those two cases. it s like a war zone right now. yep. the whole island. the devastation is unbelievable. then we met barry lawrence. i will never experience it again. he was writing that the storm from a third floor condo on the beach, when he says he started seeing friends homes swallowed up by the waves. i went into the water and save three people. i lost one friend, i couldn t save her. she got washed away. but they were also incredible stories of survival. firefighters and residents jumping into pull this man from what is left of his home. early estimates suggest that the damage for me in could cost as much as 47 billion dollars. that would make the costliest storm in florida since hurricane andrew 30 years ago. entire families are displaced. my mom had two feet of water in her apartment, or her house. my grandmother s house was destroyed. these are houses that i ve lived in my whole life. while airports here have resumed flights and orlando
completely crumbled. and in fact there are some remains of homes here. one zahra behind it are completely gone. just washed out to sea. folks are just starting to come and see the damage and they just can t access if they re already evacuated but coast guard is now coming to pick people up as well as cajun navy. residents helping residents and neighbors helping neighbors. to bring people back in respect to people as they were getting off of those boats what they were going through and they said a lot of people are scared. they are scared to leave and they don t have any communication. they don t know if there is going to be water or food coming. some people have children say with special needs and there is a big an older community there not are struggling to try and figure out what to do and they are still we heard from the residents dead bodies being pulled from the rubble so the death toll continuing to rise
and we hadn t got the confirmation that the levee had broken but it looked like it had considering what we have been seeing at some of those images. where are we now? yes so yasmin, within the last half hour we have gotten an official update from the sheriff s department they re confirming that the levee has been compromised. and i want to show that image again that we were talking about earlier. this is something that has been shared, an area from the sheriff s department. they have a red arrow pointing to an image which shows a section of a levee. where there is blue and there is water, instead of green from the earth works there. clearly, we knew that there were some threat at minimum and now it s official, it has been compromised. i do want to stress that the sheriff s department is a very specific immunity. one neighborhood that we try to access but it s a private community, appears to be one of those airport communities where people of planes and their neighborhood. it s a priv
and we are here because we needed some perception and access to other supplies that we just couldn t get over and that more isolated area. a lot of farmland over, there we saw horses that we saw cattle and we saw huge swaths of land under water over there. no question, there still a lot of standing water throughout the area, still hearing reports of more roadways that may have been wiped out and certainly major roadways that are underwater as well making this very treacherous terrain to navigate whether you are trying to go and check on loved ones, going to see four homers okay. or if you remember of cleanup rescue crew, some other group that is trying to repair infrastructure. that is damaged as well. a lot of headaches here and it s still an evolving situation almost three days and if not three full days at this point and it seems that religion track of time out here since and first made landfall on florida s gulf coast. all right jesse for us, thank you good to talk to you. let us
back to florida now and disaster relief efforts are still ongoing. residents continuing to struggle with access to basic needs as we ve been learning like electricity, food, water as well. want to bring in now our tequila crews, ceo of an organization that assistant responding to natural disasters. art, thank you for joining us on this. we appreciate it, i know you knew in your team are currently import charlotte i believe right? just a little bit north of the fort myers area. a lot of images coming out of port charlotte, are just devastating as well, and still on the west coast of the area on the left. what have you ve been seeing or teams have been seeing on the ground there? oh, looks as if we just lost art. that want to talk him about they will try to get him back everybody, and situations like this throughout the last hour and the coverage is pretty spotty. and comes to the cell phone and access. as bush and some of the more