let anyone know that if they have a boat, get people. our coverage of hurricane ian continues now with anderson cooper 360. the sheriff here in lee county told reporters about the afternoon destruction that is everywhere tonight. no words to describe what we saw and are seeing in the present tense, which is important to note, because this is an ongoing disaster in florida and potentially in coastal carolina. hurricane in yes, it is a hurricane again taste is taking ada. this is what it did to fort myers beach. is the most impressive storm ever to hit this part of florida. here is our first look at the area from above. it is far from the only look at the destruction that can be revealed from the air. in struct the barrier islands hard severing the bridge to pine island, as you can see here, along with the santa bell causeway which is impassable tonight. it also did considerable damage to marinas up and down the coast, pushing even larger boat around like toys. florida
what do you think the hardest thing is going to be for people to come to grips with, bill? letting go of some places that aren t either salvageable. we saw that again and again. i m hopeful i can save it and she walked in and saw this is laura, who took us into her home. who saw, yeah, i d like to be an optimist, but this is a teardown. and to come to grips with that. and at some point you ve got to decide, is this a livable place anymore. given the trajectory of storms over time, how long do we keep rebuilding in these places? but what else is interesting is right where the eye of the storm came over, our boat captain took us over to his house, and it was unscathed, dry inside. so, for some people who have won this bet, it might give them a sense of security like, hey, you know, this is just another one. this is the cost of living down here, so why think about anywhere else. bill, thank you. thank you for how hard you worked today. thank you for racing here with ththis. i know
delayed. delays here, but mainly because we are in a situation where we get the ripple effect. you see any yellow up there, that is trouble either late flights, canceled flights on the rest and that is what s up there. now, we are in the middle of the country, but the storms continue out on the west coast. always happy see claudia cowan somewhere and hopefully not too much of a mess. staying dry inside, taking a look at the very wet streets here in san francisco as we drive along the embarcadero. here in the mountains where this winter storms has walloped the sierra nevada s dropping several feet of snow which are but remain in effect, great first years, not so much for drivers who had to endure long traffic jams, the section of interstate five known as the grapevine was
area. also earlier today in virginia we were roving around all these areas. south of d.c. on the i-95 corridor we came across a stranded motorist. he had done a 180 off the road. edwin martinez in a small honda sedan. we were able to hook up our tow rope and get him out of that jam. fortunately he was able to go on his way. again, look at some of this, all these cars here even when your street might be plowed a little bit, you ve still got a lot of slush, heavy snow and a lot of these big berms to try to clear out from. ashleigh. all right, brian, thank you for that. the one thing i did want to show you is typically as a pedestrian city you see a lot of people walking to and from work or wherever they need to go. and then you see hillary salk, who just happened to be skiing by my camera position. did you need to be out or is this a pleasurable experience for you? very pleasurable. you were in central park for a ski. yes, that s it. you re soaking wet. that doesn t matter. i