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that number could rise even higher as search and rescue crews work to reach cutoff areas, removing debris from destroyed homes and businesses along florida s southwest coastline and we re learning that miami-dade fire rescue crews are conducting helicopter evacuations on sanibel island. boris sanchez is there in fort myers, florida. boris, you just spoke with the lee county sheriff a few moments ago. what was said? reporter: fred, there have been a lot of questions today about the timing of when lee county ordered evacuations. we re in lee county right now in fort myers. what we ve learned is lee county ordered its first evacuations more than a day after forecasts met the county s criteria despite the fact the county has an emergency plan that suggests evacuations should have happened earlier. the county s comprehensive emergency ma or more of water would indicate the need for hurricane evacuations in the most vulnerable areas. a lot of lee county is a vulnerable area ....
That number could rise even higher as search and rescue crews work to reach cutoff areas, removing debris from destroyed homes and businesses along florida s southwest coastline and we re learning that miami-dade fire rescue crews are conducting helicopter evacuations on sanibel island. boris sanchez is there in fort myers, florida. boris, you just spoke with the lee county sheriff a few moments ago. what was said? reporter: fred, there have been a lot of questions today about the timing of when lee county ordered evacuations. we re in lee county right now in fort myers. what we ve learned is lee county ordered its first evacuations more than a day after forecasts met the county s criteria despite the fact the county has an emergency plan that suggests evacuations should have happened earlier. ....
Impacted? reporter: absolutely. it will probably take hours if not days to really get a better idea of the scope, the magnitude of this disaster. areas that have been hit by the earthquake are simply not accessible from the capital of port-au-prince that would make getting aid to those areas very, very difficult. the prime minister, the new prime minister of haiti, we should add, has said that he will be traveling there as soon as he can. he ll be bringing aid with him. he ll be trying to get to some of these cutoff areas. there are eight groups on the ground already in haiti that will be trying to help as well and of course, more aid is expected to be necessary as they go forward. the images really just tell the story though. the enormous buildings, completely pancaked that have fallen to the ground with people inside, people still being pulled from the rubble. many people being treated in the open air because it s not safe ....
Floating in the water. we had just one of the boat captains over that we met and have been talking to the last few days to where we re staying and we re chatting with them and he said there s still people out doing this hoping against hope, really. incredibly that perhaps people could still be out there and some of these cutoff areas and isolated areas that no one has reached and that they might be able to find people alive. they have not stopped, which is really quite incredible. but it s also just terrifying to think that there could be survivors out there waiting for rescue. wow. and then, patrick, i know you were describing earlier, there really are bodies kind of strewn everywhere. it is hot there. and beyond the smell, we also know that, you know, with the decomposition of bodies whether they can locate them right away or not, i mean, that will only potentially spread diseases and sickness. i worry we re going to go from one disaster to another ....