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Way. we werent even in the projected path or cone. so im confident we gave everything to this storm we should have at the right time and i think more so the governor had it right. he said after the cameras are here and theyre long gone, theres a thirst to be first. everyone wants that information. for us its about a commitment. its not about the cameras. its about moving forward in a positive way. now lets focus on whats the right thing to do and how to help the people in need. next question. >>...

Where in the middle of an insurance crisis in florida that has been exacerbated by this horrific storm. as you say, you know, last and 30% of those in the path of the storm have homeowners insurance at all. >> so many companies are canceling, going bankrupt, and our governor unfortunately has been focused on trying to help insurance companies instead of consumers. in fact, he actually had a calf where he went to a football game on friday before the storm, wasnt heard of for almost 20 hours, some...

Had an opportunity to vote to support disaster relief, he voted against it. floridians need someone who can show compassion, empathy, someone that has the leadership to be like, david was saying, honest with floridians. he underplayed this storm. yes, he held numerous press conferences, but i never hood a forceful request by this governor to evacuate. we knew we were going to see a storm surge of 12 to 18 feet. we know what that causes. we know that when you see a cone that is coming towards you...

Petersburg was northwest of ft. myers. thank you for the correction. you noted that cone of unterpbt for hurricane ian was extremely widespread. as you well know, sir, a lot of floridians see a category 3 storm and they often shrug. they dont take it as seriously as a category 4 or 5. im wondering how well you think folks were prepared across the person part of florida for this level of devastation, for this size and strength of storm? >> in pinellas county, we were prepared. we have 24 cities i...

Like yourself across the state of florida. st. petersburg, for those who dont know, is 90 miles east of ft. myers. youre on the eastern part of florida. you said your city was largely spared from the worst of the devastation. im wondering what your residents are dealing with today? >> well, thank you, boris. were northwest of ft. myers. im about 100 miles northwest of you. and we are feeling relieved. we were the bullseye for ian for much of the forecast. and as folks know, who lived in florida ...

It was interesting, like sunday i dont think that hardy was even he in the cone and then it kind of shifted and people were trying to figure out. but bottom line is you had this tier, you had a lot of great people it that were on the scene helping. and youve done a lot of work rescues here in hardy big time. and that has been very helpful for a lot of the residents to be brought to safety. you have residents here who are gone through a lot of hurricanes, this one had more water than any of those...

Storm. its also important to think about we do have impacts at the time of the storm but most deaths happen after the storm. so, clean up and so forth. >> ainsley: of course. we will learn more as the days progress. charleston, south carolina. south carolina getting hit. could affect myrtle beach north on the edge of north carolina. what do you expect for the folks there that are watching this morning and that are worried? >> evacuate if they tell you. to say and know that its not just the cone ...

Way to about 20 hours to make it across the peninsula of florida. but it is moving at about ten miles an hour. it is not a classic looking hurricane. by any means! but frankly, when it got out here, and then we watch it and with that gulf stream area, that is just off the coast here, we saw that with hugo back in 1989. that is a warm current that is just kind of parallels the coast, east coast of the united states. that was fueled to increase hugo. but now we are talking about ian, different ite...

If you have seen the damage in naples, that was significant. so to the right of the center, so if we take the center on shore here to the right of that up around georgetown, heading to myrtle beach, this is where the highest storm surge will be. and high tide, this is important, high tide is going to be this morning about two hours from now. so if we can get this thing to come on shore later this afternoon, that would be closer to low tide and minimize the amount of damage at landfall. thats the...

Lines, peoples homes gone. just devastating. and now weve got a third landfall. so we had puerto rico, florida, and now looks like this coastal region of north carolina. some of this rainfall will be very impressive all the way from charleston, to myrtle beach, surfside, maros and, lets police island, at the snow, those look to be the areas that could see five, ten, maybe 15 inches of rainfall. all right, heres that cone. dont focus on the cone because there are -- perturbation to describe hurri...