defivastation hours after hurricane ian made landfall. crews are assessing the damage and officials are urging people to stay away from the flooded roadways. charleston international airport was closed on friday and is expected to remain closed for several more hours. the storm caused the partial collapse of two piers in north myrtle beach. officials aren t allowing thin back on the island until they make a full assessment of the damage. karen maginnis is joining us with more. bring us up to speed. and we have post-tropical ian, that makes it sound very benign, but in fact there will still be a lot of rain associated with this, the potential for flash flooding and heavy downpours especially across the tidal area around chesapeake bay, delmarva peninsula, and also extending into west virginia and down towards north carolina. want to show you those images out of charleston. it was thought that this
ian is now causing more damage in the carolinas as it moves in-plan as a post-tropical cyclone. search and rescue effort under way in florida is truly a mammoth task. the u.s. coast guard has rescued more than 275 people so far, an official says the shear scale of the damage can make navigating those missions tricky. have a listen. what we re finding is that many of the people are not critically injured and not in immediate distress, but they are stranded. they are stuck so, you know, islands either manmade that have been there for some time and surrounded by water, but more importantly, those areas that weren t islands before and now they are surrounded by water. some slow it, slow it, slow it. come out the window. this video gives you some idea of what rescue crews keep coming across, people trapped in
significant damage particularly this north myrtle beach to the cherry grove pier which was wrecked by the heavy rain and significant wind that came with hurricane ian. portions of that pier floating into the atlantic. there was concerns here from local officials for localized flooding especially along the coast. some some rresidents did get wa their home and there was at least one rescue. along the coast just hours ago was under water, all of that water has reseized ceded back i ocean. but the wind is still a factor. and on friday there was a shrimp boat that seemingly appeared out of nowhere in the atlantic just getting hammered by the choppy waves. and initially it wasn t clear whether or not there was anyone on that boat. we did talk to the sheriff s office and they said that it was yesterday or rather thursday that the crew was evacuated by the coast guard. it was anchored down, but because of the severe weather, it drifted ashore here. actually one person was arrested