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
americans clearly do not approve of the president was my policy is. biden s approval at 31%, a record low. that includes only 19% of hispanics and 23% of independents. with the truth. can we handle the truth? good morning, todd and carly. i m not sure. the president i don t know if you saw, i started out by butchering massachusetts representative s name then he called him a she. he praised the climate conference in glasgow, england, which is in scotland, and announcing as a result of fossil fuel emissions, he has cancer, which he doesn t. president biden: rather than is being able to walk, guess what? you had to put on your windshield wipers to get literally the oil slick of the window. that s why i am so cancer. for the longest time, had the highest cancer rate in the nation. that raised eyebrows, and a few hours later, the white house attempted to clean up telling fox news biden was saying he was referring to past skin cancer, which was removed and documented in h
the feds have seized the phone of former trump election attorney john eastman. put your arms up for me. there is the video there. he is being detained. what it could mean for him and potentially former president trump. that s coming up. but first, to the fury and fear on one side and jubilation on the other still palpable in our nation in this first week since the supreme court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion. its ruling means it is now up to the states to decide whether to allow abortions. protests against the ruling are growing, but so too is the fight by those who want to ban abortion altogether. and to their delight, a cascade of new abortion bans went into place in the hours after the ruling. as of tonight, ten states effe effectively banned abortion. this is truly historic. tonight we re about to illuminate the impact this four-day-old decision will have. one by one we are seeing more than half the states in america moving swiftly to implement l
happening in less than 24 hours, a surprise january 6 hearing is now on the calendar for tomorrow. but the house select committee wasn t even supposed to meet this week. what changed? few details are trickling out. but the panel does say, quote, recently obtained evidence will be presented. and it will receive witness testimony. a lot of intrigue there, especially because we know the committee s been closely poring over new documentary footage that surfaced from a british filmmaker who had close access to former president donald trump and his family before and after january 6. a lot more on that ahead, along with the brand-new developments tonight on one of the central figures of the election interference attempt who pleaded the fifth to the committee 100 times. the feds have seized the phone of former trump election attorney john eastman. put your arms up for me. there is the video there. he is being detained. what it could mean for him and potentially former president t
show prudent sites might your resistible appeal it is the honesty. like a clogged amends room toilet at a time square at burger king. we are brimming with it. for example just now i said happy wednesday in true it is wednesday at. [laughter] fox friends would ve said something like thursday. [laughter] stupid outliers. but that is not just an isolated instance of honesty. perm rates this show it like powdered sugar and brian stelter chest hair. keep telling him to shave. for example this is a slow news day so slow is the only one in this building way until jesse sees what i did to his suits. i had no idea polyester was that flammable. i could ve done a mono on inflation or joe biden but really not again it is so boring but thankfully producer offered this headline quote transit gender x neo not so robert too fast track gender confirmation surgeries. wow. i am so glad he is an ex neo-nazi. [laughter] but talk about a perfect storm of got failed content rate trans, nazi, gender