we are carrying out search and rescues across the state. there have been at least 700 rescues confirmed as of thursday. first responders are doing targeted searches. going home by home, checking to see if people are okay. there will be many more rescues that are added. the absolutely expect to have from the surrogate. so far, at least 19 people are confirmed dead. there was a significant number of people that remained on the island during the catastrophic weather event. right now, it is important for us to go ahead and say, are you okay? it will take a few days to get to all of the places that have reports continue to to get them coming in. the scope of the overall destruction is coming in. areas cut off by rubble. look at this mess. we met they were left without power in central florida. falling debris, tornadoes, life-threatening storm surge. in some cases, we need to rebuild rather than simply repair. reporter: cruz look to restore power. floodwaters contin
to fully reseed again. we have saw that water breached the seawall near the and the bridge of lions. that alarmed a lot of people in this area. if you would like to safely and securely help people affected by hurricane ian who need shelter, food, and water, please go to cnn.com/impact. please stay withth cnn for continuing coveragage of hurricanane ian. wewe will have more on the catastrophic damage and the flooding and its path in florida. we will all have what is expected next coming up. stay with us.
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chinese system that you can have a leader of a country at 1.4 billion people banished for 11 days, and there is no explanation, no mention of it. not even any attempt to try to address the rumors that were spreading like wildfire around the world. the united states, europe, and of course in india. from the chinese perspective, it didn t really matter to them. it doesn t matter what happened outside. they controlled so much. the narrative inside china from the media, to the internet. the political views of people themselves. if they speak out, they can very well be punished. it just goes to show that the amount of power that he has consolidated for himself, he will be publicly coordinated at that in the next couple days. thank you so much. thank you for joining us. i ll be back with more coverage after this short break. you are watching cnn.
safety with airports. they said they lost everything and were taken out of a window. another woman wishes she evacuated before the storm. that car was submerged. with thought, get the vehicles out. it was too late. remixing coastal flooding and strong winds, and you come across things like this, people all over the city of naples. telling reporters that they believe the proper damage to the city itself could go as high as $20 million. personal property like this could be as high as $200 million. brian todd, cnn, naples, florida. hurricane ian is far from over. it is now setting its eyes on south carolina. a look at the damage in southern florida. when the seararch took out -