Electricity. Most in lee county. Some customers might not have power for months. Governor ron desantis says 2,000 people have been rescued. State officials are trying to determine how many people are still unaccounted for. The window for finding survivors is starting to close. Cnns Carlos Suarez has more. Reporter unrecognizable in parts. Still underwater in others. Hurricane ians destruction and path so vast Search And Rescue efforts continue days after the storm tore through florida. We kent get over the bridge. Reporter residents in Desoto County are stopped. Air boats are key to getting supplies in and people out. These air boats are going out taking people into town and its been going for a while now. Reporter the death toll across the State Climbing rapidly. A lot of sick people running out of medications. A lot of people running out of water and until we can get everything up and going, were trying to get them out. Reporter hundreds of Sanibel Island residents cut off from the m
electricity. most in lee county. some customers might not have power for months. governor ron desantis says 2,000 people have been rescued. state officials are trying to determine how many people are still unaccounted for. the window for finding survivors is starting to close. cnn s carlos suarez has more. reporter: unrecognizable in parts. still underwater in others. hurricane ian s destruction and path so vast search and rescue efforts continue days after the storm tore through florida. we kent get over the bridge. reporter: residents in desoto county are stopped. air boats are key to getting supplies in and people out. these air boats are going out taking people into town and it s been going for a while now. reporter: the death toll across the state climbing rapidly. a lot of sick people running out of medications. a lot of people running out of water and until we can get everything up and going, we re trying to get them out. reporter: hundreds of sanibel isl
lives. one of the key things is creating a space that s safe to even go into and a lot of these areas still aren t even safe, christine. a lot of these areas local officials are asking people to stay away from because they re having a hard time getting into, doing search and rescue. we re days past the landfall. you re looking at central florida. the flood waters are still rising in central florida. we ve had the hardest time, getting personnel, equipment into south florida because of the flood waters. i-75 was closed down the other day. couldn t get any of the needed personnel and supplies in. it s really been a struggle on us trying to respond to those affected as well. from your perspective as a disaster recovery expert, you go in after the fact, what are you seeing there? what are people going to expect to see in their homes? i mean, the storm surge, the flood waters and the wind damage. how do you put those pieces back
unlike a similar crisis in ukraine, the autoautocrats rema close ties with russia. they invited the russian military force. they are in the country to reinforce troops. good day to you. what s the latest on the russian deployment to kazakhstan? reporter: good morning. the russian defense ministry is sending more troops into kazakhstan. it has a fleet of some 75 transport aircraft that are being used to ferry soldiers, army, equipment into kazakhstan. we don t know how many russian troops are on the ground there. we do know the ctso, the russian-led equivalent of nato, plans to deploy 2,500 troops in total. we expect the vast majority of