still quite dangerous. rescue crews are looking for survivors now five days later and the death toll is climbing. officials have confirmed 76 people have died. most in lee county where ian stormed ashore as a category 4. it is feared there had be more victims. now the power is slowly being restored in florida. more than 6,000 homes and businesses still in the dark this morning and it could be months before many are back on the grid. many don t have clean tap water, that makes the overwhelming task of rebuilding that much harder. and now officials in lee county are facing questions about why the first mandatory evacuations weren t ordered until a day before landfall despite a plan that said evacuations should have happened earlier. governor ron desantis defending their actions. they informed people, and most people didn t want to do it. are you going to grab somebody out of their home that doesn t want to? i don t think that s the appropriate use of government. florida res
hurricane ian. 76 people were killed, after the storm tore through the state, governor ron desantis says more than 1,600 rescues have been made since the storm struck. this left some communities unrecognizable. littered with wrecked homes as well as boats, as as you saw there. more than 628,000 customers are still without power and the destruction may just be coming to light. governor ron desantis is defending officials in lee county where half of the storm related deaths have been ann announced. they re facing criticism for issuing evacuation orders a day later than the neighboring county. here s what nadia romero was told. is that one of the things you ll be reviewing once we get out of the i can t aftermath. lee county should have had the evacuation order sooner from what we reviewed? the issue is they informed people and most people did not want to do it. that s the reality. you re in a situation, are you going to grab somebody out of their home that doesn t want to
it on. she stood on stage in the show for about nine minutes as three men with paint canisters sprayed onto her bare body, the results, an off-shoulder strip dress. once they built the tress for her, she fiercely strutted the runway, showing off her new custom-made outfit. thanks for joining us, i m kristine romans, new day picks up right now. . desperation and heartache and this morning in florida. it s monday, october 3rd. i m brianna keilar, john berman is off this morning. we begin with the search for survivors and the rising death toll in florida in the wake of
to sleep waiting until it was finallopen. if you look over here to the right, people are lined up with gas canisters. some o them with many gas canist try to take it home and power their generators. we see people using all kinds of contai to put gas into, includ paint canisters and old jugs of laundry detergent. they are scraping by. it s not just gas lackin one told me that she spent severa hours in line outside a grocer store. when she finally got inside, she was heartbroken th not an water and the food she was looking for. there a lot of desperation here. i was chatting with a man who asked me where is donald trump? where is the federal government and the military? they are not feeling the aid here. make matters worse, there rain in the forecast for puerto rico. the ground is already saturate and some neighborhoods flooding
island. let s begin in puerto rico s capital. boris sanchez is in san juan. boris, you ve been on the streets of san juan all this morning watching the lines grow. what are people telling you? they are desperate, kate. a lot of people have come up to us asking where they can find fema, where they can find people that can offer them aid. some of the folks that are getting to the front of the gas line right now were actually here when our crew arrived at 5:00 a.m. the line is enormous. let s give you a glimpse. there are more than 100 cars here. it stretches furtherer than a quarter mile. we stopped counting after we got to 100. it turns into a corner and then it continues for blocks and blocks, kate. here on our left you can see people in line with gas canisters. they re bringing all kinds of receptacles. i ve seen gas canister, i ve seen old laundry detergent bottles, paint canisters. look, there is old cement