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strength and swirling off the northern california coast. a second landfall expected hours from now in south carolina. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. the after math of the storm, destruction, loss of life. i always caution everybody when we give out numbers they do fluctuate. right now it is believed 21 people have died from this and we have been told to expect that number to fluctuate again. so we ll report the news as we get it. this side-by-side comparison shows fort myers, people describe it with one word and you hear it over and over and over, gone. boats and cars in piles. homes and businesses shredded. florida governor ron desantis calling the magnitude of the assault biblical, historic. the governor with an update a short time ago. there is life rescue making sure people are okay, following up on any type of calls. there has been really a great effort. the power is a big issue. there are 1.9 million people customers without power. the ....
first confirmed hurricane related death in osceola count. 14 million people right now under a flood advisory. the scale of destruction is hard to comprehend. we are learning more by the minute. any minute from now, president biden gets a briefing on the scope and devastation of this storm. millions of floridians right now without electricity. lee and charlotte counties in southwestern florida knocked entirely off the power grid, that according to florida s governor. emergency responders working through a backlog of calls for help. for some, that help won t get there in time. in naples, scenes of desperation, first responders wading through shoulder-high water to carry, drag people to safety. in orlando, regret for not following orders to get out. i heard the evacuation going off on my phone, but i was, like, we re going to be all right. i kept saying, we re going to be all right, you know what i m saying? but, boy, was i wrong. i was wrong. if i would have known it wa ....
you might have gone to get your coffee, seen your friends. i was here at 30 rock with my entire staff. i went to a school play that day. but by the end of the evening the w.h.o. had declared covid a pandemic. seattle shut down their school system, the first major district to do so, the stock market fell off a cliff. the sign of a lot more pain to come. the first case of covid popped up on capitol hill and the nba suspended its season leading all the rest of major sports to follow suit. that all happened in one single day. it was a stunning disruption to all of our lives and as we know it was just the beginning. one by one states shut down, businesses closed and normal life came to a complete halt. but we also know the future is much brighter than it has been in a long time. tonight president biden will mark the anniversary. tomorrow he signs the american rescue plan into law, hopefully getting more help to those who need it most. remember, we went from no vaccines to th ....