every single one of these buildings has a personal history behind it. joining us now from fort myers is sam brok. access to parts of fort myers beach are cut off by the hurricane. how is recovery going there? reporter: good morning. here s the issue right now. it is still ambiguous at this point how many people are unaccounted for, how long this recovery process is going to take. you talk to folksen the ground. these urban search and rescue crews, no one can give you a defined timeline for how long this will go on, how many people, potentially, might be victims of the tragedy. you re standing around now in fort myers beach looking at neighborhoods. this is the third or fourth time i have been back here. it doesn t fail to take your breath away. there are debris piles 6 to 7 to 8 feet high. tallahassee car underneath all of this debris. i m watching right now.
rescues continued to be made by the task force teams. the first focus was the barrier islands, sanibel, fort myers beach. a lot of those people decided to stay during the storm. as for the fatalities, the medical examiner said it was storm surge and drowning that killed them. a lot of people i spoke with actually stayed here and wrote it out. not sure they should ve done it but they certainly have a newfound respect for the power of a storm surge. getting power to people is obviously a very huge issue. here in lee county, the hurricane, category four en left 95% of households in the black. down to 75% now. progress is being made. thousands, tens of thousands of utility crews from in and out of state that are on the scene in the sunshine state which, in the days after the hurricane, very hot and very sunny making it
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