we cover the devastation caused by hurricane ian. here is the newest information coming in this saturday evening. the storm s death toll in florida now stands at 66. this is the scene in north port, which is in sarasota county. state officials say the latest known death is that of a 62-year-old woman also from that county. she apparently drowned after getting trapped in her vehicle. take a look at the massive amount of water people risked traveling through today east of sarasota. they re in their car. this is a car, not a boat, makes its way down a very flooded state highway. sheriff s deputies and firefighters went door to door in the community of hidden river warning people about a potentially levee beach. on cape coral, they are checking on victims who may need urgent help. fire rescue say they have been collecting people and pets and taking them to a fire station where helicopters are ferrying people to safety. this afternoon, governor ron desantis said while more than ha
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humane society and we pulled them out the next morning. today i-75 was flooded. i was like we re not going to give up on all these transports. it s an insane amount of logistics to get all these animals to us. we re going to fly them out of the airport here on private planes. because we couldn t get them from sarasota to here today to get them ready, we were looking at a real big problem with transport. we put out a call on facebook. collier county is incredible. animals are so much a part of our families and people are moved to help in any way they can. we actually had more offers for planes today to get all these animals from sarasota humane society to us than we could handle. tonight even though the road, i understand, is back open it is back open, yes. but we have all these planes