recovering their loved ones. members of their families. reporter: search sand rescue scouring more than 2,000 homes and businesses as the magnitude of the loss sinks in. it is hard to take in. reporter: and even as authorities delicately search the rubble for human remains, some residents say that they have been approached by speculators, reawakening medical others of historical wrongdoing including colonization and overgovernment and further stoking fears of losing their land. governor green reacted to those fears and mounting frustration over reports of unso he police at this timed calls from outsiders looking to buy damage prop properties. we ll work to block those actions. reporter: there are signs of some improvement here. we have been watching as electricity crews try to put the power back on and we have also mean seeing cellphone towers
again, it really points to, okay, this could be someone who would then be predisposed to act with violence and commit some kind of attack like this. one thing that i think is key is you look at what police say is that firearm evidence, anytime you shoot a gun it ejects a spent shell casing, also fires a bullet into in this case the homes. those are key pieces of evidence that investigators would use to try to track back who actually owned that weapon n this day and age so many people have doorbell cameras, we re sold video surveillance was important as well as cellphone technology. they look at cellphone towers to try to determine what numbers were pinging these numbers at this time of day. we ve been reported that this heated political rhetoric has troubled investigators and law enforcement because they are afraid of just this very act, someone who may be predisposed to act with violence, politically motivated and tries to conduct some attack. a serious case. all of those bullet hol
The country, which has been experiencing energy shortages since 2008, is in the throes of its worst power cuts on record as breakdowns at Eskom's plants reach unprecedented levels.
so we re volunteer groups. we don t have the fancy radio systems like everyone else. so we rely 100% on our cellphones, so we desperately need cellphone reception. i heard they have lots of portable cellphone towers, but they haven t put any around here. that s why i m doing this interview by phone. i m at a love s truck stop and we re all sleeping in our vehicles. it s been an absolute nightmare with the communication, so we appreciate you getting that message out there. we ll make sure to repeat it again and again to hopefully get something done about that because i noticed myself when we got here late last night, the cellphone reception is spotty at best, and it s so important in a rescue effort to be able to communicate with everybody around you. gary, what s your message to folks here in south florida southwest florida that might feel overwhelmed by everything that they ve witnessed? you have experienced a lot of these storms in the past.