and i am trying to be brave and know that my family and i are safe and i will worry about all of that other stuff later. i am 67, lived here for five years. and now it is gone. it is underwater. underwater. so much of that area still underwater there, want to go to matlacha in florida. where liz mclaughlin standing by for us. let s take us there if you will once again. joining at the top of the last hour, as you are still in that area that is just completely devastating to see a road completely broken up really. crumbled upon itself. water still surrounding the area. what more are you seeing? absolutely yasmin this does not look like the result of a hurricane. this looks like an earthquake or something. it is just crumpled concrete, the only artery to the height of pine island behind me. matlacha, this idea like kind of fishing village now just completely crumbled. and in fact there are some remains of homes here. one zahra behind it are completely gone. just washed out
completely crumbled. and in fact there are some remains of homes here. one zahra behind it are completely gone. just washed out to sea. folks are just starting to come and see the damage and they just can t access if they re already evacuated but coast guard is now coming to pick people up as well as cajun navy. residents helping residents and neighbors helping neighbors. to bring people back in respect to people as they were getting off of those boats what they were going through and they said a lot of people are scared. they are scared to leave and they don t have any communication. they don t know if there is going to be water or food coming. some people have children say with special needs and there is a big an older community there not are struggling to try and figure out what to do and they are still we heard from the residents dead bodies being pulled from the rubble so the death toll continuing to rise