fort myers beach, florida, one of the cities that was hardest hit by hurricane ian, hurricane ian made landfall on wednesday afternoon in florida as a category four hurricane. it was just a few miles shy, two miles per hour shy of being a category five storm, the likes of which have only been experienced four times in u.s. history. at this hour, more than 1.2 million people across florida are still without power, and as of late yesterday parts of the county where i am now, where ian did make landfall, did not have access to clean drinking water. in fact, much of where i am now has no access to power either. hard to know exactly how many people are displaced this time, officials are estimating it is in the thousands, possibly tens of thousands, at least 34 people have been confirmed dead so far, 12 of them here in lee county. after hitting florida eons rain grain strength over the atlantic ocean. what across florida, went out in the atlantic, and made a second landfall as a ca
about what is going on behind me before i go. as we said, we have been watching this all morning and talking to the owner of this charter operation for fishing boats, the boats, by the way, we re all here. there are no boats, you can see, there are no more votes. i will show you where some of the boats are, look across the road. these are some of the boats that were in this pier, in these slips. there is a building across the road that was part of this operation, this chart arundel operation. they have some excavators in here, they had to wait a couple of days to get them and start taking this off. this is the owner of the operation, come over here for a second for the end of our show, i want to get an update. i see him if you excavators in here. what is the plan? the plan now is to gather all of this, take it to the town, if they are open today they will reopen on monday. get everything safe so they can make some partnering parking if they need to park stuff for beach rescues and th
the moment you continue to excavators, one is close to us on the right side of your screen. let s building was a bait shop, a charter operation for boats, a café, a retail store, and office and a structure on top was an airbnb. it has to apartments, you can see the thing i m standing on in the bathroom. these excavators are now taking this down, on the left side of your screen you can say three men on top. last i checked, i have not visited with them in about half an hour, but last checked they were still trying to find the safe, that is the office of the operation and they need to find a safe because there are documents in there, the documents are useful and they need them for insurance purposes. that is what is going on.
with your operation in poland, we were both in warsaw at the same time, i was in ukraine. what do you do? how do you get in here faster than even we do as journalists and aid workers, and you are able to figure out, in places where you do not have infrastructure, have to make it work? hurricanes, we try to arrive before the hurricane, the issue is that now people are complaining if we have enough people around here, they say we need to live, even for us following this hurricane is impossible, we tried to position ourselves and start in tampa, all the way south, trying to close over the hurricane, if you are able to know where it is going to hit and quickly you move the resources, but what are the resources? it is not things i bring, when i can and i activate the local infrastructure. what that means, if i have food trucks that we can start feeding, we partner with them. yes, if i can be helping