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again in a $250 million civil lawsuit threatening the fate of his business empire. did the former president answer the new york attorney generals questions, and the u. s. supreme court is being asked to intervene in the legal fight over abortion medication. the u. s. justice department seeking emergency action after a new appeals court ruling keeps the pills on the market for now, but with restrictions welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. im wolf blitz...

top of the hour, this busy thursday morning, im jim sciutto. >> im poppy harlow. welcome to our viewers. the breaking news we are following this morning, hurricane ian leaving just stunning devastating destruction in florida as a hurricane then a tropical storm. still pummeling the state though. 14 million people in florida are currently under flood alerts. 2.5 million businesses without power along with homes. theyre rescuing people trapped inside flooded homes. governor ron desantis ...

begin to assess just how many lives have been lost. the high waters, homes, buildings and roads ripped apart, ongoing search and rescue missions, and the damage is not just along the coast. welcome to "the lead," im jake tapper. we start with the first look at the death and devastation left behind by hurricane ian across southwest and central florida. this same system first made landfall in cuba then onto floridas west coast. now ian is about to strengthen and make its third landfall...

earlier demonstrated just how powerful those winds can be. >> there is the wind speed, as i am standing next to the building. -- i will take a knee. oops. ill have to take a knee there. >> -- >> okay. you guys got it -- im going back out. >> the powerful winds created record level storm surges in areas like fort myers and naples, florida. over 2 million are without power tonight. and flash flooding is still a major concern, with potentially up to 30 inches of rain predicted in some are...

down, you have trees that are down, you have a lot of hazards right now. we do anticipate a lot of the water will subside in some of the barrier islands, in some of the coasts, but some of those inland places off rivers and off these inlets, you know, youre likely to have standing water there throughout all of today and even in the days ahead. so that is a hazard and just please be aware that that is something that you -- if you weathered the storm to this point, going and doing and ge...

im boris sanchez in for kate balduan. at this hour a manhunt is under way in canada for two suspects in a stabbing spree that left ten people dead and 15 others injured. the royal canadian mounted police say the attacks were spread out across 13 different locations. they centered around an indigenous community and a nearby village in saskatchewan. right now police say the motive is not nope, but they believe some of the victims were specifically targeted while others were random. polic...

he embraced the called and said it was perfect. that is where we landed of unprecedented revelations since the fbi agents executed a lawful search warrant at mar-a-lago and came away with 11 celsets of documents the former president was not allowed to have. rudy giuliani has made the perfect phone call excuse. >> now they want to make him responsible for having taken classified documents and preserved them. really if you look at the espionage act, its not really about taking the docume...

attorney rudy giuliani has made the perfect phone call excuse. >> now they want to make him responsible for having taken classified documents and preserved them. really if you look at the espionage act, its not really about taking the documents, its about destroying them or hiding them or giving them to the enemy. >> right. >> its not about taking them and putting them in a places that roughly as safe as they were in in the first place. >> taking classified documented, some marked clas...

>> closed captioning brought to you by feel away optimum, enhanced calming for cats. bad news for lindsey graham and his attempts to dodge a subpoena to appear before the fulton county special grand jury. the one investigating republican efforts to overturn the election results in georgia. a federal judge refusing to put a hold on her ruling at the senator has got to appear. we are getting new information about concerns from inside the biden white house and the intelligence communit...

goals are put to a test. live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom," with kim br brunhuber. were getting our clearest look yet into the u.s. justice departments investigation into classified documents kept a former president trumps mar-a-lago resort. the affidavit to obtain a search warrant details what they expected to find, including taking national security materials as well as items about obstruction. we have more on the key take aways from the unsealed document. >> reporter:...