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have been empty for more than six weeks. >> reporter: as for this family -- >> it's frustrating and it's scary. first we couldn't feed our children because of the infant formula shortage and now we're facing another challenge with being able to take basic care of them. >> reporter: athena jones, cnn, new york. hello. i'm kristen fisher. welcome to "cnn newsroom." this massive winter storm system is barrelling towards the east coast this hour, and this arctic chill is straining the power grids, closing airports from coast to coast, and causing deadly road conditions on one of the bu...

of the florida coast of that this is sanibel island, an island decimated by hurricane ian. right now there's no way to get help in to sanibel. the only bridge that connected the island to the mainland, it's a long causeway, it's caved in. so there's no way to get on or off the island unless you travel by boat. and that's been incredibly difficult for anyone to do. and that loss right now spans the florida coast. i'll show you cape coral. our bill weir was here today. this is a picture he took. you can see home after home totally destroyed and flooded. the ones that are still standing...

>> wow. you got the video? >> i got it. >> here it is. >> oh, man. >> that's our pool. that's our deck. that was my house. my house is gone. >> jesse: a fox news alert, one of the largest search and rescue missions in american history is underway after hurricane ian decimated moving up the east coast. governor ron desantis says the situation is really bad. >> the amount of water that's been rising, will likely continue to rise today, even as the storm is passing, is basically a 500-year flood event. >> jesse: first responders are working around the clock. hundreds have been rescued s...

i was on the police department for almost 25 years. saw a lot of storms here. this is by far the worst storm i have ever witnessed. >> i promise you i'm never going to stay for another storm ever again here. however, i am one of the lucky ones. >> recovery efforts begin after utter devastation in parts of florida. while millions more people are now at risk as ian moves north. also tonight, he isn't tossing paper towels but governor ron desantis is handling this hurricane in a weirdly trumpy way. >> what we're learning about ginni thomas' meeting with the january 6th committee when sh...

As this monster storm moves across the country, blizzard and icy conditions are leading to widespread accidents, rose closures, and travel bans. emergency services are currently responding to crashes along the ohio turnpike near sandusky, involving multiple, heavily damaged semi trucks and other vehicles, and take a look at the icy conditions that motorists in memphis, tennessee are having to deal with today. the roads just turned into sheets of ice, and the road situation is so bad that memphis police are not responding to car accidents due to the dangerous weather. so ike diaz is the spokesp...