right now on america this morning, the escalating disaster on florida's gulf coast, the landscape in some areas, barely recognizable island community cut off after ian destroyed a causeway bridge was the only way in or out, and you can see a huge chunk of it collapsed rescue crews using boats and helicopters to pluck residents off rooftops. hundreds of lives saved so far and the rescue effort far from over. and ian is not done yet. the hurricane strengthening overnight before a second u. s landfall later today , watches and warnings posted for georgia and the carolinas and south carolina's governor se of the storms, timing. land grab russian president vladimir putin today officially declaring 15%

of ukrainian land as part of russia what the move means for the war. plus the miami dolphins star quarterback taken off the field on a stretcher during thursday night. football 11 update on his condition just in the fda, finally approving the first drug to treat ls but only after please from patients and the daily show host trevor noah , surprising his viewers with an announcement on this friday. september 30th. from abc news in new york. this is america this morning. good friday morning, everyone we begin with the aftermath of hurricane ian in florida and the storms next target further up the coast and expected to make a second u. s landfall today. the storm is barreling towards south carolina , packing winds more than 80 mph . the entire south carolina coast is now under a hurricane warning. latest timing in track coming up, but first the urgent situation in southwest florida,

where hundreds of people have now been rescued since ian made landfall their new video revealing the incredible destruction on fort myers beach. entire buildings and appear now gone. the storm also destroyed the causeway leading to nearby santa bell, cutting off cutting off vehicle access to the island . at least 11 people are dead from the storm, and that number is expected to rise. a bcs justin finches live on florida's gulf coast with the latest justin what can you tell us? brianna and good morning. we are here in st petersburg, where these trucks are staged here at tropicana field as part of the effort to restore power across the region, all after ian ripped through the state. this morning , the escalating disaster in florida after hurricane ian growing more dire by the hour search and rescue teams in southwest florida, making hundreds of rescues with efforts likely to go on for days, there have been more than 700

confirmed rescues, and there's likely many more than that. the coast guard says the conditions are making rescues difficult and dangerous in the fort myers area. they're dealing with high water. ah you know, cities that don't look like cities anymore. unstable platforms and buildings , the scale of destruction becoming painfully clear. boats piled up and holds ripped from foundations these before and after images give a sense of the destruction. fort myers beach now resembling a war zone. this pier jetting into the gulf of mexico now gone, and this is what the causeway leading to sanibel island looked like before in now, chunks of it are missing. the only way off the island now by boat or helicopter. and new video showing the power of ian watch as water burst through the door of this building during the height of the storm is here for

you, victor. oh kendo, helping even neo clears from her flooded home sheep and her mother stood on top of their car for three hours as the waters rose around them to die right there. but still many are waiting to be rescued. this man trapped inside his home was unable to contact rescuers who were passing by both people. uh um. road by outside, but this door was still now unlocked. it was still stuck so i couldn't open the door and yell at them. orlando teams working to evacuate nearly 100 patients from a nursing home after sandbox failed to keep out the storm surge and overnight millions still without power officials saying it could be weeks before power is restored in some areas. with parts of the power grid needing to be completely rebuilt. and this morning, the faa closing the

airspace over fort myers, allowing for a safe search environment for those hurricane relief teams. rhiannon andrew justin finch in tampa for us all week. thank you. power is slowly coming back on for some people in fort myers, but the mayor says most buildings remain without electricity and running water. the water has receded. um we do have about 80% of the city is without electricity. it's slowly coming back on and about 70% of the city's without water . we're expecting the delivery of the pods with the water and food and ice and the problem was that very, very difficult to live here without air conditioning. i was able to stand in, uh, the window of my condo, looked down toward the river and just watched the water continues. the rise until it hit first street, where the business of most of the businesses are and i felt very helpless. watching our businesses get flooded. sh last night, officials closed one of the

bridges that leads to force myers beach due to structural damage. preparations for ian's next arrival are now taking place on the entire carolina coast. the storm is forecast to make landfall. later this morning in south carolina, possibly as a category one. hurricane myrtle beach and charleston remain in ian's path . and last night, south carolina's governor urging people to prepare doesn't make much difference whether this comes in and hurricane strength or below its storm strength or somewhere on the line because this could be blowing strong winds as google be all over the state at different levels. high tide in charleston is at noon, so we know there's gonna be water a lot of water in charleston at noon. president biden is already approved south carolina's emergency declaration clearing the way for federal assistance. now let's get ian's latest track from accuweather's melissa constand's er. and good morning. ian is on the move and expected to make its second u. s landfall here in south carolina

. as we head through the day it's going to be late friday morning into the middle of the day here, and it's going to be about charleston to myrtle beach somewhere around the georgetown area with it. we do have the risk for tornadoes and some very strong winds. then on top of that, these winds of more than 80 mph in some spots will be pushing seawater towards the coast. that's going to create storm surge, unfortunately from charleston to myrtle beach. more than six ft. possible that can be deadly stating and deadly. unfortunately in the storm's not fiished yet and works northward , even as we go through friday night into the weekend, where it hangs out and brings him heavy rainfall, so as we make it through time here, you can see that heavy rain working into the coast even for the middle of the day, still pushing the water into the north carolina coast to and we'll see these outer bands reaches far north as virginia by friday night, lots of rainfall out there. it does start to pull apart for saturday morning, but we're talking about four plus inches of rain on top of already flooded areas when it comes to the storm surge by the coast.

rhiannon melissa, thank you for that. we will have updates on ian's track throughout the show , and then later, a closer look at the economic impact in florida, where more than half of residents do not have any flood insurance. brazen move by vladimir putin officially carving out a large section of ukraine. to call his own. he's celebrating the annexation with concerts and rallies despite a mass exodus from russia and growing condemnation around the globe. abc is like ajaccio has the latest from washington. good morning, icg. good morning, andrew. we saw images of pro russian soldiers armed with assault rifles going door to door collecting ballots. the us calling this vote a sham. this morning, government officials say russian president vladimir putin will officially annexed four occupied regions of ukraine totaling 15% of ukraine's territory at a formal signing ceremony behind the walls of the kremlin. russia stoking fears of even more escalation, warning an attack on the occupied areas being attack on russia. the

international community outraged president biden, calling the russian referendum a sham, claiming the results were manufactured in moscow and that the true will of the ukrainian people is evident on the battlefield. united states will never never never recognized russia's claims on ukraine sovereign territory. united nations secretary general condemning russia's actions, saying it has no legal value and must not be accepted. it sends against everything the international community's meant to stand for. it is a dangerous escalation. it has no place in the modern world. it must not be accepted overnight during his nightly address. ukrainian president zelensky calling on russian citizens living in russia to stop their president, and as the exodus of russian men trying to leave the country intensifies. finland announcing it will significantly limit passenger traffic on its border starting today, banning russian citizens traveling with tourist visas from entering. meanwhile

in ukraine, the war continues. ukrainian authorities say four rockets hit this eastern ukrainian city located in the occupied donetsk region, injuring at least 11 people. now the u. s and its allies have promised to adopt even more sanctions and they've already levied against russia, including more support for ukraine. back to you. i could dodgy there for us in washington. thank you coming up another state, vowing to ban the sale of new gas cars ahead. ginny thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, meeting with the january 6th committee. what she told them about the 2020 election. the fda approved a drug for a l s despite questions about i ng du

know 2020 tonight on abc? we're back with the developing story from texas. two brothers are

being held without bond after two migrants were shot and one was killed near el paso, mike and mark sheppard allegedly fired at four migrants at the side of a road late tuesday. a man was killed. a woman was wounded. mike shepherd was awarded at a detention center. he was fired after the shooting . the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, has appeared before the january 6th committee behind closed doors. ginny thomas has been under scrutiny for her efforts to help overturn the 2020 election, including urging state lawmakers to reject the results. the committee says thomas told them she still believes the election was stolen. but thomas denies having any involvement with the capital riot. this week's january 6th hearing was postponed because of the hurricane, but as a b cs, jon karl explains, the panel still has a critical decision to make. the single biggest question going forward in the few weeks that they have left to complete their work before the election is whether or not they are going

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by 2035. new york is also increasing funding to a rebate program that incentivizes new yorkers to buy electric vehicles . zero mission mandate follows last month's announcement that california is banning the sale of gas powered vehicles by 2035. coming up ian's latest track and a closer look at the economic impact from the storm, a star football player taken off the field on a stretcher. we'll have an update from numbers move you. but some can stop you in your tracks. like the tens of thousands of people who were diagnosed with certain hpv-related cancers. for most people, hpv clears on its own. but for those who don't clear the virus, it can cause certain cancers. gardasil 9 is a vaccine given to adults through age 45 that can help protect against certain diseases caused by hpv. including cervical, vaginal, vulvar, anal, and certain head and neck cancers such as throat and back of mouth cancers, and genital warts. gardasil 9 doesn't protect everyone and does not treat cancer or hpv infection. your doctor may recommend screening for certain hpv-related cancers.

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the damage, but early estimates are nearly $70 billion. a bcs andrea fuji has more. this morning as cleanup begins from hurricane in, so does the realization of how much it will take to rebuild. we started to see the water coming through the windows, i would say, take a few days to get everything cleaned, and i'm sure we're gonna lose merchandise in one of the most powerful hurricanes to make landfall in the u. s is expected to have caused upwards of $67 billion in damage. a large number, but less than half of hurricane katrina is price tag of 161 billion floated on a bed all the way up to the ceiling. we only had a foot of air left. hurricane ian destroyed halley's rental home in fort myers, about a mile from the gulf. arjun jersey caught up with her, so i don't have a home. i don't have a car and i don't have a job. i used to clean these units. so i'm so you lost. i'm homeless and scary, recent report found 60% of florida residents do not

have flood insurance. but help is on the way to prove the governor's most recent request for expert it major disaster declaration president biden promising nearly $38,000 for people who don't have enough home insurance and another 38,000 for lost property. but for many, that may not be enough more than 8700 people already registering for help with fema important that those folks also have the ability to get assistance if they need it, and it's not just homes and businesses. florida produces 70% of citrusy like oranges and grapefruit, so depending on the damage to crops, experts warned that fruit and juice prices may rise. good news. economists do not expect the price of oil and gas to rise as florida is not an energy producer. as for insurance costs, florida homeowners already paid the highest average premiums in the country, and experts expect that number to only go up because of

hurricane ian and was so many claims some insurance companies may not be able to pay all of them out. andrew rhiannon, andrea. thank you switching to football now miami dolphins quarterback to a tug of a loa is recovering from a concussion after being slammed to the turf thursday night and cincinnati talk about lola had to be strapped to a stretcher to be removed from the field this past sunday, tagovailoa and missed a few plays after suffering with the team initially said was a head injury against buffalo. the players union plans to investigate whether proper concussion protocol was followed again. this was on thursday night football, so it was a short week when he got hurt on sunday. it's only been a few days. so now again, the players association wants to see if the dolphins perhaps mishandled concussion problem. if he should have maybe not been playing in this game. that's a big question, but again, he has all feeling in his extremities. that is the good news, and he went back to miami with the team, which is always a good sign as well. coming up next thanksgiving turkeys doubling in

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inside the oakland school where a gunman opened fire injuring six. we will hear from one of those shot in an interview. >> from tropical storm back to hurricane, ian continues its devastating truck along the east coast with several major cities in the crosshairs. >> it is friday, september 30. >> the end of the week, baby. finally. >> what is happening? >> since reggie is not here, your rent is due tomorrow. outside tonight, we are finding clear skies. when sun gets here tomorrow, we will find a lot of sunshine and a warm day. visibility looks good. temperatures, a little cooler this morning compared to