Electricity. Most in lee county. Some customers might not have power for months. Governor ron desantis says 2,000 people have been rescued. State officials are trying to determine how many people are still unaccounted for. The window for finding survivors is starting to close. Cnns Carlos Suarez has more. Reporter unrecognizable in parts. Still underwater in others. Hurricane ians destruction and path so vast Search And Rescue efforts continue days after the storm tore through florida. We kent get over the bridge. Reporter residents in Desoto County are stopped. Air boats are key to getting supplies in and people out. These air boats are going out taking people into town and its been going for a while now. Reporter the death toll across the State Climbing rapidly. A lot of sick people running out of medications. A lot of people running out of water and until we can get everything up and going, were trying to get them out. Reporter hundreds of Sanibel Island residents cut off from the m
Florida from Hurricane Ian. Majority in lee county where officials face questions whether Evacuation Orders should have been issued earlier. This morning Fort Myers Beach is closed entirely, even more residents, so crews can search for survivors. Power could be out for a month. Theres been nearly 2,000 rescues in southwestern florida since Hurricane Ian hit the state. A man in naples says he swam nearly a mile to save his wheelchairbound mother. Feels like im swimming forever. Were arriving at grandmas. Or im arriving at grandmas. Whats the time . 5 41. When he arrived he found his another neck deep in floodwaters. Needless to say, thrilled to see him. It was a sigh of relief. As i was approaching the house, i couldnt get through the front door. Water up to the windows, and i heard her screaming inside, and she was actually on the phone with my youngest son who was giving status updates to her, and it was, it was a scare and a sigh of relief at the same time. Scared thinking she might
Top of the hour on cnn newsroom. Im victor blackwell. And im bianna golodryga. President biden is in florida to rally democrats ahead of the midterms. Meantime two major developments in the two separate investigations involving the former president the Supreme Court has just rejected senator Lindsey Grahams request to block a subpoena into the 2020 election in georgia where a District Attorney is demanding that he testify before a grand jury. The Committee Investigating the january 6th insurrection they could be one step closer to getting former President Trump to testify. The committees in discussions with President Trumps attorneys, and he has an obligation to comply and we, you know, treat this and take this very seriously we havent made determinations about the format itself but it will be done under oath, it will be done potentially over multiple days, we have significant questions based on the evidence that we developed and as i said what we know already about the extent to which
the shooter. also this morning in washington, the fbi conducting a historic search of president biden s home in coordination with his attorneys and finding more classified documents now as the white house deals with the legal implications, the political fallout is also getting worse. a warning from russia this morning. if germany sends its leopard 2 tanks to the war zone, ukraine will pay. this comes as two major western allies are locked in a standoff. a tv weather man jumped on the subway by a group of teenagers after he tried to help an elderly man. now these teens are free. cnn this morning starts right now. we ll start here in. after the massive manhunt, the gunman is dead, the sheriff said he shot and killed himself in his own van when police tracked him down hours after the mass shooting. we re told that he also went to a second dance studio to kill even more people, but the people inside were able to wrestle his gun away. cnn has learned the gunman was a fre
detained in a kremlin crackdown on these antiwar protests. there are also reports of some demonstrators rounded up and immediately drafted into the rush sharon armed forces. it s setting off a flood of flights out of russia. nick peyton walsh is with us. it s called a partial mobilization of citizens. how is that playing out? reporter: it seemed pretty clear and forgive the siren noise around here. so much of ukraine constantly under threat, attack. it seems to be playing out initially pretty badly for the kremlin. the first issue they have to overcome is what to do with these thousands of potential recruits they re going to send to the front line that might already be being sent to the front line. they lack equipment to supply the regular army. this was a gamble and it s not going the way he hoped. the flights some of them full. military age males trying to get out of the country. they don t believe this mobilization is necessarily partial. the restrictions this will just