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
Enclave of Nagorno Karabakh. In cross to the United States a chief giving a press conference. As im sure many of you have seen that trauma and exhaustion translation is visible on the faces of so many of the people that one encounters here. It is absolutely critical that independent monitors as well as Humanity Name organisations get access to the people and Nagorno Karabakh who still have dire needs. Translation we know that there are injured civilians in Nagorno Karabakh need to be evacuated and it is absolutely essential that evacuation be facilitated by the government of azerbaijan. Translation given the scale of the needs that the people of Nagorno Karabakh our face and come am announcing that estates will provide 11. 5 million in humanitarian assistance. This assistance will be used to provide everything from food to psychosocial support, given again the grave psychological wounds that so many citizens are carrying stop i have also met with locals who do not know we are certain m
talking about members of congress. and the founder, army veteran stewart rhodes of texas pictures outside, was the general of the entire toperation, but the defense attorney for rhodes said the government s story of the oath keepers role on january 6th is completely wrong and they will prove it. he said our clients had no part in the bulk of that violence and they were a piece keeping force awaiting president donald trump to invoke the insurrection act. an attorney for watkins said his transgender client has had trouble fitting in and called her a protest junkie, why don t you go wherever to help people. she couldn t have been there to certify joe biden s win because he said she believed the certification was done by the time she got there. caldwell s attorney went after the government for misstatements. for first saying caldwell was the master mind then later
bloodbath going on and the great battle of wisconsin over the budget deficit at the state level and the budget battle at the national level. and we re not going to be able to get our message through that because ours is a program message, and that is reality. that is hard news. that is real drama going on. so communications director who had had this good program to get the president out there and get him on tv, i think he would have said i did my best, mr. president. i can t beat this stuff. don t blame me. peter, both the president and the treasury secretary tim geithner tried to tamp down fears of any oil shortage because of libya. this could be potentially dangerous for the president. how concerned is the administration right now? well, i think they re very concerned. obviously, the situation in the middle east is not abating certainly in libya. we re going to have to probably get the united nations involved with a piece keeping force at some point. there are calls for that.