the scope of hurricane ian s devastation is becoming clearer for days after the category four storm slammed into the coast of southwest florida, with record-breaking strength. 85 people are dead, 81 in florida, and four in north carolina. the death toll rises each time rescue crews reached new areas. and searches are going on around the clock. but some people are still stranded and waiting for help, like these residents of sanibel island. there has been no communication, nobody official has come on to the island to tell us what is going on. we don t have places to go, we have no cars to get their. lack of food, medicine, clean water, and electricity. these are all on the list of tops concerns. more than 1 million people are still without power across four states. now, president biden says he and the first lady will travel tomorrow to puerto rico, which is still reeling from hurricane fiona, and tour damage in florida on wednesday. our hearts, to state the obvious, it
broken and we thought we d find water. we ve lived here for seven years. it s paradise. we felt we would come back and find everything gone. i mean, we just have to fix up our yard. our neighbors, that house over there, we know all these people. among the priorities, governor desantis says are the temporary repairs on key bridges to sanibel, pine island. those have been closed off since the storm. just hours ago he announced the road to pine island will open today. that s a day sooner than expected. cnn s boris sanchez and kaitlan collins are in the hardest-hit county, lee county. boris, what s the latest? reporter: alison and victor, a big moment for residents of sanibel and pine island. very emotional moments as they get back to areas previously cut off by hurricane ian. we heard from some residents of sanibel. many don t know what they re going back to. that community decimated by hurricane ian and its nearly category 5 storm force winds. governor desantis vowing he
could be cut off from electricity, get this, for another month. also tonight, ukrainian forces are making stunning gains on the battlefield, reclaiming territory illegally annexed by vladimir putin just days ago. we will get an update on the war from white house national security official john kirby. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m pamela brown and you re in the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight with new developments in the mar-a-lago investigation. an emergency appeal from former president trump to the u.s. supreme court. trump s attorneys are pleading with the justices to intervene in a dispute over more than 100 documents marked as classified. our senior crime and justice reporter has more on this filing. kaitlyn, what exactly does the former president want from the high court here? reporter: well, pamela, what he is asking for is essentially he wants to turn back time. he wants to go
The city of Sanibel held its annual Hurricane Seminar last week featuring a panel of experts. Held on May 24 at BIG ARTS on Sanibel, it provided residents, bus
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