collier or county, florida, where 911 services are down as search and rescue efforts continue across the state. rachel: search and rescue efforts still underway across the state as 30 people have been confirmed dead with 27 deaths in florida alone. more than 1 million people many florida still without power. here with us today is representative greg steube, he s from the house foreign affairs committee, and, of course, he is from florida. what do you know about this leveesome because we ve been getting conflicting reports, congressman. so i talked to the sheriff and, unfortunately, he couldn t join you because he could give you an update. if they were trying, northport from police and the sarasota sheriff s department has been trying to get people out on boats and and airboats, and they were actually using that intersate area to go back and forth and bring individuals from their homes to the interstate because that was the only way to get them in and out either by airboat o
they were covered, water over the mailboxes. i need you to get up in there, and i m going to hand her to you, and and you ve got to hold her. [background sounds] i m surrounded here by stress is els that were in this marina, tossed around really like tinker toys. that was my house. my house is gone. a lot of people can say that today here, lost everything. neil: an incredible week, and it s not over. just some of the incredible images we ve seen throughout this week brought on by a pretty ruthless hurricane ian. many southwest florida homes leveled and communities destroyed. more than three dozen lives lost and now warnings of a potential levee break that could cause a 15-foot surge. in the carolinas, some similar scenes. hundreds of thousands still in the dark there as they try to assess the havoc caused by ian. we re following it all with nate foy in myrtle beach, south carolina, alexandria hoff in hard-hit fort myers, florida, and ache rick reich newt reichmuth
Rooftop. hopefully, we can get to them by boat. if not, the sarasota sheriff s office has helicopters, hopefully we can bring down some of the national guard helicopters to help. pete: that was about 25 minutes ago. now the governor s office, governor of florida, ron desantis, his office saying there is no confirmed rev see break levee break. that flooding also shutting down some of i-75 near northport where this traffic was seen yesterday. again, early, conflicting reports, some of which can be wrong. we re doing our best to get our arms around it and get accurate information. as of right now the governor s office saying no levee break. also this morning a terrifying warning out of collier county, florida, 911 services are down as search and rescue efforts continue. congressman byron donalds, who represents part of that district, joined us moments ago with number to call in case of emergency, 239-213-3000. search and rescue efforts still
Phone number is # 239-313- 239-213-3000 on the bottom of the end screen. rachel: we have the best weather coverage. will: with wishing everybody the best, we ll try to keep you update throughout the day. that s going to do it for pus. rachel: bye, everybody. another hurricane force gust coming in here to downtown fort myers. [background sounds] oh! this was part of a street season, colonial boulevard, which is four-lane highway next to me [background sounds] look at the mailboxes.
System, whether or not, when it will be back up and what the real are risk is right now with having that system down. well, yeah. 911 system is down. i do want to let people mow that there is a backup system in place. residents need to call 239-213-3000. that s 239-213-3000. that s the backup system. heir going to be working on it around the clock, obviously, but they re on it. it s going to be up as soon as possible. pete: for our viewers, you can see that phone number on your screen, pass it along if it s something, if you know someone there who could benefit from that. what causes that kind of outage, congressman? is it simply cell phone service? power? how does that emergency system go down and move to a backup? right now i m not quite suring we re just getting this all realtime, so i m not sure what the issue is. obviously, call volume is high, but we re doing everything