people are now in 257 shelters like this woman right here. florida says it needs 5.5 million meals to feed them all. and 6.6 million liters of clean water. 2 million people still do not have power. water isn t running in five counties. 19 counties have boil water notices. and more than 200 health care facilities are evacuating, or considering doing so. 10 airports are closed. along with 24 ports. 31 transit systems. and nine railways. and then there is the death toll. the official number is now 14. though those same officials say that number is very likely to rise. and they are warning, just because it has a weaker wind speed, making it a category one storm, hurricane ian, that does not mean that the danger has passed. as we have learned over and over again, it is the water, the rain, the storm surge, and the flooding that is often the most dangerous. that right there is where we begin, looking at what the storm is doing now, joining me from charleston, south carolina, is nbc
to get out. the red on this map shows the mandatory evacuations as of one hour ago. basically the low lying areas near the water. ian is getting strzokker. florida governor said it is 500 miles wide at the moment and he adds that the storm surge and heavy rains will impact the entire state. we will see on the gulf coast of florida heavy rains, strong winds, flash flooding, storm surge and perhaps isolated tornado activity and that is true regardless of the precise track that this takes. don t think because the eye may not be in your area you won t see impacts. you will see significant impacts. these counties expected to see a lot of water and a lot of flooding. the governor activated 5,000 members of the florida national guard and another 2,000 from other states. cnn meteorologist tom sater is here with the latest on ian s path. where will it make landfall? in cuba within 200 miles of that. still a category 1. it is over the warmest waters of the atlantic. we had rapid
hurricane aid should be based on equity but after widespread criticism of those remarks, what is she saying now? john: a hint, sandra. not much. juan williams, mercedes and more to break it down coming up. sandra: fox weather alert, death and devastation, the death toll at 65 in the united states, families along florida s west coast, many now homeless wonder what is next. sandra smith in new york. hi, john. john: good to be with you. i m john roberts in washington. this is america reports. some estimates put the damage at nearly $50 billion in florida alone, receding water bringing the extent into view, fort myers beach, lee county unrecognizable from a week ago. thousands of utility crews, the infrastructure simply no longer exists. president biden will visit the damage wednesday. sandra: shocking new images, update on the historic search and rescue efforts from coast guard, rear admiral coming up next. john: what do we expect from the president s trip on wedne
facility with the roof collapsed there, from the outside, and the inside, seeing greenhouses where you are growing a lot of your plants and things you ship to texas and here up to washington, d.c. how much damage did you suffer in terms of the overall facility? we are still assessing. i would say somewhere, it s a broad range, but somewhere between 5 and $10 million in the t two facilities here in desoto county. john: the power of the starm to do so much damage, and you were a long way inland, the storm did go over you, what does it say about the power of mother nature? mother nature prevails. we have hurricane plans that we prepare as much as we can. i think in this storm, similar to hurricane charley, there were a lot of tornadoes close to the
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