the scope of hurricane ian s devastation is becoming clearer for days after the category four storm slammed into the coast of southwest florida, with record-breaking strength. 85 people are dead, 81 in florida, and four in north carolina. the death toll rises each time rescue crews reached new areas. and searches are going on around the clock. but some people are still stranded and waiting for help, like these residents of sanibel island. there has been no communication, nobody official has come on to the island to tell us what is going on. we don t have places to go, we have no cars to get their. lack of food, medicine, clean water, and electricity. these are all on the list of tops concerns. more than 1 million people are still without power across four states. now, president biden says he and the first lady will travel tomorrow to puerto rico, which is still reeling from hurricane fiona, and tour damage in florida on wednesday. our hearts, to state the obvious, it
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back up. the lee county coast area, up into charlotte county, they have the brunt of the storm surge and then inland flooding. they are still not able to get it back up, that is why they are getting them into these shelters on the mainland, getting the basic services, and then the next step is getting fema assistance to provide temporary housing for those who don t have a place to go back home to. we know that president biden has approved disaster declarations in three states and puerto rico. people in these states and territories can t start applying for aid to fema immediately. but fema has been criticized to be slow to deliver in the past. realistically, craig, how long should we expect it to take for some of these folks to get relief? what fema can do is those people need a temporary place to live, they will put them up in hotels motels are available
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