you know the unique challenges of this state. what are you doing to come at this at a different angle? i ve had the opportunity to work in all 159 counties before. 88 of these counties are classified as hard-to-count counties in georgia. we re taking three different approaches. one, good, old-fashioned classic organizin organizing, putting boots on the ground, working with leaders and getting to communities where they are. two, we re taking a faith-based approach, working with faith leaders which is often the strongest bond, particularly in these rural communities and populations and making sure that our faith leaders are making sure their con gagss are counted. three, we re looking at the technological challenges. for the first time the census will be online. we re doing some technology coordinating to find out where in georgia is there no internet, where do we not have cell phone coverage? what can we do as fair count to bring those resources and tools to those communities so they
displaced. so authorities have comed through 911 calls and incident reports. that has gotten them to this number. they caution some of these people could have evacuated, ended up in areas where cell phone coverage is available. i asked anna goodnight, who you heard me speak with in that piece, she was afraid she would see names she knew on it, it fred. heartbreaking, all right, thank you so much. one of the toughest tasks authorities are facing is recovering and identifying victims. sheriff honey, more than 1,000 people missing. so explain to us how you are trying to identify people,
seeing some aerial images and the devastation is incredible. a category 4 storm just obliterated that popular destination. you ve been to many hurricanes, you were in hurricane harvey last year. what is how does this compare to other hurricanes that you have seen? this was a big storm surge and wind driven. a lot of destruction from the beach side. last year in texas, beaumont was all flood, water up to the gutters. but this morning we just rescued two individuals from a house less than two blocks from here. reporter: are they okay? nonlife-threatening injuries. they are currently being transported to the local hospital. they rode out the storm, basically locked themselves into a room. and we just made first contact with them less than 45 minutes ago. reporter: and communication here nonexistent. people can t reach their family members. no cellphone coverage. no nothing. as you see here, there are
that alarm in those warnings never reached the people so they couldn t seek shelter another different explanations for this one is possibly human error and the other is that these warnings are being sent out in large part by text message to people cell phones and because of the earthquake the cell phone coverage broke down and then they didn t didn t get the warnings but they would have to be more investigation into into this to to find out what was really responsible for the fact that the people didn t receive that tsunami warning that the tsunami early warning system sent out. do we have any more news from the affected areas and including the ones outside of. well we re hearing from rescue workers that those areas are really hard to reach because infrastructure is destroyed roads are destroyed have been a lot of landslides so these remote areas there are many that rescue workers
another different explanations for this one is possibly human error and the other is that these warnings are being sent out in large part by text message to people s cell phones and because of the earthquake the cell phone coverage broke down and then they didn t didn t get the warnings but they would have to be more investigation into into this to to find out what was really responsible for the fact that the people didn t receive that tsunami warning that that tsunami early warning system sent out. do we have any more news from the affected areas including the ones outside of. well we re hearing from rescue workers that those areas are really hard to reach because infrastructure is destroyed roads are destroyed have been a lot of landslides so these remote areas there are many that rescue workers haven t even been able to access yet and on top of that it s not only that rescue