world you re watching cnn newsroom and i ll i m rosemary church, just ahead, president biden preach as message of justice, while republicans demand answer over his handling of classified documents. a desperate act by an american detained in iran, his employee to the u.s. president ahead in a live report. and tragedy marks what should have been a celebration at the university of georgia. what we know about the accident that claimed the lives of a football player and a staff member. . live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. with rosemary church. thanks for joining us, republican lawmakers are ramping up the pressure on u.s. president joe biden over his handling of classified documents, chairman of the house oversight committee has asked the white house for visitor logs from the president s delaware home several classified items have been found, james connor said he wants mr. biden s case to be treated just like the probe involving donald trump and his own handling of
with governor ron desantis as the white house pledges more support. today hundreds of thousands of floridians are still without power, shelters filling up as homeless numbers grow. and emotions are especially high on sanibel island. today for the first time, residents are returning by boat to see what s left. entire homes lifted by the storm surge and moved. we have crews covering it all. let s go to kaitlan collins traveling with the president. kaitlan, he just arrived. the president will soon take this aerial tour. then what? reporter: yeah. he s getting an aerial tour. that s the way he s going to be able to see how much damage there is. drooirching down the roading you see a lot of it. there s no power at any of the stoplights as you make your way over to where we re standing right now. you make your way seeing what you see behind me. boats toppled in areas where boats should not be, businesses completely destroyed, wiped off their foundations, boats in yards of homes
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over kabul in afghanistan to the taliban, women in afghanistan have fewer rights now because we have a female vice president here who can t even speak correctly. so they know all of this is coming. the second half of 2020 two is going to be even worse than the first half. now, the new york times, let me just tell you quickly, as a pollster is notoriously pro democrat, pro hillary in 2016, biden in 2020 just quickly in in twenty 20, they said trump was going to win montana by six. he won by 16. they said he s going to win kansas by seven. he won by 14. they said your bottom is going to win ohio by one. he lost by eight. he was going to win florida by three. he lost by three. the list goes on and on . so sample sampling s never really great. it s never really great for republicans, always tilted towards biden and it s their poll. the new york times poll that says sixty four percent of democrats want somebody beyond joe biden. 2020 four. 94% that basically everyone. 94
. president biden pushing for a pause to the fighting in israel but top terror groups have other ideas. rockets are still raining down, a dramatic scene unfolding while trey gates was live on the air. one of the rockets landing near him. it just slammed into the building right next to where we are at. in terms of a cease-fire, it is challenging to have a cease-fire while rockets are still raining down on israel. that is what is being called for here and it is part of the reason the prime minister says he will not have a cease-fire because the fire still continues into israel and you have the is sue of the hostages. some are foreign nationals but the majority are israelis. the leader of hezbollah is signaling a second front could break out in the north. the group has been escalating strikes on israel and they are directly threatening america. america is fully responsible for the war prevailing in gaza against its people. israel is merely the executive arm. america is pre