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declaration in north carolina. this is as the state is bracing for up to six inches of rainfall. we are going to talk about it with the democratic candidate for senate in north carolina, jerry beasley. and we are talking about the state of the race, less than 40 days until midterm elections. i am simone sanders townsend, and i have something to say. unprecedented, biblical, just a few words to describe the impact of hurricane ian. now taking its place as one of the worst natural disasters in our country s history. in just a few minutes, we are expecting an update from florida governor ron desantis, which we will bring you live. this week, hurricane ian slammed into florida s west coast, just shy of a category four hurricane. with winds of 155 miles per hour. ripping through south florida. then, coming back to slim south carolina and now, north carolina. we are hearing from residents who survived. we shouldn t be alive right now. we shouldn t be alive right now with th ....
as a downgraded tropical cyclone. the historically destructive storm made landfall for the second time yesterday. this time in south carolina. more than 180,000 residents lost power almost immediately. that number, reported to have grown to nearly half 1 million as the storm has carved its way through the carolinas. of course, nowhere has been more devastated than florida, where ian s wrath after touching down was deadly, as 77 people confirmed dead. homes literally washed away. entire communities, recovering from being nearly submerged. the president, planning to visit the state to thank its first responders. said yesterday that eons destruction in florida is almost unmatched for our nation. the situation in florida is far more devastating. we will just be beginning to see the scale of that destruction. it s likely to rank among the worst in the nation s, and the worst in the nation s history. you have all seen the scene on television. homes and property wiped out. i ....
at 19, a number that is almost certain to rise in the days ahead. the u.s. president warming up thursday poll of a lot of loss of life as one official sank likely the biggest natural disaster disaster the state s ever seen. that s the biggest disaster in florida s history. tens of thousands of emergency workers and deployed statewide. now 2 million homes and businesses stay with the electricity. large parts of the state are underwater. instead it s a one in 1000-year rainfall. the governor ron desantis decided describe the storm surge is biblical. some of the damage was almost under scribe-able to see a house just sitting in the middle of a sterile bay. you must be flown because of the massive wind speed and storm surge and deposited in a body of water. there were cars floating in the middle of the water. some of the homes were total losses. he is expected to hit south carolina and coincide with high tide on friday, greatly to increasing the potential for flooding. ....
by running toward gunfire for the singular purpose of trying to save lives. i was the texas governor, turned out to be falsely said that he was misled. so did this. the shooting began, we had uvalde police officers arrived on scene along with the consolidated independent school officers. immediately breached. long forsman was there. they did engage immediately. again, not true. as the body and security cameras clearly show that nobody immediately breached the classroom. nobody engaged the shooter. was there for 77 minutes before he was killed. and during that time dozens of please coming and going. hundreds outside of the school and not one of them are routinely and had been trained for years. in these situations to. do another misleading statement repeatedly made by texas officials was that the shooter was somehow barricaded inside of the classroom. he was not and in fact the classroom door might not have even been locked. but according to reports from the texa ....
as we edge closer to sanibel, not just a couple miles out, the destruction left an eons path became clear. it s just gone. the beach is gone. once off about, it s a mile on foot to their home. what they see is overwhelming. we look down this way. this beautiful it s been forever changed. oh my god, their house is gone. total devastation. totally changed. it s just heartbreaking to see this. unbelievable. they re close to the house now, but still unsure what they ll find until they make the turn around the bend. i think i see the back of our house. remarkably, the house is still standing. there s all kinds of stuff that doesn t even belong to them in their backyard. we found these. these are someone else s camera negatives. certainly not there s. and also, in the backyard, this bag of birthday cards for someone s 60th birthday. certainly not their name on it and not their collection of ....