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
a crisis with no ordinary solution because this was no ordinary storm. look at the staggering scale of destruction. complicating hundreds of rescue efforts. it laid waste to entire towns, robbing people of their homes and livelihoods. some residents are now beginning to pick up the pieces. others have no pieces left to pick up. i just returned from a boat ride with the cageous navy where i saw some of the destruction for myself. this is what ian did to matt lachey in lee county where most of the deaths occurred so far. in matlacha. they find one of your neighbors? yeah. yeah. they found, like, i think three bodies so far in the water. i know there s more. cnn s nadia romero is in arcadia. we begin with brian todd in naples. officials said it could take months to recover. we have seen evidence all day long from our boat ride to where you are right now. where do things stand today where you are? jim, we re going to show you more evidence of why it s going to take so lon
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and you have nothing, and then you have to start over. i want to relay something our photojournalist orlando ruiz told me about this, his family from puerto rico, they went through hurricane maria and fiona a couple weeks ago. when you re talking about people who have lost everything like this, and you have to pile everything out and start over again, he talked about his aunt who went through maria. basically, she was faced with a situation not unlike this one. she was under stress for about a year, and it changed everything about her life. she s not been the same really since then. this is kind of what people go through. imagine, again, i don t want to beat a dead horse here, but imagine if this is you. if this is your house. you have to put every single thing you own out on a curb for anyone to pick through or crews to come and take away whenever you can because you don t know when that s going to be. then you have to gut your house and then see what the insurance can pay for and all