our thoughts remain with those impacted by hurricane ian. for those who need help, please ask for it. and if you can give help, please, give it. on that note, i wish you all a very good and safe night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with us. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. when hurricane ian came ashore yesterday afternoon and what was one of the stronger storms to ever hit the united states, period, and after a terrifying night in southwest florida daylight today brought harrowing evidence of the destruction of a storm like that brings. this is fort myers beach, one of the barrier ion islands that in slammed into as a near category five storm. for the hurricane it was a popular beach destination full of resorts and restaurants. as you can, see much of it has been leveled. when local resident told his local tape paper, quote, fort myers beach is gone. this is the causeway leading to sandoval island, just west of
ashore yesterday afternoon, we were knew it was one of the strongest storms to hit the united states. day tligt day brought harrowing evidence of the destruction a storm like that brings. this is ft. myers beach, one of the barrier u lands that ian slammed into as a category five storm. before the hurricane, it was a popular beach defendant naugs destination. much of it is leveled. one local resident told the local paper, ft. myers beach is gone. this is the causeway leading to sanibel island to the west of for the murz beach. it s the only road to that island. it impassable. all the bridges to pine island also failed. this evening nbc nightly news anchor spoke with the mayor of sanibel for her concern about the people that didn t evacuate before the storm and maybe trapped there. we have significant numbers of people contact us, people they knew that were on the island. we ve been logging those meticulously and getting those out to our first responders. we had about 200
ago. as they look for clues and physical evidence recovered, we re hearing about another potential blind spot. over this one, whether authorities were able to look at tashfeen malik malik malik s posts on social media before she was given a visa to come to the united states. reporter: she wasn t shy about her quest for violent jihad on social media. american law enforcement officials told the new york times tashfeen malik supported it and said she wanted to be a part of it. fbi investigators now believe malik and syed farook were independently radicalized as early as 2010. malik s public social media posts may have been overlooked when hervey visa was processed. today fbi divers in san bernardino are seching ing the third day for evidence that they might have tried to destroy. authorities said no important evidence has been found in the lake so far. investigators also keeping a close eye on farook s friend enrique marquez, who is not a suspect. he has been providing infor
we begin tonight with the investigation of a terror attack that killed 14 people in san bernardino, california, ten days ago. as they look for clues and physical evidence recovered, we re hearing about another potential blind spot. over this one, whether authorities were able to look at tashfeen malik malik malik s posts on social media before she was given a visa states. reporter: she quest for violent american law enforcement officials told the new york times tashfeen malik she wanted to be a part of it. fbi investigators now believe malik and syed farook were independently radicalized as early as 2010. malik s public social media posts may have been overlooked when processed. today fbi divers in san bernardino are seching ing searching a lake for the third day for evidence that they might have tried to destroy. authorities said no important evidence has been found in the lake so far. investigators also keeping a close eye on farook s friend enrique marquez, who is not
and star wars tribute. nightly news begins now. and good evening. we begin tonight with new developments in the investigation of a terror attack that killed 14 people in san bernardino, california, ten days ago. as they look for clues and physical evidence recovered, we re hearing about another potential blind spot. over this one, whether authorities were able to look at tashfeen mal mal malik s posts on social media before she was given a visa to come to the united states. reporter: she wasn t shy about her quest for violent jihad on social media. american law enforcement officials told the new york times tashfeen malik supported it and said she wanted to be a part of it. fbi investigators now believe malik and syed farook were independently radicalized as early as 2010. malik s public social media posts may have been overlooked when herv visa was processed. today fbi divers in san bernardino are sechi in searching a lake for the third day for evidence that they mi