into sharper focus. this picture shows fort meyers beach one of the hardest-hit areas before the hurricane and here it is after. homes wiped out. sea of debris and rubble stretching to the horizon. there is this marina during normal times in fort myers. and then after. a scene of utter destruction. the damage throughout florida. 2 million still without power. it will continue for some time. ten people are confirmed dead thus far. the number may change as search and rescue teams work their way through the flooded neighborhoods. we re moments away as dana mentioned and get an update from the florida governor ron desantis back in tallahassee. team fox coverage. city manager marty lawing is standing by. robert ray is back with us today. we begin with track of ian. adam klotz is in our studio watching that. we still have a hurricane as we remember this storm left the coast of florida as a tropical storm but we ve spent a good chunk of time over the atlantic ocean. winds curren
0ur economics correspondent andy verity is with me. what are we to make of these latest figures? it what are we to make of these latest fiaures? ,., , what are we to make of these latest fiaures? , ., , ., , figures? it sounds initially really ubeat. figures? it sounds initially really unbeat- we figures? it sounds initially really upbeat. we are figures? it sounds initially really upbeat. we are all figures? it sounds initially really upbeat. we are all looking - figures? it sounds initially really upbeat. we are all looking for. figures? it sounds initially really i upbeat. we are all looking for good news at the moment, let s face it. at 0.3% growth in november, growth in gross domestic product, the value of all the goods and services we produce, every haircut, every car made, if you look at the value of all of that, it grew by 0.3%. you have got to remember it is only over one month. within that, you saw every sector grow, services grew, production, manufacturing. constructio
nothing but a concrete slab on fort meyers beach you pray to god no one was in that. some of these things the people on sanibel that have the real big houses could hunker down and pass and their homes are raised and the surge tear ing probably protected from. some of these others, particularly some of the older construction didn t stand a chance in that. so you just hope those were folks that had left or that those structures were not occupied. i think it was just about, you know, the concern for what they were facing and the fact that you did have people that, as the storm was in process, there were people that were really concerned with what they were seeing with the water rising and what not. i am, i think i think kevin would agree as the search and rescue folks have gone to a lot of these areas, fortunately you are not finding desperate people waving saying it s usually there are some people brought off the island and thankful.
is obviously important work but these are not easy missions to be doing on. it was not easy for them to be on that pile in surfside and search for people and unfortunately find many, many people who were killed in that collapse. so now they are in a situation where they are looking and hopefully they find people that are okay or that the buildings are empty. but you don t want to have to see people that had gone that didn t make it through. so it s a physical, it s putting yourself out there in harm s way but it does also take a toll. kevin, why don t you talk about the mental health we re dealing with here. sure. so in the mental health category, if you recall very early on in the desantis administrator the first lady took on the role of providing for first responder mental health to include hiring the first ever in the division a state mental health coordinating
2006. construction didn t actually begin until 2008. wrapped up around then. and according to the el paso times, from 2006 to 2011, violent crime in el paso actually increased a little bit here. so when you look at that data, remember, big drop in crime. but the wall wasn t approved until here, and it wasn t built until here, and you actually see an uptick. this is an easy one for us. the verdict on that claim false. and this is an example the president, the white house is consistently cited as justification for a longer border wall along that border. anderson? all right, jim. we ll come back to you shortly. coming up, our cnn instant poll of speech watchers. what they thought of the president s address. stay with us. cnn s coverage of the state of the union address is brought to you by shrm. now here is a message from sherm president and crow. much of what you heard during