phil keating and chad pergram from the white house. let s start with alex and roy hoff live from cape corral, florida. hi, alex. alex: we are in an area called matt lachet and the coast guard is leading major effort to rescue people who have been stranded on the pine island ever since the storm, this is a major operation, we have probably seen at least a hundred people in this location coming in by boat. those residents had been on the island since the storm including even volunteers who showed up just after it. some really have arrived here in terrible condition. ems personnel have been on hand assisting several people who have returned by boat. one man said he had been suffering with a broken hip for days and laura was very emotional. she told me that she lost her entire home and spoke with gratitude for those who came to save her especially after the effort she made to make sure
even just coast guard boats, we have private residence who are helping with their vessels as well, mike. mike: alex hoff leading us off from cape corral, florida, many thanks. lee county officials facing scrutiny in delay announcing evacuation orders as hurricane ian turned to florida coast and questions are growing on whether their actions may have contributed to the rising death toll. phil keating from fort myers, florida. hello, phil. phil: good afternoon, there, mike, we are at the marina service center, people on boats dock for repairs. looks like the business is exploding right now. a lot of damage over here as well. these are ripped up parts of a trailer in a building next door that flew over to this lot. 45-foot long sailboat, a quarter million dollars, now it s a piece of junk. in fact, the name of it is the dreaming and the dreams were crushed by hurricane ian.
cape corral, fort myers all got a major storm surge, we ve never seen anything like this in southwest florida, the damage has been devastating to southwest florida. sean: byron you know i know the area as well, i had a condo in naples for a long time. let s talk about sanibel. i heard sanibel got hit particularly hard cap teva same thing. what do you know about what s happened in those areas? just complete devastation. we won t fully know until tomorrow the full impacts but sanibel from what i ve tab has been seeing easily six feet to ten feet to 12 feet of storm surge and the island is a barrier island so people need to understand it s very skinny and narrow so it s easy for the island to be overtaken by water. obviously we have homes and businesses there. there s many natural wildlife
our senator rick scott has given me a call and we are we feel blessed and we are prepared and we have so many resources available to us and so much support from our elected officials. bill: just watching this map here, mayor, while we have you here for one more minute. if you look at the southwest coast of florida, now this is further south than you are in sarasota. you get into places like port charlotte, punta gorda and cape corral. these waterways go inland quite a bit. which means when ian makes its decision she is going to pummel that part of florida and push that water deep into that part of the state. and you said just last week you cleaned out some of our sewers in sarasota. did you see the storm on the horizon? we saw it coming and cleaned
potentially into homes here and when things start to get dangerous and why governor desantis for the last several days has been begging many in tampa bay to get out before we started to see these impacts. unfortunately today and right now he says it is too late to do that. if you are still in your home you should be hunkering down and preparing for the storm hoping you have enough food, maybe something to eat if there is actually going to be no power, which looks like is already the case for many. we have seen flooding in other areas of florida already. the national hurricane center again emphasizing the potential risk of catastrophe with this storm. it is only a matter of time until we start to see that happen, bill. bill: thank you for that nicole. back to you in tampa. fox forecast center, dana, now reports it expects landfall between cape corral, florida and