white house has really been minimal at best since the discovery of these classified documents. you have president biden yesterday ignoring and shouting questions from reporters. twice at the white house and then for three days in a row this week, press secretary kareen jean pierre referred most of our questions about this topic to the justice department, the special counsel s office. she read statements from the white house counsel s office and reaction to the mishandling of these classified documents earlier this week. that is really essentially the posture that the white house has had since this was discovered. that is really the posture that green chunkier had when my colleague kristen welker asked her whether president biden would be willing to sit down with the special counsel if asked for an interview to be able to fully cooperate with the special counsel probe. take a listen to what she had to say. again, that is something that i do not have a magic wand here. i don
what are you seeing? yeah alex, after a click glance at these two statements, we are learning the big big news here is that there have been more classified documents uncovered from his wilmington home. this is coming from the statements according to richard s of, or the special counsel to the president, as well as bob bauer, president biden s personal attorney. basically, bob bauer is saying that as a personal attorney, he went to the penn biden center, and he and his team, as well as president biden s wilmington, home went to the home, and because he does not have a special security clearance to be able to handle, these he then informed the doj and the national archives, and then richard bauer, the special counsel to the president in his statement says, quote, because i have a security clearance, i went to wilmington thursday evening to facilitate providing the presidents personal counsel found on wednesday to the justice department. while i was transferring it to the doj
thousands of people cut off from the mainland 6789 the only way to get there, air, helicopter or boat. you see semitrucks bringing supplies, we re moving as fast as we can, we are here to support as long as needed. carley: alexandria hoff joins us live from fort myers beach. what an experience. the pictures look like a bomb went off. what did you learn? alex: how complicated it has been to get to people in need, those in barrier islands that have been completely cut off. recovery operation or the operation to get to some form of state of recovery, 24 hours ongoing and quite impressive. latest numbers, 430,000 floridians still without power, down from 2.6 million and hardest hit places, though, they could be in the dark for weeks and months, some are anticipating. as number of those without power comes down, ian s death toll is rising. report of 78 deaths, 71 in florida, even survival plagued by trauma. a resident put it, it is the most horrible thing in the world really
southwest florida, where nearly five days after hurricane ian made landfall, the death toll continue it is climb. hundreds of thousands of people remain in the dark without electricity as some communities are now essentially unrecognizable. this morning we have the very latest on rescue and recovery efforts taking place as president biden prepares to tour the damage here firsthand. good to be with you, boris. and i m amara walker. overseas more than 100 people are dead after violence erupts at a soccer stadium in indonesia. we re learning about what started the deadly chaos. plus ukrainian forces make critical gains. and mortgage rates climbing to their highest level in 15 years. what that means for home buyers should be doing amid soaring inflation. new day starts right now. good morning, everyone. it is sunday, october 2nd. thank you so much for spending a part of your morning with us. boris, i know you have had quite an event full morning already. yeah, amara. it h
about this bill it will not lower inflation. we re now one step closer to enacting this historic legislation into law. indiana becoming the first state post-roe to pass a law banning nearly all abortions. people are demanding that their voices be heard by this legislature, to demand equal rights under the law. me and my sisters we are not murderers. we just took control of our own bodies. if your pro-life you can t be happy. if you re pro-choice you can t be happy. all i know is people need to go out and vote in november. reporter: the fallout from u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi s visit to taiwan continues with china ramping up its military and diplomatic backlash. there is no justification for this extreme, disproportionate and escalatory military response. some sort of military escalation and the possibility of open conflict, a higher probability than it was just a few days ago. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom. and we be