millions of floridians in this storm s path. those who have not evacuated are urged to shelter in place immediately. almost 800,000 people are already without power. that s according to florida utilities. the director of fema has warned that recovery from hurricane ian will be a very long road. that agency has already begun to pour resources into the state. in an event earlier today, president joe biden said he spoke with florida governor ron desantis and added he already requested aid saying, quote, the federal government is ready to help in every single way possible. ali velshi who has been doing the heroic job of bringing the story to all of us from naples, florida, is our first guest. ali, tell me what you re seeing. i ve been watching all day long. please tell me how you re staying safe. reporter: we always appreciate that. what did we just lose there, peter? something has come off the building that we re in. in fact, we re seeing a lot of that. moments ago we saw a fr
to four feet above sea level is devastating. in those communities where you have people who did not leave, we begin to concern ourselves with images that we sea out of katrina and other storms, people going to the roofs of their houses looking for rescue. we hope that the cost of human live and injury will be minimal, but we re still in that stage, and we will see first responders hopefully before they lose daylight today be able to respond, but certainly at the break of day tomorrow morning, that will be where our eyes turn. where are the most devastating communities and where do we see the human cost of the storm? david jolly, i m so glad for your eloquent framing of this as sort of why we watch. i grapple with it myself. are we covering storm porn or are we really trying to capture something really important so people know about the fate of our fellow citizens who live in the storm s path or people that
the population, you know, we saw andrew in 92, we saw katrina, we saw harvey, a lot of rain. but the concentration of this category 4 as it is now coming to landfall and then with predictions to cross the state and literally go north through florida, this has the potential of being something we have not seen before in terms of destruction to the infrastructure, where there s so many people living. hi, again, everyone. it s 5:00 in new york. in the last 30 years, only two category 5 hurricanes have made landfall in the united states, both of them in florida. hurricane andrew in 1992, which we ve been discussing and hurricane michael in 2018, which we have also been discussing. and now hurricane ian, which made landfall just under two hours ago on a barrier island