it was sitting at 45 fatalities. now cnn has confirmed from state officials that it has reached 64 people killed as a result of hurricane ian. and those devastating, nearly category 5, storm force winds. obviously, this is a difficult time for so many across the state of florida. as you noted, search and rescue efforts are still under way. there are parts of the state here in the southwestern region that are inaccessible. southwest florida is made up of thousands of different islands. and access has been cut off not only because bridges were demolished but because of rising waters that have not allowed crews to get to where they need to be. in fact, a few hours ago we heard from a sheriff at north port, florida, telling us his team rescued 150 people overnight. keep in mind, this hurricane made landfall several days ago. those folks were stranded for days. fortunately, he tells us, many
getting the funds to people who need them, we just need to make sure we cut down the red tape as much as we can and help the people who are hurting right now. griff: you mentioned funds. you voted against the cr which would bring, of course, funding for things like fema in response to the storm, why did you vote against it? congressman: well, i voted against it for a number of reasons. we will appropriate funds when needed for this. that cr was being drawn before the hurricane made landfall. i had other issues with it. our challenge, again, with fema, we always have the money, that s not the problem, it s a matter of cutting through the bureaucracy and getting to people s hands as soon as possible but there were other issues that were far beyond just a matter of keeping the government open. i would rather see a true clean continuing resolution but that s not what we had. griff: congressman, fiji, is -,
or acknowledge that we are dealing with the effects of climate change. we have a governor that took office in 2019 and if you live in florida long enough you know that a storm like ian was about to happen and it wasn t a matter of if it was gonna come it was a matter of when it was going to calm and for many of us we have been working on the issue of climate change, on making sure we do everything in our power to curb the effects of climate change. but this governor has not done. that he has shown no leadership. i doubt that he would acknowledge or have a conversation about. that this is a governor that went to a high school football gain a couple of days before the hurricane made landfall. now we have thousands of floridians without a home. we are seeing that the recovery efforts are slowing down. they are not recovering the bodies the way that they thought that they would. he has to rely on the way that a lot of the funding comes from the federal government for disaster relief. but t
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