will: remnants of ian continue to devastate the southeast. videos and photographs don t do the devastation any justice. it looks like a bomb exploded frankly. we ve been through irma, wilma 15 years ago, this is something i have never seen in my life. i need you to get up in there and i will hand her to you and you need to hold her. i don t know what else to do. only thing we can do is pray. will: a shelter in place warning issued in florida after a possible levy breach with potential to unleash 15 foot floodwaters into areas already devastated by hurricane ian. pete: that warning sent to eastern sarasota county, one of the hardest hit areas by the storm when it made landfall as a category 4 hurricane this week. search and rescue efforts underway is 30 people confirmed dead. 7 deaths alone in florida. more than one million people in florida without power this morning. will: en making its third and final landfall searching inland as a post-tropical cyclone
transport this larger location to a distribution site for food and water and to put in perspective we are in the mainland area of fort myers where destruction is widespread. we did a survey yesterday where we put out boats into homes, homes taken off their pilings, cars obliterated, gone, getting to this location is difficult but this mainland does pale in comparison to what we see on fort myers beach, you see from overhead the destruction, almost all of that wiped out by ian s wrath and we are told the initial more sporadic search for survivors in the rubble, they become more methodical and will continue today. further in the gulf, sanibel island still remains inaccessible so the causeway leading there was wiped away, we watched military helicopters, rescue helicopters fly in and out of that area, the mayor of the beloved community made this comparison. one of our public works people, one of the first