gulf coast more than five people rescued in charlotte and lee county so far. if you need to be evacuated step out of your front door. the fort meyers fire chief said they conducted 200 water rescues overnight. lee county was the hardest hit. this is a home on fire after the storm. fire crews as you can imagine unable to reach it. this is a neighborhood completely inundated as you can see floodwaters have yet to receive. new video from the lee county sheriff s office confirming the work worse. whole towns have been completely level and mayors giving details about their town out the day. i came here in the mid-70s and was on the police department for 25 years and saw a lot of storms. this is by far the worst storm i have ever witnessed. debris is everywhere. my yard looks like a war zone. as of this hour there is some places that are impossible to reach by road. this is the only bridge destroyed in multiple spots as a result of hurricane ian. this is fort meyers bea
when you have hurricane force winds. they are going the see those even in baton rouge. that s going to cause significant power out ans. the rain is adding up, too. as this storm slowly moves to the north, these rain bands haven t moved much. the rain totals are going the add up quick. katrina had storm surges like a cat 5. every storm has its own personal. what is the personal of ida? how might this hurricane surprise you? i think the continuation of these winds. it s just you have had hazards associated with the wane. you about the winds continuing, i mean to have still have well after londsfall 130-mile-an-hour winds is significant. it s damaging. that points to this as well. you think about our storm surge. we are not done with that yet. you have some of the storm surge ahead of the storm. but with that flow out of the south review the landfall point here and the location of the storm here. you still have that on-shore