hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from the united states and all around the world. i'm paula newton. in this hour thousands of americans in the carolinas are braving the wrath of a very powerful storm. yes, it is still powerful. post-tropical cyclone ian is making its way inland at this hour after slamming into south carolina as a hurricane. even though the storm has been downgraded, officials warn it still threatens the area with storm surges, heavy rain, and strong winds. in fact, it has already caused

considerable damage in parts of south carolina. you see it in this video. that storm ripping through a pier causing part of it to collapse. now, it also submerged this neighborhood with a strong storm surge that, in fact, was several feet high. it was so bad this man -- it was so bad this man had to wade through knee-deep water inside his own home. thankfully the water there is starting to recede, and some areas in the state have been spared the worst. but in florida the damage has been severe. at least 45 people have now lost their lives and hundreds of homes have been turned, well, you see there just piles of debris. the coast guard is trying to rescue survivors. president joe biden said more help is on the way. >> it's just a crisis for

florida. it's an american crisis. we're all in this together. i've spoken to governor desantis on multiple occasions as well as this morning as well as mayors and county officials both republican and democrat from places most affected. >> now, sportfishing is a huge draw for many people who go to florida's gulf coast, but it will take a while for those businesses to get up and running again. cnn's bill weir is in fort myers and shows us the tangled mess of boats, vehicles, and debris left behind by this storm. >> reporter: these are shore birds and pelicans, walking across wreckage in what used to be san carlos harbor. it's seen better days, as you can see. this is the destructive path of ian. it came raking across here. a lot of the businesses here of course have to deal with recreation here in paradise, kayak rentales, bait shops

completely split open by the wind. the boats have been tossed into the mangroves across the street here. we have a bit of a bottleneck of human activity because this is the road to fort myers beach, and the sheriff's department is not letting anybody on. if you haven't seen any pictures of fort myers beach this is why. there is a first and former law in florida that's supposed to give us access when there's a state of emergency, but you got to feel for the sheriff's deputies just trying to manage the crowds here now that are piling in. you've got journalists, of course. you've got first responders. you have residents who are just curious who are coming by, and that's creating this huge pile. but this is what i wanted to show you. this is across san carlos boulevard, and just get a load of this. just wanton, indiscriminate destruction. i think about how a family saves up their whole life to buy a

boat or if you're a fisherman you dream of being a captain one day and how perilous that is even in a good year sometimes. but now what this will do to the maritime businesses around here, the insurance -- the marine insurance companies that will have to deal with the aftermath of this. and this is what i really wanted to show you guys. look at this. i will always remember the sight of captain greg's boat "the crackerjack," which is now parked on top of this chevy suburban. you can hear the alarm going off inside the boat to alert the captain that something's wrong. it's heart breaking in this setting. and then you've got laundry baskets up in the mangroves there, another bait shop over here, and then you find stuff like this. look at this, just a random --

this is necklace' gmm rewards card, sat down there by the most violent storm to hit this part of the coast in history. meanwhile over here you have the beeping of earthmovers as they try to shove these grounded sail boats out of the way. as we learned in irma and maria, cleanup can be as much of a man made disaster as the hurricane itself if not properly managed one can only hope all available resources will manage to unjumble this mess as soon as possible for these poor folks. >> thanks to bill weir there on the ground. after pounding florida, ian made a second landfall in south carolina. officials there are now assessing the damage. cnn's nick valencia is in myrtle beach, south carolina, and filed this report for us. >> reporter: the worst of the

hurricane appears to have come and gone here in myrtle beach. and though hurricane ian made landfall just south of us, it brought significant damage here in and around the area particularly in north myrtle beach to the cherry grove pier, which was just wrecked by the heavy rain and significant wind that came with hurricane ian. portion of that pier floating into the atlantic. there was concern from officials here for localized flooding. there was tloos one rescue in the county. here along the coast where we were standing just hours ago was under water. all of that water has receded back into the ocean, but the wind here continues to be a factor, and perhaps the most dramatic scene we saw throughout the cay on friday, there was a shrimp boat that seemingly appeared out of nowhere in the atlantic just getting hammered by those choppy waves and initially it wasn't clear whether there was anyone on that boat. we did talk to the sheriff's county office and they said it

was yesterday or rather thursday that the crew was evacuated by the coast guard. it was anchored down but because of that severe weather it drifted ashore here. actually one person was arrested trying to climb into that boat. the cleanup begins here in and around myrtle beach and there's going to be a lot to cleanup in the coming days. nick valencia, cnn, south carolina. >> cnn meteorologist karen maginnis joins us now with more on this storm and where it's headed. i know especially from the perspective of rainfall it still could be a large problem inland. >> that's what we saw, paula, yesterday. it was a 600-mile wide shield of rainfall that was unrelenting in the amounts of rainfall we did see. in coastal south carolina 4 to 8 inches were some of the common amounts we did see. but just 24 hours ago we were looking at a category 1 hurricane taking aim at that central coast of south carolina. it, in fact, was a little bit

further to the north, so charleston was spared the worst, and i mention charleston because it's so historic and a densely populated area, also myrtle beach. but myrtle beach got hit pretty hard. i want to show you these images. this is out of cherry grove beach. if you were to drive to myrtle beach, south carolina, that's along the north coast, and then a few blocks further that's this cherry grove beach. and you can see just everywhere you look, just volumes and volumes of rain and water. but the good news is is that you can see that bottom level, that's actually where people park their cars and keep various house supplies there. so when we were kids we would say you had your house built-up on stilts. i'm sure there's a more sophisticated way of saying that now, but actually the living spaces, that middle space you see. so with all that wet weather you were spared a little bit. i know it doesn't look like it,

but in fact that's the situation. all right, post'-tropical ian still his broad shield of wet weather, and wind, heavy rainfall and heavy surf. sounds like i'm describing what would happen if we still had a hurricane. well, in fact there are still lots of -- there is still a lot of energy associated with this. and from the tidewater area of virginia extending on over towards western areas of virginia and into north carolina. we could see the rainfall heavy at times. 4 to 6 inches likely and some of those tidal areas are going to see some flooding, and some of those urban areas you could see some flooding as well. it really demiminishes going in sunday. so that's the good news. see a fairly substantial wind field associated this as well. some of these coastal areas in south carolina even myrtle beach are looking anywhere between 25 and close to 50 mile an hour winds. this is post-tropical ian

because it doesn't have a center core, and it is cold core as opposed to a hurricane system, which is actually warm. it still has a lot of punch with it, so we're not writing it off just yet. >> it's incredible now for another two nights at least that punch will still be felt by so many millions of americans. karen, thanks for the update, appreciate it. if you would like to safely and securely help people affected by hurricane ian who may be in need of shelter, food and water please go to cnn.com/impact. russia is pushing ahead with its plans to annex neaearly a fifth of ukraine. but as soon asas the annexation ceremony in moscow w was done widespread condemnation followed. plus our coverage of the storm's devastating impact continues after a short break.

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russia is moving ahead with its plan to carry out the largest forced annexation in europe since world war ii.

a large ceremony in moscow on friday. president vladimir putin announced the annexation of close to one-fifth of ukraine. the move follows the so-called referenda in four so call occupied regions the west dismissed as sham. western nations made it clear the move will not be recognized. the u.s. and britain along with other g7 members are already pushing for new sanctions on moscow. now, diplomatic tensions later spilled into the u.n. security council. moscow vetoed a resolution that condemned the referenda and called for russian forces to leave ukraine. no other country voted against that measure. now, the annexation announcement comes against the backdrop of russia's military failures in ukraine and push back against his military mobilization. as matthew chance reports the russian leader still has -- still says his military will

prevail on the battlefield. >> reporter: victory will be hours, he shouted. president putin vowing success in ukraine soon after announcing a significant escalation in his war. the invited crowd yelled their support back but this carefully choreographed fervor is unlikely to be shared by russians still fleeing his call to arms. earlier from the kremlin putin dramatically raised the stakes annexing four more ukrainian regions after his sham referendums showed huge unlikely support for moscow's rule. >> translator: people living in luhansk and donetsk, kherson and other regions are becoming our citizens forever. >> reporter: putin said he wanted kyiv to come to the negotiating table but the fate

of the occupied regions is not up for debate. >> translator: the choice of the people in the four provinces we're not going to discuss. russia is not going to betratray it. >> reporter: his speech framing russia's land grab as part of an existential battle. ukraine's western allies, he said, were determined to weaken his country. he declared any attack on the annexed areas would be an attack on russia itself, vowing to use all the means at his disposal if ukraine tries to re-claim them. the announcement met with dutiful applause from russia's political elite. but behind their stony glares they must know how much this war is costing. on the battlefield russia is facing its worst setbacks since invading in february while at home there's been wide protests against the mobilization of russia's men to fate. there's also the global

condemnation, the u.s. imposing fresh sanctions against russian officials with other western allies following suit. and in ukraine, president zelenskyy called putin's move a farce and said ukraine would accelerate its request to join nato. >> translator: today here in kyiv in the heart of our country we are taking a decisive step for the security of the entire community of free nations. >> reporter: tonight the square managed celebrations are meant to send a powerful message that no matter the criticism or the consequences putin's russia is determined to take this path. matthew chance, cnn, new york. >> now, as mr. putin declares annexation of moscow the ukrainian president you were just hearing there is praising more progress on the battlefield. ukrainian officials say russian troops are now trapped in the

eastern city. this after reports ukrainian troops were close to encircling the city. president zelenskyy said his troops will eventually free the entire country. >> translator: we must liberate our entire land, and this will be the best proof that international law and human values cannot be broken by any terrorist state, even one as insolent as russia. >> now, meantime the death toll from an attack on a humanitarian convoy in zaporizhzhia has grown to at least 30 people. ukraine says 88 others were wounded in the russian strike, and we want to warn you now the image said you're about to see are graphic. the strike happened friday at a used car market where vehicles were gathering to go into russian held territory. president zelenskyy says russia fired 16 missiles on the area, although it's unclear how many hit the convoy. ukraine says there were no

military targets there. >> translator: you can take a look around here. there is not one military object, no pile equipment, and there never was. every day only civilians come here getting ready fogo to temporarily occupied territories. they're older people, women with children, and families. >> now, u.s. president joe biden isn't mincing words when it comes to the recent leaks in the nord stream natural gas pipelines. he called them a deliberate act of sabotage but stopped short of directly accusing moscow. it's the first time the president asserted the leaks were a result of foul play. on monday leaks were discovered in the pipelines which were meant to bring natural gas to europe. investigation by european authorities determined that powerful under water explosions had occurred just before the pipeline's burst in several places. and we will continue to follow that story and will give you more later in the show. coming up now for us, how one boat captain in fort myers

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and a warm welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm paula newton. you are watching "cnn newsroom." the loss of life and property from hurricane ian are so staggering along florida's gulf coast that no one can yet quantify just how devastating it truly is. countless vacation homes, hotels, businesses, boats,

vehicles, simply vanished after the category 4 storm made landfall wednesday. one analysis predicts the insured losses in the state will be nearly $50 billion. tragically florida's death toll continues to climb as search and rescue teams continue to comb through mountains of depry. so far 45 storm related fatalities have been confirmed in florida, but officials fear the final tally could be in the hundreds. ian is now a post-tropical cyclone after making landfall in south carolina. cnn has met and spoke with many floridians who lived through past hurricanes and they all so almost universally ian was much worse. one man says he rode out the storm on his boat, but it was incredibly dicy. our randy kaye has his story. >> reporter: have you ever seen a storm like this? >> no, not this big. seen hurricanes but nothing like this. >> reporter: when hurricane ian

hit fort myers beach this boat captain was in for the ride of his life. >> it was very surreal. >> reporter: mike had decided to ride out the storm on his boat. it's made of steel and has a generator so he thought it would be stafer than home. mike showed me video of what he saw as the hurricane gained strength. >> cruel see the building collapsed over there. you can see we're running the engines, holding the boats in place. there's the building. >> reporter: wow, it's right in the water. >> yep. >> reporter: he tied boat he was onto another large boat he owned. both weigh about 50 tons, he says. but even that was no match for hurricane ian. at about 3:00 a.m., all of a sudden mike was lifted up by the force of the water and the wind. >> we didn't get dragged around until to very end. >> reporter: what was that like being carried along as the storm was going? >> we knew it was out of control at that point so we were happy

we were blowing inland because we knew we'd wind up over land and not out in the water sinking. the wind was howling. we knew we were in the parking lot. we didn't know where we were going to stop. >> reporter: in the end after a wild 15 hours mike and his boats, which were still tied together, landed in the street. and while they aren't a total loss, ian sure took a chunk out of this boat mike used for his business, a floating hotel. >> that's cabin six, actually. one of the nicest cabins, had a private deck and were just looking at the wind from that. that even wasn't from a hit. we watched it and the wind as it got more and more peeled the side back. >> reporter: tore it right off. >> yep. >> reporter: so for now mike is staying on the boat he was on during the storm. he does have a generator on it and he does have water on it, but he would like to get it back into the water as soon as possible. that's because, one, it's not insured so he would like to get it back in the water. and also it's leaning against that power pole right there, and he said the electric company if

they deem that his boat is in the way of restoring power, they will destroy it. randy kaye, cnn, fort myers beach, florida. >> now, ian made its second u.s. landfall near georgetown, south carolina, friday as a category 1 hurricane, and that was with destructive winds and life threatening storm surges. now, power is being restored to impacted areas as officials assess the damage, and shelters where people took refuge from the storm in charleston county are set to close saturday afternoon. although the storm has weakened as it moves further inland, the governors of south and north carolina say risks remain. >> this is not as bad as it could have been. a lot of prayers have been answered, but i would ask people don't quit yet because it's still coming. >> flash floods are a concern, and that's why we want people to

go ahead and stay off the roads, to also listen to their local officials. they would be the ones to make a determination whether someone needed to evacuate an area. >> now, earlier i spoke about the impact of the storm with myrtle beach emergency management director. i asked him about the damage he's seen so far and if the worst is no over. >> you know, it seems like we fared out pretty well. there's obviously some damaged to properties alongside our beach side community. the closer you get to the ocean, the more severe the damage is. inland we were able to escape the majority of the problems. there were some power issues, utility issues. but for the most part the majority of myrtle beach survived pretty well, i thought. >> yeah, it's incredible you say that when we, you know, just showed pictures of homes that are on stilts but still they have been inundated with water.

what was the main issue today? was it the flooding? was it power? is it still power? h how's the water situation coming together in the community? >> from basically the beginning of the week when we found out whether it was a tropical storm or hurricane coming at us, our biggest concern was coastal flooding and storm surge. unfortunately, that became a reality. i believe our storm surge actually got all the way up to 6 feet, which is some of the highest in recorded history for myrtle beach. when you put that in with the heavy rain, high tide was at 11:00 this morning. the storm hit us at 2:00. just the way timing worked out, you know, the coastal flooding really became our major issue. obviously the power and utilities throughout myrtle beach was always a concern. but those companies, i've got to give it to them, they were on it. >> you've been working on plans for years in your career in terms of, you know, mitigation, right? >> yes.

>> i'm going to lean on your experience here. what have you learned about what has been this unprecedented menace that is hurricane ian? >> so the big thing for us is, you know, every year starting in march our department is out there community reach, public education because a lot of people aren't familiar with hurricanes. so we have, you know, basically six, seven months dedicated specifically to hurricanes, try and educate people. throughout the week leading up to this our public works team was up there making sure drainage was working. you know, our beach side coordinators were making sure that the beach was protected as much as possible. you know, as great as it is living on the beach sometimes, you know, bad things happen. >> and our thanks there to travis for thankfully the situation not as bad as it could have been n in myrtle beach. now warnings for pyeongyang amid its ongoioing missile test. south korea says the launches

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russia is moving ahead with its plan to car ate out the largest forced annexation in europe since world war ii. at a large ceremony in moscow friday president vladimir putin announced the annexation of close to one-fifth of ukraine. and the move follows so-called referenda in four partially occupied regions, which the west dismissed as shams. joining me now from kyiv is the foreign correspondent for the guardian newspaper. good to have you weigh in on this. you're also the author of the upcoming book "invasion, the inside story of russia's bloody war and ukraine's fight for

survival." and quite a fight it is. i mean, given your expertise in russia what do you see here as the end game as far as putin has calculated? and i mean calculated because we had the bellicose speech, the spectacle, but clearly there is a strategy behind this. >> well, there is a strategy but it keeps on changing. and i think the speech yesterday which was full of fiery anti-western rhetoric was a sign of weakness. and what you have to remember is russia is losing on the battlefields. and, you know, as recently in the east of ukraine where russian troops are going backwards, and so i think what putin is trying to do is sort of bank his gains to consolidate his position by sending in more troops. we've seen a huge mobilization up to a million men who have been thrown into the front line. but also most importantly to shore up his position domestically because the reality is actually this war at home is becoming increasingly unpopular. >> i want to get more to that

point. he's been stumbling his way through this effort in ukraine. the draft has obviously hit a nerve. even if we don't see clear signs of it yet, which of the power brokers in russia do you believe are most likely to motivate something even if it falls short of getting -- you know, taking putin out of office? >> you any, it's such an appealing scenario the sort of filmscript version and we get a new start i new leader and so on. it's interesting president volodymyr zelenskyy where i am in kyiv said yesterday in the wake of his speech that no negotiations with moscow are possible and that ukraine would wait until there's a new russian president. i mean, the problem is that that could be quite a long time. and actually the people who might remove him, you know, the oligarchs, for example, or the

generals of the security services, i mean they're either terrified or they're locked in, they're kind of part of it state. so for the moment i think the western world, the united states, my country, the u.k., we are just going to have to contain this difficult, aggressive revisionist russia. and of course i expect we will see more episodes of sabotage from russia in the weeks ahead. i think it's not about ukraine as putin sees it, it's a war with the entire west. >> there is no proof they sabotaged the pipelines, but of course the west says it'll investigate i get to the bottom of it figuratively and literally, certainly a chilling development. you're in ukraine now and certainly president zelenskyy's response to this has been interesting especially when it comes to how much they are throwing at the counter offensive. in both the east and the south i mean since you're there, what do

you think is possible right now? >> yeah, i mean that's a very interesting question. i was last month in september i was touring the whole area that ukraine recently liberated. it's the kharkiv region in the northeast, and they did a kind of stunning counter offensive that went more quickly than i think pretty much anyone had thought including inside ukraine itself. in the south they've been sort of chewing away at russian positions in the city of kherson. but what we have now is we have a really interesting situation around the city of lyman where about 5,000 russian troops are practically encircled by ukrainian forces. and this is a paradox. we have a big speech in moscow -- we see retreats. we see disarray and we see russian weakness, so i think the next few weeks will be pivotal.

when it gets to be winter it's quite hard to fight, but i expect ukraine to make more gains in the east and probably smaller gains in the south. >> and that leads us to the logical question of putin's threats, right? he now says these are part of russia forever. if ukraine does manage to take over more of those parts of eastern ukraine or even in the south, what do you think we should make of putin's threats when it comes to using nuclear weapons? >> yeah, it's a spooky question and actually sitting here in kyiv it feels especially spooky. certainly people are talking about. they're thinking about it. the government has been quite calm. they say it's a blast, but my take for what it's worth is i actually think that putin is something of a cowered. if you look at these images of him from throughout the epidemic even now, you know, the defining image of the recent putin

presidency is a small man sitting at a very long table an awful long way away from the person that he's talking to. and i think actually what putin cares about is his survival. he wants to stay in power, he wants to stay alive. and deep down i think he's terrified for what the biden administration might do and some kind of mighty american response. now, we don't know the shape of that. that hasn't been spelled out, but i think it figures, looms large in putin's mind. >> and it likely goes back to what you said originally to us to the fact a lot of what's going on now is for domestic consumption and he wants to make sure he can shore up support within his own borders. luke harding from kyiv for us, appreciate it. >> thank you. now for the second time this year burkina's faso's government has been overthrown in a coup.

and the new leader is the army captain who has suspended the constitution, closed the borders now, and in fact declared a nightly curfew. now, the announcement caps a day that began with gunfire in the capital, an explosion near the presidential palace and ininterruptions to state tv programming. south korea is accusing pyeongyang of serious provocations of threatening the korean peninsula and indeed the entire world after north korea test fired two short range ballistic missiles early saturday. u.s. military officials say there's no immediate threat to u.s. territory. north korea has conducted we will remind you similar tests in the past couple of days. pyeongyang launched missile before and after u.s. vice president kamala harris visited the korean demilitarized zone thursday. senior international correspondent will rippley has been following all of this from taipei and joins us now with

more. north korea is obviously trying to get the world's attention, right, firing more ballistic missiles this year than it has in a decade. but in terms of the threat, how are officials assessing it? >> reporter: yeah, and when you say that i mean in a decade combined. i mean, this is unprecedented how many missile launches have occurred. and with the frequency we're seeing four tests just in the last week, and several of those tests including today with more than one ballistic missile. ballistic missiles that the japanese military believes followed an irregular trajectory, which analysts tell me essentially could be the kind of weapons that can change course, which makes them really difficult to track and almost impossible to shoot down. so certainly the threat exists. the threat is real. does the threat feel as big today as it felt, you know, during the fire and fury period with the former u.s. president trump and kim exchanging fiery rhetoric? no, because there's so much more happening in the world right now.

you just talked about one of the many, you know, flas flash points that exists in the world. and so north korea even though they're launching missile after missile and are believed to be really at any stage ready to just push the bottom for a nuclear test if they want to, they're not getting the same sort of attention or response, if you will, than in the past, but it doesn't mean the threat is the same or even elevated versus what it was several years ago, paula. >> so much we don't know, of course, about what goes on in north korea, and that's not for saying you haven't tried. certainly for many, many years you've been on top of story, but i wonder what you make now about the south korean response, right? they have a new president there. he's quite hawkish. he told our fareed zakaria just last week that north korea remains a major threat, an existential one to south korea. so i wonder what you make of that posture. >> and not just south korea but one might argue japan where there are more than 50,000 troops based and even mainland

united states, but north korea has always said they're not interested in any sort of, you know, first strike although they're certainly not ruling that out and made changes to their laws and constitution to basically solidify themselves as a nuclear weapons state. when the vice president kamala harris was at the demilitarized zone and she was looking at soldiers through the binoculars and the soldiers were looking back at her and she used that language that doesn't really reflect the reality on the ground in poengiac where they've invested so much in their nuclear program. they have so little trust after most notably in hanoi when he left them hanging with the lunch table set and no one was left there to sit and eat with them. that was the end of the diplomatic stage. you mentioned the south korean response. for the first time in five years on friday that south korea, japan, and the united states

engaging in trilateral anti-submarine exercises, and also they resumed live fire exercises in south korea as well, that things are really ratcheting up, tensions are ratcheting up and south korea saying they're willing to respond if north korea fires first. >> yeah, a lot going on in that region especially as the united states tries to simultaneously deal with so many crises. now, with hurricane ian destroying so many homes in the united states, h home buyers ar often left in the dark about how vulnerable flooding that their properties are and what sellers are withholding. that story next. (burke) get a whole lot of something with farmers. kinda creepy. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ why hide your skin if dupixent has your moderate-to-severe eczema or atopic dermatitis under control? hidey skin? not me.

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hurricane ian brought torrential flooding rains the parts of the southeastern united states. but florida and at least 20 other states don't require home sellers to actually disclose past flooding or flood damage to

potential buyers. that's putting millions of americans at risk of ending up under water in more ways than one. >> even now, go on a bright, sunny day, it is psychologically traumatic for me because i'm on constant alert, waiting, dreading the next rainfall. >> reporter: when jackie jones moved into her home four years ago, she had no idea rain in the forecast would also mean her property would flood. heavy rain caused this february 2020 flooding and one month later, jones said more rain caused more flooding. >> the water was literally over three feet high. at the house, at the window sills where it got to, it was almost four feet. >> reporter: no one told jones the biggest financial investment she was making, her new home, was prone to flooding. fema maps say the risk is low and her home state of georgia does not have disclosure laws that requires sellers to reveal

flood history. >> if i had up to date information, accurate information, i would not have purchased this house. now i'm trapped in a 30-year mortgage i can't get out of. >> reporter: jones is not alone. the defense council tracks disclosure laws and says the majority of states have inadequate laws or none at all leaving home buyers completely in the dark as climate change super charges rainfall, storms and floods. if you're buying a home in the majority of states, you are not going to be told up front about past flood damage. >> reporter: the natural resources defense council shows a whopping 21 states including flood prone states like florida and west virginia have no flood disclosure requirements. one study says that homeowners can incur tens of thousands of dollars if they purchase a previously flooded home. >> we are talking about the most pom lous states in the nation.

florida, states lake new york and new jersey. >> reporter: as climate change makes severe flooding more intense and more frequent, especially in low lying areas like florida, nrdc says there's even more urgency for a flood disclosure law similar to the lead disclosure act which requires buyers to be told. in the meantime, red fin is trying to fill the information void by making it available with listings based on climate projections. information that would have protected jackie jones from unknowingly buying aed in-prone home. >> if you don't know, how are you supposed to make an informed decision? you can't. something has to change. something has to change. >> population growth is exploding in many hurricane prone areas and that means the number of americans left in the dark because of nondisclosure is skyrocketing, too. just last year, two bills that

call for federal flood disclosure laws were introduced in congress but they have not passed. in the meantime, home buyers and renters should ask pointed questions about the properties they're considering, because even in states that don't require disclosure, sellers cannot misrepresent what they do know about a property's flood history. rene marsh, cnn, washington. and thank you for joining us. i'm paula newton. stay with us as cnn newsroom continues in just a moment. we'll have the latest on hurricane ian. why? why? only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty.♪ so how many vaccines have you given to people? me? about 1000. walgreens...millions. no way can i miss her big debut. wi your booster, i think you'll be there. for every twirl. i got a shot so my sister won't get ck. way to go, big bro!

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