reporter: the rescue and recovery operation after hurricane ian continuing on this small white sand island of fort myers beach located in lee county, an island that is now an island of rubble, 54 deaths now reported in this county alone. we re looking for anybody that may have been left behind. the devastation is hard to put into words. reporter: we joined a rescue operation that includes search and rescue dogs. we send the dog in, the dog will sniff around. if we can t make contact, we ll walk up and start hollering and see if we get a response from anybody. if we don t hear anything, we bring a second dog up. reporter: as we walked around on fort myers beach, there is just destruction everywhere. the water that came in here just decimated this area and a lot of people are asking us, when will power come back, how long will it take to recover? and it will be different for some folks. where i am standing right now, this used to be a home. now stairs that lead to now
cnn s leyla santiago reporting live from fort myers beach, thank you so much. let s stay in fort myers beach because cnn s randi kay just got back from a ride with a different search and rescue team. tell us what you saw. reporter: we went with the florida task force, too, jake, out of miami. they were the first search and rescue team on the ground here in fort myers beach. they came as the storm was still under way. and so they took us to take a firsthand look on the ground. we ve seen it from the air. we ve been held back on the other side of this bridge now for days, so when you go across the bridge with this team earlier today, all you can say is wow. i mean, the entire community at motor myers beach is on the ground. homes, you see a staircase to nowhere basically on every block. the homes have been tossed away by the sea, the wind. we saw a landundromat where the doors were blown off, we found
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mys mystery. and wolf, between these two body cam videos we ve been able to obtain, you hear the couple talk about things that could shed light on growing tensions. you hear him talking about how they re low on funds. you hear her say that they ran out of water. that she doesn t feel like he supports her video website that she was working on. so it clearly speaks to growing tensions on this long cross-country road trip. and here s some perspective for you, wolf. a road trip that ended a month ago today when brian laundrie returned here to northport, florida, without his fiancee. leyla santiago reporting for us. leyla, thank you. let s get some analysis right now for the state attorney for palm beach county, florida, dave aaronberg, and major neil franklin, retired officer with the maryland, state, and baltimore police department. dave, why is this new body camera footage so important as investigators rye to piece together what exactly happened to dpgabby petito?
it a night, nothing found today, expected to be back at it tomorrow. leyla, thank you. leyla santiago reporting. let s go to anthony basrksdale and what do you make of this arrest warrant unauthorized use. it s a big development in the case. it transforms brian laundrie from the status of a person of interest to a fugitive from justice, if he is in fact alive. i think it also indicates that federal authorities at least now don t have enough evidence to charge him with murder. if they did, certainly a more serious charge would have been lodged against him. this charge is a charge of essentially using gabby s debit cards to withdraw $1,000 from a bank. now, that s a federal felony.