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Republicans, in one key Battleground State are pushing forward with a rather controversial Rule Change fueled by trumps disproved, debunked election lies about the 2020 election. And leading this hour, Vice PresidentKamala Harris may have won the debate, but she could, could still well lose the election today. The Harris Campaign says, despite any momentum from Last Nights performance, they still consider this a 50, 50 race, a Coin Flip than with just 55 days to go so the Harris Campaign says theyre not taking their feet off the gas. Meanwhile, former ....
cnn tonight. listen, one of the most catastrophic storms in florida s history, possibly the deadliest, regained strength to become a category 1 hurricane tonight. south carolina is now bracing for ian s wrath sometime happening tomorrow. and the very latest on its track in just a moment. we have yet to learn the full scope of the destruction caused by hurricane ian in florida. but what has certainly come into focus today truly is hard to find words for. at least 17 people have died so far, and that is linked to hurricane ian. president biden warns there could be substantial loss of life, perhaps more killed by a storm in florida than ever before. but it s really too soon to know more. and also too soon to say that the danger has now passed. i mean, there is debris everywhere. there s water everywhere. power lines are down. trees have been shredded. boats thrown on top of one another. countless homes destroyed, entire buildings washed away. fort myers beach took the br ....
And washington, d.c. bearing the brunt today. impacted areas continue to see outside school activities closed. some airports restricting flights and multiple pro sports games postponed. let s turn now to cnn meteorologist jennifer gray in the weather center tracking what this smoke has been doing. jennifer, i m not going to lie, i have been coughing all day. i think one of the key questions is how soon can we get relief? i believe it, boris. it has been awful. looks like over the weekend and maybe into the early part of next week we could get some rain in here. that s what we really need to try to clear out some of the smoke, as well as a shift in wind direction and we re going to get a little bit of that today. we talked about when it improves for someone it will be bad for someone else, so we are improving across the new york city area, but we re getting worse across the mid-atlantic, d.c., now down to two miles visible. new york city, you re up to four. this time yesterday you wer ....
Today, and he ll describe what he saw when we go to him live in just a moment. all bridges to neighboring pine island, they ve also failed. emergency responders are facing so many great challenges to rescue those who are still trapped. i mean, more than 700 confirmed rescues just so far in the state. but many more are likely. you can see what appears to be military members who are pushing one of their humvees submerged in flood waters just south of tampa. and florida s governor is saying that it s going to take years ye years of effort to rebuild and come back. right now it s all about rescues and relief. we re going to have full coverage with the latest on the ground and in the sky over the atlantic. tom sater is in the cnn weather center tracking where ian is and where it s headed next. brian todd is in naples florida. first, i want to bring in our chief climate correspondent, bill weir, who is right now in fort myers. and he just got there after seeing some of the hardest-hit ....
I can tell you, people s patience is running thin, especially with no gas, no power, no way to get out of this heat. this could go on for quite some time. it s really leaving people in a really tough situation. kate. and at the same time you just see how much work there is ahead, just on this one street that you re on. good to see you, ryan. thank you very much. absolutely. complicating the recovery and making the first days after the storm more dangerous is the extreme heat hitting louisiana. cnn meteorologist jennifer gray is in the cnn weather center tracking that for us. jennifer, what are you seeing? kate, temperatures in the mid 80s. when you factor in the heat index, feeling like the triple digits. if it feels like this outside, most likely it s hotter inside your home and people don t have a way to cool off. temperatures 85 degrees in new orleans right now. temperatures will continue to climb. 85 in baton rouge, 87 in gulfport. as we look at this map, you can see the ho ....