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Hello. From CNN, I'm Joe Beck.

With the five things you need to know for Friday September 1st.

Communities impacted by Hurricane Idalia are starting to pick up the pieces and survey the full scale of the natural disaster.

Here's Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaking on the Florida Channel.

Seeing a lot of damage and I'm also seeing a lot of resiliency.

Fortunately, we have not had the same type of loss of life that we've had with something like a Hurricane

Ian.

Several deaths have been reported, but the devastation from the category 3 hurricane was not as immense as some recent storms, after it pummeled through Florida,

Georgia and South Carolina. Some say that's because improved forecasting meant many residents

evacuated the right places well ahead of time.

And Moody's analytics say the total economic price tag of Adalia, in damage and lost output,

could be between 12 and 20 billion dollars, which is a lot less than previous disasters that have hit the region.

For context, the National Hurricane Center says Ian, which Desantis mentioned there, caused more than 110 billion dollars of total damage.

Ukraine has opened criminal prosecutions against Russia involving allegations of

thousands of crimes against children.

The Ukrainian lead prosecutor for the protection of children says those crimes include

reports of murder, torture, and sexual violence, with many discovered after towns were freed from Russian occupation.

Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February last year,

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