rescue operations are racing against the clock at this point. more than 1,600 rescues have been made so far and citizens are doing what they can, offering their own boats to help as people band together in the face of tragedy. officials in the hardest hit county under intense scrutiny over the timing of their evacuation order. we ll learn more about that. first i want to check in with nadia. there are still people, as i understand it, trapped in the floodwaters in that area. what more have you heard? reporter: area, cow hear the airboats behind me. that s a sign of progress. people are being transported and goods are coming and going. people are getting frustrated. it s day four without food or water. i want you to hear from tania warner. she s a member of the arcadia community. she can t figure out what s going on with her own faefrmt he was taken to the hospital. she received a call from a nurse that he was in the icu and oven a ventilator, but now she can t get in touch
reporter: the rescue and recovery operation after hurricane ian continuing on this small white sand island of fort myers beach located in lee county, an island that is now an island of rubble, 54 deaths now reported in this county alone. we re looking for anybody that may have been left behind. the devastation is hard to put into words. reporter: we joined a rescue operation that includes search and rescue dogs. we send the dog in, the dog will sniff around. if we can t make contact, we ll walk up and start hollering and see if we get a response from anybody. if we don t hear anything, we bring a second dog up. reporter: as we walked around on fort myers beach, there is just destruction everywhere. the water that came in here just decimated this area and a lot of people are asking us, when will power come back, how long will it take to recover? and it will be different for some folks. where i am standing right now, this used to be a home. now stairs that lead to now
something, whatever. this should not happen. re-enacting a slave sale as a prank tells us we have a great deal of work to do with our students so they can distinguish between intent and impact. the school superinten dent added they may have thought it was funny, but it is not. it is unacceptable and requires us to look deeply at issues of racism. you have to get kicked off the game or don t even play for the rest of the season because that s messed up. now the school district does say that these students did violate their student athlete code of conduct which they sign at the beginning of each school year. that said, the superintendent also saying this is an opportunity to teach these students for them to understand something this offensive could never, ever be funny. thanks so much. in our money lead today, for a woman who revealed so much
sacramento. according to them, because i have yet to see the video, in a video that s since been deleted shows about a dozen students pointing and yelling dollar amounts at three black students standing in their underwear up against the wall. obviously this came to light thursday, and since then over the weekend, people have been really talking about it, and there has been a response to that point. they have canceled the rest of the varsity football season. they say there are enough players involved they could. safely have a varsity football team after those players were removed from playing anymore. they also said and in listening to the superintendent of the yuma school district, she called it infortunate and extremely distressing. she went on to say re-enacting a slave sale as a prank tells us that we have a great deal of work to do with our studenting so they can distinguish between