oath keepers to stay on the outside and stay fully armed and prepared to go in armed if they have to. if it kicks off, you rock and roll. that was oath keepers founder stuart rhodes. you hear that audio, why have prosecutors introduced that? what do they think it proves? this audio is damming according to the doj s case here, these are conversations between the group that sound like they re specifically planning violence in response to political transfer of power and that s obviously the crux of the government s case in this trial. but i think on the defense side, there are obviously going to be some holes that can be poked in that audio and that s going to be the question here, whether the prosecutors can reach that proof beyond a reasonable doubt when there are questions about the vagueness of some of the comments in there. we ll talk about the defense in a second. there s also sound of them talking about weapons. listen. pepper spray is legal, tasers are legal, and
ian are unlivable. the scenes, apocalyptic. responders working by boat and aircraft. nearly 2,000 rescues in southwest and central florida since last week when hurricane ian hit the state. this morning, the number of customers without power is now below half a million in florida. president biden travels to florida tomorrow for a firsthand look at the devastation. cnn s randi kaye is live this morning in fort myers beach. randi? reporter: john, i know you ve seen fort myers beach from the air, but seeing it on the ground firsthand is certainly like nothing i have ever seen before. there were stairways to anywhere because homes were literally blown out of foundations. there were homes on top of homes. as you said, fort myers beach is still closed to residents, but we got a firsthand look up close with a search and rescue team out of miami, florida, and here wrap we saw. this is our first look from the ground at fort myers beach. hurricane ian s winds combined with storm s
protests around the country, hundreds of thousands have left russia to avoid the draft. i think putin continues to paint himself in the corner without options to get out of the mess he s created. we re trying to get a sense, what would i had look like if he did that? we were speaking to someone yesterday about what putin s options would be, and the most likely of the four scenarios would be in his opinion, a low-yield nuclear weapon used on a ukrainian military target. talking something in the range of 10 kilotons of tnt, hiroshima was 15 kilotons. i think anywhere between 1 and 10 kilotons. hiroshima was 15 kilotons. i think the way he would deliver
in this case ukraine or nato to back off, to stand down. the idea, such a shock that it would cause opposing troops to stop their battle, and maybe even consider sir urrendering before other nuclear weapons were used. you say a shock. not a nuclear weapon used in 77 years at the same time not shocking enough and likely why russia would choose this option? haven t seen an above ground nuclear explosion since the last test done in 1980 and the whole world would stop if this weapon an went off. all we d talk about. no damage or casualties. it might not be shocking enough. why i think putin would reject that option and move to a direct military strike. saying we have this and can use it. we know that about vladimir putin. next you talk about the low-yield weapon. russia could fire a low-yield nuclear weapon on a ukrainian military target. something that would kill hundreds or thousands.
hoping evacuations will continue and include not only civilians but also wounded ukrainian troops which is what we heard in the last 15, 20 minutes. in the south president zelenskyy is plemgalling to rebuild the destroyed airport runway in the port city of odesa. he says the airport was struck by russian missiles. witnesses reported seeing military planes in the sky and hearing multiple explosions in the area. and this video really apparently confirms what ukraine has been saying for almost a week now, that russia is using submarines in some of its missile strikes. moskow released this video saying it shows a cruise missile launched at a ukrainian military target. but kyiv says the strikes also hit civilian infrastructure. it s not clear when of course this video was taken. regardless of how the civilian evacuations in mariupol play out one question is what will happen