ian s death toll in florida is rising today. can we get some help down here? more supplies are coming in. there were four boats that just arrived moments ago. this community has never ever seen this high of flooding before. now we re going into day four without having electricity. that s when you get to that life-threatening range. we have no power, no phone service, nothing. the buildings are ripped off of their foundation and swept backwards. should there have been a mandatory evacuation that came sooner. i wouldn t have changed anything. this storm was unpredictable. there s a degree of personal responsibility here. i think people got complacent. lyman was completely liberated. it s likely to have a roll-on effect to russian positions further towards the russian border in the days ahead. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom. the death toll from hurricane ian jumps again in florida. 74 people now confirmed killed by th
but first a fox news alert, a drug some exprerts saying is a new fentanyl because how we cannily it is exploding in communities across the country. it is called zalaozen animal tranquilizer with flesh eating side effects with heroin but it doesn t respond to the life saving overdose treatment narcan. you know this is stuff that they want to put in your kids backpack and blamed for thousands of overdoses as experts try to catch up and keep track of the spiking trend. doctors don t know how to test for it and making this drug all the more dangerous. so i went to detroit where the cases are on the rise to learn more. now warning some of these images are graphic but we want to shows you the reality of this alarming problem. watch. americans have become all too familiar with the word fentanyl now deadly horrifying drug emerging in some of the america cities it is called zalozene. nonopioid so it is not approved for human use but it is a anesthetic for larger animals like horses.
we have florida still reeling from the devastation from hurricane ian. we re concerned about the storm. i should have left and shouldn t have stayed. listening to the winds, which were horrible for hours. the storm now soaking the mid atlantic making its way up north and death toll in florida continues to climb. pete: alexandria hoff is live in fort meyers beach. alexandria. well, good morning. we re here on san carlos island, part of fort meyers beach and aside from the utility crews working up the street and the occasional police siren, the scene is quiet, it s still and sad. it s really easy to understand when you look at the wreckage behind me why this rescue and recovery and these operation haves been so challenging, but they ve been productive. according to the lee county sheriff s office, 6 to 700 rescues were made and the sheriff is reporting 35 deaths in the county as well and the numbers may rise as individual counties are reporting. about 30 minutes north o
let s get started. we begin this hour with an update on the aftermath of hurricane in, even in this early stage, experts believe ian will be one of the costly storms to ever hit the u.s. and potentially the deadliest. the death toll now stands at 77, 73 in florida, four in north carolina, more than 1.2 million households still without power in florida, making rescue efforts that much more complicated. nbc s guad venegas is on the ground for us in fort myers, one of the hardest hit areas on the west coast of florida. guad, you have been there for a while. what are we seeing as we go 48 hours after this deadly hurricane made landfall? ayman, a lot of moving parts here. the governor speaking about the efforts to fix the power grid here. they want to make sure that people have power, but there is also the search and rescue missions taking place in fort myers beach [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] and we had to get him out. there s othe
people who are rescuing animals from dangerously high waters. and eons disastrous aftermath. plus the supreme court s new term begins tomorrow with the new justice on the bench. some say that one of the cases on the docket could be the biggest threat to democracy since the january 6th insurrection. i ll go in-depth with the journalist who s been sounding the alarm about this case for months. later, we ve heard so many stories about election workers facing violent threats and false claims, would you believe, that actually inspired people to sign up to work holds? i ll speak live to someone who made that exact choice. good sunday morning to all of you. i m katie fang. we begin this hour right here in florida, where rescuers continue to search for survivors in the wake of hurricane ian. the death toll is tragically growing to 73 s search teams reach more areas of the community initially cut off, including in pine islands where our amazon news team got a closer look at the devast