state of emergency tonight, it comes as florida is dealing with catastrophic damage from in, at least 17 people dead tonight. there are fears that that number will go up. cnn s chief climate correspondent is bill weir, and he joins me now. bill, hello once again to you. you say this is some of the worst damage you ve ever seen in your career. covering these disasters. tell us what you saw? well, by that i mean, don, there are certain sort of moments and scenes in storms that are just burned into your brain, katrina for a lot of the reasons that we all know. that was such a man made disaster in so many ways, same with maria in puerto rico. you think about those comedians. michael which took apart the panhandle. but i will always remember, i will equate even with what i saw today in st. james city. that s on pine island. and this is a tight little community, a lot of manufactured homes, mobile homes, people whose vote might be worth more than their home, and all of it complet
pull soldiers off the beach at dunkirk by using civilians in every boat. of course, if you remember the movie. and that was their motivated by. that these combined forces we went out today to santa belt, to st. james, and on saint james they were actually going to answer a distress call placed by a child of this couple, seniors who are there who are scared, written out the storm. and we talk to them as they were gratefully accepting a ride back to the mainland. you are saying the water came up really fast? it did. it was so fast. if it wasn t for the water, this would ve been a wind storm. not that bad really. i m the one person that i spoke to at the end of the block that the surge was higher than nine feet. fair yeah, robert and nancy