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hurricane ian. 76 people were killed, after the storm tore through the state, governor ron desantis says more than 1,600 rescues have been made since the storm struck. this left some communities unrecognizable. littered with wrecked homes as well as boats, as as you saw there. more than 628,000 customers are still without power and the destruction may just be coming to light. governor ron desantis is defending officials in lee county where half of the storm related deaths have been ann announced. they re facing criticism for issuing evacuation orders a day later than the neighboring county. here s what nadia romero was told. is that one of the things you ll be reviewing once we get out of the i can t aftermath. lee county should have had the evacuation order sooner from what we reviewed? the issue is they informed people and most people did not want to do it. that s the reality. you re in a situation, are you going to grab somebody out of their home that doesn t w ....
Historic term with a new member and pivotal cases. just justice brown jackson, the first black woman, will hear her first cases. we re joined live from the supreme court. what will be the top priority as this new term begins? reporter: the justices are back at it now with this new member, justice jackson, the first black woman, and right away she s going to have to deal with cases that have to deal with the issue of race. there s a big voting right act case, section 2, that s part of the law that bars rules that discriminate on the basis of race. the case has to do with maps out of alabama. a lower court said the maps ....
Diluted black voting power. supporters of voting rights are worried because this court back in 2013, in an opinion written by chief justice john roberts gutted a separate section of the law. so that is at issue now. and they re worried they re going to take aim now at section 2. among the major cases that the supreme court is going to be hearing early on in this term is that challenge to affirmative action at harvard and the university of north carolina. what do we expect there? reporter: absolutely. another case having to do with race. because court precedent allows colleges and universities to take race into consideration as one factor in admissions. but now a conservative group is looking at the programs at harvard, university of north carolina and it says it s asking the supreme court to overturn that precedent to say that race shouldn t be considered at all. again, this conservative court ....