damage to the south carolina coast where it struck today as a category 1 hurricane. this is the cherry grove pier in north myrtle beach, one of two that partially collapsed today. and just as on the florida gulf coast and later in orlando ian caused significant flooding in the charleston and myrtle beach areas and knocked out power to about a third of a million customers in south and north carolina. so we ve also just received some new video in of a high wave sweeping several people off a pier in miami. we have a big wave and about five people so that s in miami still from the high tide and the waves being kicked up by ian. six people were hurt in that. no one, thank goodness, was killed. state-wide, the death toll is now at least 42, and that is expected to rise. and the damage especially in places like fort meyers beach became even more apparent today. it is so severe that a coast guard commander told our wolf blitzer his chopper crews simply do not have monday landma
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all right, a reminder. just a moment ago the death toll in florida from hurricane ian rose to 45. and that number sadly will no doubt rise again. earlier we heard from kevin behan who lost his home and went through so much during the storm. it has seen some of the very worst. i m joined now by bill weir in fort myers. and i know you tried to get into fort myers beach today. you re going to tell us about that journey, but also one of the things you re seeing and you really see it everywhere is boats in just impossible places. reporter: absolutely. that just all of them, an illustration of the physics of the storm that did the most amazing things. i was on my way because we heard 90% of fort myers beach was wiped out. the road was closed there by the