still quite dangerous. rescue crews are looking for survivors now five days later and the death toll is climbing. officials have confirmed 76 people have died. most in lee county where ian stormed ashore as a category 4. it is feared there had be more victims. now the power is slowly being restored in florida. more than 6,000 homes and businesses still in the dark this morning and it could be months before many are back on the grid. many don t have clean tap water, that makes the overwhelming task of rebuilding that much harder. and now officials in lee county are facing questions about why the first mandatory evacuations weren t ordered until a day before landfall despite a plan that said evacuations should have happened earlier. governor ron desantis defending their actions. they informed people, and most people didn t want to do it. are you going to grab somebody out of their home that doesn t want to? i don t think that s the appropriate use of government. florida res
still quite dangerous. rescue crews are looking for survivors now five days later and the death toll is climbing. officials have confirmed 76 people have died. most in lee county where ian stormed ashore as a category 4. it is feared there had be more victims. now the power is slowly being restored in florida. more than 6,000 homes and businesses still in the dark this morning and it could be months before many are back on the grid. many don t have clean tap water, that makes the overwhelming task of rebuilding that much harder. and now officials in lee county are facing questions about why the first mandatory evacuations weren t ordered until a day before landfall despite a plan that said evacuations should have happened earlier. governor ron desantis defending their actions.
as that deadline is quickly approaching on tuesday. all right. arlette saenz, thanks so much. appreciate that. let s turn now to you, natasha bertrand. i m curious what you re hearing about these continued threats but also how they might impact the evacuations and how they re going to proceed. reporter: well, yeah. as if the evacuations weren t facing enough hurdles, now obviously this massive terrorist threat as we saw today is going to likely create even more of a bottleneck. the u.s. has asked the taliban to push the perimeter out further to prevent potential terrorists from getting close to the airport. but the u.s. still remains a very big target obviously. what we re hearing from general mckenzie today is that the threat of vehicle-borne improvised explosive device attacks remains high. the threat of potential suicide bombers, of rocket attacks, isis attackers even going as far as to shoot at the aircraft as it departs from the airport all