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Parts Of Florida Destroyed After Ian's Rampage; Putin Engages In Nuclear Saber Rattling; Post-Tropical Cyclone Ian Barrels Through The Carolinas; Burkina Faso Coup; King Charles III's Portrait To Appear First On 50 Pence Coin. Aired 4-5a ET

Aired October 01, 2022 - 04:00   ET

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KIM BRUNHUBER, CNN ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Welcome to all of you watching us here in the United States, Canada and around the world. I'm Kim Brunhuber.

Ahead on CNN NEWSROOM, damage and destruction left in the wake of Hurricane Ian. What residents across Florida and South Carolina are finding when they return home.

Plus Vladimir Putin's brazen move, how the rest of the world is reacting to the Russian president's plans to annex part of Ukraine.

And later, how South Korea is reacting to the latest missile launches from Pyongyang.

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BRUNHUBER: Relief and recovery efforts are ongoing in Florida after parts of the state were utterly devastated by Hurricane Ian.

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BRUNHUBER (voice-over): This is some of the damage left behind in Ft. Myers Beach, a town once brimming with life. It's now a flattened field, littered with debris. Residents say much of what they own has been washed away and lost forever.

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VERNON GUIRGUIS, FT. MYERS RESIDENT: I lost everything last night, everything. Family is OK, dogs are OK, parents are OK. We lost everything we had. I've been in the house since 1987, pictures, memories, gone.

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BRUNHUBER: And we're seeing similar trails of destruction in other parts of Florida, where some residents are still trapped and waiting for help.

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DESTINY, FT. MYERS EVACUEE: My grandparents are still at the house. We have animals there. They don't want to leave the animals.

So whenever we left on the boat, it was just this scary feeling like you don't know if you're ever going to see them again, if you're going to see your house again, your animals again. So that's why I'm a little shaken up.

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BRUNHUBER: Some Floridians who don't usually get out ahead of hurricanes are vowing to never do that again. Listen to two residents who regretted riding out the deadly storm.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is this feeling that you are going to die. And my advice to everybody, get out, don't stay. It is ridiculous. Don't follow my lead. Just get out. You'll be 10 times, 1,000 better.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The water was up to our -- my balcony here. And you could dive right off of the balcony. And water everywhere, stuff floating on it. I will never stay again. If they say evacuate, go.

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BRUNHUBER: One man who owns a large steel boat thought it would be safer than being at his home. Today he counts himself lucky to have made it through in one piece. Randi Kaye has his story.

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RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Have you ever seen a storm like this?

MIKE STACZEK, HOTEL BOAT OWNER: No, not this big. Seen hurricanes but nothing like this.

KAYE (voice-over): When Hurricane Ian hit Ft. Myers Beach, boat captain Mike Staczek was in for the ride of his life.

STACZEK: It was surreal. It was very surreal.

KAYE (voice-over): Mike had decided to ride out the storm on his boat docked at this Ft. Myers Beach marina. It is made of steel and has a generator so we thought it would be safer than home. Mike showed me video of what he saw as the hurricane gained strength. STACZEK: So here's the one with the -- you'll see the building that collapsed over there. You'll get to see at the minute. You can see I was running the engine, holding the boat in place. It should be a minute, there's the building.

KAYE: Wow. It's just right in the water.

STACZEK: Yes.

KAYE (voice-over): He tied the boat he was on to another large boat he owned, both weighed about 50 tons, he says but even that was no match for hurricane Ian.

At about 3:00 AM, all of a sudden Mike was lifted up by the force of the water and the wind.

STACZEK: We didn't actually get dragged around until the very, very end.

KAYE: What was that feeling like being carried along as the storm was going?

STACZEK: Just really, we knew it was out of our control at that point. So we just figured we knew -- we were happy we were blown inland, because we knew we'd wind up over land not out in water that we will be sinking and be in real danger. So you just couldn't see anything.

The wind was howling and we knew we were in the parking lot. We didn't know where we were going to stop.

KAYE (voice-over): In the end, after a wild 15 hours, Mike and his boats, which were still tied together, landed in a street. And while they aren't a total loss, Ian sure took a chunk out of this boat Mike used for his business, a floating hotel.

STACZEK: That's cabin six, actually. It was one of the nicest cabin. It had a private deck. And you're just looking at -- the wind did that but that wasn't even from a hit. That was -- we were just watching the wind.

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STACZEK: As it got more and more, it started peeling the side back and pulled it right off.

KAYE: Pulled it right off.

STACZEK: Yes.

KAYE: So for now Mike is staying on the boat he was on during the storm. He does have a generator on it and he does have water on it but he would like to get it back into the water as soon as possible.

That's because, one, it's not insured so he would like to get it back in the water. And also it's leaning against that power pole right there and he said the electric company, if they deem that his boat is in the way of restoring power, they will destroy it -- Randi Kaye, CNN, Ft. Myers Beach, Florida.

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BRUNHUBER: And now to South Carolina, where they are dealing with flash floods and storm surges and mind numbing devastation hours after Hurricane Ian made a second landfall near Georgetown. 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 and Pawleys Island. Officials aren't allowing anyone back on the island until they make a full assessment of the damage.

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BRUNHUBER: And President Biden says there will be federal support for federal victims in need. Here he is.

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JOE BIDEN (D), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The federal government will cover -- is covering every cost, 100 percent of the cost, to clear the massive debris left in the wake of the hurricane and these counties. It all needs to be cleared out for communities to begin the hard work of trying to get back on their feet.

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BRUNHUBER: Let's discuss all this with Jeffrey Buchanan, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general.

Thanks for being here with us. Before we get to what we just heard there from the president, the process of getting the community back on their feet, there are still people in danger, people out there still being rescued, plucked from the water.

You've led the military response in support of FEMA for five major hurricanes. So you have plenty of experience obviously.

What are the biggest dangers right now?

LT. GEN. JEFFREY BUCHANAN, U.S. ARMY (RET.): Well, thanks for having me. I think the biggest danger usually in a storm like this is going to be floodwaters. Floodwaters can hide many other dangers.

The obvious one of the water itself can isolate people, can drown people but it can also hide downed power lines, obstacles in the water, even contaminants in the water. So the waters themselves are the most dangerous.

If I could stress one thing, local residents should pay very close attention to what their leadership, what the authorities are saying. They are very experienced in both North and South Carolina and Georgia and Florida with dealing with emergencies like this. And their advice is very, very important.

BRUNHUBER: But that is just the thing. So many people, despite that advice, they don't listen. We just heard there in our program from a bunch of folks who chose to ride it out and many of them regretted it.

How frustrating is it when officials call for people to get out of harm's way and they choose to stay and then they are stranded and need rescuing?

BUCHANAN: My experience with first responders is actually they don't have time to be frustrated. They just want to jump in and help and save lives. And that is really what is going to be going on for the next three or four days. The focus will be on what we call life- saving.

It'll be about rescuing people, assessing emergency situations and putting people from a dangerous situation into a safe one. And then over time, that will evolve to what we call life-sustaining, where it will be about rebuilding and getting the community up on its feet.

BRUNHUBER: How hard is it to coordinate these life-saving emergency responses when you have all these different groups, local, state, federal, plus, you know, civilians who are trying to help as well?

BUCHANAN: Well, I think that after Hurricane Katrina, the government completely revised its system and they built what we call a national response framework. And states, local communities, everybody signed on to this.

So we have common ways of doing business, ensuring that we have unity of effort, that local fire departments can work directly with a state emergency management agency, which can work with FEMA.

They use the same terminology and they believe in the same command and control system. My experience is that, if we focus on unity of effort, how can we work together to solve a complex problem, we'll, in fact, solve them.

It is when people decide to strike out on their own or want to take charge of something or fight against unity of effort that it can lead to problems.

BRUNHUBER: Yes. Because we're seeing the pictures here, just absolutely devastating. There is so much water around because power for many people is out. Cell service is out.

How long do you think it will be until we know the true extent of the damage but also the true number of people who have, unfortunately, lost their lives? BUCHANAN: Well, that's one thing I would like to stress. I'm sorry for the family members of all those who have lost their lives and some of those we don't even know about yet.

There is also a cascading effect from some of these events. You know, when we think of hurricanes, we think first of wind damage and maybe flood damage. But over time, some of these dangerous conditions can lead to other issues; for example, a loss of electricity can lead to a lack of refrigeration of life-critical insulin for a diabetic.

These are the sorts of things that can be tied to a major storm like this and continuing to impact people for weeks and weeks to come. So you know, I think four, five days, maybe a couple weeks until the water is all gone and we have the potential of returning infrastructure back to normal.

But some of the cascading effects will last for quite some time.

BRUNHUBER: Absolutely. So while there is still some acute danger for some folks out there, as we see pictures of more people being rescued there, in some areas, the water has receded enough to allow them to come back home.

So for people who are out there, watching this, as they are thinking of going back home, I mean the danger hasn't evaporated.

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BRUNHUBER: What should they know when they are trying to make their way back home and assess the damage?

BUCHANAN: Well, again, I think the first thing is pay attention to what local authorities are saying. Make sure that they get the clear signal from local authorities before they venture into an area.

And when they do go, there is potential for -- it is never a good idea to walk through water because there could be contaminants in it or hidden obstacles. But even if the water is gone, if they are going back into a house that has been flooded, we have to be very, very careful about potential contaminants, about structural damage.

So it's a good idea to go slow and get things checked out. And once it has been checked out, it may actually take the work of experts. For example FEMA has special teams that can help do some examination and determine whether conditions are in fact safe.

There might be damage to a roof and, you know, in the short term, it could be causing leaking. But in the longer term actually has some structural damage that could cause the roof itself to be a danger. So it is very important to check all that out.

And then understand that the federal government -- we heard President Biden announce 100 percent of the costs will be borne by the federal government. So that takes the burden off of states, off of local communities, that may feel like they are having to deal with this. And in this case, and particularly cost is not an object when it comes

to saving people's lives. Over time, FEMA will come in and help the community rebuild. And sometimes these are years-long projects to actually help restore infrastructure, rebuild housing and things like this.

BRUNHUBER: Let's certainly hope all the folks get the help they need. Appreciate your expertise. Jeffrey Buchanan, thank you so much.

BUCHANAN: Thanks, Kim. Appreciate having you.

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BRUNHUBER: And if you would like to safely and secure people help people affected by Hurricane Ian, please go to cnn.com/impact and you can find several ways to help there.

Russia is pushing ahead with its plans to annex nearly a fifth of Ukraine. But as soon as the annexation ceremony in Moscow was done, widespread condemnation was quick to follow.

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BRUNHUBER (voice-over): See those dramatic pictures, a woman suddenly engulfed by floodwaters as Hurricane Ian bore down on Orlando. A local TV reporter who watched it happen jumped in to help save her.

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BRUNHUBER: After the nightmare of Hurricane Ian, thousands in Florida now face the monumental task of trying to get their lives back on track. At least 45 people have been killed in the state and a massive search and rescue effort is still underway.

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BRUNHUBER (voice-over): These high resolution satellite images show you Ft. Myers before the storm on the left and then on the right, the same neighborhoods, a scene of utter destruction after the hurricane hit. Ian is now a post-tropical cyclone, barreling through the Carolinas. We'll have more on the storm throughout the hour.

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BRUNHUBER: Russia is moving ahead with its plan to carry out the largest forced annexation in Europe since World War II. In a large ceremony in Moscow on Friday, President Putin announced the annexation of close to one-fifth of Ukraine.

It follows so-called referenda in four partially occupied regions, which the West dismissed as shams. But as soon as Putin signed annexation documents, Western nations made it clear the move won't be recognized.

Ukraine responded to Putin's announcement by doing one of the last things he wanted, applying to join NATO. President Zelenskyy signed an application Friday next to Ukraine's prime minister and parliament speaker.

Putin says he sees NATO's expansion in Eastern Europe as an existential threat to Russia. NATO secretary-general says the alliance supports Ukraine's right to choose its own path but says the decision is ultimately up to all 30 NATO members. Zelenskyy says the membership bid will benefit more than just Ukraine. Here he is.

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VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY, UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT (through translator): Today, here in Kyiv, in the heart of our country, we are taking a decisive step for the security of the entire community of free nations.

Security has no alternatives. So determination is needed to guarantee it. We are taking our decisive step by signing Ukraine's application for accelerated accession to NATO.

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BRUNHUBER: And Nada Bashir is joining us.

You were watching the annexation announcement. Describe what you saw and what Putin said.

NADA BASHIR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: As anticipated, there was much fanfare in Moscow's Red Square. The day before the annexation announcement, we saw the preparations underway across Moscow, ready for that rally that was anticipated.

There was a grand ceremony as you saw there; saw the Russian-installed occupation leaders present at that ceremony, as President Putin proclaimed the annexation of those four key territories in Ukraine, Zaporizhzhya, Kherson, Donetsk and Luhansk.

Following that, he did address the crowd gathered, waving a flag, banners being carried. President Putin himself standing under a banner, saying the words, "Together forever," in relation to the four key territories being annexed by Russia.

And he spoke to the crowd and said that this was, according to him, the "will of millions of people." Now, of course, in that reference he is, of course, referring to the sham referenda held last weekend and those results announced earlier this week.

[04:25:00] BASHIR: According to President Putin, this was the will of those. But of course, as we know, these results are considered illegal and widely condemned as a sham by the international community.

And there was a lot of rhetoric from President Putin with reference to the West. He described the West as launching a hybrid war against Russia, attacking the Russian cultural identity.

But of course, there has been widespread condemnation around that. This has long been anticipated and Moscow is itself facing a crisis. We've seen a mass exodus of people attempting to flee the conscription.

The optics here are crucial for President Putin and the Kremlin as they continue to lose territory to the Ukrainian armed forces, people in their own country attempting to flee. So the optics are crucial and, of course, there was much fanfare there, as was anticipated.

BRUNHUBER: You've referenced the condemnation from the international community. So take us through that reaction.

BASHIR: I mean, across the board, as expected, there has been severe condemnation from members of the international community. There had been ahead of this announcement, widely anticipated, the referenda seen as a pretext for this annexation.

In the last few hours NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg saying this is the most serious escalation in the conflict since it began. But he said it would not deter support for Ukraine.

That was certainly the message we heard from leaders in the Baltic States and, of course, in the European Union, the European Commission president Ursula van der Leyen saying that this changes nothing.

The European Union, that international community, will maintain its support for Ukraine.

BRUNHUBER: All right. Appreciate you tracking this story, Nada Bashir, thanks so much.

And on the same day President Putin made his annexation announcement, the Russian consulate in New York was vandalized. The front of the building was splattered with bright red spray paint. New York city police are investigating it as a possible bias incident.

Ukraine's state nuclear power operator says the director general of the Zaporizhzhya plant has been detained by a Russian patrol. It says he was in charge of the plant's safety and is calling for him to be released. The nuclear plant has been controlled by Russian forces since early March.

And the death toll from Friday's attack on a civilian convoy in Zaporizhzhya has grown to at least 30 people. Ukraine says 88 others were wounded in the Russian missile strike. It happened at a used car market, where vehicles were gathering to go into Russian-held territory. And Ukraine is claiming more progress on the front lines in the east. A local official says Russian troops in Lyman are now trapped, this after reports that Ukrainian troops were close to encircling the city. Nick Paton Walsh has more from the region.

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NICK PATON WALSH, CNN INTERNATIONAL SECURITY EDITOR (voice-over): Hidden but unstoppable, Ukraine's not bragged much about its march south from Kharkiv toward the prize of Donetsk.

But every rooftop or treeline suggests they've just been too busy advancing, day by day reducing how much of occupied Ukraine Moscow has this day falsely declared Russian territory, with the ultimate goal, encircling the vital railway town of Lyman at hand, no quarter given, all the way through the forest, to the monastery town of Sviatohirsk.

The drive to this point, probably the most depressing two hours east but on the road and the whole six months of this war, just laying bear the utter ferocity of the fighting but also to the speed of Ukraine's advance to this town, which itself is shocking.

Eight years ago at the start of the conflict, I lived on and off here for six months and just learned to appreciate its normality, its peace among the middle of the pines here. That is just gone.

It is the most fragile who remain when Russia moved in. Anna is one of nine people left in her block. She almost did not make it.

ANNA, SVIATOGIRSK RESIDENT (through translator): The scariest was when the Russians one night were in a firefight in my courtyard. I was in the doorway and tried to hold a steel door shut but a soldier pulled the door, so I jumped down and fell in the basement. He tore open the door, shot his gun into the darkness and missed me.

WALSH: Some seek survival in their god here, whose monastery looks down on the mess.

Lubya asked me if they will come back, the Russians. They made such a mess of their new post office, she says.

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WALSH (voice-over): On her shirt, a lock of hair from her local beloved priest killed by shelling in June.

I've attached it as a protective amulet, she says. Tell me, can I leave here now?

Even the carcasses here still rocked by shelling.

But the church bells finally rang again two days ago. They brought Ludmila (ph) to tears.

It rang and I heard, she says and I listened and it got louder.

They are not out of the church basement, where they hid from the bombs and still try to live.

She saying it's cool down here and you can feel that. Seven months on the ground.

Anxious to not show their faces, their plight down here is their private tragedy, one says.

Lyudmila's disabled son was injured in the shelling and taken to hospital, she tells me. She last saw him alive but that is all she knows down here. There is a little salvation, only ruin turning to Russia. There is no letup in Ukraine's advances. All of Moscow's intimate annexation, the absurd claim that this land is actually now Russian territory.

The land here a testimony to how the collision between right and wrong shred the very thing both covet -- Nick Paton Walsh, CNN.

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BRUNHUBER: A warning from South Korea for their neighbors to the north, they say Pyongyang's ongoing missile tests jeopardize the peace and safety of the entire world. We'll have the latest.

And also our coverage continues of Ian's devastating impact on Florida and other states in the southeastern U.S. Stay with us.

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BRUNHUBER: Welcome back to all of you watching us here in the United States, Canada and around the world. I'm Kim Brunhuber. We're getting a clearer look at the devastation Hurricane Ian left on Florida's Gulf Coast. Have a look.

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JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: All that debris just littered everywhere. These were buildings.

This was a building right there?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They were buildings, restaurants and what used to be the Ft. Myers pier.

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BRUNHUBER: As you can see there, the storm has turned a town into a gloomy sight of destruction. And Ian is now causing more damage in the Carolinas as it moves inland as a post-tropical cyclone.

The search and rescue effort now underway in Florida is truly a mammoth task. The U.S. Coast Guard has rescued more than 275 people so far. But an official says the sheer scale of the damage can make navigating those missions tricky. Have a listen.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What we are finding is many of the people are not critically injured and they are not in immediate distress but they are stranded. They are stuck on islands, either manmade islands that have been in there for some time, surrounded by water, but more importantly, those areas where islands were before.

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BRUNHUBER (voice-over): Incredible. This video gives you some idea of what rescue crews keep coming across, people trapped in vehicles surrounded by deep water with no way out until help arrives. First responders say they will continue searching until everyone who needs help gets it.

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BRUNHUBER: And crews in Sarasota County are going house by house, trying to get stranded survivors and their pets to safety. Our Carlos Suarez has more.

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CARLOS SUAREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Rescues are taking place well into the night. The Army is working alongside firefighters, law enforcement and other neighbors, who live out here, trying to get all of these folks that might be stranded out of their homes.

This is how the entire day has looked out in this part of Sarasota County. Every few minutes, one of these boats will pull up with someone who has been stranded in their home because of the floodwaters out here.

The soldiers here will pick that boat up and they will take everyone out, their luggage, you can see that woman there has two dogs with her, all of this the result of severe flooding still being experienced in this part of southwest Florida.

Hurricane Ian dumped several inches of rain. And that has left this part still underwater. We're expecting this kind of scene to continue, in large part because the water levels out here are not expected to recede until then.

The big question going into the night is how long these folks will be able it to go out onto these streets and neighborhoods. There are people that are still waiting for their loved ones. There is one family here who told us they have been waiting for three

hours just to see if someone can use their boat to go out onto one of these streets to get their loved ones -- Carlos Suarez, CNN, North Port, Florida.

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BRUNHUBER: After pounding Florida, Ian made a second landfall in South Carolina. Nick Valencia is in Myrtle Beach.

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NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The worst of the hurricane appears to have come and gone here in Myrtle Beach.

And though Hurricane Ian made landfall just south of us, it brought significant damage here in and around the area, particularly in North Myrtle Beach to the Cherry Grove pier, which was just wrecked by the heavy rain and significant wind that came with Hurricane Ian, portions of that pier floating into the Atlantic.

Now there was concerns here from local officials for localized flooding, especially along the coast. Some residents did get water inside their homes. And there was at least one rescue in the county.

Here along the coast where we were standing just hours ago, was underwater; all of that water has receded back into the ocean but the wind here continues to be a factor.

And perhaps the most dramatic scene that we saw throughout the day on Friday, there was a shrimp boat that seemingly appeared out of nowhere in the Atlantic, just getting hammered by those choppy waves. And initially it wasn't clear if there was anyone on that boat.

We did talk to the Horry County sheriff's office, who said it was yesterday -- or rather Thursday -- that the crew was evacuated by the Coast Guard. It was anchored down. But because of that severe weather it drifted ashore here.

Actually one person was arrested trying to climb into that boat. The cleanup continues in Horry County, in and around Myrtle Beach. And there's going to be a lot to clean up in the coming days-- Nick Valencia, CNN, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

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BRUNHUBER: And Ian caused similar damage in South Carolina. A fishing pier that had been a long time fixture of the community fell victim to the category 1 storm. Wind and waves pounded the structure until it finally gave way. Besides losing the pier, the mayor says there is a lot of cleanup ahead.

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MAYOR BRIAN HENRY, PAWLEYS ISLAND, FLORIDA: We've got quite a mess on Pawleys Island and we need to make sure it's safe. And we need resources from the state to make sure that we can get the island cleaned up in an expeditious fashion. (END VIDEO CLIP)

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BRUNHUBER (voice-over): And a sign that the worst appeared to be over, the police department tweeted out this photo of a rainbow as the storm moved out.

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BRUNHUBER: Coming up, latest on a coup in Burkina Faso. We'll find out just who is in charge just months after the last one. Stay with us.

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BRUNHUBER (voice-over): This is just incredible. This is what it looked like when a huge wave crashed across a pier in Miami after Hurricane Ian moved through the area. We'll be bringing you more coverage about the devastation caused by the storm throughout the day. But now let's get to some of today's other top stories.

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BRUNHUBER: For the second time this year, Burkina Faso's government has been overthrown in a coup. The military announced the dismissal of previous junta chief, President Paul-Henri Damiba.

Now the new leader is army captain Ibrahim Traore, who has suspended the constitution, closed the borders and declared, in fact, a nightly curfew. The announcement caps a day that began with gunfire in the capital, an explosion near the presidential palace and interruptions during state TV programming.

For more on these developments, let's bring in Larry Madowo, who is joining us from London.

Unfortunately, we've been here before. Very worrisome situation there.

What is the latest?

LARRY MADOWO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Very troubling indeed. This is the second coup that Burkina Faso has seen in just under 10 months.

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MADOWO: And we don't know a lot about who this army captain Ibrahim Traore is. We knew a little bit more about the former now deposed military junta leader, Paul-Henry Damiba. And both of them are gone for the same reason because, in January,

when the military deposed President Kabore, they said it was because he had failed to deal with the Islamist insurgency. The government has really struggled to contain that.

And they felt that the former president did not do the same in terms of restoring peace and security to the territory and that is why this junta movement had taken this decision to kick their own leader out and try to do things differently.

But they have gone beyond that, shutting down the borders, suspending the government, the constitution, the transition charter. It is all military rule now. This is what they explained to their citizens.

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CAPT. KISWENDSIDA FAROUK AZARIA SORGHO, COUP SPOKESPERSON (through translator): Dear citizens, aware of our historic responsibility, MPSR commits to the entire combat forces to focus on the issue of security and the re-establishing of our territorial integrity.

The seizing of power right now signifies the unwavering will to MPSR to include all the social strata of the Faso without any distinction of the future of the transition in our shared fight.

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MADOWO: MPSR had agreed to this transition deadline of 1st July 2024 to a return to democratic rule. That looks unlikely now because this sets the country several years back.

There has been condemnation of this new coup by the United States and in the regional bloc. And they hope that they can recommit themselves to democratic rule in the country. Burkina Faso has had eight coups since independence since 1960.

BRUNHUBER: Sad to see. All right, thanks so much, Larry Madowo in London for us.

South Korea is accusing Pyongyang of serious provocations that threaten the security of Korean Peninsula and the world by firing short-range ballistic missiles. U.S. military officials say there is no immediate threat to U.S. territory.

North Korea has conducted multiple similar tests in the past few days, firing missiles before and after U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris visited the Korean demilitarized zone on Thursday. A launch on Saturday is Pyongyang's 22nd this year.

Also new coins have been revealed by the U.K. Royal Mint. The first to feature the portrait of the nation's new king, details straight ahead. Stay with us.

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GAGE GOULDING, WBBH CORRESPONDENT: This entire building is completely leveled. I mean look at this, just stilts remain from part of a building here on Ft. Myers Beach.

And the sound of helicopters above the sky from the United States Coast Guard now fills the air. That is what walking down Estero Boulevard in Ft. Myers Beach sounds like now, it's what it feels like now.

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BRUNHUBER: And our coverage of the impact of Hurricane Ian will continue throughout the day. At the top of the hour, I'll speak with a storm chaser who was in Florida and South Carolina as Ian made landfall.

The U.K.'s Royal Mint has just unveiled a portrait of King Charles that will be imprinted on British coins. The new image will appear on a commemorative 5 pound coin and as well as a 50 pence coin, which will also honor the life of his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth. CNN's Anna Stewart is in London with the latest.

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ANNA STEWART, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A new coin for a newly minted monarch. Here in London, Britain's official coin maker is moving full steam ahead with the country's new legal tender, just one of several changes taking place following the death of Britain's longest reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II.

Although it will be a while before Britons bid a permanent goodbye to the image of their beloved queen.

ANNE JESSOPP, CEO, ROYAL MINT: For the next 20 years we will see coins that have the late Majority's portrait on and also the king's portrait on. Currently there are about 27 billion coins that have the queen's effigy on. They'll just continue to cocirculate.

STEWART (voice-over): The proclamation of King Charles III has presented coin makers with a fresh challenge.

KEVIN CLANCY, DIRECTOR, ROYAL MINT MUSEUM: It is quite a moment in British history. It's a personal moment for King Charles III and personal because we're representing his likeness. The way that it's been modeled, the way it's been sculpted, creates an accessibility.

STEWART (voice-over): Great pains have been taken to pay tribute to the queen's 70-year reign through a 5-pound coin available to collectors, featuring a portrait of Her Majesty at the beginning of her reign and one portrait capturing the monarch in her later years; whereas the first coin to enter later circulation will be a 50 pence coin.

Bearing one striking difference to its predecessor.

CLANCY: The direction in the king faces, he faces in the opposite direction to the queen. So he faces to the left; the queen faced to the right. And that's a 300-year-old tradition. We have no idea actually why.

STEWART (voice-over): Coin makers hope this new 50 p coin will enter circulation just in time for Christmas. It's all part of a 1,000-year tradition of British royals being depicted on coins.

CLANCY: Historically there's always been a portrait of the monarch. The income pacts (ph) of Anglo-Saxon times.

And for the greater part of Anglo-Saxon, early medieval period, it wasn't a recognizable individual. At the end of the 15th century, there was a recognizable image suddenly on the coins, which must have been an electrifying moment for the people of Britain at that time, that suddenly you could see the features of their king.

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STEWART (voice-over): Nowadays, the British people will not only need to acquaint themselves with new coins but also bank notes and stamps, which will all change to reflect the new head of state. And as Britain edges closer to a cashless society, coin makers hope these designs will spark a renewed interest in coins.

CLANCY: There's no question people that will want to mark this occasion, this moment in British history. Coins have that relationship. People nickname them. It's such a familiar object in people's lives that the king is there, staring back at them, as it were, it makes that connection between monarch and people.

STEWART (voice-over): And allow members of the public to feel part of this new chapter in British history -- Anna Stewart, CNN, London.

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BRUNHUBER: And that wraps this hour of CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Kim Brunhuber. I'll be back in a moment with more news. Please do stay with us.