the former president keeping election lie alive at his rally in michigan. it took a month, for one thing, to let biden in their. they had a whole month to cheat or whatever they did and it was supposed to be a one day election. next hour, our friends at the good buyers are going to join us with the up close trump faithful that rally as well. and miss nbc has confirmed the 78 people have died after the path of destruction, including excuse me. for people in north carolina, somebody for in florida, more than hundred thousand customers without power and that s improvement for more than 2 million, in the dark over the weekend began. and to bring liz maclachlan who standing by for us there. liz, give us a sense as we spoke yesterday of the absolute destruction there. we know now that the rescue efforts are ongoing on? that s right, yasmin. crews are working day and night here in fort myers right now. you can see some of the demolition crew behind me, residents won t
that destruction left behind in just three cities in florida. and clued in fort myers. we will go there in just a moment and now coming to be known as ground zero. satellite images showing areas there before and after the storm. survivors continuing to speak out about what they have endured. i sheltered in a closet until part of the roof came off. and then the wind came in there so that i just went behind the bed. and stay there. nothing about gratitude that we are here and for all that the people out there do. i will never ever not evacuate again. the power of that storm i mean if that would ve crashed into the side of the house. we would have been swept away. all right happening now in sarasota county in west central florida. possible levee break, that is threatening flooding about to 15 feet in the hayden river community. the sarasota county sheriff s office tweeting a warning saturday morning. and then urging residents to shelter in place if it is safe to do so.
is very unpredictable. and lee county emergency documents, however, really stressed a time is off the f since strategy. the police that we were yesterday, jasmine, i talk to you from pine island there is only one way in and out and if you are the places are like that, to. those bridges and roads totally collapsed and now and those emergency planning documents note the challenge there that swift evacuation just isn t possible because of the large population in the very few roadways. a lot of questions here about that planning and what could be done to prevent the tragedy in the future. two things of note here, import to reiterate. the president announcing yesterday that they will be traveling to the state of florida yesterday with the hard hit. by hurricane. this maclachlan for, us thank you, we appreciate it. i want to move with you to fort myers beach where we find nick standing by for us, as well. another place got entire lee
out of pine island. access is going to take a really long time to recover. and with climate change we are expecting stronger storms. a lot people are talking about that, thinking about what their future decisions may be and if moving inland might be their only option. yasmin? our atlas maclachlan for, us we appreciate it liz. bringing us the startling images and what is taking place over the last couple of days. of course our thoughts and prayers are with all of the folks to that of lost and so much of the last 72 hours. thank you for that lives. with that, want to go north now. and charleston in south carolina where he s fine jack brewster. charleston to a certain extent, it got pretty lucky especially considering some of the images we are seeing of course in florida. on the west coast of florida, landfall was a little bit north of charleston. but nonetheless top throw you are seeing there? we re not dynamic that you described as the exact one that