i want the after pete: the aftermath of hurricane ian leaves florideans picking up the pieces. search and rescue efforts in the sunshine state are underway. 30 people confirmed dead and 27 deaths in florida alone. more than 1 million people in florida are without power. will: ian making land fall in south carolina yesterday and battering the east from the atlantic side as a hurricane surging inland as a post-tropical cyclone. several piers including this one on polly s island collapsing into the water. rachel: team coverage with meteorologist rick reichmuth standing by. thank god we have him today but we have alexandria hoff on the ground in fort meyers. good morning. good morning, there s a line of ambulances that are ready to be deployed as the day goes on and it s a somber reminder on the highways and yesterday you d be driving down and coming from fort meyers beach and fort meyers beach almost completely washed away and recovery efforts are more methodical and will co
will: remnants of ian continue to devastate the southeast. videos and photographs don t do the devastation any justice. it looks like a bomb exploded frankly. we ve been through irma, wilma 15 years ago, this is something i have never seen in my life. i need you to get up in there and i will hand her to you and you need to hold her. i don t know what else to do. only thing we can do is pray. will: a shelter in place warning issued in florida after a possible levy breach with potential to unleash 15 foot floodwaters into areas already devastated by hurricane ian. pete: that warning sent to eastern sarasota county, one of the hardest hit areas by the storm when it made landfall as a category 4 hurricane this week. search and rescue efforts underway is 30 people confirmed dead. 7 deaths alone in florida. more than one million people in florida without power this morning. will: en making its third and final landfall searching inland as a post-tropical cyclone
i want the after pete: the aftermath of hurricane ian leaves florideans picking up the pieces. search and rescue efforts in the sunshine state are underway. 30 people confirmed dead and 27 deaths in florida alone. more than 1 million people in florida are without power. will: ian making land fall in south carolina yesterday and battering the east from the atlantic side as a hurricane surging inland as a post-tropical cyclone. several piers including this one on polly s island collapsing into the water. rachel: team coverage with meteorologist rick reichmuth standing by. thank god we have him today but we have alexandria hoff on the ground in fort meyers. good morning. good morning, there s a line of ambulances that are ready to be deployed as the day goes on and it s a somber reminder on the highways and yesterday you d be driving down and coming from
the hardest hit areas by the storm when it made landfall as a category 4 hurricane this week. search and rescue efforts underway is 30 people confirmed dead. 7 deaths alone in florida. more than one million people in florida without power this morning. will: en making its third and final landfall searching inland as a post-tropical cyclone. waves forcing the years off its legs and collapsing into the water, the death toll from ian is still expected to climb. raymond: coverage on the latest with rick reichmuth standing by. good morning. reporter: good morning. we are at an emergency staging site in lee county where the county is 75% without power. the national guard is going to
into that area. they couldn t get in there because their cell tower is down. no communication. roads impassable. look at this fairfield inn. abby: look at towels all along the hallway. rob schmitt our reporter was trying to get to us from rockport. zero cell service. people have hopefully evacuated that area. had you people i guess from nursing homes had evacuated. people going to jails to find shelter. just now getting that visual as we are waking up this morning. clayton: look at dropped ceiling there goes to show you sure devastation. water sitting on flattened commercial buildings there. they don t have the runoff that you would have on residential buildings. some of those drop ceilings, tiles just collapsed right there right out of the ceiling. rick reichmuth standing by right now. downgraded now, rick to a category 1 but frankly who cares when you are seeing all of the rain and how much and how long this storm is going to hang out there? rick: absolutely who cares. the storm is a