hurricane ian, and now questions are growing about why officials waited to order mandatory evacuations. and the person who helped recruit the migrants is a former u.s. army counterintelligence agent. so who is she? let s go out front. good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight, putin s chaos. this video shows one of the ambushes destroying three russian tanks. and videos posted online by ukraine s defense ministry show one town after another being liberated. you see the flags flying over the key city of lyman. the losses are leaving putin s forces in a state of chaos in. a story you ll see first out front, russian recruits are revealing the reality of putin s war. some claiming they were given no training before being shipped. and his commander telling the new recruits that it doesn t matter if they have hernias or plates in their heads, they re if fit to fight. putin throwing them in the line of fire as his options narrow. he s growing more desperate, threatening
and it is billed as the book donald trump fears most, detailed profile of the former president s life by maggie haberman and she is here with her new book, confidence man. and a bombshell report dropping today revealing harassment and abuse in women s soccer. players coerced into sexual relationships and a league s extensive efforts to hide what was going on. welcome to the lead. we begin with the rising death toll from hurricane ian. officials say at least 104 people have now dooid ied in th. as a result of the storm. vast majority of them in florida. 54, more than half of florida s total dead, were all in hard hit lee county on the western part of the peninsula, the damage in parts of the county such as in ft. myers and sanibel island is simply put breathtaking. floridians who evacuated have started returning only to find their homes and communities unrecognizable and daunting cleanup ahead. boats flung to the middle of streets, even into people s yards. who do you
failed the country. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. we now know why fbi agents searched former u.s. president donald trump s mar-a-lago home and we re learning details about some of the items they took. according to a warrant unsealed friday, agents were looking for evidence of possible crimes including potential violations of the espionage act related to the gathering, loss or destruction of u.s. defense information. property receipts also unsealed on friday reveals that fbi agents recovered 11 sets of classified documents including several marked top secret. they also seized several photo binders, information about the president of france and a document about pardoning roger stone, a staunch trump ally convicted of lying to congress. we explain what the unsealed documents tell us about the ongoing investigation. reporter: on friday a federal court in florida released seven pages of documents that represent that unprecedented search and seizure that took
soldiers, tanks and supplies in the position along the border. preparing for a full-scale assault against evil hamas terrorist. welcome to brand new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: it s hard to get away from this. ground invasion has not yet begun. the white house is racing along with u.s. allies. meanwhile, you got a cruise ship filled with americans being evacuated out of israel. it s left the northern port city on the way to the island of cypress. president biden has suddenly canceled his trip to colorado scheduled for today. only hours before heading out to highlight his economic agenda, in order to hold meetings back in washington for national security advisors. a number of hostages said to be held in gaza has ridden to 199. iran says hamas is ready to release hostages if israeli first, trey. yeng begins coverage in israel. where are we this hour? reporter: good morning. we are at an israeli artillery position. they are firing on the gaza strip
include 30 americans among the more than 1400 killed. israeli prime minister netanyahu has invited president biden to visit israel as israeli forces prepare for a ground offensive and i m joined now by erin burnett live in israel. we re here just after 1:00 in the morning in israel. and it is clear skies behind me. we ve been talking about the forecast for some extremely violent thunderstorms that could impact any possible plans, any kind of heavy rainfall obviously incredibly disruptive when you talk about the terrain in gaza sand along that border where 350,000 or so israeli troops are gathered right now. you mentioned 250 air strikes as we are looking at gaza, the air strikes just today. and they say another hamas senior commander was killed in those strikes today. the idf spokesperson just joins us saying they killed ten hamas members so far since the beginning of the war and there are many more to come. still calling them dead men walking and which reflects the still r