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Transcripts For CNN CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield 20240707



newsroom. i m jim acosta in ft. myers, florida. first thing, we have some updated figures from here in the hurricane zone. sit the most current death toll of people who sadly did not survive hurricane ian here in florida. that new official death toll is now 74. 74 people here in florida have died now as a result of hurricane ian. of course, those figures are coming in. as they develop, we ll bring them to you. residents say there is a growing sense of fear that more bodies could be discovered. some areas remain fairly inaccessible to first responders. we ll show you what i saw on the ground. in the meantime, cnn has learned that a team that responds to mass fatality incidents has deployed equipment and personnel to assist medical examiners in boast counties here in southwest florida. officials in lee county where the majority of the deaths have concerned are facing a major concern. why were the first evacuation orders issued less than 24 hours before landfall? the count ....

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Transcripts For CNN CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta 20240707



that responds to mass fatality incidents has deployed resources to assist medical malmers in lee and charlotte counties. officials in lee county are macing mountaining questions about the timing of this evacuation orders. the first ones issued less than 24 hours before the hurricane ian landfall despite evacuations should have been happened sooner. i ve been on the ground in lee county documenting the devastation and today matt le shay today in bonita springs. here is a look at what i saw. did you ride out the storm or anything? did i ride out the storm? . the water was up to half way to the front door with the waves crashing in the house. and our neighbors got stuck here and they had to safe harbor in our house. it was six inches of mud. i m going to see if they could salvage it. and we re just the back is worst than the front. the back is blown out. can we take a look? yeah. i said i leave in paradise and there was a roof over my head and i was literally i ....

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Transcripts For CNNW Laura 20240703

This is cnn breaking news. Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States and All Around The World as we continue our breaking News Coverage of israel at war. Im rosemary church. Well, the death toll from the hamas attacks has jumped to more than 1200 as israel steps up its punishing retaliation in gaza. The Palestinian Health ministry now says at least 950 people have been killed by israeli air strikes with more than 5,000 injured. Weve seen huge explosions within the past few hours. Its not clear what the target was in this instance, but in other areas, the idf says it has destroyed hamas systems that detect aircraft, as well as an underground tunnel, and a weapons storage facility. Israels military also says it hit naval targets, in ....

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Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta 20240604 20:03:00

Is no safety for animals. so we had to put plywood up. but we lost everything. everything was blown out. you could see like all of the mangroves. those are no locals. most of the people in the damage are like, that is not ours. four doors down, their son s best friend is a lee county sheriff. and they re finding hundreds of bodies now. that is what we re hearing. it is not like 20s. it is hundreds of bodies that they re getting in and looking. it is so sad. but our luck, this block alone, we re safe. everybody is safe. and we re hearing that time and again from residents in the area that they are hearing that bodies are being found. they re not being added to the death toll as of yet because things have not been officially confirmed and so on. we asked the local sheriff in this area about this just a ....

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Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield 20240604 19:24:00

So we had to put plywood up. but everything was blown out. you can see all the mangroves. those most people with like, that s not ours. their son s best friend is a lee county sheriff. they re finding hundreds of bodies now. it s not 20s, it s hundreds of bodies now that they re looking. it s horrible. some of the residents we met earlier today in bonita springs just outside ft. myers here in southwest florida. again, we re talking to resident after resident in this area. they expect based on what ....

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