of hurricane ian, what residents are finding when they return home. plus vladimir putin s brazen move, how the rest of the world is reacting to the russian president s plan to annex part of ukraine. and how south korea is reacting to the latest missile launches from pyongyang. relief and recovery efforts are ongoing in florida after parts of the state with utterly devastated by hurricane ian. this is some of the damage left behind in ft. myers, a town once brimming with life is now a flattened field littered with debris. residents say much of what they own has been washed away and lost forever. lost everything last night. everything. family is okay, dogs are okay, parents are okay. lost everything we had. pictures, memories. gone. and we re seeing similar trails of destruction in other parts of florida where some residents are still trapped and waiting for help. my grandparents are still at the house. we have animals there. they didn t want to leave the animals. s
Areas, the water has veeded enough to allow them to come back home. so for people who are out there watching this as they are thinking of going back home, i mean the danger hasn t evaporated. what should they know when they are trying to make their way back home and assess the damage? well, again, i think the first thing is pay attention to what local authorities are saying. make sure that they get the clear signal from local authorities before they venture into an area. and when they do go, there is potential for it is never a good idea to walk through water because there could be contaminants this it or hidden obstacles. but even if the water is gone, they are going back into a house that has been flooded, we have to be very, very dave about potential contaminants, about struct structural damage. so good idea to go slow and get things checked out. and once it has been checked out, it may actually take work
Of hurricane ian, what residents are finding when they return home. plus vladimir putin s brazen move, how the rest of the world is reacting to the russian president s plan to annex part of ukraine. and how south korea is reacting to the latest missile launches from pyongyang. relief and recovery efforts are ongoing in florida after parts of the state with utterly devastated by hurricane ian. this is some of the damage left behind in ft. myers, a town once brimming with life is now a flattened field littered with debris. residents say much of what they own has been washed away and lost forever. lost everything last night. everything. family is okay, dogs are okay, parents are okay. lost everything we had. pictures, memories. gone. and we re seeing similar
Of experts, for example fema has special teams that can help do some examination and determine whether conditions are in fact safe. there might be damage to a roof and, you know, in the short term it could be causing leaking, but in the longer term actually has some structural damage that could cause the roof itself to be a danger. so it is very important to check all that out. and then understand that the federal government we heard president biden announce 100% of the costs will be borne by the federal government. so that takes the burden off of states, off of local communities that may feel like they are having to deal with this. and in this case and particularly cost is not an object when it comes to saving people s lives. over time fema will come in and help the community rebuild. and sometimes these are years long projects to actually help
Management agency, which can work with fema. they use the same terminology and they believe in the same command and control system. my experience is that if we focus on unity of effort, how can we work together to solve complex problem, we ll in fact solve them. it is when people decide to strike out on their own or want to take charge of thinking or a fake unity of effort that it can lead to problems. we re seeing the pictures here, just absolutely devastating. there is so much water around and power for many people is out, cell service is out. how long do you think it will be until we know the true extent of the damage, but also the true number of people who have unfortunately lost their lives? well, one thing i would like to stress, i m sorry for the family members of all those who have lost their lives, and some of those we don t even know about yet.