community near sarasota, a possible levee breech could push a 15-foot wall of water into the neighborhood. sarasota is just one of the many gulf coast communities still dealing with severe flooding. hurricane ian slamming southwest florida as a category 4 storm. the death toll now stands at 45. but that number could rise as crews reach areas that have been cut off because of the flooding. right now, the remnants of ian moving over the mid-atlantic states following friday s direct hit on the south carolina coast as a category 1 hurricane. now down to boris in hard-hit ft. myers. boris? reporter: fred, neighbors here are stunned at just is raw power of mother nature. i m not sure how well you can see it behind me, but there are several vessels, five what appear to be commercial fishing charter sized vessels that were lifted from when they were here in this marina in ft. myers and tossed onto the outside part of that bridge, just thrown around like debris, one of many scenes
people were coming in off of boats that were wrecked. i saw my car just floating away, getting banged up. and, you know, it was really bad. really, really bad. the worst thing ever to happen to me like this. we re so grateful you were okay. people were coming off their boats. some of them had to jump in the water. a couple, three people came in. i opened the door to see what was going on, and three people came in. they were, like, we just jumped off of our boat and jumped into the water, and so they were soaked, you know? you just can t even imagine how scary that had to have been with boats being crashed against each other, you know, big boats, big, beautiful bolts crushed on top of each other. right. you know, everything flying,