officials in florida now say at least 66 people are confirmed dead, more than half the fatalities are here amid the widespread devastation in lee county, home to fort myers. the sheriff there says there have been more than 600 rescues in that county alone. near sarasota police officers evacuated a neighborhood early this morning as a levee appeared in danger of collapsing. that threat, a 15-foot wall of water crashing into the neighborhood. just a short time ago the state reopened a 12-mile stretch of interstate 75 in both directions bet an over flowing river has forced a closure there. governor desantis said overflowing lakes and rivers have also created havoc. there s also other areas where we may expect additional flooding. i was touring central florida with some of the aerial tours. there was more standing water in central florida than there was in southwest florida from the imp immuno impact of the storm serurge. i want to bring in jim acosta in fort myers, one of th
present, future. nothing we can do about the past. we got hit, we got hit hard. present is what we re dealing with. there is no tomorrow. it s day by day. major issues are water, power, sewage systems, because the computer driven systems haven t been able to clear the sewage processing, so we could face a problem there. things are getting better. probably 30% of the greater municipal area is back on power. a lot of it is just giving confidence to the citizens that there s a voice out there and people are listening to them. i think we re a seasoned group and a very good community. they just want to hear voices from the state, from the city, even from washington to say, we got your back. reporter: we talked to a lot of people who tried to ride out this storm, maybe thought it was going to go to tampa or farther north and really got hammered by this hurricane. what is your sense of when the evacuation orders went out, did that go out early enough?