It is so broad, everybody is going to be impacted. this is millions and millions of people in the rainfall is going to be devastating. make sure you have a plan for what to do if you get trapped or stranded in some areas. we saw that problem in fort, in naples, in some of those areas that had been so devastating. but i ll be back at this about 20 minutes, kristie, and we ll bring you another update. that s coming up. yeah, it s good to have all of these models, as you point, out it can change in an instant. we appreciate you will be back in 20 minutes. karen mcinnis, thank you. hurricane ian is bearing down on the north and south carolina coastlines. the governor of south carolina says people need to be prepared right now. we know what s coming. so there s a little bit of wiggle room and exactly how strong the rains, and how strong the winds will be. but the biggest variable is human reaction. it s people failing to take the
Phone. dan, thank you so much. i m happy that you re here. sorry about what s happening. but we re grateful that you re here to give our viewers some information and tell us about what s going on in naples right now. so, tell us about the damage we re seeing there. sure, don, thank you for the opportunity. it s tremendous destruction here. the coastline all the way down from the everglades coming up to everglades city. through goodland, through marco island, and the city of naples. central naples, of course, and moving up to north naples. and then the southern part there of bonita springs, just complete devastation. when you look at our coastline, as you quoted earlier, it does look like a war zone. that eight foot surge took out every first and a half floor of every building, home, along the beach all the way down through everglades city. so, construction debris laying
I didn t realize it. that is the part of the voideo that you don t see that came in and sent him up the stairs. brian todd is in naples this morning. good morning. thank you for your coverage. tell us about the damage and g give a better assessment. we could show you an illustration in the aftermath. take a look at this suv behind me. it is dangling here by this canal. it didn t get pushed in the canal but it is a total loss. and we were told by the owner this of vehicle and the one that our photo journalist wayne cross is going to peer over and show you this, this is on the edge here. it seems like mav you could save these but you can t, we talked to the owner of that truck, that s a total loss. they were both under water and they were pretty much lost at that point but now dangling and just to show you exactly where they came from, take a look. these people who own this, sea
States of emergency declared in multiple other states where ian is believed to be headed next. while in florida, officials say some 250,000 people may be displaced and millions remain without power. we re committed to restoring the infrastructure as needed. that is not going to be an overnight task. that is going to be something that is going to require a lot of love and care. nbc s lester holt reporting for us there, and joining us now by phone. collier county commissioner rick castro, 50 miles south of fort myers beach, including places like naples. thank you so much for being with us this morning. you said yesterday that this was a totally different hurricane. you have seen a lot in your state of florida. why did you say this was so different. we have never had this type of storm surge before, when we had hurricane irma, the storm surge predicted came in a lot
Welcome back to cnn s ongoing coverage of hurricane ian. and take a moment to look at this video. this is coming from naples, florida. take a pause for a second. wow. the force the water pounding that door, this from naples florida on the coast there, an apartment complex just as hurricane ian was hitting the full force of it. last night cnn spoke with a man who confronted and filmed that harrowing moment. i grabbed on to a guardrail because initially the water pushed me up the stairs and then it sucked me back down as well. and so i had grab on to a guardrail. i lost my shoes, i got completely submerged under water. all above my head cand i ran up the stairs barefoot after that. my lord. that water, poppy, engulfed him.