it s top of the hour on cnn newsroom. the death toll from hurricane ian has just gone up. it s now 104 lives lost. 100 of those in florida. search teams finding more bodies as they reach some of the hardest hit areas. more than half of those killed were in lee county which includes ft. myers beach. that city is now closed to everyone but search and rescue personnel. the mayor says there is no time line yet for when residents can return. lee county officials coming under some criticism for the timing of their evacuation orders. now dozens of miles inland in western florida in arcadia, river flooding is still causing problems. . this is five days after ian hit. cnn team on the ground says that part of the highway has disappeared under the water. and many people there are trapped. we were on the ground in arcadia, florida. you re hearing from people panicked there. what is the situation? well, allison, we re entering day four now of people not having electricity. so they don t
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i think that is about every pun i could come up with. i feel like you re just won the competitive pun competition that obviously we didn t know we were part of, but we were. but martin, here is the curious thing. the fish were the same i don t know how they thought that they were going to get away with it since the fish weren t bigger, just heavier. that s right. these look like four pound fish, but put them on a scale and they come in at seven pounds. so they did themselves in with their own doing. martin savidge, thank you very much. and thanks for joining us. the lead with jake tapper starts right now. one devastating hurricane and more than 100 lives lost in the u.s. the lead starts right now. defending their decisions, government officials explain why many evacuation orders came within hours of hurricane ian s landfall with little time for folks to escape.