strength and swirling off the northern california coast. a second landfall expected hours from now in south carolina. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. the after math of the storm, destruction, loss of life. i always caution everybody when we give out numbers they do fluctuate. right now it is believed 21 people have died from this and we have been told to expect that number to fluctuate again. so we ll report the news as we get it. this side-by-side comparison shows fort myers, people describe it with one word and you hear it over and over and over, gone. boats and cars in piles. homes and businesses shredded. florida governor ron desantis calling the magnitude of the assault biblical, historic. the governor with an update a short time ago. there is life rescue making sure people are okay, following up on any type of calls. there has been really a great effort. the power is a big issue. there are 1.9 million people customers without power. the other
On to w. This is the news live from berlin a search for survivors in indonesia to eight did need tsunami strikes the closer it arrived in the dock off nights without warning bringing devastation to coastal areas the diff toll has time to more than two hundred and is expected to rise as rescuers combed through the rubble hundred small odd injured. Im christine one go out welcome to the program indonesian rescue work has also changed for survivors in the off to math of a devastating tsunami which struck a busy Tourist Region on Saturday Night the official death toll is now Two Hundred Twenty two with more than Eight Hundred people reported injured dozens more are on the concert for that tsunami swept the coastline of the longest straight between sumatra and it was apparently triggered by the eruption off an Island Volcano which santa wall of Water Pressure on to shore. The place where someone used to live now destroyed by the powerful way. Its just one of hundreds of homes and buildings
will discuss the agency also will endeavor to assess. the damage but so far it s. in its yes and. it s admits you need the problem is this. this is quite new or because musically if that isn t the. nominee it s that it s an open wait before the tsunami but mistimed this warning out loud made a small earthquake and finish no warning when it s obvious coming ok now the tsunami struck without warning dramatic footage has surfaced at the moment the water hits jewelry and outdoor concerts and on the beach front. you can see the local pop route seventeen performing as the wave suddenly crashes
the damage to the coast, the beaches, the erosion. i saw houses that were on the beach front that had been lifted up and carried 100 yards away and plunked in the middle of the road. you can only hope that s not going to happen in this case but sandy, at at this point when it hit new jersey was a tropical storm. this is a hurricane. derek van dam is joining us now. derek, where we are right now we are seeing this was the bull s eye for hurricane matthew, but maybe some good news? yeah. it s all about the miles right now, michael. they really matter. trust me, i anticipate conditions to deteriorate quickly for you over night whether you get a direct landfall time will tell. these are the impacts, heavy rains, damaging winds, you have already seen that in our live shot. storm surge, major concern. and flash flash flooding is
you re at the beach right now. describe what you re seeing. what s happening? i m not on the beach front just now, but my understanding on the beach front, we have cleared the area. and, you know secured it. we have the state farm bomb squad on scene. their bomb technicians are searching the area. and looking for any evidence and any indication of what this could be. we re unclear what type of device it is whether it s something that s been left over there or a natural situation or a manmade situation. it s still under investigation at this time. so you re exploring all those possibilities. what would be the natural explanation for this? you mentioned that would be an option. what could cause an explosion under the sand? unknown on what could be natural at this point. there s just no determination. there s no real evidence of a device. so we re trying to still piece