it was so bad that this man had to wade through knee-deep water inside of his own home. in florida the storm damage issine worse. 45 people have died and hundreds of homes are destroyed. a woman struggling to survive was captured in a harrowing phone call. in am in water. okay. i am so cold. i am losing you and i can t hear you. i love you. i love you. well, thankfully that woman was rescued along with others in the state along with 600 patients evacuated from health care facilities. more help is on the way. i have directed that every possible action be taken to save live and get survivors. every minute counts. this is not just for florida. it is an american crisis. my message to people in south carolina is simple. listen to the warning and follow the officials instructions. authorities are concerned about the barrier islands near fort meyers which took the brunt of the hurricane. many residents chose not to evacuate and are now cut off from the mainland. the
unrecognizable landmarks. and it also store up ft. myers beach. we went on a boat ride with the cajun navy and other volunteer rescuers across the area. and matt lachey in the coastal area is where most of the deaths occurred. what is going on over here? a lot of restaurants, into the lot of homes. pretty much all restaurants. theme that do shrimping, fishing. there was buildings the whole way. and they are just gone. you heard their stories that there are bodies in some of the canals and stuff? yeah, like up to the second story window, the water was still going. and that is the road right there. yeah. and it is gone. yeah. this area is pretty typical of the destruction around here. there is a bridge intact just about a block from here. maybe a quarter of a mile, nothing more than that, but the road leading to that bridge is completely washed out. so the island that is on the other side of that bridge is cut off right now. the people texted me hey, your ho
with over 6.2 million people under a hurricane warning here. sandbags lining the charleston streets, the governor says he knows what is coming. and now, zooming out, still trying to comprehend the tol tolerating pain, and the death toll. and now, sanibel island is only reachable by boat, and city after city in florida decimated by hurricane ian. and in fort myers, decimated by heaps of concrete and debris and the people trying to pick up their lives and send help. we lost everything last night, everything. the family is okay, and the dogs are okay, and the parents are okay, and we have lost everything, and we have been in the house since 1987, and everything is gone, pictures, memories, everything. and now, going to charleston where the community is waiting, and we have miguel marcus there, and the high tide just as the hurricane is set to come ashore, and what are you seeing? yeah, it is pretty miserable right now, and this is the worst that we have seen. the winds are
the winds are gusting at 85 miles per hour, and the other big concerns are life-threatening storm surge and heavy rain. we are tracking who is in the most danger. all of this as millions of people in florida are taking those first painful steps towards recovery. so many lives are upended by hurricane ian s devastation, and the storm is likely one for the record books as the grim evidence of the powerful strike now litters coastlines. today, fort myers beach impassable. shells of buildings is all that is left. boats are tossed like toys as well as homes at this point, we know that 25 people have died in florida. roughly 2 million without power, and staggering level of destruction and damage estimates are climbing fast. we have teams covering it all, and we begin in south carolina where ian is bearing down and our nick valencia is in myrtle beach. what are you seeing there, nick? well, ana, we are getting a break in the rain, and wred not expecting it to last, but the residen
and of course, the search and rescue operations are underway. first responders, they have been mobilized. emergency crewd ems doinge tr everything they can to rescuent those that are trappedinue as residents. now continue to suffer under the devastating storm surgesurg from naples to sarasota, forts o myers, beyond the storm is now barreling towards the coast of b south carolina. dsit looks to be headed straight towards charleston, will have full coverage throughout the night tonight. but first, as we have shown you on this program night after night, your presiden aftert, its the president of the united states of america, joe biden,tae is not weln is il. he is weak, is frail, frankly decrepit. is deteriorating cognitively p at a pretty rapired pacetty . and he s not fit to be the commander in chief yesterday. whankly,mmander- may have been joe biden s lowest moment yet,ic which is kind of saying a lot during a white house event on combating hunger, which honored the late indi