Bret im bret baier. This is americas newsroom. 55 People Killed and expected to rise as Rescue Crews Comb through the rubble of neighborhoods. The sheer scale of the devastation there. They turned a tropical paradise into what is called an apocalypse. Officials are scrambling to find shelter for thousands left homeless. Dana putting more stress On Fire Crews who have been working around the clock, bret. This happened quickly. The devastation on day two here im afraid what people will end up finding. They have so many people still missing. Bret the most amazing thing. Some of the video that started coming out a couple days ago are the people jumping into the ocean to avoid the flames. The devastation is unbelievable. Now federal authorities are trying to get as much as they can to these people who have lost everything. Dana one more point on this. Will cain spent a lot of time there as a child and throughout his adult life and he has been giving us some information how close knit this c
torrential rain. hundreds of miles away from where ian first came ashore as a hurricane at this hour they are inundated by water. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. breaking news with new developments now. let s go to orlando. look at these pictures. tropical storm ian hitting that metro and already our reporters are showing us conditions where high water rescues are underway. some 127 so far. returning now to sanibel island. look at the left side of your screen. those were the moments just before hurricane ian hit. look at the right side of your screen. the height of the storm with 155 mile-per-hour winds and a massive storm surge that left sanibel in ruins. the way in and off the island, the sanibel causeway major destruction. this was the only option for vehicle travel between the island and florida s mainland. we ve had coast guard rescues, urban search and rescue teams from the state of florida, the national guard down in southwest florida. people
connection to lahaina. a historic town from the whaling days and when we came here our company came here in 1973, it was the first place we landed and it has been the same. we never would imagine it would happen and why no one left. they were there and didn t believe it would happen. bret: if people want to donate, where do they go? is there a website? yeah, global empowerment mission.org. i think cash is the absolute most important thing right now. we will have to basically subsidize rentals and pick up as many rentals as we can for the displaced population on the island. we did that after the surfside tragedy. we relocated every single family. that was our job. we put them in new homes. we have to rent other homes for people. otherwise they will be living in a shelter for the rest of their lives. there is no other solution.
interestingly, when i spoke to the representative who is there from this organization, he said, families are coming over about one every seven seconds. and that s happening not only during daylight hours, but during the evening. these sort of items here, 500,000 people crossing into the border, it s estimated that there may be well, more than 5 million to 10 million, if it keeps up at this space. so jose, a desperate need to help those refugees and interestingly, americans who aren t sure what to do, are reaching out and making donations to this organization. we re going to put the web address up here, so that folks can see who, if they want to help this organization, that s helping those refugees and it s important to note that this money that is donated can be directed just to the cause. so it s not a case of giving money to an organization and finding the money gets diverted somewhere else, jose. and if you re just listening and not watching, global empowerment mission.org is the