his personal residence in wilmington, delaware, this week. it happened on thursday, the same day that attorney general merrick garland announced the appointment of a special counsel to investigate this matter. and that is in addition to documents found back in november and in december, but not publicly announced until this past week. cnn s senior justice corres