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ian s death toll in florida is rising today. can we get some help down here? more supplies are coming in. there were four boats that just arrived moments ago. this community has never ever seen this high of flooding before. now we re going into day four without having electricity. that s when you get to that life-threatening range. we have no power, no phone service, nothing. the buildings are ripped off of their foundation and swept backwards. should there have been a mandatory evacuation that came sooner. i wouldn t have changed anything. this storm was unpredictable. there s a degree of personal responsibility here. i think people got complacent. lyman was completely liberated. it s likely to have a roll-on effect to russian positions further towards the russian border in the days ahead. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom. the death toll from hurricane ian jumps again in florida. 74 people now confirmed killed ....
hurricane ian. 76 people were killed, after the storm tore through the state, governor ron desantis says more than 1,600 rescues have been made since the storm struck. this left some communities unrecognizable. littered with wrecked homes as well as boats, as as you saw there. more than 628,000 customers are still without power and the destruction may just be coming to light. governor ron desantis is defending officials in lee county where half of the storm related deaths have been ann announced. they re facing criticism for issuing evacuation orders a day later than the neighboring county. here s what nadia romero was told. is that one of the things you ll be reviewing once we get out of the i can t aftermath. lee county should have had the evacuation order sooner from what we reviewed? the issue is they informed people and most people did not want to do it. that s the reality. you re in a situation, are you going to grab somebody out of their home that doesn t w ....
Important part of warning people about the storm. and right now lee county makes up the majority of those storm related deaths. parts of florida still dealing with devastating flooding following hurricane ian. and where the water receded, destruction left behind. the water was actually half way to the front door, the waves crashing against the house. reporter: this man took us inside his home which is now gutted because of ian. this is from the beach. reporter: and this woman showed cnn her now mud-filled home, a home she said her dad was helping remodel. just got a brand new like sink, all this was retiled, new vanity. reporter: both those homes in lee county, one of the hardest hit areas. at least 76 deaths in florida are connected to hurricane ian and at least 42 of those deaths are in lee county alone. now lee county and state officials are facing questions ....
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Cnn s ivan watson traveled to a city and saw the homemade weapons made by civilians there. reporter: this is a village outside of the city. this is how they have been mobilized. this has erected in the last two weeks, home dodd made. concrete blocks, spare tires, metal rebar that s been welded together, netting that locals have sewed here. you can get a sense of what the guys who are volunteer, they have the molotov cocktails at the ready. i ve been speaking with some of the guards here. one of them is a fireman, one retiled a employers have the ....