quote, for weeks or months. there you see the calm waters now. that was nothing like that in the midst of the storm. in lee county officials try to defend their actions after facing hard questions over just how soon they ordered people to evacuate. critics asking why those mandatory evacuations were not issued there until one day before ian s land fall, surrounding counties have been told to evacuate. this morning the death toll from hurricane ian is climbing. boris sanchez has the latest. reporter: the death toll rising from hurricane ian. as people recall harrowing tragedies and those lost. storm surge came all the way up and they had the windows were sucked out. these guys pushed their wives out the windows to where a tree was and they were looking at them and the guys were holding on and they just looked at their wives and they said, we can t hold on any more. we love you, bye. and that was it. does they make it. no, they didn t make it. speaking to john sayin
west is water conservation. every single drop counts from here on out. wow. bill, thank you for explaining all that. the situation is obviously very dire. they need to find a way to compromise. thank you very much for explaining it to us. top of the hour on cnn newsroom. it s good to have you. this hour we expect to see the president at the white house. he ll sign a bill into law that one adviser calls a culmination of the administration s effort towards building the economy. the inflation reduction act as it s called makes historic investmentes in the fight against climate change. it gives medicare more negotiating power with prescription drug companies. and it imposes new taxes on some of america s biggest corporations. cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlyn collins joins us live now. so democrats consider this a significant victory. they didn t get everything they wanted here. it s not everything they wanted. and it s very different than the build back bette
john: dow down 807 points at this moment. unfortunately, few people surprised by the new inflation data, confirming the pain at the pump and sticker shock. hello, john roberts in washington and happy friday to you. and happy friday to you as well, john. good to see you. anita vogel in for sandra smith. prices soared 8.6% from a year ago, highest in four decades as rent, energy and grocery prices continue to surge. another record high for gasoline prices as the national average edges ever so closer to $5 a gallon. anita: fox team coverage starts right now. karl rove on president biden s response to the economic crisis and a closer look at how much americans are paying at stores. john: but first, jacqui heinrich is travelling with the president live in los angeles. what is the white house saying they are going to do about inflation, jacqui? we have not heard from the president yet, he s going to speak later about supply chains but the chair of economic advisers says
By President Elect trump yesterday at his first News Conference since july. Today, he tweeted that the Us Intelligence service said it was phoney and falsely circulated. In fact, James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, effectively distanced the Us Intelligence agency from the unverified video, saying it didnt leak it and hadnt made a judgement on its reliability. Since then, the spotlight has been shone on the man credited with producing the memo Christopher Steele, a former mi6 officer respected by British Intelligence agencies, the cia and the fbi. He has since gone to ground. The focus is now on what British Intelligence knew and whether anything made its way onto ministers desks. But the wider question persists is this a scandal of watergate proportions, or one of the biggest smears in the history of politics . Heres our diplomatic editor, mark urban. Were learning more about the world of private intelligence gathering and how information gleaned from across the globe