that's all the time we have for today. at least a minute does as back tomorrow for more american voices. >> this is the katie phang show, live from miami florida. we've got lots of news to cover, and lots of questions to answer. let's get started. the devastation left behind from hurricane ian comes into sharper focus. the death toll inching closer to triple digits, as some florida hospitals are struggling to function without the basics like running water. one hospital even being forced to -- wear live on the ground as president biden prepares to see the damage for himself. and later, we'll speak to the

people who are rescuing animals from dangerously high waters. and eons disastrous aftermath. plus the supreme court's new term begins tomorrow with the new justice on the bench. some say that one of the cases on the docket could be the biggest threat to democracy since the january 6th insurrection. i'll go in-depth with the journalist who's been sounding the alarm about this case for months. later, we've heard so many stories about election workers facing violent threats and false claims, would you believe, that actually inspired people to sign up to work holds? i'll speak live to someone who made that exact choice. good sunday morning to all of you. i'm katie fang. we begin this hour right here in florida, where rescuers continue to search for survivors in the wake of

hurricane ian. the death toll is tragically growing to 73's search teams reach more areas of the community initially cut off, including in pine islands where our amazon news team got a closer look at the devastation. this morning, there are new threats of flooding. officials in sarasota going door to door, warning residents about a possible levee breach that could impact dozens of homes. meanwhile, in the carolinas, residents are taking stock of their losses. four people dead in north carolina, and tens of thousands remain without power. this storm weekend to a post-tropical cyclone after making landfall in south carolina on friday. not before it washed away peers and flooded streets. let's get back to florida now, and check in with amazons liz mclaughlin and fort myers, which is one of the hardest hit areas. liz, can you show with the latest there? >> katie, good morning. as you mentioned, that death

toll continues to rise. and the first wave of reports for the medical examiners office, many of those, most of those, tragic drownings. according to 23 autopsies, most of the dads, those above 60. a reminder to check in on your neighbor, is the most vulnerable populations during disasters like these. most of the deaths here in lee county include some of those hardest hit areas accurate fort myers. standby islands. and pine island. that's where we were yesterday, walking through the rubble. an entire bridge just turned to concrete crumbles. thousands of homes there. many communities in those barrier islands are still completely cut off. the only way in and out aired destroyed by this monstrous storm. the only access is by water, by air, making those rescue efforts even more difficult. they've been working around the clock, day and night. we saw cruz this morning before sunrise as we were coming in here. yesterday, all day, votes

coming in and out, national guard, good samaritans, trying to get people who are trapped in their water logged homes. we spoke with people as they were coming off a two -- most shake it up. some are still wet from the water. many were grateful to be alive. let's listen. >> it did our hearts go just to seal those orange votes. there is so helpful, so kind to the dock. >> making the decision to leave was really hard. we've got friends, their house. very hard. >> yeah. >> we needed to. it's just, there's a lot of people out there that are in harm's way. >> he was just emotional talking about his elderly neighbors, both over 80, who some roof blew off, they hit

under their table. the couple and their dogs are safe, they have a church here on the mainland and they'll be holding services this morning. even though the church still has a little water on the floor, no power there, they're inviting the community to pray together and be together. as president biden is reassuring the residents, the victims of this horrible storm, that there will be federal support. the white house announcing last night that he will be coming on wednesday. katie. >> nbc's liz maclachlan live in fort myers. thank you. hurricane ian also creating an emergency situation for some of the hospitals here in florida. still without clean water or even power. now they're scrambling to evacuate patients, including critically ill infants. and this sentence -- has more. >> florida's hospitals racine in a monumental yet delicate

mission. patient care post hurricane in communities devastated by a storm. and cape coral, lee helps for hospitals survive intact, but lost water when ian destroyed critical underground lines. the group tells us they launched emergency protocols -- after bathroom stopped working, pump water from local pots to keep ac units running cool. >> we have generators, fuel supply, but the interruption, obviously, and the public water supplies certainly a huge challenge. >> one of the biggest challenges, moving and entire unit from the children's hospital in fort myers. tiffany was watching over her twin boys, paxton in camden, who rely on oxygen. >> it's just, it's stressful. adding a natural disaster on top of that is even more stressful. >> all three evacuated to a higher floor, as storm surge

flooded the parking lot. tiffany heard the news, both boys had to be airlifted to maintain critical care. >> when you hear that you've got a trance for two barely one month old boys, looking for your head? >> pure panic. i sobbed in our nurses arms. >> it just 36 years old, the -- to a hospital in hollywood, florida, where mom was ready. >> they are doing fabulous. they have great care. , they're in a great place in the stump nominal. >> thanks nbc's -- now, i want to bring in former fema administrator, craig -- craig, we last had the opportunity to talk on friday evening. since then, obviously, the scale of the devastation left by hurricane ian continues to

rise. we're seeing more and more imagery of what happens. what strikes see the most about where things stand this morning? >> well, it's what i've seen before. we had so much rain, i think that's the thing people forgot. this wasn't just a coastal storm. we're still getting all of that water moving through areas that are flooding. as you pointed out at the hospital story, it's amazing how much things like hospitals have been on the water system. this is something that fema and the corps of engineers and local officials are looking at what is going to take to get the systems back up, power restored in these areas. i think the other thing people are starting to look at is going to be, do i have insurance? how do i rebuilt? what are my options? we know a lot of people didn't have flood insurance, this is going to be a very large, uninsured lost asked. are you already hearing numbers in the billions on the unsure losses, but the uninsured losses are going to be and the bees as well. this is something that, when

you start thinking about, it will just be fema. fema's not designed to -- historically, we've had to go back to find appropriate funds for -- that have a lot of flexibility with disaster response. this is the, initial response is fema, but the long term recovery is going to take a lot more assistance, a lot more agencies. this is going to probably be one of our biggest disasters we've seen this year. >> craig, can you give us a sense, far, viewers of what exactly fema is doing on the ground right now and the most affected areas? a lot of which still have huge, very high levels of water. that's gotta make it an exceptional challenge, just to be able to provide assistance, even if eva wants to do so. >> we always talk about fema, you have to remember, fema support the states. a lot of the things are seen as supplies getting, out -- fema's providing supplies to the state.

the other thing is, it's, certain rescue teams. both the ones at the state, has the one that fema's sudden from other states, they're going out. they have animal rescue. teams the sick as change of hurricane katrina. we go get people out, we don't leave their pets behind. if it's safe to get their pets. this is ongoing. i think people thought, well once we've got good weather, then world going to move into recovery. we stood at the flood going on, that's impacted communities. >> yeah, many folks in florida remain without some of the basics as we sit here right now and have this conversation, publicly drinking water. as well as electricity. you heard that report mentioned a couple minutes ago about the hospitals racing to move patients, even from -- before the water systems are fixed. what needs to happen right now, craig, to help expedite providing those basic necessities? >> well, if you look at where

the utilities, are they are all over the country. the areas where you can make repairs and get into, there -- were seen the power come on, it's like power comes and, you don't want to hear but other people's power. in the hard-hit areas, that's going to be rebuilding. that'll take more time. some of the big utilities and -- are trying to get maps up, showing people when they can expect to start seen power restored, so people can start praying for that. fema, at this, point with -- the individual assistance program, it's really looking to help people find a place to stay. a lot of this will initially be short term hotels and motels, probably out of the region, to get people somewhere safe where they do have resources, they do have utilities, and begin the process of bookie now what it'll look like to start rebuilding the roads and

setting the stage. until you have power, water, roads, communications, it's hard to start to rebuild. >> craig, unfortunately have less than a minute left but i did want to ask you, we mentioned about those warnings of a possible levee breach threatening to bearing flooding to the city of sarasota. we know levee failures made hurricane katrina a much bigger disaster. are our cities infrastructures and desperate need of improvement? >> yeah, i testified before congress a couple weeks ago, we built a infrastructure on the past. we're seeing it fail in these events. we've got to built a much higher standards for future risk. >> chris, thank you so much for joining us. i know that you've been on massive duty trying to find that we understand what's happening. i appreciate you taking the time to let us know how things are. >> thanks for having me. >> coming up, what happens when some residents of hard-hit

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new term tomorrow. still in the shadow of its last blockbuster ruling overturning the constitutional right to an abortion. those socket could be just as consequential if not more so. future opinions from this term could threaten lgbt rights,

affirmative actions in our universities, -- will face these issues with the conservative super majority. the man who created this majority took time out it is michigan rally last night to make one of his very special allies. >> as we talk about and think of the raked in stolen election of 2020, presidential election raked and stolen, i would like to thank the great woman named ginni thomas. she said she still believes the 2020 election was stolen. she didn't say, well, i like to not get involved. of course it was a wonderful election. it was a right to the stolen election. >> that man needs to find some sunscreen. perhaps no single person better represents the -- ginni thomas. polls said that there are historically low views of the court, with, a poll from gallup, just 40%. as the spouse of via --

about her role in trying to overturn a free and fair election. one case in election is getting a lot of attention, and it shed. some people have been sounding the alarm of more versus harper for months now, they believe it could be a very real threat to our democracy. cases all about who has final say in election related issues. one person who's been focused on it from months is ian middle house. arceneaux correspondent for fox news reports on the supreme court. thanks for joining me on the eve of a new term, because we tomorrow. ian, you and i met on our show a few months ago. we talked about more. you emphasize the importance of this case. let's start with the basics, if you don't mind. can you quickly lay out for our viewers, what more versus harper is all about, and why it's so important to the future of democracy. >> sure. most states, their governments look a lot like the federal government. they have an executive, legislative branch, judiciary. the way the things have always worked is that election laws in

the states can be made in the same way as any other law. what this laws will ask is that only the state houses state said it has a stay and what each state's election laws are, released with respect to presidential and congressional elections. the governor, theoretically, could not veto an election bell. the state supreme court theoretically could not strike down a wall, even if it violates the state constitution. often, states are very robust protections against things like gerrymandering. the u.s. supreme court, with its republican supermajority, would have the final word on all questions related to any federal election, state or federal. we're potentially entering a world with this case where i, say, the very gerrymandered, the very general -- wisconsin state legislature could say, we're just going to give donald trump our states

electoral votes. we're not going to have an election, we're giving him our states electoral votes in 2024, and nothing could be done. if you have a problem with that, you go to the supreme court with the 63 republican majority. >> -- sounds like it's almost a working the outcome, yen. have you in-depth have in a super red state senate, state house, and then any challenge from the results of their decision, which is total autonomy on their end, to decide what they want to do, would end up in front of that conservative super majority. iain, last month, the group that represents chief justices from all 50 states, issued a brief urging the supreme court to rule against north carolina republicans. the definitely shows you something. what are your predictions for this case, and what does it tell you that the court a greedy here in the first place? >> it's very troubling. we already know that there are four justices who supports some version of the theory behind this case, because it's doesn't say as much. really, the future of democracy

is likely to come down to amy coney barrett, who is the one republican appointee on the court who has not yet expressed a view. i'm not optimistic about what she's doing to say. the last time we saw this theory advance was more than 20 years ago, the case that handed george w. bush the presidency. and that case, only three justices on it. state legislatures have unchecked power to pass whatever election law they want, even if their governor would veto at, even if it violate state constitution. that was around that. three members of the legal team that advance for the supreme court, are now on the court itself. one of them is amy coney barrett, who were now relying on it as the one justice who hasn't spoken of mind on this issue. >> let's talk about the court and where it stands with the american people right now. either than you and i, and some

other small group of people, a lot of people aren't paid attention to scotus for a while. they knew it was there, they knew that there is opinions, but as of late, it's come to the forefront of attention. as i mentioned in the introduction to your interview, the courts overall reputation is at an overall low. what how much do you think it's because of the ginni thomas situation? what do you think it's mostly to do with the controversial ruins from last term? >> i mean, a little from column a, a little from column b. i do think that this is primarily driven from the fact that the supreme court, which is historically been an institution that is at least supposed to show a little bit of modesty and policymaking, and not russian to every controversial -- has been rushing into every controversial issue that they can get their hands on. you know, the united states, who are supposed to be it's a mobocracy. we're not supposed to have this much power centralized in an unelected body of nine people,

three of whom were picked by a guy who lost the popular vote the first time around, who tried to overthrow the election results in 2020. yeah, we have this court that's been very recessive. a lot of its membership got and they're under dubious circumstances. once they got power, they're doing everything they can to wield that power as aggressively as possible, to aggrandize more power within the point. >> second only to more -- which is the other case that you think they have the biggest impact this term. i know there's an embarrassment of riches, in terms of consequential cases. what do you think is number two? >> i think it's a tough question. when i wrote of this term, there were nine cases on my list that i completing a close eye on. i would say mill v miller yen. that's the other big voting rights act case, voting kate on this court. it's a voting right act case. it deals with the question of

whether we will still have safeguards against racial gerrymandering. so the supreme court has already said that federal courts will do nothing with partisan gerrymandering, which is when you draw a line to benefit one party or another. it's racial gerrymandering which is illegal. you can't draw eliza say cut black people out of power. this supreme court has a big case, this merrill case, which could all but neutralize the safeguards against racial gerrymandering. huge term for voting rights. this is why i'm so worried about this term. if you do not have the right to vote, you really do not have anything at all. that's what we need if we're going to get our portion writes back. we need the right to vote so that we can get him place of people who support that right. >> in partying, ian mulhauser, i think you'd agree with me, we need the right to vote, to vote for the people, who wins and putting the justices on the supreme court, who ended up having such monumental consequences on all american. lives in a house or, they do so

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another major setback for vladimir putin this morning. russian forces retreating from the eastern ukrainian city of lehman. that russia is used as a frontline health. ukraine's retaking of the strategically important city comes just after moscow illegally annexed the surrounding region. plus, new allegations from ukraine that russian forces have kidnapped the head of the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plants. possibly as part of a move to

secure newly annex territory. for more on all of this, we turn to a news correspondent, erin maclachlan, who is live in kharkiv. aaron. >> hey katie. this morning, president zelenskyy announcing that the streets of le mans have now been cleared of russian forces. this could be seen as a humiliation for the crumbling on several levels. humiliating because of the timing of this defeat, coming in just a day after president putin announced the victories would be russia's. then he was annexing 15% of ukraine, including the town of lyman. also humiliating in terms of the way it happens. ukrainian officials insist that they were able to encircle thousands of russian troops, giving them the choice in this town to either try to escape, be detained, or die. russian military says they have withdrawn the forces to avoid being encircled.

but also acknowledging that they were outgunned in women. it's raising more questions about the state of russia's military and general. following the counteroffensive and kharkiv, and what ukrainian forces were able to punish all of the russian forces pretty much out of the kharkiv region. there were some questions about whether or not that was simply because of the way they were able to launch a surprise. and surprise russian forces. what happened in the models tell and ukrainian officials something different. that there's something systemic going on right now with the russian military, leading to these defeats, while other analysts are pointing to president putin. this beside the president putin is trying to prioritize the front in zaporizhzhia, and kherson to the south. either way, it is clear what happened in the lawn, that russia is on the back foot at this point. that is fueling extremists. we heard, on telegram, from the

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her facebook masses after that live by trump. take a listen. >> i went to that i calm and, it was just a lot of horrible things there. >> those horrible things, the day include threats? >> yes. a lot of threats. wishing death upon me. tell me that i'll be in jail with my mother and saying things like be glad it's 2020 and not 1920. >> it's unbelievably disgusting. her testimony, and the -- added ripple effects. but it's in the fact she might not expect to have occurred. the associated press spoke with election officials and poll workers across the country who set the donald trump's big lie has led to many more people interested in working the polls. one of those people is here to talk with me this morning. amanda rouser.

a georgia poll worker. also joining me is jon morales doyle, the acting director of the voting rights and elections program at the brennan center. i thanks to both of you for being here this morning, on this really important issue as we get closer to the midterms. amanda, at like to start with you. i know that one andreas testimony before the 16 committee had a very deep impact on you. can you tell us about what you are feeling as you watched her testify, and how it likely to become a poll worker yourself? >> good morning. thank you for having me. yes, that experience just watching that live, my heart was just, it was overflowing with emotions. how can, today in 2022, we deal with this still? they're just innocent people working at the polls. their lives were turned upside

down. it affected me so much. my heart blood for them. my heart was bleeding. i was like, how can, that was my main thing, how can? but i was so moved to my soul, i said, i can do something. i can go work at the polls. let the people come to me. i'm going to stand out for miss moss and miss freeman. the polls, i want them to come at me. i'm not going to fold. i'm not. >> shawn, let's be clear here, we've also seen a lot of people who used to be poll workers, on the other end of the spectrum, quiet, because of these kinds of threats, and the disinformation campaigns that sometimes seen relentless. with all of that in mind, how would you characterize the overall level of interest in people becoming poll workers

right now, especially as we round up to the november midterms? >> there certainly is, as you mention, there's been a shortage of poll workers in many places around the country. i think that was true in 2020, but it became more true as a result of the kind of threat that we just been talking about. so i think that election officials are eager to have people like remiss -- who wants to help our democracy continue to thrive. and sign up to people workers. . >> shot, for our go back to amanda, i want to follow up with you on this. do you think when it comes to election security, we've seen footage from surveillance cameras in coffee county georgia where a gop official leads people into a restrictive voting area where there is an allegation of tampering with a voting machines. do you think that we're better prepared, in 2022, for election

security issues that we were in november of 2020? >> while the 2020 election, i think the department of homeland security was the most secure election in our nation's history. i think we were prepared to have a secure election in 2020, we did. i think we'll have another what is 2022. unfortunately, there are folks who have been inspired to the be poll workers, to the worker referencing, for the wrong reasons as well. their big lies filling people to do the right thing, it's also fielding people who don't believe in our election system to play these kinds of roles. that leaves to kind of conduct you were talking about. we have a lot of checks in place and our system. we have strongest two shuns and rules to keep things from getting out of hand. that's why we're able to have such a secure election. >> you know, amanda, hearing that everything you're hearing right now from not only the

introduction to this segment from, to the threats, the disinformation, and all the false allegations, do you think you perceive the proper training to be prepared to face not only similar false accusations, angry, ignorant people saying all kinds of horrible things about you, but you've got a job to do, do you think you have betrayed popularly to deal with those people and make sure that these elections are down securely? >> i do believe i will be trained properly. i am going on my first session for the poll worker on october 4th. i believe they will, in light of everything that's happened, that they will give us proper training. i'm not concerned about that. i just want to do my civic duty. i've received, also, because of the story, i have already

received emails from strange people who are also congratulated me, and thanking me for stepping up. i'm excited about it. i am. >> amanda, you mentioned the emails where people are congratulating you and say thank you for stepping up, i hate to ask, what have you already received emails are messages that are negative about the -- because you've decided to heed the call and decide to be a poll worker? >> i have not yet, katie. i have not yet. if i do, i'll still will not be deterred. i'm going to go ahead and do what i choose to do for miss moss and miss freeman. this is for them. >> amanda and shawn, i thank you both for being here this morning, to emphasize and give insight into a really important issue.

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you know, as search and rescue efforts continue along florida's west coast, a story of hope and inspiration this sunday morning. american -- the first national humane organization has been working tirelessly in florida since friday, rescuing stranded animals from flooded homes and from the rescue wreckage left by by hurricane ian. here on your screen, you see some of their latest work in action as they rescue farm animals from a flooded barn. horses in cows, as you can see, submerged in floodwaters up to their stomachs and just.

here you can also see rescue teams traveling through torrential flood a in on their way to help even more animals. for more on this for, we're joined on set by the president and ceo of american humane, doctor -- dr. robyn, may i call you rob? >> yes please. >> thank you so much for being here. i want to viewers to understand, after you and i, speaker going back out to the affected areas. you were there already. can you explain what's going, on let's get into it. please let our viewers know, we have seen all this imagery, it's tragic and heartbreaking. we care first and foremost about the humans, but as we were talking before during the commercial, craig, from fema, mentioned in his show that after country, net they change protocols so if you rescuing human, and they have a pet, they rescued the pet to. first, what are you tell us a bit about america humane, what's it doing. tell us about what american humane had to do to be able to change these laws when it came

to disaster. >> absolutely, post coup trina, american humane led the effort to change provisions with rescue. we want to make sure that there was central command forces in place, and really, much like you do with human search and rescue, you can do the same and apply those protocols to animal search and rescue. it's safer for the first responder, it's also safer for the animal. here we are, so many years later, and those lessons learned. we're now applying this to hurricane ian. it's a wonderful and heartwarming to see human rescues happening, and those dogs and cats are leaving with their pet parents. that's a blessing. and these waters have rushed through, there was no time to evacuate. it was too late. so many animals had been caught and those floodwaters. some won't make it. but those that are out there, there -- were going to try to rescue them. we're continuing our efforts. we're continuing for as long as

we possibly can to find every pet, and reunite them with their family. >> you know,, robin talk about how much more challenging this storm ian is because of the floodwaters. we're still seeing the floodwaters have receded. how much more challenging is it for america inhumane for their onsite to try to help find these pets, reunited with their owners. >> this is a large-scale disaster. when we look at this, it's unprecedented in terms of its breadth and depth. not only is it floodwaters, it's, there is no safe place. we look at the horses yesterday that you saw in the video for our incredible -- on the ground, where do you take that number of animals that need the kind of rescuing. i think there was someone yesterday they said, where are the people going to live? where the animals going to live? it's a large devastating impact on these communities. it's going to take years. what we do with america humane, we're trying to find each and

every animal until their parents can come and reunite. that will give the medical, food, all the care they need. we will be able to ensure that they get reunited with their families. that's why we're there, to bring hope to those families and compassion. >> you know, robin, we see a lot of cats and dogs being rescued, the smaller animals. you guys are out there doing horses and cows. you got bigger animals, so it's important for people remembering, watching the show right now, the bigger animals actually needed help as well, right? >> oh my goodness, every single animal. when you think about the wild animals out there as well, in other flooding disasters we have helped wild animal populations. in this case we did a lot of farm work. we are deployed to a county with an incredible group called code three and arc. these groups are working together to brings animals to safety. but it is a large-scale disaster, it affects all animal populations. >> robin, i have less than one minute left. i want to ask you, what can be

done to help american humane? you guys are doing so much for the most vulnerable. again, i obviously want to emphasize the importance is on helping humans, but we can't leave the pets behind. i speak for all animal lovers when we say, thank you for the work you are doing. but what can american humane, what does it need? what do you guys need to be able to help these people who are in need, and their pets? >> we encourage everyone to go to american humane dot org and help anyway that you can. we need resources to continue these unprecedented rescue missions. it is a long term deployment for us to be able to find these animals and care for them and to shelter them. so we do need help. you can visit american humane dot org to see our pictures. we post every single day of the animal lives we are saving. >> this is so hard me to have this conversation, by and so grateful. doctor robert, for being here. and for letting us know what's happening, and i hope you will come back and share some more

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