750,000 homes and businesses still without electricity. down from a peak of two and a half million. the air force 202nd red horse squadron. using front loaders and backhoes to clear debris off the street. meanwhile, in charleston south carolina, people are grateful they were spared a direct hit from ian when it may plan all as a category one hurricane. cleanup is minimal. no storm related deaths. download the fox news app. scan the qr code or go online. frustrations over homelessness and crime boiling over in portland oregon. the city council was questioned about window officials might get the growing problems under
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. a storm that s still not over and still raising questions and collar signs no matter where it hits. good to have you. let s go first to nate foy in south carolina, the target of yesterday s assault. nate. reporter: neil, good morning. the damage certainly could have been worse, but there was significant damage here in myrtle beach. the cleanup happening rapidly this morning. you see some debris here that got washed ashore and in this business area from 85 mile-an-hour winds as the storm hit as a category one hurricane. you see multiple backhoes, crews out all morning clearing sand and debris from the roadway. but take a look, you can see, obviously, there s damage, but the water has receded back into
missiles like the javelins that the u.s. has been providing. in the meantime, though, john, as people here wait for this offensive to begin, i should be clear. there is constant shelling taking place in these front line towns, particularly in the luhansk region, authorities there warning that they are running out of spaces in the morgues, that they don t have electricity. that they have been forced to create new cemeteries because they can t reach the traditional cemeteries where they re basically using backhoes to dig trenches and then put the bodies in there, at least temporarily, so that they can be buried. it s a very serious situation already. and the fear is that things are going to get a lot worse very soon, john. clarissa ward in dnipro where the fighting could take place. please stay safe, you and your team. thank you very much. just ahead, we ll talk about putin s next move in russia and the latest high-profile arrest of a dissident who protested the
bodies. so what has that sequence of events been like to witness? it looks it s quite a complicated process. first the demining zappers come in and look for explosives, booby traps, mines and unexploded ordnance. that poses the most danger to civilians using those roads and that land, and then you have, you know, clearing trucks, garbage trucks and backhoes, construction equipment that comes in and tries to clear the road of the massive piles of destroyed civilian vehicles and military vehicles that have been blown up in the battles. this was an area that saw particularly heavy fighting as the ukrainian forces pushed the russians back and tried to keep
out in the street it was a zoo. reporters were staked out for three days while men with jack hammers and backhoes began tearing up the garage floor. we continue following the breaking news if you lived in albuquerque, you would have had to wear ear plugs not to hear about it. the police chief told us that police is here and they are looking for the remains of michael snyder. and a longtime friend of ellen s was at work when the news broke. i couldn t believe it. so you really believed that he left her and he was in phoenix? yeah. police begin to cut through the concrete of what was now a six-car garage. the job of finding mike snyder s remains proved difficult. the garage floor was a solid foot of steel reinforced concrete. police will resume digging tomorrow. the excavation went on for