hello. i'm victor blackwell. welcome to "cnn newsroom." >> i'm alliisyn camerota. president biden and the first lady are in florida. at any moment the president will be briefedly local officials and governor rant. ian killed 110 people across the country, 105 of those in florida. on sanibel island it will be an emotional day. cnn cameras are there as many residents are returning for the first time to see what remains of their home. >> listen to one woman here describe that bittersweet moment that she found her home largely intact, although the storm damaged so much of the community she lives in there. >> we just thought everything would be lost. we thought we'd come home. we thought the windows were

broken and we thought we'd find water. we've lived here for seven years. it's paradise. we felt we would come back and find everything gone. i mean, we just have to fix up our yard. our neighbors, that house over there, we know all these people. >> among the priorities, governor desantis says are the temporary repairs on key bridges to sanibel, pine island. those have been closed off since the storm. just hours ago he announced the road to pine island will open today. that's a day sooner than expected. >> cnn's boris sanchez and kaitlan collins are in the hardest-hit county, lee county. boris, what's the latest? >> reporter: alison and victor, a big moment for residents of sanibel and pine island. very emotional moments as they get back to areas previously cut off by hurricane ian. we heard from some residents of

sanibel. many don't know what they're going back to. that community decimated by hurricane ian and its nearly category 5 storm force winds. governor desantis vowing he will try to reopen a bridge into pine island by no later than today. here is what he shared a few moments ago. >> later today the public will be able to access this bridge and be able to get back. i think we have a chance to bounce back a lot quicker than people think. i think there's a great spirit on the island, and i think folks -- they just wanted to be able to stay there and go about their lives. you obviously can't do that effectively without this bridge. >> some of those islands are not far from where we are right now in ft. myers. we want to give you a snapshot of what president biden has been seeing during his visit to florida. on one side of the street there was a marimarina.

it got washed away. there are dozens of utility vehicles helping to put up power poles, getting this community back online, back on its feet. more than 300,000 people in florida remain without power. you see boats are still in the way. there's heavy machinery to try to get them out. there are crews from florida power & light and florida department of transportation to assist in that process. in the meantime, on the other side of the street, the remnants of hurricane ian decimated. you see there are boats, vehicles, children's floaties, all of this washed into this marsh that's a few hundred feet away from where the marina used to be. part of the dock still somehow intact and pushed into this mangrove swamp. obviously a long recovery still ahead for this community as for many across southwest florida. victor and alisyn. >> let's go to kaitlan. the president will speak the next hour after his meetings

with the people that live there. what should we expect? >> reporter: the president is no stranger to storm damage this week. he was in puerto rico on monday. now he's here in florida getting an aerial tour of this, about to get that briefing from officials here on the ground who have been surveying the damage, assessing the damage, not just people like ron desantis. they're processing how long this process is going to take and what this is going to look like. you see the boats behind me, that's not where boats belong. there's a handful behind us. they're going to get a crane to pick up the boats. move over to the arena where boris was showing you and to start assessing the damage from that. there's actually a motorcade driving by us now. it looks like it's the president of the united states emote tore cade going to this operational briefing where he's going to be speaking with these officials about what this looks like.

it comes after the aerial tour. you'll hear remarks from president biden. he's also going to be meeting with people who lost so much. lee county was the hardest hit. he's going to meet with people who lost their livelihoods because you see these boats behind us. a lot of them are boats that are for entertainment purposes, for shrimping purposes. you see businesses where the entire building has been wiped off its foundation. it's promising to hear governor desantis talk about bouncing back faster than they initially believed. you can see recovery already under way here. that's what president biden is getting a firsthand look at today as he's doing something you don't typically see, meeting with officials where they've publicly feuded over so many issues, governor rick scott, marco rubio, governor desantis. they're focused on what people lost here and what their

recovery effort will look like. >> kaitlan collins and boris sanchez, thank you. let's bring in dana souza, the city manager of the hard-hit community of sanibel island. this is the first day that the people who live there, the business owners and people with these hurricane passes can go back, only by boat because the causeway is damaged. do you know if many people have taken this opportunity to go back, and what are they finding? >> yes. first, thank you for continuing the coverage of sanibel. i don't know personally how many people have returned to the island today. i've spoken with our police chief a number of times who is on the island today, and there are a number of people who have made the journey from the mainland to the island and they are doing so by their own watercraft or hired watercraft because the city cannot provide the shuttle service for our residents. there are a number of people who have made it. so far no injuries have been

reported to me which is great. that's our primary concern is the safety of people returning to the island under extreme conditions with large fields of debris, and their homes are damaged or destroyed. pretty much every structure on the island has some level of damage. >> dana, you said they're in for a shock when they see their houses for the first time. we understand that. i guess i'm wondering why are they being allowed to go back today since they can't stay past sunset, they obviously can't start rebuilding or fixing anything. we've been told it's very dangerous. is this just for them to get their heads around the shock? >> it is exactly that. we started to develop a plan that was going to allow residents to return in sections of the city and in a very controlled fashion. there's winners and losers in that. people trying to save their home from mold transferring from

lower levels to upper levels. there's really a race against time in order to do that. so we are discouraging people from going to the island because of the unsafe conditions that we have there. no water, no electric, no sewer and large debris fields. we also understand the need for people to get to their homes, get their possessions, whether it's clothing or valuables or pictures, whatever that might be. some folks just want to see their home. they might have had a reported level of damage to their home through the assessment tool that's on our website, but they still have a desire to see that. we understand that. we can't facilitate it. we don't encourage it, but we know people have their own means to do that. so we're allowing that to happen and we hope it all goes well. >> people are allowed on the island from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. if they can't take generator, at

what point will people who don't have as much damage be able to get to work? >> they can do a lot by hand. the storm surge on the island was 8-15 feet. a lot of the drywall that is wet, that mold will begin and then can spread. you can take a lot of that out by hand. you can use hand tools to get that out and put it out on your front line or by the road so it will eventually be hauled away. that's one of the primary focuses. getting carpets out. you can do that without power tools. one of the reasons we don't want people to bring generators, we don't have pressurized waterlines. that means we have very limited fire service. the fire chief on sanibel island is concerned about that. >> dana, we only have a few seconds left. is there any way to estimate when that island of sanibel will be livable again? >> i can't estimate that. we're still moving assets in by barge so we can start moving debris.

that's been a challenge. you all know our bridge is out. we're thrilled to hear the news from governor desantis yesterday that he feels the bridge can be open by the end of october. i know d.o.t. is working quickly to get the contractors in place, and that will really accelerate any improvements on the island, especially to infrastructure. electrical has completely destroyed the transmission lines. by that i mean the lines might be able to be used again, but the poles that support them, the majority of them are destroyed. so it's going to be a big effort in order to reenergize the island, both from sewer, power and water. without those we can't allow people to really go back and live there. >> dana souza, thank you for helping us understand the breadth of what we're looking at here. we appreciate your time. >> thank you for continuing the coverage of sanibel. live pictures of president biden obviously meeting with governor desantis there. they are in ft. myers, i believe. the president is about to be

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secretly recorded audio from someone who was in this group who was listening and who was clearly alarmed by it. this is from november of 2020. so we're talking about the time around and after the leaks. there are lots of things said, mostly you hear from the oath keepers founder and leader stewart rhodes who is charged along with the others of seditious conspiracy. i want you to hear some of what he said. you hear a lot about exactly what they're planning on doing and that they really are trying to stop president biden who was the duly elected president from taking office, and they want to keep donald trump in his position. listen to this. >> we're in an era now where everything you say is being monitored. these calls -- everything you say can and will be used against

you. that's where you are at this point. don't make it easy for them to pop you with a conspiracy charge. -- be disciplined. >> that's rhodes telling his cohorts to be disciplined, not to get popped for conspiracy. that's exactly what they got popped for allegedly doing, conspiring, seditious conspiracy. he's a trained lawyer, a yale-trained lawyer. he did eventually get disbarred from being a lawyer. he's really giving instruction here. the defense in this case is saying, look, this was before november 14th when there was another rally that was supposed to be happening in d.c. this is long before anyone heard of january 6th. they're saying look, they were preparing for this march. this is what they do. they go to rallies. they prepare in case of emergency. one of the attorneys says look,

they were simply waiting for the eventuality that president trump would invoke the insurrection act. a lot of their language is not peaceful. they realize that. they say, look, they can talk a lot of game but that doesn't mean that what they did was illegal. however, there's lots of video of them, some of them going into the capitol as well. >> sara, please stay with us. elliot williams is our cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor. yesterday you were disabusing me of the notion this would be a slam dunk of a case. let me play for you a little more of this audio that sara is talking about and tell me if you've changed your mind now. here they are, that same november meeting, reportedly, talking about the weapons they'll be bringing. listen to this.

>> elliott, what do you hear? >> in my own defense, alisyn, let's be clear. part of the practice of law, and this is important, is anticipating the kinds of arguments that opposing lawyers will raise. so prosecutors go into court, they prep their case but think about, wait a second, if a defense attorney were to see this, what are the arguments that they would use to rebut it and how can they get out of it. what you see in these two clips, the one sara played and the one just now, they're trying to evade the law. they're simply aware of what the law of conspiracy might be or some of these firearms offenses and trying to skirt them. a defense attorney can say these

are just lawful citizens just trying to evade the law. i think a very smart prosecutor doesn't have to do a ton of work to say, no, what they were trying to do is structure their conduct so authorities didn't get them. they're trying to be cute here. really what they came there to do was break the law. >> eliot, let me stay with you. the fbi agent on the stand during cross examination said this was about november 14th and not january 6th. if there's so much evidence, why play these teeps where you know they're not talking about the 6th? is that damaging, the case the government is trying to put on? >> it's a few things. juries, when they hear the voices of defendants, that sticks with people. it adds a level of realness to the charges being brought. there's an element of stage craft or theatrics on the part of the prosecutor. number two, crimes take a long time to be formed and billed. you can make the argument, i think the prosecutors are doing this, that the violence and acts

of obstruction of government that happened on january 6th were hatched months before, and these folks intended to prevent, hinder or delay the execution of the laws of the united states which is right out of the seditious conspiracy statute. whether they get it on january 5th at 11:59 p.m. or weeks before, what they were doing is planning and preparing to engage in these acts. >> sara, you just brought up the insurrection act. these defendants keep bringing up the insurrection act. they keep waiting for president trump to issue the order. here is a moment from these tapes in their own words of them talking about that.

>> why would the insurrection act give them legal cover? >> i want to mention what the qrf is for people that don't follow this closely. that's a quick reaction force. that force, which was allegedly headed up by thomas caldwell had weapons that they were putting in virginia in case they needed them later on on january 6th or at any time during some of these rallies in washington, d.c. but they're saying, look, we are a -- we are a potential militia. the president had these great, huge powers to decide when it is that they believe they're being usurped. so in their minds they're saying this is an insurrection. the voting process was rigged, if you will. their words, not mine. and the president can't invoke this insurrection act and, therefore, call up the militia which, by the way, is usually

the national guard and things that are already set. not these folks that have come up with their own version of it. in their minds, they're trying to say, hey, we're like a militia. we can be called up. we're going to be there as peacekeepers. that's what their defense is in part of this, is that they were waiting for the president to do so. here is where the problem is. he never did. they still, some of them, went into the capitol and formed this group. the question is how are they going to get around it? >> sara sidner, elliot williams, thank you. president biden is in florida right now. here are live pictures. he's there with the first lady. they're meeting right now where it looks like governor ron desantis and senator rick scott may be. they're being briefed of all the recovery efforts after surveying the damage left behind by hurricane. we'll stay on top of all these developments and bring you the latest.

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their actions. >> this was the 23rd missile launch from north korea this year. we have seen a growing number. according to experts and analysts, there is no sense that those tests are going to end any time soon. there's no sense that north korea is going to denuclearize any time soon. in fact, one expert i was speaking with earlier today said we could expect to see a nuclear test in the very near future. >> alex marquardt from the pentagon, thank you. joining us is "newsweek" columnist and author of nuclear showdown, north korea takes on the world, gordon chang. good to have you back. the expectation that what follows this ballistic missile test is a nuclear test. do you agree with that and how would it change the equation? it's been five years since the last one. >> there certainly will be a nuke test. a number of people are saying it will be after china holds its

20th national congress which convenes on the 16th of this month. people are saying maybe november. it very well might not be this year, victor, but it will occur because the north koreans need to do two things. first of all, they need to validate their designs, make sure their designs work. they want to show the world that they can do this. they can very well be saying to the iranians, look, we've got a weapon, it works, we'll set it to you. they need to show it to their customers or i should say potential customers. >> gordon, the u.s. is inviting north korea to engage in dialogue, basically giving them a seat at the table with i think no preconditions. let me play for you how john kirby described this. >> we've made it clear to kim jong-un we're willing to sit down with no preconditions. we want to see the denuclearization. he hasn't seen an inclination to move in that direction.

he's continuing to conduct these missile tests which are violations of the security council resolutions. >> gordon, haven't they wanted legitimacy and a seat at the table? why not now? >> they want a seat at the table but only if the united states agrees beforehand to relaxed sanctions. this really was the sticking point with president trump's meeting in hanoi with kung. president trump would not relent on that. the north koreans, yes in general want to talk. they don't see much incentive to do so. they don't see the biden administration imposing costs on either north korea or, more importantly, on north korea's sponsors, china and russia, which have been violating north korean sanctions and laundering north korean money. >> before the most recent missile test, the nuclear conversation we had been having was about russia and putin's potential use of these tactical

nuclear weapons over ukraine as some bravado, some show of force. does one conversation influence the other? >> absolutely. if putin were to use a tactical nuke, it would remove the taboo and we could see, for instance, the north koreans try to do something, and certainly we'd have to also think about china and taiwan. since july of last year, china has been making threats to use its nuclear weapons against japan, australia and indeed the rest of the world. really one use would make other uses much more easy for aggressors. >> gordon, what can the u.s. do as north korea makes these provocations? >> the united states could go after the chinese banks, for instance, because they've been laundering money. we can disconnect them from the global financial system. this is something president trump did in june of 2017, but trump didn't go after the larger chinese banks.

i think beijing thinks it can get away with continuing to support north korea. if we were to do something like go after a large chinese bank for money laundering, i think beijing would think twice about supporting the north koreans because that would be a major event for the chinese financial system. we're not willing to do that. basically china, russia, are supporting the north korean economy. that means kung sees very little incentive to talk to the biden administration except on the terms that pyongyang demands. >> gordon chang, always helpful to talk to you, thank you. a new poll reveals that an overwhelming majority of americans believe the nation is facing a mental health crisis. we'll talk potential solutions with dr. san yay gupta. before... & bath fitter. before.. & bath fitter. if you have a "before" bath,

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all of us on what they have seen. the president will speak in a few minutes. we'll bring you those live. stunning new findings about mental health in the united states. cnn and kaiser family foundation poll shows that 90% of adults believe the u.s. is experiencing a mental health crisis. >> chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta joins us now. sanjay, are you surprised at the 90% number? >> in some ways i think it would be closer to 100%. i haven't met anybody who doesn't recognize that there's some significant amount of mental health concerns in the country, and several of those concerns are rising to the level of crisis. this was an interesting poll. they basically polled people, 2,000 people over the summer and asked them about six specific issues, trying to determine which of these fell into crisis level for these participants in the poll. you see the list. it's significant, opioid epidemic was high on the list.

the overall health of kids and teens. but also the severe mental health of adults, anxiety or depression in adults, stress or anxiety from politics, a big bucket, but close to three-quarters of people put that in finances on the top of the list. loneliness. when you start to think about all those things, it's clear we've been dealing with these things for some time, but the last 2 1/2 years have really amplified it. i thought what was really interesting is we recognized this more and more, but the idea of what to do about it or if people can get access to health, the sect part is challenging for people. 60% of people who identify as having poor mental health still have a hard time getting access to the care, for all sorts of reasons, the cost, the stigma around this, the insurance. we talk about parity, putting physical health and mental health on par with each other. yet, as you can see from the list there, it's still much more difficult to get the care people

need. maybe this will serve as a wake-up call, something we've talked about for some time. we're obviously at a crisis mode in so many specific areas. >> sanjay gupta walking us through the latest numbers of the mental health crisis people are facing. 90%, thank you. so alec baldwin and the husband of the cinematographer killed on the set of "rust" have reached a settlement. we have details on the unusual arrangement next. mucinex dm relieves wet and dry y coughs. the face of millions of germs zapped in seconds. the face of clean. the face of whoa. some are of intensity, others, joy. all are of - ahhhh listerine. feel the whoa!

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alec baldwin reaching a settlement in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him by the family of "rust" cinematographer halyna hutchins. >> she was accidentally killed last night when a gun with live rounds instead of blanks went off on the set.

cnn legal analyst and civil rights attorney areva martin joins us now. chloe, what's inside the settlement? >> this was many months in the making. matthew hutchins filed this wrongful death lawsuit naming they all released statements including alec baldwin, including matthew hutchins, saying they are happy to get to this place because this money is going to go to help halyna to help her son, her family, and alec baldwin taking to instagram to say that he is just trying to do what's in the best interests of the family. but what's most interesting, you guys, is they are going to go back in january and finish the production of "rust." they are going to go back and start filming again. alec baldwin, including joel sousa, who was the director who was injured that day when the bullet went through halyna and into his chest nearly killing him. they're going to return. we don't know if it's going to film in new mexico.

but matthew hutchins, he's going to be an executive producer on the film. that was a moment that i was not expecting today. >> i think it's fair to say that's highly unusual. that's highly -- we've seen other actors killed, frankly, during the filming of something, but not their family step in to play a role. am i right? >> right. so matthew hutchins is saying he's doing this to honor his wife. that she cared about the film, she was a talented cinematographer. you've heard so many people say that. he wants to do this for that purpose. also they haven't said this, but you would assume as an ep you're getting paid and that's more money in his pockets and more money for his son outside of this settlement. we don't know the amount, right. you can imagine it's in the millions of dollars. but they are refusing to tell cnn what that amount is. so it's a private thing. i think that many people were surprised by the news that they were going to go back and finish the movie. >> is this settlement any

acknowledgment of culpability or a way to say that he is not culpable? >> i would say based on what alec baldwin is saying on social media and based on my sit-down interview with him several weeks ago, i think that he sees this as a very -- like a watershed moment for him and the family of halyna to come together in this moment here, incredibly tragic situation. but the district attorney of new mexico releasing a statement to cnn today saying that, you know, while the settlement is one thing, it has no impact on the criminal investigation, and that, quote, no one is above the law. so we are awaiting potential criminal charges in just the next couple of weeks. alec baldwin could face criminal charges. dave hauls, assistant director. there's culpability all around here. how did live bullets get onto the set in the first place? i have questions that haven't been answered. when they go back to film are they going to use cgi for these weapons, are they going to use

plastic guns and things like that. we're not sure just yet. are they going to retape scenes, cut things out -- >> your thoughts on this arrangement? >> yeah, it is highly unusual to see a settlement agreement. typically in wrongful death lawsuits, the settlement is typically money. that's what civil lawsuits -- that's how they are resolved. they're resolved with money damages being paid. but given the closeness that alec baldwin had with hellutchi and her family, i'm not surprised if they crafted some settlement to allow the husband to be the executive producer. we can imagine he may share in some of the profits, assuming there are some, from the movie as a way to make him whole and to make his family whole for the loss of his wife. >> we just got from the santa fe d.a. as you mentioned that this will have no impact on the case.

as that case moves forward, what will you be looking for, what should we expect from the da in santa fe? >> what we know so far, victor, is the district attorney asked for several hundred thousands of dollars from the state so that she could hire an outside special prosecutor. she said it's going to be a very complex case. she alluded to the fact that up to four people may be charged, and that those charges will likely include homicide charges. she asked for additional moneys also for an investigator. she said these were going to be complex and very costly cases to prosecute. and she's made it very clear consistently that alec baldwin, despite his celebrity status, despite the settlement of the civil lawsuit, that he is not exempt from being potentially prosecuted. and we know that negligent homicide, involuntary manslaughter, are potentially the charges that not only alec baldwin but others could face with respect to this case. i want to look to see what is the evidence given that the medical examiner has ruled the

death an accident, and that the fbi has said the claim made by alec baldwin that he did not pull the trigger, they said that was impossible based on their investigation and the trigger of the gun was actually pulled. so what evidence is the district attorney going to put forward to support a claim potentially of negligence, gross negligence on the part of the individuals that will potentially be charged. >> all right. thank you both. cnn is on sanibel island in florida where people are being allowed to return for the first time to see what's all right of their homes. live pictures now, this is governor desantis. he's speaking, giving an update on recovery efforts. you see obviously president biden there, as well. we will hear from the president after meeting with local officials. local people who own businesses there, as well. just a few minutes ago. the aftermath of hurricane ian, live remarks in a moment.

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