they were covered, water over the mailboxes. i need you to get up in there, and i m going to hand her to you, and and you ve got to hold her. [background sounds] i m surrounded here by stress is els that were in this marina, tossed around really like tinker toys. that was my house. my house is gone. a lot of people can say that today here, lost everything. neil: an incredible week, and it s not over. just some of the incredible images we ve seen throughout this week brought on by a pretty ruthless hurricane ian. many southwest florida homes leveled and communities destroyed. more than three dozen lives lost and now warnings of a potential levee break that could cause a 15-foot surge. in the carolinas, some similar scenes. hundreds of thousands still in the dark there as they try to assess the havoc caused by ian. we re following it all with nate foy in myrtle beach, south carolina, alexandria hoff in hard-hit fort myers, florida, and ache rick reich newt reichmuth
Yes, there s been a little bit of back and forth. the sheriff s office has clarified that initial warning about a possible levee break, it really is a more specific area that they re concerned with right now. there s a neighborhood called hidden river in particular, and officials are going around the impacted areas as we re told knocking on doors, notifying people they do need to evacuate. neil? neil: thank you very much for that, alexandria of. i want to go right now to the mayor of fort myers, florida, kevin anderson. mayor, we re hearing, sir, i think to characterize what happened in your city, 90% gone. in other words, 90% destroyed. is that true? neil, that s when people say fort myers, they think about the metro propoll tan area. the city proper has suffered some heavy flooding damage, a lot of wind damage. but it s not to the extent that some people are reporting. neil: all right. so maybe you can characterize how are things there now or,