the world. you are watching cnn newsroom and church just ahead. fox news reaches a last minute settlement with dominion voting systems, just as the jury was sworn in, and the defamation trial was about to begin how much the network is shelling out. 84 year old white man is out on bail of religiously shooting, a black teenager rang his doorbell by mistake the charges he faces in court in the coming hours. people cling to anything they can find to escape a deadly fire at a hospital in beijing. buy from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. have you with us with the jury was sworn in lawyers were ready for opening statements. but then folks news blinked, reaching a last minute settlement in a billion dollar defamation lawsuitin systems. ur the deal, fox agreed to pay almost $800 million to dominion about half of what the company had originally sought in damages. the agreement saves top fox executives and the network s most prominent stars from the embarrassment
we know that at least 10 have been confirmed dead. officials are warning us that that number will likely be higher. significant damage i saw was on fort myers beach there have been more than 700 confirmed rescues and likely many more than that. ainsley: florida s governor ron desantis there. he is going to have a press conference today at 8:45 a.m. with an update on ian and we will bring you that live. these before and after photos are showing the extent of the damage down in fort myers. a crew is being enforced is being enforced there to prevent all of the looting. brian: that s sad to think people would be thinking about florida. 2 million people still have no power. team coverage this morning trying to cover it all. it s not easy. meteorologist adam klotz is standing by with ian s latest track. robert ray is live in fort myers with a look at the damage. robert? good morning. as we are starting to see the beginnings of sunlight on this friday, which normally would
Florida governor ron desantis is seriously considering a run for the presidency. he met behind closed doors with a select group of gop lawmakers on tuesday in washington. desantis is considered a leading challenger to former president donald trump . although he has not officially announced his candidacy, a number of republicans tell cnn they re not ready to make any endorsements until later in the primary season. tuesday was text day here in the united states and the u. s president, vice president and both of their spouses released their tax returns for last year, the bidens reported a joint income of nearly $580,000. they paid nearly 170,000 in federal and state income taxes and donated more than $20,000 to 20 different charities. vice president kamala harris and second gentleman doug emhoff reported almost $457,000 in
We serve 35 counties, about 2 million customers right now we have about 457,000 customers without service that we believe we will make great progress today and over the next few days. brian: wow, just seeing some of this area and i m wondering, being that cell phone towers are also down in almost every case, usually a customer calls up and says, hey, i don t have any power, when are you coming? do you just assume every neighborhood is without power? how are you doing this? we have a combination of technologies that allow us to see when a customer is technology here in the place where i m located distribution control center and it tells us what main lines are off so it s a combination of that technology plus just the human eye getting out there during damage
Griff: lucas, thank you. jacqui: president biden is touting a relatively strong jobs report. 457,000 jobs last month. not everyone is feeling the effects as inflation is continuing to run rampant. the white house and the biden administration officials were actually expecting a poor report here so this has come as a pleasant surprise even at the white house. the thought is that the survey would reflect mid january s omicron spike when workers were out sick. that s not the case. 467,000 jobs added, 259,000 were in the leisure, hospitality, bar and restaurant sectors, no americans are out and about once again. here is the president. america s job machine is going stronger than ever. a strong recovery and opportunity for hard working women and men across this great country. america is back to work. while wages climbed 5.7% in