and i don t think everyone was prepared for anything. my heart is broken for them. how do you recoup? we couldn t cross our fingers and hope for the best. we have listened and have listened. this is a huge defeat for moscow. this is not going well. he s facing an unprecedented amount of criticism from within. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. hello on this tuesday, october 4th. 9 a.m. here in london. 4 a.m. on the u.s. east coast. it s been six days since hurricane ian made landfall. the number of people killed has climbed past 100. authorities are holding out hope they will find survivors. so far the governor says they ve made close to 2,000 rescues including this one here. incredible video shows the u.s. coast guard saving a man and his neighbors from flood waters on sanibel island. that s in heavily damaged lee county where recovery efforts have been very difficult. that region accounts for about half of the state s 450,000 powe
down survivors. this as the remnants of the brutal storm cause dangerous high tides and flooding right now in virginia. also tonight, we ll bring you a cnn exclusive report from a key city just recaptured by ukrainian forces. ukraine s ambassador to the united states joins me this hour to discuss all the latest news from the war zone. and we re tracking very dramatic developments in the oath keepers seditious trial now underway after both sides deliver opening statements and witnesses begin testifying. prosecutors accusing the group of concocting an armed rebellion against american democracy. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight with a rapidly growing death toll from hurricane ian. autho authorities now say at least 104 people were kill ed in the catastrophic storm and now officials in one county are under fire over the timing of evacuation orders. ca
day one of the trial. reporter: jurors deciding the fate of the five defendants facing seditious conspiracy charges for their role in a january 6th capitol attack heard from federal prosecutor jeff nestler first. in the opening statement he said the defendants concocted a plan for armed rebellion. he played videos like this one. we re in the [ bleep ]. reporter: showing members of the far right militia style group storming the capitol. they used their military experience plotting to oppose by force the government of the united states, the prosecutor said. it is the most serious charge anyone has faced from that day and very rare. it is a precedent in the sense that we ve never had a violent transfer of power from one president to another. that makes this absolutely unique event in american history. reporter: prosecutors using some of the hundreds of hours of video including this showing the oath keepers wearing combat gear, moving in a military step
militia style group storming the capitol. they used their military experience plotting by force to government of the united states. it is the most serious charge anyone has faced from that day and very rare. it is unprecedented in the sense we ve never had a violent disruption in the transfer of power. that makes this event in american history. prosecutors using just some of the hundreds of hours of video including this. members wearing military combat gear. jessica watkins of ohio is an a army veteran. 53-year-old florida man all went inside. two of the charged did not. every single [ bleep ] in there is a traitor. that s thomas caldwell, an associate of the oath keepers
ideas, as you mentioned, and some of them are finding mainstream routes to power. there was a story going around about 28 elected officials who have ties or memberships in the oathkeepers which is a private army, militia style group. there were others who were elected directly to public office out of their sort of events of january 6. so these two paths are both open. one is something that presents a threat of authoritarian rule, and the other presents a threat of civil war and attacks on civilians. both of these threats have to be confronted because both are inherently at odds with democracy. kathleen bleu, scary stuff there. thank you so much. thank you. a 13-year-old girl goes missing while walking home from school. her body is found days later. and the case goes cold for more than two decades until finally