community near sarasota, a possible levee breech could push a 15-foot wall of water into the neighborhood. sarasota is just one of the many gulf coast communities still dealing with severe flooding. hurricane ian slamming southwest florida as a category 4 storm. the death toll now stands at 45. but that number could rise as crews reach areas that have been cut off because of the flooding. right now, the remnants of ian moving over the mid-atlantic states following friday s direct hit on the south carolina coast as a category 1 hurricane. now down to boris in hard-hit ft. myers. boris? reporter: fred, neighbors here are stunned at just is raw power of mother nature. i m not sure how well you can see it behind me, but there are several vessels, five what appear to be commercial fishing charter sized vessels that were lifted from when they were here in this marina in ft. myers and tossed onto the outside part of that bridge, just thrown around like debris, one of many scenes
people were coming in off of boats that were wrecked. i saw my car just floating away, getting banged up. and, you know, it was really bad. really, really bad. the worst thing ever to happen to me like this. we re so grateful you were okay. people were coming off their boats. some of them had to jump in the water. a couple, three people came in. i opened the door to see what was going on, and three people came in. they were, like, we just jumped off of our boat and jumped into the water, and so they were soaked, you know? you just can t even imagine how scary that had to have been with boats being crashed against each other, you know, big boats, big, beautiful bolts crushed on top of each other. right. you know, everything flying,
take off again and go around. he did radio in that he was having electrical problems and after that lost contact with the pilot for eight minutes before it just vanished off the radar. and witnesses say the plane appeared to be almost inverted, upside down, before it spun into the neighborhood clipping a first house, crashing through a second house before landing as you can see right there into the third house. listen now to some witnesses. then my front door flew open, i heard a big boom, i ran outside and got my kids to come inside. i saw the plane, and then i heard the boom and there were sirens right there. so then i ran to the front and it was just a big cloud of insulation and plane parts, everything flying. the jet engine fuel, you could smell it, you could smell it. that s the reason why they made everybody leave the houses. reporter: yeah, two people on board died on impact, including 60-year-old steve