about a friend who had worked construction jobs for him and had even lived with them for a time. his name was lance kirkpatrick. but derrick set detectives straight. i honestly really think you re barking up the wrong tree. i had made the comment, lance would have taken a bullet for kim. so you guys are wasting your time. fine, talk to him. you ll understand. you ll know where i m coming from after you meet him. reporter: lance, he added, not only wouldn t kill kim. he couldn t. derrick said his friend had taken a new job just before her death. well, he s up in georgia, shrimping. reporter: out on a boat. yes. reporter: at sea. yes. miles away. reporter: but derrick did give detectives another name. and this young man had definitely been in the area that week, in jacksonville, and in trouble. coming up kim ever come on to you? no. come on now, a little bit, maybe? no, i wish. a suspect who seemed infatuated with kim. had you ever had sex with her? be honest.
tough questions about why they delayed evacuations until less than one day before the storm hit. lee county, which includes fort myers beach, which hit especially hard more than a week after the hurricane swept through more than 64,000 people. they are still without power. as of yesterday lee county residents were still being told to boil water to eliminate the potential for contamination. as always with disasters like this, marginalized communities are the most vulnerable. assistance usually gets to poor neighborhoods much more slowly. last week i was in fort myers beach and spoke to a handful of residents in a small shrimping community, there. their situation was bleak. n was bleak.i don t to see it, m worried about sanibel, god bless him, they earn their money and everything. but you fly around here and you look at this devastation right here nobody s worried about a little people. that don t make millions of dollars of year. i could ve made $25,000 a year
wanted as little interference sass possible. and foot traffic as possible, so that s a difficult process. i want to give you an idea of where we are right now, to sort of give you an example of the hard work going on in fort myers, not far from fort myers beach. this is another marina simply gutted by hurricane ian. you see the size of these fishing vessels. many are them are shrimping boats. commerce here in southwest florida is largely based on marine life and fishing. and fishing charters. and these enormous boats were picked up by the storm surge and tossed across the landscape. there are heavy machines in the distance that are moving debris and all sorts of trash and people s personal items out of the way. and in the midst of all of that, obviously, is the strain that this community is facing, because a lot of folks haven t been able to get back home and figure out the extent of what they ve lost. and just to give you a sense of
the winds were ferocious. it was 12 to 15 feet of water, well above me and that s why all of those boats, those shrimping boats that you see over there, they were in the water in the bay and they all were pushed up onto land where they re now all heaped together in one big pile. beyond them, is fort myers beach, the beautiful white sands, vacation area, a lot of part-time residents in the wintertime. according to county officials that place 90% of all buildings are now destroyed, mike. mike: phil keating live in fort myers beach, florida, thanks very much, our best to great folks, southwest florida. president biden set to travel to puerto rico tomorrow and head to florida on wednesday to assess the damage left behind by hurricanes fiona and ian to speak to local officials and residents who are dealing with the aftermath. chad pergram is live at the
joining me now is a retired lieutenant general russell honoré. in 2005 russell on wright was brought in by the bush administration who managed the federal response to hurricane katrina in new orleans. he led a team of roughly 30,000 national guardsmen. 20,000 more federal troops, 50,000 people with a dozen navy ships and more than 200 helicopters. lieutenant general, welcome, good to see you, thank you for being with us. i would like, before we start talking, to play some sound for you. this is the resident i was just talking about, you know shrimpers. this is a small shrimping community here in fort myers beach, their situation right now is very bleak. these are some of the people who need the most help, listen to what they told me. how are you doing, how are you feeling, how long are you going to stay out here? we don t have anywhere to go. this is our family other than our families at home. this is how we support them. i ve got a granddaughter on the