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it was so bad that this man had to wade through knee-deep water inside of his own home. in florida the storm damage issine worse. 45 people have died and hundreds of homes are destroyed. a woman struggling to survive was captured in a harrowing phone call. in am in water. okay. i am so cold. i am losing you and i can t hear you. i love you. i love you. well, thankfully that woman was rescued along with others in the state along with 600 patients evacuated from health care facilities. more help is on the way. i have directed that every possible action be taken to save live and get survivors. every minute counts. this is not just for florida. it is an american crisis. my message to people in south carolina is simple. listen to the warning and follow the officials instructions. authorities are concerned about the barrier islands near fort meyers which took the brunt of the hurricane. many residents chose not to evacuate and are now cut off from the mainland. the
unrecognizable landmarks. and it also store up ft. myers beach. we went on a boat ride with the cajun navy and other volunteer rescuers across the area. and matt lachey in the coastal area is where most of the deaths occurred. what is going on over here? a lot of restaurants, into the lot of homes. pretty much all restaurants. theme that do shrimping, fishing. there was buildings the whole way. and they are just gone. you heard their stories that there are bodies in some of the canals and stuff? yeah, like up to the second story window, the water was still going. and that is the road right there. yeah. and it is gone. yeah. this area is pretty typical of the destruction around here. there is a bridge intact just about a block from here. maybe a quarter of a mile, nothing more than that, but the road leading to that bridge is completely washed out. so the island that is on the other side of that bridge is cut off right now. the people texted me hey, your ho
hurricane ian regained strength, now once again a hurricane barreling towards south carolina as a category 1 storm with 85 mile an hour winds expected to make its third landfall just a few hours from now. the governor of south carolina after seeing the catastrophic damage in florida imploring residents in his state not to underestimate this storm. warning, we know what is coming. officials in florida say ian is likely the largest natural disaster in the history of that state, prompting the largest emergency response ever in florida. and the toll is coming in. at least 19 people killed so far, that number sadly likely to rise. more than 2 million people in the state it s a huge number remain without power. in fort myers beach the damage described by officials there is total devastation. look at those pictures, it s like a tornado just swept through there. 90% of that island destroyed, most of the homes there completely flattened. it just is destroyed and it s ruined an
lost everything lost night. i ve been in the house since 1987. pictures and memories. just gone. and there was a front door and it was a surge and it took me to the middle of the yard and i fought to get back into the porch. i would have gotten me and my family ahead of time. and where do you start? that is a question so many people are asking right now. in just minutes, president biden is going to be giving an update on the federal response to this dafter. we ll bring you the remarks live. before that, let s get to chad myers with where the storm is heading now. what are you seeing. a third landfall, including cubia. two in the u.s. this is an 85 mile per hour storm still. it is between myrtle beach and charleston. that is the area that will see the greatest amount of surge moving into the estuaries. it is called low country for a reason. these are very low marshes through across parts of south carolina. and we re seeing that spin on the radar, not that far fro