and new today, the ft.rs police department is warning residents to be on the lookout for hurricane recovery scams. ft. myers beach will be closed for the next week. as some are demanding answers over whether lee county ordered mandatory evacuations soon enough. >> every loss of life you have to say to yourself, what could you do differently next time. >> should that have been done differently? >> unfortunately, we can't bring anything back. we'll look and find out. i want to know because it's an issue i had as governor trying to stay what did i learn to make sure we don't lose a life? >> "the new york times" had one of the six models, one model said 40% probability. and that's what they're hanging their story on. we have done everything we can from using state resources, federal resources. >> boris sanchez is in ft. myers, florida, continuing our live coverage from there. have you been hearing from a lot of residents, people trying to recover and find loved ones, just assess the damage, have they been utter

we had a lot of flooding as of right now in the city of ft. myers, we have not experienced any loss of life. >> okay. that's good news. let me just ask you this. because i've been talking to residents and female who survived the storm, survivors all morning long. one of the anecdotes we are hearing is many people were caught offguard to some extent by hurricane ian. yes, they knew a hurricane was coming to this part of the gulf coast. they thought because the weather forecast said it might head towards tampa ta that it might not come down to the area. not everyone here got the evacuation orders when they thought they might get them. are you getting a sense of that as well? when you talk to your constituents, what are you hearing? >> no. some people were caught off guard. because, obviously, it was initially supposed to be slated to hit tampa. but it was a slow, gradual move to the east. so we know with each passing hour, each update, we would be affected more and more. and of course we didn't know it was going to be to this extend. . >> we are

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there were buildings, restaurants and what used to be the ft.ier. . >> how far back does the sand go? >> straight through to the bayside. >> the empty spots that you see there were homes. . >> i'm sorry. so these -- these, on this beach here, there used to be homes? >> you're going to see the empty lots right here. as you see, those lots right there were homes. those were hotels. those were real property, two, three, four, five stories high, washed away. the buildings just ripped off their foundations and swept backwards >> that's right. when you look to the right side here, there's boats thrown into the mangroves. vehicles inside the waters, sub merged. >> there's a car in a canal right there too. you can see that. this is, like, mexico beach. >> look at that. i can see the foundation of where those houses were right there. >> how many rescues have you done today? >> we have done dozens. these are major, major boats thrown into the man groves. >>> where? >> boats up in the man groves right there. >> not just one. dozens thrown everywhere. >> ho

in ft. myers and tossed onto the outside part of that bridge, just thrown around like debris, one of many scenes that we've seen here in ft. myers, an area of southwest florida that was devastated by hurricane ian and its nearly category 5 winds, just an enormous hurricane, but has affected the entire region of florida. as you noted, the search and recovery efforts are still ongoing, specifically in one part of sarasota county, where we understand that overnight there was a levee that was compromised, and we spoke to an official in that part of the state who said that overnight his teams were working to evacuate some 150 people. keep in mind, this storm made landfall in florida days, and there are still folks who are out there stranded. we want to send it over now to c cnn's reporter in arcadia, florida, close to where this massive storm made landfall. nadia, we got an update from the sheriff of north point, florida, saying essentially while that levee was compromised they were able to get p

hours later, ft reports the central bank could extend emergency bond buying. cable and futures pare earlier losses. president biden admits a downturn as possible. the president also says saudi arabia will face consequences for the opec+ output cut. francine: we had governor bailey commenting get ready for purchases to stop in three days, then privately saying to ft they are not. i'm sure he is having a bad day. we will have a lot of boe speakers try to unpack what is going on. tom: it's the bailey bamboozle. the way the markets adjust, the report suggested the support could be extended but the whiplash suggesting they might step back on friday, and then the ft report, a bailey bamboozle rippling across markets. after five straight days of losses in europe and the u.s., a bit of a turnaround. ftse 100 currently up .1%, the spanish ibex down .2%, and gaining four or five points on the cac 40. let's see how things are adjusting. when it comes to the u.s., the latest official saying there will be a need for further tightening to get a trip on inflation in the u.s.

and it also store up ft. myers beach. we went on a boat ride with the cajun navy and other volunteer rescuers across the area. and matt lachey in the coastal area is where most of the deaths occurred. >> what is going on over here? >> a lot of restaurants, into the lot of homes. pretty much all restaurants. theme that do shrimping, fishing. there was buildings the whole way. and they are just gone. >> you heard their stories that there are bodies in some of the canals and stuff? >> yeah, like up to the second story window, the water was still going. >> and that is the road right there. >> yeah. >> and it is gone. >> yeah. >> this area is pretty typical of the destruction around here. there is a bridge intact just about a block from here. maybe a quarter of a mile, nothing more than that, but the road leading to that bridge is completely washed out. so the island that is on the other side of that bridge is cut off right now. >> the people texted me hey, your house is gone. and i came out here yesterday, they let me on. he

the mayor of ft. myers beach told cnn that he didn't want to get involved in any controversy over the evacuation timing in your county saying it is a political fight. but obviously with every storm lessons can be learned. 54 people in lee county are dead. this storm didn't discriminate between political parties. is there a lesson to be learned here about evacuation? >> well, i think that there is. i was in a building at the tip of the speer of the hurricane on ft. myers beach, we were right on the ocean. i was on the ninth floor. we knew the hurricane was coming. we knew it was trending south. we knew that long in advance. no one -- at the point that it hit, we thought we were still on the edge of the cone in ft. myers beach. and people just did not know. the weather folks didn't know it was going to be a cat 4. we stayed primarily because we had some elderly folks in our condo building who were disabled. my wife is a nurse. we did not in good conscious could leave them there alone. but every situatio

the intensity right now in ft.yers beach and what crews are finding. >> well, you know, this damage is unprecedented. and it took a while just to be able to get the road in a situation where there was access for the emergency vehicles. when i first came on, i could get a walk from where i could park and walk. the search and rescue and fire people came to the town a couple of days ago saying the people on the island, people coming and going were interfering with rescue operations. and the town stopped their work. some of the rubble that needs to be cleared, to make the road clear, remains. so the rescue crews pleaded with us to close the bridge to the residents and allow them to do their work. they are running shifts 24 hours a day to try to search every door. they are in their second and third passes through the island now >> are they, on the second and third passes, finding people waiting for rescue as they go through? >> i hear an ebg totally they are. i try not to interfere and demand too much information from t

on the front page of the in the micro ft, the us l page of the in the micro ft, the us has hit out at not pleased. when will we as consumers be hit by a? this is the issue, joe biden has been _ this is the issue, joe biden has been lobbying intensely for an increase. _ been lobbying intensely for an increase, not a cut, and its 2 million — increase, not a cut, and its 2 million barrels a day, which potentially looks like it's being cut after— potentially looks like it's being cut after this decision today. it realty— cut after this decision today. it really is — cut after this decision today. it really is bad news for the west, reaity~ — really is bad news for the west, really the _ really is bad news for the west, really. the us accused 0pec of siding — really. the us accused 0pec of siding with russia, obviously over the war— siding with russia, obviously over the war in— siding with russia, obviously over the war in ukraine. this is a big failure of— the war in ukraine. this is a big failure of diplomacy from the white house _ failure of diplomacy from the white house and 0pec, dis

boris sanchez in ft. myers, thank you very much for your reporting. >>> now to new cnn reporting on russia's invasion of ukraine. u.s. becoming increasingly concerned by vladimir putin and his escalating rhetoric. cnn has learned the biden administration is considering how to respond to a range of potential scenarios including the grim possibility of russia turning to nuclear weapons. cnn's jim sciutto here live with the latest. tell us about this. >> this is a measure of how seriously the u.s. is taking the possibility that vladimir putin escalates the war in ukraine even to the extent of using nuclear weapons. to be clear, they have not detected movements or changes in forces to prepare for a nuclear attack. we should note that. but they're taking the possibility seriously enough that the u.s. has for some time been developing contingency plans in the event vladimir putin orders such an attack. to be clear here, the range of possibilities they're considering goes from the use of a tactical nuclear weapo

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ft.p the tower we're on at sutro tower is around. 1800 ft high, almost 2000 ft high, so it's just write a couple 100 people of that. so you got a deep inversion. you're looking out across the top of that inversion and you can see all the way out to the east bay hills, some of the radar lights there or the radio towers. it's going to be another day tomorrow, a lot like today but quicker burn off and slightly warmer, but this marine layer is a persistent player in the forecast for the next week or so. and if you know anything about october, the bay area that's kind of unusual. we have fog in october, but the coastal fog set up like this. it's kind of got a summer texture to it is unusual as you get into october. here we are around the ninth or the 10th. so we'll look at that. we'll see what goes on. there's no rain in the immediate forecast will get into the forecast temperatures in the five day when i see you next, all right, bill. thank you. failed heist at a marijuana dispensary in the n

randi kaye, ft. myers beach, florida. >>> and now to south carolina where they are dealing with defivastation hours after hurricane ian made landfall. crews are assessing the damage and officials are urging people to stay away from the flooded roadways. charleston international airport was closed on friday and is expected to remain closed for several more hours. the storm caused the partial collapse of two piers in north myrtle beach. officials aren't allowing thin back on the island until they make a full assessment of the damage. karen maginnis is joining us with more. bring us up to speed. >> and we have post-tropical ian, that makes it sound very benign, but in fact there will still be a lot of rain associated with this, the potential for flash flooding and heavy downpours especially across the tidal area around chesapeake bay, delmarva peninsula, and also extending into west virginia and down towards north carolina. want to show you those images out of charleston. it was thought that this hurric

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this ft line has shifted the risk narrative. let's take that ft line to our guest.he pound was lit up on the dumping of truss-onomics, huge reversals, then you have the qt story, that the bank of england may delay qt because of stress in the gilt market. these temporary valleys of the pound and in gilt, are you wary of the rallies? >> i think we are seeing a massive mess in u.k. policy letter of two on a terry policy versus fiscal policy. what you are seeing right now in the pound specifically is a reallocation back into the pound after previously when the first announcement of the budget came out. you saw a dumping of sterling. we are seeing rebalancing back into the pound, looking for recovery, as opposed to parity end sub parity, your sing a reallocation and covering shorts. i think it will be short-lived and we could see a balance back to 117, 118. i would definitely be on the short side again, primarily because looking down the line, i think the u.k. has a challenging path. the bank of england is hawkish and hiking. inflation is on the way. the main mandate rig

myers heading into ft. myers beach. and it is just, again, another indication, another sign, another example of the awesome pour of the storm surge. and what was unleashed up and down this coast and i suspect over the coming hours we've been talking about the death toll at 74 right now. pam, that number is almost surely going to go up. because there is still trying to get into the hard-hit areas. you just saw the ambulances go by a few moments ago. that is a scene that is playing out across this community, pam. >> there is a lot of concern that that will go up especially as -- in lee county in particular. jim acosta, thank you for your reporting there on the ground. as if the victims of hurricane ian didn't have enough to deal with, police in one hard-hit area are raising the alarm about scams targeting the vulnerable. they're warning just ahead. >>> plus, cnn headads into a ke city in ukrainine just taken ba from the russians. w we'll show youou what it is lik there and ask k an expert what vladimir putin's next move m

kor boris sanchez is in ft. myers. this just in, we are learning the death toll from hurricane ian in florida has jumped to at least 64, and it comes as rescue missions continue across the state. also, florida officials say an evacuation for an area threatened by the potential levee break was successful. sheriff's deputies going door to door overnight warning residents of a private community near sarasota of this possible flooding threat. if broken, a wall of water, 15 feet high, could plunge into the neighborhood. it's just one of the many gulf coast communities still suffering from catastrophic flooding. >> it's been quite an operation. some of our major thoroughfares have become impassable even as the water recedes, there's washouts. so we have a long, long recovery period. >> all of this following hurricane ian's destructiv ive h across florida. it slammed into the gulf coast as a category 4 hurricane. entire towns leveled. florida governor ron desantis is expected to give an update on the situation later on in thi

the break created a six ft by six ft sinkhole and flooded six homes until the water could be turned off. no one was hurt. crews spent hours cleaning up the mess and reopening the roadway. santa clara county prosecutor has a new state law named after him. he helped craft legislation that will allow californians to register for the national marrow donor program through the dmv. new attend south bay reporter lamonica peter is live in san jose with the hope that charlie's law helps people of color. find the donors they need. lamonica. charlie's law or assembly, bi 1 was signed by the governor on friday. charles wang says that his own battle with leukemia led him to take action so that he could help other people say their own lives to i was just getting sicker and weaker and to the point where i could not pick up my head because because i was so weak. charles wang, a deputy district attorney for santa clara county, says. three years ago he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and aggressive form. a blood cancer. at the end of the day. i was so lucky to receive a bone marrow transplant f

the mayor of ft.ors who are in town, the governor of fema, everybody needs the building and repairing to start because the homes that are left intact need to be saved before the next strain. schools need to be replaced for the tax base. the workers are waking up in home depot parking lots from sleeping in their cars or pavements. they are washing themselves with bottled water. and they are making up on top of roofs to hammer away a tarp so homes can be saved. these are dirty conditions, very dangerous conditions. workers are still finding out what the hazards are. when you are pumping water out of a hospital, you are not just coming into contact with the water. you are coming into contact with everything in the water. it will be a long time before the health dangers and dangers are understood. >> saket soni, i thank you for what your organization is doing. we should highlight these people are doing the work right now as we speak. and not a lot of people are looking out for them. i that you know for do

the top of this tower is about 1800 ft. the inversion is about 1700 ft. and that's much deeper . that's almost double what it was on friday and saturday or thursday and friday. pardon me, and so what i'm saying is the fog. it's got deep enough. i'm sure that we had played into it. obviously they're saying whether it's not about wind. it's about the fog, the depth of the ability for a visual contact when they're doing their stuff, especially when it gets deep and gets further in another thing going on here is a cool shadow of the tower and you can see sort of a rainbow reflect refracting or reflecting off of the cloud droplets of moisture in the fog bank, so just kind of a really beautiful shot. and what else can you see? not the other right here. now that tells you something about the air quality, doesn't it? that's a pretty good air quality day. we've got a neat pattern coming up. you've been hearing a little bit of noise about fire. danger is going to come up at all. it's always high, but no, this is the models are backed way off on any potential high wind event. we might see a

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i'm jim acosta in ft. myers, florida. first thing, we have some updated figures from here in the hurricane zone. sit the most current death toll of people who sadly did not survive hurricane ian here in florida. that new official death toll is now 74. 74 people here in florida have died now as a result of hurricane ian. of course, those figures are coming in. as they develop, we'll bring them to you. residents say there is a growing sense of fear that more bodies could be discovered. some areas remain fairly inaccessible to first responders. we'll show you what i saw on the ground. in the meantime, cnn has learned that a team that responds to mass fatality incidents has deployed equipment and personnel to assist medical examiners in boast counties here in southwest florida. officials in lee county where the majority of the deaths have concerned are facing a major concern. why were the first evacuation orders issued less than 24 hours before landfall? the county's own emergency plan suggests evacuations should have happene

i'm jim acosta in ft. myers, florida. the death toll continues to rise in the awful aftermath of hurricane ian. 65 people here in florida did not survive the storm. search and rescue efforts in many areas are ongoing. 2 million people in multiple states are without power. the sunshine here revealing more and more damage, hour-by-hour. the hurricane and storm surge laid waste to entire towns, including ft. myers beach, robbing people of homes and livelihoods. rescue efforts will take months and years for some of the areas to get back to normal. i tell you for myself, i spent much of the day out there. that is the case. it will take many months and weeks to get back to normal. south of here, naples, florida, officials say it will take months or longer to recover. prosecute damage could top $2 million. the fire chief says the city is having challenges with restoring power. brian todd is in naples for us. brian, i know you've been doing this hour after hour. every corner you turn, every street you go down, you're seeing more

responding the case of the disappearing ink, the mysterious check sent to the i r s explain, plus the seven ft four inch basketball phanom what lebron james is now saying about him and later revenge of the house plants whole new way to protect your home. from abc news in new york. this is america this morning. good friday morning, everyone we begin with president biden, sounding the alarm overnight about vladimir putin, potentially using nuclear weapons. analysts worried that if putin feels cornered in ukraine, with his forces and retreating, could end up taking extreme measures. president biden is addressing just how serious things could get a b. c s. j. o brien is here to break that break things down for us. j. good morning. andrew good morning with conflict raging in ukraine, the president saying last night the risk of nuclear armageddon is at its highest level in decades. this morning, president biden, making his most outspoken remarks yet about the threat of potential nuclear war. the president arrived back to the white house last night after telling his audience at a fundraiser that russ

we are continuing the live reporting in ft. myers. >> reporter: people have been waiting to get a ride to some of the barrier islands mostly sanibel which is over our shoulder. they are bringing over whatever they can. one woman tells us the past week and a half has felt like a year and a half. these are the anxious moments before answering the unknown. amy patterson stands on the beach in ft. myers. >> we already know they have lost their house. it is tough. >> she waits for a boat to sanibel island where her mom is with her twin sister and brother. they evacuated to safety. >> this is their lifelong dream. my mom and her sister are 72 and my uncle is 76. they have worked and saved their whole life. >> in the water we meet mark pearson in one of his three bows. >> we are going between all of the islands between ft. myers beach, sanibel and all of the fine islands. >> how much are you charging? >> we are not charging at all. we are taking little donations. if you can give, you can give. we want to cover fuel and that is about i

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you can kgo ft. myers or pal muh beam. this car behind me, days ago it was submerge understood floodwaters. now we saw crews pull this truck out. but last time we were out here just yesterday, you wouldn't have been able to walk this far on highway 70. this car was underwater. this truck all the way to the roof. all the way up here. now they pulled it out of the deeper waters. the person has this truck can get it and pick it up. but this has been such an issue for people. they want these waters to recede so they can get back to their normal lives and get connected with family and friends. allison? >> that really helps us understand it. we see the challenges there. thank you very much. so the death toll in florida now at least 100 people, 24 of those are in charlotte county. joining us now is brian gleison, the spokesman for charlotte county. we just been on the air, the death toll in your county doubled. it was 12 a couple hours ago. now it's 24. do you know any of the circumstances or where those deaths were? >> no. those

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the first is from ft. myers beach and our randi kaye who is among the first reporters to get in and witness the enormous destruction and still on going rescue operations up close. this is what she saw. >> this is our first look from the ground at ft. myers beach, hurricane keyian's winds combined with the storm surge, chewed through homes and businesses. sparing nothing in its path. >> massive devastation. something somewhat used to my first deployment was hurricane katrina. so, you know, a lot of hurricanes over the years. this certainly is a big, big disaster. >> reporter: jennifer brown is a canine search specialist with florida task force two. the her dogs are searching for human remains here on ft. myers beach. they worked dozens of missions since florida's task force 2 first arrived in ft. myers beach as the storm was still pounding this community. >> it was a good day. the i mean, again, it's like, you know, you don't want to leave anybody behind. that's that we're here for. and on the other hand, w

ft. myers. correspondent boris sanchez is in ft. myers beach. leyla santiago is on sanibel island. and carlos suarez is on pine island. kaitlan, obviously the president speaking, some issues with the signal. this is something the president has done before, has done just in the last several days, having gone to puerto rico after fiona. what did you hear there that stood out? >> reporter: the president was making clear he's still in florida as the scale of the loss of what has happened is coming into clearer view. he talked about ft. myers where we are standing now, president is just down the road. this is all in lee county which has seen the worst of the death toll since the storm -- since hurricane ian hit. the president talking about not just the death toll as that is coming in but the magnitude of the loss here because he said he got this aerial tour that he and the first lady went on in a helicopter to see all of the damage from above. that's how you can really get the best estimate be

but get down to 5500 ft.h starts tuesday morning goes through wednes not levels, maybe maybe upwards to about a foot for a few. some of the higher elevations. the wind is south at mount diablo south also had been loman. it was south at sanoma mountain. i think it'll turn back that way. and temperatures will start to come down. but that south wind is a front cold front direction that will pick up tonight 50 sixties on the temps combination of fog and a lot of high and mid level clouds, giving us a mostly cloudy day forties fifties on your temps here, 44 woodside, though 45 atherton menlo park low fifties now on the san mateo coast, and also around foster city. cemetery. oh and belmont. 16 truckee, south lake tahoe 24th. these temps will go up once that wind turned suddenly and then it will start to really take a drop here. i think, maybe even down to 4000 ft by wednesday night thursday if there's any available moisture left so cloudy to mostly cloudy from the west southwest, our system will arrive tomorrow tha

survivors hearsay friends with boats in cape coral and ft. myers have taken it upon themselves to render aid. so far, there has been no fema water, ice, generators, food. heather hoffman made her way here today, finally, to find her dad, joe, alive. >> what is that like, to finally know? >> there's no words. the destruction is mind- boggling, but just to know that my loved ones are okay, that is the most important thing. >> reporter: st. james city was hit by the same 10 foot storm surge that took out portions of sanibel island causeway and bridge. we made it to one of the newly formed sand spits where critical infrastructure was washed away. >> communications is cut out, you can see the cables behind me like that orange line, it is why cell phone service is so critical. >> reporter: it is white, today, one of at&t's 180 member emergency response team, many veterans, launched from the mainland in 90 minutes, and arrived on sanibel island. tonight they have already powered up 2 of 4 cell phone towers. the national guard, 38 vehicles, and more

and i want to talk a little bit about ft.nd why that's such an interesting county to hear from voters in. it's one of those historically red counties, mitt romney beat obama there in 2012 by around 16 points. but it has trended blue since then. and in fact, in 2018, when beto o'rourke and abbott were both on the ballot, we saw beto o'rourke beat ted cruz in the senate race by 12 points in that county and we saw governor abbott narrowly win the governorship in that county by less than 500 votes. so you see there, sort of the transition that that county is going in. and i think it will be important for beto o'rourke to pick up voters in a lot of those suburban areas that are trending blue. it's why we have seen him and governor abbott both visiting that county in recent weeks. but at the same time, here in texas, we're seeing republicans picking up ground in south texas. former president trump was just there this weekend, holding a rally because of the congressional races that are going on there. and so just as democrats are pi

coastal hills average about 1000 ft. so when you get that, that means you're going to see that shallow. you're expecting temperatures inland to be warm, and that's what we see in this curb. when i come back, we'll look specifically at the forecast temperatures for your neighborhood and the weekends. not that far. i'll see you back here. it's creeping up on us. bill. thank you. in san francisco. thousands of kids grab their bikes and scooters to make their way to school this morning. today was the big celebration for the annual walk and roll to school week. this year's party took place at sunnyside elementary school district candidate prizes, including stickers and pencils, even superhero capes to everyone who took part. the mother of two sunnyside students said her children were excited to take part. i think it's a great idea. i mean more cars off the streets and more kids getting to school in a healthy way is great. we want to celebrate that they're walking to school and encourage them to do it more often, so the more w

we have more from ft. myers, one of the hardest hit areas. good morning. >> reporter: anne-marie, good morning. the search and rescue continues in southwest florida where some streets still look like this -- lined with boats that washed ashore following the storm. hurricane ian carved a deadly path of destruction across florida in only a few hours, but the ongoing rescue and recovery will take time and resources. >> we are continuing the first priority which is saving as many lives as possible. >> such a big storm, brought so much water that you're having basically what's been a 500-year flood event. >> reporter: in some parts of florida, flooding is getting worse. the st. john's river in seminole county keeps rising. those nearby need boats to get to their homes. >> we're at the deep end. so i think these first three houses, four houses are all flooded. the rest are just getting flooded. >> reporter: on sanibel these volunteers brought residents of the hard-hit west coast barrier island to safety. >> it came up about four feet in the house.

i'm boris sanchez from ft.oll stands at 66 fatalities in the aftermath of hurricane ian which devastated the sunshine state. that number is expected to climb as the days pass and search and rescue crews are able to get into areas that were previously inaccessible. right now hundreds of thousands remain without power as entire communities were essentially wiped off the math, washed into the waterways of southwest flo florida. coming to you have this morning has been a challenge to say the least. i'll step aside and show you what we are encountering. we were going to come to you live from a marina earlier, but there was a mandatory evacuation. crews are working in that area. we've seen utility trucks go in and out, rescue services go in and out, law enforcement go in and out. unfortunately we weren't able to access it. it is at this point emergency services only. understandable and frustrating for a lot of folks in this community who are trying to get back to their homes to see firsthand the devastation that this

there is about 220 ft. above the water, and you can see that the clouds are now seeping down underneath that, ellen. they did bridge there. boy and the ceiling is supposed to be at 500 ft. but it looks a lot lower than that. let's go to your temperatures right now. we are in the fifties still and throughout a lot of the north bay hillsborough 58 degrees, it is now 69 degrees in walnut creek. we have temperature at 62 in scotts valley, 69 san martin and were shocked in in pacific grove in the mid fifties. these temperatures are anywhere from three degrees warmer to three degrees cooler than 24 hours ago. and the winds have been under 10 mph, but once they pick up this afternoon, they'll clear out that fog a little bit more except for the media seashore, so it is a friday. we do have some drizzles still lining the coast. check out our future cats and you can clearly see clouds don't go anywhere today. i wanted to point this out tomorrow afternoon. look at southern california. they get all the fun. they have s

. >> reporter: ft.ow back open, at least temporarily for residents and business owners to survey the damage. this has been such an emotional day for so many people. we are standing here ft. myers beach and what was a restaurant. you see that red sign there? that was a restaurant owned by a large israeli family. they would serve mediterranean food. they've spent their livelihood pouring into this restaurant. this is what yused to be their restaurant. a bar to get drinks, places to pick up your food. all along here were other small restaurants, other small business owners, everyone they knew. they took mortgages out on top of their own home mortgages, trying to figure out how to stay afloat, surviving during covid and then now, having to figure out what to do after hurricane ian. i want you to hear from two of the owners as they try to process what's happening and what kind of help may be coming their way. >> right now starting to sink down that everything we worked all our life for and put everything we

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here's what i heard from two florida families who went to ft. myers beach to help.and brought water to give to those in need. >> why do this? [ speaking non-english ]. >> thanking this country for opening its doors to us and telling our daughters the values so they will always return what we once received. the little that we have we're giving back. we're healthy, we're alive, we have a home, we have food. there's some who lost it all. and here's why we are here. it's just a portion of the generosity and the kindness that we is see from people in the wake of this crisis. much more help will be needed to address the damage and the devastation of these communities. joining us now is colonel james pwaogt, the jacksonville district for the u.s. army corps of engineers on his way to ft. myers. colonel, thank you for being with us here. the team is working on installing generators today. what do efforts look like? >> jose, the army corps of engineers is prepped for a week before the storm came in to make sure we had assets pre-positioned and ready to move in right behind t

he speaks to us from 1000 ft. up, cleaning up the yard. why? scientists say we're raking our leaves the wrong way and the new trend in pet names raising the question. are we getting too close to our furry friends? from abc news in new york. this is america this morning. good wednesday morning, everyone we begin with the most highly anticipated debate of this election season in a race that could determine which party controls the u. s senate showdown between dr mehmet oz and john fetterman in the pennsylvania senate race last night, and they wasted no time addressing federman health as he recovers from a stroke. dr oz comments on abortion also getting attention figures are out this morning on early voting and on political ad spending. both indicate the high stakes involved in this election. now just 13. days away. abc is alex per se is here now with more alex. good morning. good morning, andrew. yes. john fetterman speech challenges were evident throughout that debate last night, but he insists that healthy ou to serve as a us senator. the first

they can't be more than three ft. tall. has to be six ft of space on the sidewalk for pedestrians and maintenance of those planter boxes is up to the property owner in san francisco. christien kafton ktvu , fox two news evictions are once again on the rise, more than doubling in the bay area since last year. that is, according to a bay area news group. analysis of court data this as pandemic renter protections come to an end from july of last year through june of this year, the region saw more than 6300 evictions in santa clara santa tokyo, san francisco and contra costa counties. eviction filings have surged with contra costa county, eclipsing. 350 in july. tenant advocates say that trend will likely continue because many renters are still suffering economically and are still waiting on backlogged emergency public rent assistance programs to kick in. permanente is now looking to build a 300 bed hospital in san jose. plans call for the new facility be built on a parking lot on hospital parkway, not far. from the company's e

he and the first lady will both be traveling down to ft.e they will be taking a helicopter tour. surveying some of the storm ravaged areas down in ft. myers. the president and first lady will then receive an operational briefing from federal, state, and local officials and it is there where he expected to be briefed by florida governor ron desantis. of course, the two men have many political differences between the two of them. but the white house is insisting that this is a moment where they're going to put politics aside and focus on the recovery and rescue efforts that are under way in florida. the president will also be meeting with small business owners and individuals who were impacted by this hurricane. and it also thanks local, state, and federal officials who have been working tirelessly on the ground there. he is also expected to deliver remarks while in ft. myers. but certainly this is a moment for the president to once again put on his consoler in chief hat as he visits with those who have been impacted by the storm. and also se

ft. so i like using our different little landmarks around here to confirm the readings that i see suggested on our computers and boy. thanks doug. that's a gorgeous shot. can't see san francisco in the background got a little bit of drizzle out their current air temperature stands in the low and mid fifties across the board one of the clothes but happens to be qatari and gern ville, as well as santa rosa at 52. otherwise it's in the high fifties around the rose garden district. and if you want to compare this morning to 24 hours ago, it's basically about a degree cooler or two degrees warm. as it is right now and throughout the tri valley. this ability boy. that was a huge concern yesterday, primarily north of the golden gate bridge right now, visibility down to about 2.5 in the petaluma area about five mile visibility and sent to rosa 9.5 moon bay when you got this kind of a thick, dense fog, then you know that you have a little condensation and the former some drizzle associated with th

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