feet high, could plunge into the neighborhood. it s just one of the many gulf coast communities still suffering from catastrophic flooding. it s been quite an operation. some of our major thoroughfares have become impassable even as the water recedes, there s washouts. so we have a long, long recovery period. all of this following hurricane ian s destructiv ive h across florida. it slammed into the gulf coast as a category 4 hurricane. entire towns leveled. florida governor ron desantis is expected to give an update on the situation later on in this hour. we ll take that for you live. let s send it down to boris sanchez with our coverage from ft. myers, florida. boris? fred, you just broke the news that we have been dreading all day. initially, when we got up this morning, officials had told us that the death toll from hurricane ian was hanging at around 45 fatalities, and you just broke the news, 64 people killed by hurricane ian here in the state of florida and potent
due to rising floodwaters, cars at a standstill along i-70 five. the death toll now reportedly i the dozens and climbing. we will have live reports from the ground and talk about how her state is handling the extreme weather. how they are responding to the landgrab in an california high school no longer applying the thin blue line and parents goin to move disrespectful to law enforcement, but worst one of the worst rooms in u.s. history continuing on its path of destruction. in charleston, south carolina tonight with the latest. hello, molly. thankfully the rain and thos high winds have finally dissipated as it is moved further inland toward the mainland. charleston took a tough hit today. thankfully, many people here on the streets of charleston said they feel like they dodged a bullet, they have seen were storms here like irma in 2017. we got a chance to get up and look at some of the damage from today s storm. a pretty dangerous situation. a little further up the coastli
i want the after pete: the aftermath of hurricane ian leaves florideans picking up the pieces. search and rescue efforts in the sunshine state are underway. 30 people confirmed dead and 27 deaths in florida alone. more than 1 million people in florida are without power. will: ian making land fall in south carolina yesterday and battering the east from the atlantic side as a hurricane surging inland as a post-tropical cyclone. several piers including this one on polly s island collapsing into the water. rachel: team coverage with meteorologist rick reichmuth standing by. thank god we have him today but we have alexandria hoff on the ground in fort meyers. good morning. good morning, there s a line of ambulances that are ready to be deployed as the day goes on and it s a somber reminder on the highways and yesterday you d be driving down and coming from fort meyers beach and fort meyers beach almost completely washed away and recovery efforts are more methodical and will co
will: remnants of ian continue to devastate the southeast. videos and photographs don t do the devastation any justice. it looks like a bomb exploded frankly. we ve been through irma, wilma 15 years ago, this is something i have never seen in my life. i need you to get up in there and i will hand her to you and you need to hold her. i don t know what else to do. only thing we can do is pray. will: a shelter in place warning issued in florida after a possible levy breach with potential to unleash 15 foot floodwaters into areas already devastated by hurricane ian. pete: that warning sent to eastern sarasota county, one of the hardest hit areas by the storm when it made landfall as a category 4 hurricane this week. search and rescue efforts underway is 30 people confirmed dead. 7 deaths alone in florida. more than one million people in florida without power this morning. will: en making its third and final landfall searching inland as a post-tropical cyclone
pete: this morning a terrifying warning out of collier county, florida, 911 services are down as search and rescue efforts continue across the state. no word yet on when they ll be back online. so far 30 people confirmed dead. 27 in florida and more than 1 million people in florida still without power. rachel: ian making its third and final landfall in south carolina yesterday battering the east as a hurricane before surging inland as a post-tropical cyclone. several piers including this one on pawley s island collapsing into the water due to storm surge. will: we have team coverage with the latest and chief meteorologist mcreichmuth standing by but we have alexandria hoff in florida. good morning. we re at a distribution site that opened up at 7:00 and a line of cars waiting on it at that point and ice and water being given out here by members of the national guard and food and some basic necessities and on the other side of this site, there s heavy machinery that s been a