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are on their way to puerto rico showing how they are dealing with the devastation from hurricane fiona two weeks ago. darsha, you spent part of the weekend with fema task force. it was terrifying as they were going door to door. >> reporter: yeah, to be on the ground with these teams as they're conducting this dangerous and also devastating work was overwhelming. look, this devastation you're seeing behind me here, imagine this but multiply it. over and over and over again and that is what we saw as we traveled across fort myers beach. the restricted area now under mandatory evacuation. we traveled there with florida task force two. the same group helping with rescue search and recovery efforts at surf side. this is a team that has really seen a lot of tragedy and this

was a tough one even for them. when we were with the team on the ground, we saw what is behind the scenes when you see those death toll numbers, those tragic milestones, those grim numbers going up, we watched as a team went to a home where they believed there might have been a deceased 90-year-old female. they brought in a human remains dog. they have two types of dogs. life dogs and human remains dogs. in this case, a dog named maui came through, helped narrow the search area. the dog barks when it believes that it smells the odor of potentially a body. the most chilling part of the day was when that dog barked, there was a team of more than a dozen people there and there was silence. there was silence as they then began the work. it wasn't the sort of commotion that you would imagine.

it wasn't commotion. it was quiet. it was respectful. they say that that is how they approach these situations. out of respect for any individuals that might be there. and that's a process that jesse and vinnie titus, who live on fort myers beach, saw when their neighbors, they had two neighbors pass away in this storm. we spoke to the couple who survived. take a listen to their story. >> these two houses over here, they're 80, 90 years old. they were hanging by the rafters for 14 hours. in there for 14 hours. it was like a river. just a river going through there. 3 foot waves. >> running through as high as the house. >> reporter: 40 years here. what's it like to wake up every morning now and see your neighborhood look this? >> it will come back better. it will come back better. >> it's almost like a bad dream that you can't wake up then you're like, okay, it happened.

got to go on. what else are you going to do? >> that's it. >> reporter: and andrea, it is going to take some time for these search and rescue efforts to complete. let me give you just a couple of numbers to give you the scale and scope here. fema says they have a total of 17 urban search and rescue task forces. 104 boat squads. more than 60 canines in the field and a total of 1289 personnel so far. it's possible those numbers have grown in the hours since we received this data, andrea. >> thank you so much. and joining us now is holly smith, the mayor of sanibel, florida. thank you so much for being with us. we have to start with the search and rescue operations throughout your community. what kind of help have you been receiving? rescuing people, still bringing people out by boat? >> yes. i'll tell you, we're on day five

right now and as of day four, with the search and rescue teams, they have said on sanibel, it was the most intense thing they've seen and that's pretty telling and they've seen a lot of areas. what they also said is the organization of what's going on on our island is outstanding and that's with our public works, our police department, through the leadership of our city and the sanibel fire and rescue. those guys are on that island cut off from the rest of the world doing the work they need to do to make sure the people on there are safe, getting off, so we can get the others back on the island to look at their properties. i think they've evacuated about 400 people that we know of. there are others we don't know how they were evacuated because several different areas and support came, individuals, came to take people off. so we're trying to coordinate that list. i think the search, the urban search and rescue team is about 95% done was the last estimate i

got, on completing the door to door, every unit, every condominium complex on our island. the work has been incredible. i could not be more proud of our teams out there. >> i can just imagine. i do want to get your response to questions that have been raised about the evacuation notices. the mandatory evacuations for lee county, which sanibel is part of, being delayed. the you know, the noaa warning that these, this would be a lethal, a life threatening storm came around 5:00 i believe the night before and it was not until the next morning, i guess tuesday morning, that there was a mandatory evacuation notice put out. do you think the county, i know the mayors aren't responsible, but the county was late in that notice? >> i've been down here since 1988. i've been through every hurricane since andrew. if you live in a hurricane area, you know the one thing that you

do know is you don't know where a hurricane is going to go. and we didn't know where this one was going to go. we thought it was going to pick up in tampa. that's where everyone was stationed. i was calling my friends saying i'll be there to help you. you don't know when it's going to twist. i was with charlie on sanibel. we did the best job at every level to get the information out way before the storm to give people the opportunity to understand what potentially could be coming. you prepare for the worst. we saw the worst. people had the opportunity to get off and those that choose to stay, there's no judgment there. we have watched storms for so many years that have not had the impact of that surge that we've all feared. this one did. you can't protect, you can't predict it. you do the best you can and now our focus is on getting us back together. we've got communities to rebuild. mine especially has extremely

complex issues. >> understandably. one of the things that i did hear was that the utility companies the governor was warning that for those who have to rebuild from scratch rather than just repair, it's going to be a long time before they can even get power up and i assume sanibel has some share of that terrible situation in terms of how long it will take for electricity. >> well, of course we do. i mean, our island, i've been there twice. i did a flyover yesterday. it is not the island that the world knew and loved. but it will be again. make no mistake. it will be again. we are going to rebuild this community. there are going to be challenges, but i can tell you with the response that we have had so far and how far we've come, again, we're on day five. during hurricane charlie, we were off the island for seven days and we had a causeway. what we have done in the last

four, now four and a half days without a causeway surpasses what we did with charlie. so we're going to get the information. every agency, we do stakeholder meetings before with all of those stakeholders in every different utility coming out meeting with us, looking at what the plans could be and that's enacted. i am confident. it's going to be a different island to live on for a while, but i'm confident we're going to get it done as quickly with the least resistance and get it put back together. the most important thing now is making sure that the people are off the island and that we can safely get the people back on the island to look at their homes, mitigate those damages because there are a lot of structures out there that can be saved. we need to make sure that those structures are saved. because that's going to be the core of our community. so that's what we're working towards right now. >> mayor smith, all of our

hearts are with you as you rebuild. thank you so much. opening statements are underway for the oath keepers including stewart rhodes of course among the federal charges is seditious conspiracy which carries a maximum of 20-year prison sentence. ryan riley outside the u.s. district court in washington. ryan, you've been following this case throughout jury selection last week. what are you expecting this week? >> reporter: opening arguments just started and the government had a little bit of an ace up their sleeve because these recorded phone calls of rhodes after the january 6th attack. his entire contention is they are basically setting this up incase trump invoked the insurrection act. prosecutors are saying essentially that was a legal cover because he's this yale law school graduate basically trying to come up with a reason. but the true purpose is basically to overthrow the

government. these audio tapes they played in court show after the january 6th attack that rhodes was saying they should have brought rifles to the attack. so obviously not something that would be considered a legal option for help, being called in to help assist the president. what this trial could reveal more of is going to be the links between the oath keepers and folks in trump world. we have a couple of those connections where there's a top leader for the oath keepers was in communication with andrew giuliani. we expect to see more of what that crossover looks like between those two groups, andrea. >> and i want to get to an extraordinary social media post from former president trump. directed at mitch mcconnell. mentioning a death threat and with a really racist slur against his wife, former trump cabinet secretary. >> when you see that in the context of the oath keeping trial where essentially the oath

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women on the court for the first time in u.s. history including the first african american justice, brown jackson sworn in on friday. they posed together on friday to mark the occasion. extraordinary picture, but they start with the court facing big questions about overturning roe v. wade as it takes on major new cases involving race, affirmative rights, the environment, gay rights. joining me now, kelly o'donnell, harry lipman, who was once a supreme court law clerk himself. and linda greenhouse, former "new york times" reporter. the paperback version of the book, justice on the brink, is out tomorrow. kelly, first to you. the court taking up some really consequential cases this term. members of the public are

allowed inside the court for the first time since the pandemic in 2020 and the big fence came down. so what was it like inside there today? >> reporter: there was definitely members of the public. some spacing in the seating allotted for him. justices kagan and sotomayor wore masks. others did not. what was certainly notable in this first case today, justice brown jackson engaged right away. she was asking many questions of the lawyers who were here for a case that deals with water rights and the epa and could there be more federal regulation of property rights when it comes to water and it was certainly interesting to see how she engaged quickly and other judges referenced her questions so she was right in the mix on her fers day on the court. of course, today's case is just the first of many going forward. the justices will hear cases

that will deal with issues like race when it comes to college admissions, affirmative action. that will deal with harvard and university of north carolina. they'll also deal with how state legislatures could play a bigger role in elections. they'll look at voting rights in alabama. they'll look at the issue of can a private employer, web designer in colorado, not provide services, creative services for gay couples, but do so for hetero sexual couples under the issue of free speech. so there are lot of cases coming up in the weeks and months ahead that will have a big impact on american life. today was day one and in many ways, it was getting back to what was once before covid, but it's also a new court with new faces on the bench and definitely the impact of what happened in the last term felt by many. andrea? >> and linda, the gallup poll showing a 20-point drop in the

public's approval in the court since 2020. the justices themselves have been debating the legitimacy, kagan versus roberts. what are you watching for in this term? >> it's a crisis for the supreme court. you know, and i think what people need to keep in mind is that what happened last term and what's going to happen this term inevitably andrea, it's no coincidence. the folks you were nice enough to put up the image of really, when i tried to do a roadmap to what this new super conservative, super majority plans to do. they're taking it off case by case. kelly mentioned affirmative action and voting rights. these have deep roots in conservative, judicial thought going back for years and it's all come to term now. what does this mean for the court as it diverges from where

the public wants it to be? the court knew well when it decided dobbs in june. the court that overturned roe v. wade. 80% of the public told pollsters they did not want the court to do that. they did anyway so it's no surprise people are losing faith in the supreme court. >> and harry, it seemed as though this was a pent up conservative desire to take on cases that were pretty well decided. affirmative action was decided in the '70s. the epa? really? it's ability -- the epa came under richard nixon but seems post bork, there have been decades of frustration and what you seem to see in the dobbs decision by alito and thomas was let's go after these issues. >> that's right. they could be taking it

methodically. they're like starving diners at last call. they are rushing forward. they took it very far and fast last term and the point linda makes to put an exclamation point on it, they set their agenda. so each of these cases won. they didn't have to. and two, almost certainly all observers think they're going to come out in ways that really represent another lurch to the right and in some instances like the affirmative action cases, undoing decades of precedent. >> linda, to make that point, also, it seems to me, it's a point i think harry was making, some of these cases like the colorado case were not really ripe. the baker was not being prosecuted by state officials. they didn't have to come to court. it was like an eagerness to take that on even though gay rights

was pretty well decided. >> it's more than an eagerness. it's a hunger. it's get it while you can. they have the votes. we saw that in dobbs. i remember the first line of the analysis i wrote for "the new york times" after dobbs condemned was they did it because they could. and you know, back a year ago, more than a year ago, when the court decided to take dobbs knowing full well that they finally had the votes that they'd been collecting through years. this was an agenda item for years and in my book, i tracked the months that it took for them to really coalesce and decide to get into this case. harry's absolutely right. there are very few cases, there are a couple the court has to take, but basically, this is reaching out and inviting,

saying bring us the case, bring us the vehicle so that we can do what we want to do. >> and briefly, harry. the issue of legitimacy. the court, unlike the other branches, the executive branch has an army to enforce its decisions if it had to. the legislative branch has its powers of the budget. the court only has its respect and legitimacy and the respect it has earned over the centuries from the public. >> it's so true and that's probably why this is maybe the greatest crisis in the court's history and it comes in the wake of some brass knuckle politics that conserved the majority. so when people perceived there are not only big changes, but the changes are driven just by changing in personnel, that really draws from the court's good will and capital and it's very low right now. >> but it's very interesting from your observations, you were in the chamber that brown

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he wants to distract from his record because the reality is he can't talk about the things he's done. he's turned his back on working class people and not only lectured about crime from somebody who supported a violent insurrection that left 140 officers injured. another was crushed between a revolving door. it's very hypocritical for him to want to bring up crime, but he and his dark money allies are spending unprecedented sums of money to try to mischaracterize me and i'll tell you, polls go up and down. we're meeting people exactly where they are all across wisconsin. holding johnson accountable for his dangerous views on abortion. the fact that over after two terms in office, he delivered $215 million in tax deductions to his biggest elders. i would be remissed if i didn't say we need help to combat the flurry of negative spending. if folks can help us out, we can expand this majority, codify the

right to choose. finally do the real work to rebuild the middle class in states like wisconsin and all across the country. >> is this a case where democrats are hoping and focusing on abortion especially after the results in kansas and that referendum and democrats focusing on crime and immigration. inflation, the economy. so is that the push pull of this campaign? >> i'll tell you, we're taking on any number of issues but the reality is ron johnson sponsored eight different national abortion bans. he supported bans that did not have an exception for rape, incest, or the life of the mother. too extreme and out of touch with the people in wisconsin especially for the 73% that believe roe v. wade should be the law of the land. when it comes to inflation, we have to create jobs in america. he's praised offshoring.

we've had an opportunity to create 1,000 good paying jobs in wisconsin and when those jobs were threatened to be sent out of state, his response is we have enough jobs. he doesn't understand people's economic reality. we need leaders who understand what we're working for. we need more working class candidates in the working class senate. somebody who's going fo fight for work and family, our family farms. somebody who's going to fight for the right to choose to make your own headquarter decisions and affordable childcare. >> the president's popularity is still an issue. is that a drag on your candidacy? >> this is a very wisconsin focused race. we're talking about the issues that matter here at home. it's not a campaign that's set to make excuses for anybody. we're talking about the need for us all to do better and recognize we have a broken senate and the fact is ron johnson is the worst part of that broken system. people are tired of being left behind. people feel like there's nobody

looking out for them because that's the reality. when you get a person who goes to washington and only does the bidding of billionaires, there's very real frustration across the board and this campaign is seeking to address those concerns and issues. we know we can do better. we know we can provide middle class relief. we can give the middle class a tax cut. we can make the child tax credit permanent. this is what would help people out and ron johnson has unfortunately stood against us every step of the way. when we had a chance to step up for working families, he declined that. he'll do it for another six years if he has to. >> mandela barnes, good luck on the campaign trail. thanks for being with us. we reached out to ron johnson's campaign and we'd be happy to talk to the senator. we have not heard back. up next, cornered. putin losing ground to ukrainian forces in one of the regions that putin has just claimed as his own. how is the russian leader going

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look how much it holds, and it still stays thin! it's the protection we deserve! october is breast cancer awareness month and over the past two years, breast cancer screening has dropped after the pandemic closed facilities and upended women's schedules and access to mammography. katie couric says that is what delayed hers by six months. she recently revealed after getting that critical screening late, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, later had a lumpectomy and is now on therapy. speaking this morning to hoda, she emphasized how important it is for women with dense breasts to be screened. >> 45 to 50% of women have dense

breasts. this is not something you can tell by feeling your breasts. it's indicated on a mammogram. so you have to ask your radiologist or your radiologist ideally should be telling you you have dense breasts then you often need secondary screening. so my radiologist compared it to trying to find snowballs in a field of snow. i got a 3-d mammogram which is superior and my radiologist said it made it much easier for her to see it, but it was key to get a breast ultrasound to confirm that i had a tumor that needed to be biopsied. a lot of women don't know this. 38 states require doctors to say hey, you have dense breasts but your mammogram is fine. so what are you supposed to do with that information? you don't necessarily know you

need additional screening. >> and insurance doesn't always pay. >> two issues. first with the notification, savannah. the fda said the language needs to change. all states need to require much more specificity about what you're supposed to do with that information. then you're right. only 14 states in the district require insurance to pay some or all of breast ultrasound screening for women with dense breasts and often the reimbursement is very small. >> such important information. kristen dahlgren, my friend and colleague joining us now. she was pointing out something that most women don't know. that routine mammograms will not, for 45% of american women, will not identify necessarily the breast cancer. because of this situation of dense breasts. something you cannot know without a mammogram. and so then you need more treatment or rather more

screening and you need something that may not be covered by insurance. so there are so many women who are underserved already. and don't have access to this, these screenings. >> right. and you know, i really applaud katie for speaking up on this issue and using her platform because it feels like this is a moment where maybe those changes can cap. 90% of breast cancers early on are curable. there's your moon shot right now. get the screening. make it easy and make it affordable. i found out what dense breasts were when i was diagnosed with stage two breast cancer. you were one of my first calls when i found out that it was really likely that i had cancer. so there's this club of women who are speaking out and willing to share their stories about how they're cancers were missed on mammograms and here's how flawed the system was. i had a mammogram in april of

2019. i was told come back. we see maybe somebody, we think you moved. so i went back. i had another mammogram. they said, oh, all clear. go on your way. five months later, i felt something. i could feel the tumor, it had grown so much. and i can't help but always think about those five months and if someone had said you have dense breasts, we should be doing an ultrasound or mri. they can't see breast cancer when you have dense breasts so you know, the system is flawing so many women is flaw and really failing so many women and so it is this issue where it's up to women now to be asking their doctors, do i have dense breasts? do i need additional screening? then hopefully you know, the laws will catch up and this will be covered by insurance because

the cost of fighting advanced breast cancer as you know is so much more than an ultrasound or mri would be for screening. >> kristen, you, i mean, when we talked early on, you had a little girl at home. you were covering a hurricane in the so you got back. but then you've been so out front. you tracked your entire journey on nbc nightly includes and the "today" show. you're still doing that. we brought you in on a day when this was so important. we're going to be doing this all month. so please come back and talk to us about your journey as well. >> absolutely. i don't want anyone else to go through this. and so, you know, that's why it is so important to speak up and really let women know what's available and what questions they should be asking. thank you for the time, andrea. . >> well, thanks to you and to katie couric, our friend, for being so public.

that's why i was public about my breast cancer 11 years ago. you need screening. we fought for decades and decades. it's critically important. early detection is the key to survival. thank you, kristen. you look great >> you bet. thanks. and right now the recovery effort continuing as communities across florida try to clean up after hurricane ian caused historic damage. organizations like all hands and hearts stepping up and helping those whose lives were upended last week. joining us from florida is the co-founder and vice chair of all hands and hearts. also with us, a volunteer with all hands and hearts. thank you, petra. let's talk about your own journey and what your organization is doing on the ground. >> thank you, andrea for having us. all hands and hearts is community inspired of disaster

relief organization. we come in right when the disaster happens to do the immediate work but we stay for the long term to help with the recovery which takes several months and usually years. we work in the u.s. and internationally. and that's why we are here in florida to help the most underserved communities impacted by hurricane ian. we have committed to stay at least for a year to help those in need. >> and tell us about the people you have spoken to, the homes that are just ravaged. >> yeah. we had to go through a lot of destruction just trying to get to places. a lot of trees are down on homes, on parking lots, driveways, streets. homes are hurt there. roofs are damaged. cars are flooded. to get to those places to help folks, they're tired. and we helped out an 80-year-old

cancer victim just yesterday chainsawing and cleaning up his yard. one individual to another that needed support. he needed support with the home in delivering propane tanks. the family couldn't leave the area because they were about a foot under water. there was a lot of devastation here. . >> petra, how much longer do you think this recovery effort is going to take? >> we committed at least a year. it will take a long time. especially the most underserved communities, it will take longer. those who have insurances, it will take -- well, those who have funds to repair, they will be faster recovery. but lots of underserved communities will take at least a few years. >> petra, remind us, remind our audience how you got involved initially because of what you

experienced. >> that was in the 2004 tsunami in thailand. my partner passed away. so i have seen the destruction firsthand. that's why i gave birth to this incredible organization. we have helped in 23 countries now around the world. over 1.2 million people. it's an honor to be with incredible volunteers from around the world. over 63,000 of them from 144 countries. today we need more volunteers to help the communities in florida. and also more supportive because this attention will go away in the next couple of days. and then the communities will be on their own. so we hope to be there for them and help them not just with debris and tree removal but sanitation and rebuilding.

so we are here for the long term. >> and what do you think people need most from what you have seen so far? >> i think folks here they're going to need a lot of help with hands as well as with finances. in the immediate term right now, there's a whole lot. but this is going to take time and duration, endurance to battle this. it's going to be here not only the first month but the whole year. like petra mentioned, we have committed to be here for a year if not more. this is going to be a miracle. >> and petra, so many of these communities are so isolated. how long are you guys getting around? can you get to the barrier islands? >> it's been a struggle. so every day there's been more and more progress. but it's not easy. a lot of people are disconnected. it's very hard to -- there's no

service. so it's been very, very challenging. but we are not giving it up. we are here. and every day we look to connect more underserved communities. so, yeah it's a long journey. >> well, thank you for sharing your journey. you're an inspiration. that's exactly what people need in florida. it's for people to continue serving and volunteering and helping. this is going to be a long journey indeed. that does it for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. follow online, facebook and twitter. thanks for being with us today. we'll be here tomorrow. "chris jansing reports" starts right after this. "chr jisansings right after this the subway ser. 12 irresistible subs. the most epic sandwich roster ever created. ♪♪

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