that destruction left behind in just three cities in florida. and clued in fort myers. we will go there in just a moment and now coming to be known as ground zero. satellite images showing areas there before and after the storm. survivors continuing to speak out about what they have endured. i sheltered in a closet until part of the roof came off. and then the wind came in there so that i just went behind the bed. and stay there. nothing about gratitude that we are here and for all that the people out there do. i will never ever not evacuate again. the power of that storm i mean if that would ve crashed into the side of the house. we would have been swept away. all right happening now in sarasota county in west central florida. possible levee break, that is threatening flooding about to 15 feet in the hayden river community. the sarasota county sheriff s office tweeting a warning saturday morning. and then urging residents to shelter in place if it is safe to do so.
committee dropping a brand-new batch of key testimony and for the first time we are now seeing interview transcripts from 19 additional witnesses and they include some of the closest people inside former president trump s inner circle. his son, donald trump jr., former fox news anchor kirsten gillibrand as w kimberly guile so let s get right to cnn s sara murray looking through all of these documents. sara, thousands of pages of transcripts. some we ve seen through the january 6th committee hearings and you ve been reading through donald trump jr. s transcripts. what are you finding in there? reporter: you know, this is obviously interesting because he s the former president s son, proximity to the former president and asking him about what was happening as the riot unfolded on january 6th and they re reading back text messages he exchanged with mark meadows. at one point don junior tells mark meadows, the former president trump, his dad has got to condemn this then says a
area the snowball effect can t keep up to connect crews to aircraft. julie: mike tobin is following this from chicago international airport. there are some reasons to be a little bit optimistic or have some optimism. the ugly visual the island of misfit bags is gone. doesn t mean all bags are reunited with their owners or made it to the proper city and moved to storage and people are showing up to baggage help at midway airport being sent to the storage longer where someone takes a ticket and attempts to locate bags. some of the bags are in the wrong city. when you look at cancellations across the nation, domestic flights, 2400 cancellations. of those 2300 are southwest. they still have a mess. move a day forward and the southwest cancellations drop to 39. is that an extension of the fact that southwest has already canceled 2/3 of their flight? hard to tell now. one thing you can tell for sure there are still people stuck away from their destinations, renting cars and pay
hospitals. prayers for benedict xvi. the 95 year old former pope is very sick. the vatican saying doctors are constantly monitoring his worsening condition. massive car pileup. the extraordinary scene of a deadly accident on a busy bridge. and stories with hart. cbs s steve hartman shows us how one good deed can spark a global wave of kindness. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. duncan: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you so much for joining us. i m jericka duncan in for norah. we have some breaking news from the biden administration. the centers for disease control announced new covid-19 testing requirements for all airline passengers traveling from china. plus, federal and local prosecutors open investigations into embattled congressman elect george santos who admitted to lying about his background. and while the death toll rises in buffalo tonight, as it digs out from that monster blizzard, the w
direct hit from the dangerous hurricane. we have the storm s track. and tonight s eye on america, hurricane hunters fly into ian s powerful winds to show us the new technology they hope will better predict a storm s path. and cbs s ben tracy got a first hand look. this drone can literally go fly around the insides of a hurricane? yes. this is a special edition of the cbs evening news with norah o donnell. reporting tonight from fort myers. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us. and as we come on its air tonight, ian has regained hurricane strength as it moves into the atlantic. taking aim at georgia and the carolinas. but what it left behind here in florida is unimaginable in scale and historic in reach. the president saying tonight, this could be the deadliest hurricane in florida s history. we witnessed the trail of destruction this category 4 storm left. florida governor desantis said today this is a once-in-500-year flooding event. the hurricane-