house woman is in distress, use 9-1-1, don t use social media. it is a battlefield, and we went methodically, box to box, doing a thorough search. i m assuming that this is, primarily, boats getting a lot of flooding, and just the water, and inundation. you also mentioned rescue swimmers. explaining those folks, in one of the other methods you are using to reach people. when you go after this, like i said a military operation, the land, the sea, the air. if we get in there by trucks, and vehicles, and it was the shallow water rescue. they will go door to door, checking on people. if you get this boat, via vehicle, and you get rescue swimmers. it was highly equipped people, and being a basket, or on a line, that go into harm s way and to pull people out. with people in the coast guard. very appreciated, critical lifesaving efforts in this moment. let me just ask, how in terms you look at this event, and how
people. and we re starting get at first light this morning. we ve got our aircraft in the air this morning. we re going to get out there. we re going to find anybody else that needs assistance. so 95 rescues yesterday. and some of the places, we should note, we talked about sanibel, the only way to get there was by helicopter. you re the only people who could reach the folks on that island. describe the types of rescues that were going on. yeah, that s right, john. you know, this is an all-hands effort. we re working with the florida national guard and fema, urban search and rescue teams, along with the local responders you see there. but in some cases, like in sanibel, captiva and other areas that are completely shut off, the only way to get there is by helicopter. our coast guard helicopters with their air crews are getting in there. we re lowering our rescue swimmers, checking on people, and if they need pulling out, we re pulling out. not only are we saving people, we were able
out. just like you would on a battlefield and we go methodically box to box, grid to grid doing a thorough search. when you say you go grid to grid, box to box, i mean, i m assuming this is primarily boats given the amount of flooding and just the water, the inundation of the water. you also mentioned rescue swimmers. can you explain more about those folks? what other methods are you using to reach people? yeah. we, you know, we go after this like i said like a military operation from a land to sea and air. if we get in there by trucks and vehicles, we ll do that. if we can t do that, we have val low water rescue boats. the then door to door checking on people. if you can t get there by boat or vehicle, we ll use aircraft. we have rescue swimmers that are trained, highly equipped people that we lower in a basket or on a line that go into harm s way into the water if they need to
It may look like an emergency, but know that it's only practice if you see emergency crews working the waters off Deland Park in Sheboygan today. The .
boats as a precaution. and there were close calls we saw with people who didn t take those warnings seriously. a surfer was swept out and had to be saved by rescue swimmers who took him to a nearby sailboat. because coming back to shore was way too treacherous. and in alaska, jose, we re hearing this significanting report that people who lived there heard what sounded like a sonic boom at 3:30 in the morning, about seven hours after that volcano erupted, nearly 6,000 miles away. and it turns out, that was likely the pressure wave from the eruption, traveling at over 800 miles an hour, which just goes to show you how incredible that force was, jose. yeah, and gadi, we ve seen those recent images of train tracks in california, littered with empty boxes. it s still going on. what s happening? reporter: that s right. this has been so infuriating for people not just here in l.a., but across the country. that s thousands and thousands of littered shipping boxes, so many addressed to home