bill: big visit from the president in florida. search continues there as the death tolls rises to 75 in florida alone. many of the harder hit areas struggle to access food and water. steve harrigan is in arcadia, florida today with more. steve. one week in that struggle continues here in de soto county, 35,000 people still stuck in water that officials say will be around at least another week. trapped by 20 inches of rain. homes, cars, all disappearing underneath that water. no deaths reported here. but nearby lee county the sheriff said finally their emergency level calls are getting back to a normal level. we had over 3800 calls for service that were holding. welfare checks, call to 911, all the stuff that we could not get to during this catastrophic event and today we are back to
i know i ve been getting texts and calls with messages, trying to forward things through 689. the federal level and the teams, you know, we re going door to door, searching all the prop properties. and at the same time, i know the fire departments are doing welfare checks. we re kind of checking off every address. and what do you make of how the evacuation order was handled? we heard from some residents who
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this goes back to flavor flav s, 9-1-1 as a joke. we get over policed, then we call 9-1-1 for help we typically get underserved. i think a good counter to what you are saying, not accounted for something that was put it in perspective, is that denver has a program where when you call 9-1-1, a mental health professional can respond to the situation instead of a police officer. that unit receives 748 calls in the first six months of operations, keeping in mind that these are circumstances where people know they need a mental health professional, and called for one. and in response to those near 750 calls, none of them resulted in a use of force. but we start talking about black people generally calling the police, not only do people get killed after they call the police in mental health crises, they also get kills the way tatyana jefferson did, simply during welfare checks were somebody thinks something is wrong, asked for, help then the person ends up being killed or under circumstances