newsroom. i m jim acosta in ft. myers, florida. first thing, we have some updated figures from here in the hurricane zone. sit the most current death toll of people who sadly did not survive hurricane ian here in florida. that new official death toll is now 74. 74 people here in florida have died now as a result of hurricane ian. of course, those figures are coming in. as they develop, we ll bring them to you. residents say there is a growing sense of fear that more bodies could be discovered. some areas remain fairly inaccessible to first responders. we ll show you what i saw on the ground. in the meantime, cnn has learned that a team that responds to mass fatality incidents has deployed equipment and personnel to assist medical examiners in boast counties here in southwest florida. officials in lee county where the majority of the deaths have concerned are facing a major concern. why were the first evacuation orders issued less than 24 hours before landfall? the county s ow
the reason we call for evacuations is because we believe there is an imminent life threat. so it s not done easily. it s done based on the data presented at the time based on the forecast. so what do you think it is? is it because the storm made this sort of unpredictable i guess hurricanes are unpred unpredictable, but it made this sudden, right turn toward the coast. perhaps that caught some people off guard. what do you think? this storm was the worst case scenario for a surge. based off the approach of the storm with a counterclockwise rotation, when it got equal to us, it started pushing a surge up from the south into our peninsula. so that just created a lot of surge, and it was very devastating to our community. you know, i ve been talking to resident after resident. they thought the storm surge was just not going to be as hugh as
to the american people, but it would be unfair i think of us to put the blame for all this on the administration. i don t see it that way. yeah, it is a midterm election year so there will be blame being put unfairly all over the place because that is the way the game works. more than a year of gains wiped out in the s&p 500, market stress signals are high, that was a warning from a ubs strategist this week. and deutsche bank said that we live in the most hard to predict macroeconomic times in decades. and i would agree. i wonder if the bill has come due for all that you just mentioned and stock market investors are seeing an adjustment to this reality? 100%. you know, the fed is warning about just that. and this is a big deal for the fed to say, you know, hey investors, we may see a big correction and it may be unpred unpredictable. trading conditions will be worse than they have been. you know, in some time.