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COY WIRE: Hello, everyone.
We made it to Friday.
And you already know Friday's rock.
I'm Coy.
This is "CNN 10," and we've got a powerful show today
to finish this week strong.
First, though, we have to head to the state of Florida
where residents are dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Ian.
The storm hit the state just over a week ago,
just shy of a category 5 hurricane,
making it one of the deadliest to ever make landfall.
More than 100 people have died.
Rescuers are still working around the clock
using boats and aircraft to save people who are trapped.
As of this week, more than 2,300 rescues have been made,
but it's still unclear how many people might still be missing.
Across the state, people also don't have
access to safe drinking water.
And a boil water notice was issued for 120 areas.
Some residents in island communities
off the coast of Florida are still
cut off from the mainland.
And hundreds of people have been without power for days.
President Biden has pledged national aid for Florida
and is working with Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis,
but it's a long road ahead still for those who've been impacted.
More now from CNN correspondent Leyla Santiago,
who's there for us in Florida on Sanibel Island.
LEYLA SANTIAGO: An emotional return
for the residents of Sanibel Island allowed back
on the island for the first time to check
on their homes and businesses a week
after Hurricane Ian ravaged the area.
Toni and Dan Tabor shed tears of relief
after finding their homes still standing.
TONI TABOR: We thought we'd come home.
And we thought those windows were broken.
And we thought we'd find water.
And we thought we would come back and find everything gone.
LEYLA SANTIAGO: But so many of their neighbors and friends
didn't fare as well.
TONI TABOR: I mean, that house over there,
we know all these people.
I mean, it's like family back here.
LEYLA SANTIAGO: So this is West Gulf Drive,
it's one of the main streets here on Sanibel Island.
It's also one of the parts where residents told
me was the worst hit areas.
And you can tell, look behind me.
This is now a street that is aligned with debris.
You can see straight into homes and see
personal belongings everywhere.
I mean, look over here, you also have
part of a roof that is sitting on the side of the street.
But to make the point of exactly how powerful this storm was,
take a look at this home.
Residents tell me that this was actually across the street.
Now, you can see straight in what was once a family room,
a kitchen, no longer here.
Equipment and refrigerator are now partially out the door
and not much left to be salvaged.
ANDY GARCIA: There's already mildew growing.
LEYLA SANTIAGO: Andy Garcia is a property manager on the island.
He's had to deliver bad news to families who couldn't be here
to check on their own homes.
ANDY GARCIA: I mean, it's totally devastating.
To hear them on the other end of the phone
and just gasping for air, you're telling them
that their home is destroyed, it's
totally heart-wrenching for me.
LEYLA SANTIAGO: And heart-wrenching for the owners
who lost everything.
STEVE SHULZ: It had three feet wet the storm surge.
Everything's pretty much ruined inside.
JOE SHULZ: Everything, including dressers,
beds, everything ruined.
It's all on our front yard.
LEYLA SANTIAGO: Steve and Lori Shulz
are leaving the island for the first time since Ian hit.
LORI SHULZ: Hopefully, we're coming back to a house.
Everybody works together.
Everybody cares about each other.
We'll be back.
LEYLA SANTIAGO: And a lot of the people we've talked to
are waiting for some sort of temporary fix
to the Sanibel Causeway, something
Governor Ron DeSantis has said that the government
is working on.
And that's so important to them because they need
to be able to move people to move supplies in order
to salvage anything they can from these homes
before it's too late and anyone is forced to tear
down the homes completely.
Leyla Santiago, CNN, Sanibel Island, Florida.
COY WIRE: 10-second trivia.
In the US midterm elections, how many seats
are up for re-election in the House of Representatives,
100, 35, 435, or 143?
Answer is 435.
While about a third of the 100-seat US Senate
are up for election, all 435 seats on the ballot
for the House are up.
The mid-term elections in the United States
are one month away.
Americans will head to the polls to cast
their votes on November 8.
They're called midterm elections because they
happen in the middle of a president's four-year term.
Americans will be voting for representatives in Congress
and candidates for state and local offices.
Currently, President Biden's Democratic Party
controls both the House of Representatives and the Senate,
but a lot can happen in October.
The term "October surprise" was coined by former President
Ronald Reagan's campaign manager during the 1980 election
because unexpected events during the last month of campaigning
can impact voter choices and change the trajectory
of the election in a major way.
We'll hear more now from CNN national politics reporter Eva
McKend, taking a look back at a few of the October
surprises of the past.
EVA MCKEND: It's October, leaves begin to change color,
the weather starts to chill.
But in the world of politics, it's
when campaigns start to eat up.
And it's when unexpected news or events often
occur during the election cycle, commonly
known as an October surprise.
A game-changing event that can possibly damage one candidate's
chances and boost the others, October surprises
have been around for decades.
And it is part of US Politics even before the term
was used politically.
Going back 50 years to 1972, President Richard Nixon's
national security advisor, Henry Kissinger,
has late news about unpopular Vietnam War.
HENRY KISSINGER: We believe that peace is at hand.
EVA MCKEND: He was wrong.
And the war wouldn't come to a close for 2 and 1/2 more years.
In 1980, in what was the October surprise that never happened,
52 US hostages held in Iran were not
released before the election, despite President
Jimmy Carter's efforts.
Instead, they were set free as soon as Ronald
Reagan was inaugurated.
In '92, Reagan's successor, George HW Bush,
seeking re-election was days away from the vote,
when a top Reagan team member, Caspar Weinberger,
was indicted over the Iran-Contra affair.
With the stock market taking a nosedive and recession
rearing its ugly head, GOP presidential
nominee John McCain insisted--
JOHN MCCAIN: The fundamentals of our economy are strong.
EVA MCKEND: Voters disagreed with this assessment
and what was once a tight race became a Democratic blowout
with Barack Obama winning.
In 2012 and what was more of a September surprise
than an October surprise, audiotape
of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney
surfaced, characterizing almost half
the voters as dependent on government handouts.
MITT ROMNEY: There are 47% of the people
who will vote for the president no matter what.
EVA MCKEND: President Obama went on to win reelection.
And during the 2020 presidential election,
where it was a true October surprise,
Trump, along with the First Lady,
tested positive for coronavirus, days
after the first presidential debate with Joe Biden.
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COY WIRE: Now, for today's 10 out of 10,
we have someone putting the dude in doodle.
British artist Sam Cox has been doodling
since he was three years old.
His scribbles and bits have been on murals.
They've been on cars.
For his latest project, he doodled the entire kit
and caboodle from his bed and blankets
to his interior walls and stairs.
He covered every square inch of his house, dude.
It took him two whole years to complete.
Even his toilet is decked out with doodles.
If you could live in a house like that, would you doodle it?
I'll tell you what we're going to doodle now.
We've got a special shout out to Manchester
Junior and Senior High School in Manchester, Michigan.
We hope you and everyone watching around the world
have a wonderful weekend.
I'm Coy, and this is "CNN 10."
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