we know that at least 10 have been confirmed dead. officials are warning us that that number will likely be higher. significant damage i saw was on fort myers beach there have been more than 700 confirmed rescues and likely many more than that. ainsley: florida s governor ron desantis there. he is going to have a press conference today at 8:45 a.m. with an update on ian and we will bring you that live. these before and after photos are showing the extent of the damage down in fort myers. a crew is being enforced is being enforced there to prevent all of the looting. brian: that s sad to think people would be thinking about florida. 2 million people still have no power. team coverage this morning trying to cover it all. it s not easy. meteorologist adam klotz is standing by with ian s latest track. robert ray is live in fort myers with a look at the damage. robert? good morning. as we are starting to see the beginnings of sunlight on this friday, which normally would
goes down, it dips into the road, we tried to get them out but they just submerged we had to pull back in the bay and hope for the best. pete: talk to us about the ongoing rescue efforts. how is it going? how are people in the naples area? it s going. we have had multiple rescues this morning early, early in the morning. we had a structure fire. guys had been out all night working. our crews are extremely tired. they actually just got back some of them are still on scene it s an ongoing effort it s nonstop. chief, last question, your men have families, men and women have families there as well. so the double duty of, you know, caring for their family and the community. yes, sir. what we find with most of our personnel is i should say all of our personnel is they just dedicated to serving our community. so they made sure their families are safe at home and in a nice place for now. but, when they get here.
they are dedicated to the doing whatever they need to do to serve this community and step up to any challenge that is we are faced with. so, we are still morale is still high and still responding and continue to search. serve. pete: we appreciate you and i know everyone in the naples does. i know there are folks coming in and out on efforts and i m sure you will be out as well. we will be praying for you thank you. thank you. pete: you got it. more than 2 million floridians speak of that without power after hurricane ian. duke energy is on the way with thousands of personnel that are prepared to respond. when officials say when will officials say the lights will come back on? we will find that out. florida s first lady casey desantis joins us live with her efforts to help ian s victims
southwest florida. the naples firehouse, you saw these images was left submerged in floodwaters. but, after 24 hours of working together, they were able to get the water out of the station and now they are back to fighting fires and assisting with water rescues. joining us now are two members of that naples fire rescue tear ren nehemiah and chief pete thank you for being here. start with you did this ever happen to you or sneak up. we are low lying area. team plus one. our bays are a little bit lower just for the ability to get in and out quickly. they are flood-proved. and built to be flood and drain floodwaters came up so quickly we couldn t get our vehicles out of the station on time.