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
so there are other aspects to this than just fema. these people are going to need help. we need that major disaster declaration for my counties in the east and northeast of florida as well. dana: congressman, thank you so much. we ll stay in touch with you. there is a long road back but back you all will be indeed. thank you for joining us today. bill: these disaster response teams across the country rushing into florida to help. there are a lot of them, too. one is called team rubicon, a veteran-led nonprofit out of los angeles. art de la cruz is the ceo. what s the stouts of your team now? we have teams working hard here. we are currently in fort charlotte. finished our second work order clearing roadways and reconnaissance teams all over the county trying to figure out what type of unmet needs our volunteers can bring their skills to address to help the
for disaster mental health. thanks, guys. dana: we just brought to you the full press conference from governor ron desantis and his team there including kevin guthrie, the director of the florida department of emergency management and the fema director. they answered a lot of questions and explained what s happening there now and what people need to be prepared for, that help is continuing to be on the way. there are over 14,000 people in shelters still. over 700,000 rescues, bill. i know you ll take us through one of the things that you can show us on the map what the governor was talking about. bill: we heard a lot of names, locations and islands and thought give viewers an opportunity to give southwest florida and a better sense how the shore came on shore and why you see the damage you do. a couple things i point out. if you were to draw a straight line west to east charlotte county is to the north, lee county to the south. we heard that many times. collier county is further
had a water main break for the county water utility. that means that the county does not have water at this point. and you need that to be able to function in society. they ve requested support from fema and then we fema was able to provide the army corps of engineers and they were on the ground after kevin called them at 3:00 in the morning yesterday. they were on the ground from jacksonville in the afternoon. they ve been working to assessing that situation. we also have florida national guard personnel standing by to help the army corp if they need it. that will be something very critical to be able to get that back. it may require more of a rebuild. maybe it will require some more short term remediation. they are going through that. that s clearly a top priority. we re thankful that fema and the army corps are there helping
think that is probably the number one priority, kevin, would you say? it s probably the number one priority and the army corps are the experts. hopefully they get a diagnosis and plan and the county can fix it. i ll let kevin talk about the other. so where we stand right now on fatalities is i ll break it down by county. we have one confirmed fatality in polk county. we have 12 unconfirmed fatalities in charlotte county. we have eight unconfirmed fatalities in collier county, and we are still processing through the situation with the hasty search that i mentioned before in lee county. now, let me talk about confirmation and unconfirmed. people die in disasters that have nothing to do with the disaster, right? the medical examiner is the one