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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 450,00 ....
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, threat ....
reporter: the rescue and recovery operation after hurricane ian continuing on this small white sand island of fort myers beach located in lee county, an island that is now an island of rubble, 54 deaths now reported in this county alone. we re looking for anybody that may have been left behind. the devastation is hard to put into words. reporter: we joined a rescue operation that includes search and rescue dogs. we send the dog in, the dog will sniff around. if we can t make contact, we ll walk up and start hollering and see if we get a response from anybody. if we don t hear anything, we bring a second dog up. reporter: as we walked around on fort myers beach, there is just destruction everywhere. the water that came in here just decimated this area and a lot of people are asking us, when will power come back, how long will it take to recover? and it will be different for some folks. where i am standing right now, this used to be a home. now stairs that lead ....