democrats don t want to debate, and they re not getting press questions from the news media. we ll check with senator john kennedy. and just breaking moments ago, herschel walker will respond to an recall, first by the new york times, questioning his racial identity. and also he will respond to another article that broke from the daily beast, claiming he paid for a woman to have an abortion. he s denying it vehemently, vowing to sue for defamation. he will tell his side of the story straight ahead. also tonight, governor ron desantis will join us in a moment with an important update from his state. some are saying sanibel island may be inhabitable, estimates as high as $100 billion in storm damage on top of at least 68 lives that have been lost here. despite the horrific damage from the hurricane, hurricane ian, an army of recovery workers are on the ground, well staged as you can see. this was before, like three football fields, full of all these electric cost to go and ma
and if i find that you are trying to corrupt my first born child, i will bring you down, baby. jesse: unfortunately for america we can no longer trust the democrats. have some questions on the wuhan lab? boom, you are a covid denier. have questions about the election? election denier. looking for a second opinion on global warming? sorry, climate denier. here s the united nations official, we pay her salary by the way, confessing that they have been colluding with google to rig the answers to your questions. listen. you know, we partnered with google, for example. if you google climate change, you will at the top of your search, you will get all kinds of u.n. resources. we started this partnership when we were shocked to see that when we googled climate change we were getting incredibly distorted information right at the top. so we are becoming much more proactive. we own the science and we think that the world should know it. jesse: we own the science. so john kerry is
it s top of the hour on cnn newsroom. the death toll from hurricane ian has just gone up. it s now 104 lives lost. 100 of those in florida. search teams finding more bodies as they reach some of the hardest hit areas. more than half of those killed were in lee county which includes ft. myers beach. that city is now closed to everyone but search and rescue personnel. the mayor says there is no time line yet for when residents can return. lee county officials coming under some criticism for the timing of their evacuation orders. now dozens of miles inland in western florida in arcadia, river flooding is still causing problems. . this is five days after ian hit. cnn team on the ground says that part of the highway has disappeared under the water. and many people there are trapped. we were on the ground in arcadia, florida. you re hearing from people panicked there. what is the situation? well, allison, we re entering day four now of people not having electricity. so they don t
of color that are most impacted by these extreme conditions. and impacted by issues that are not of their own making. so we have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity. peter doocy with the latest live from the white house. hi, peter. aboard air force one, the press secretary karine jean-pierre cleaned up after the vice president. we re committed to quickly getting resources to all communities impacted, period. we also know that some people particularly in lower income communities have a hard time accessing that help. the vice president s suggestion that race factors in to relief came into friday. saturday, given a chance to add that context herself, she didn t. vice president, can you talked about what you meant bitty by equity for hurricane relief? fema is not responding helping one group over another. i commit to you right here that all floridians will get the help that is available to them through our programs. on his way
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