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Obviously florida building ing is excellent . youve seen buildings behave the way theyre supposed to, but also were seeing just a lot of property loss, personal items, things washed away. all types of infrastructure damage, spending a lot of time on our beaches trying to get them back clean and then well take the time as the sand begins to settle to determine the type of loss weve had right there on the coast. >> thank you so much for your time tonight. and you are in the cnn newsroom. up next...

Fort myers beach. its the only road to that island of 6000 people. as you can see here it is impassable. all the bridges to pine island just north of there have also failed. this evening nbc nightly news anchor lester holt spoke, to the people who didnt evacuate before the storm and may be trapped there. >> we have had significant numbers of people contact us, people who we knew were on the island, so we have been logging those meticulously and getting those out to our first responders. we had a...

Of people contact us, people they knew that were on the island. weve been logging those meticulously and getting those out to our first responders. we had about 200 household thats didnt evacuate on the island that we know of. and the search and rescue teams are going to those areas that they can get to right now trying to help those individuals. and make sure that theyre safe and there have been some people that came off the island. >> as you heard the mayor of sanibel describing there, a huge ...

Huge issue today is that the infrastructure damage is making it difficult for first responders to reach areas where people may be stranded or worse. at least ten people are confirmed dead from the storm but that number is expected to rise perhaps significantly. visiting fema headquarters today, president biden warned it in could be the deadliest hurricane in floridas history, saying it early reports suggested substantial loss of life. the faa this evening declared a temporary restricted airspace...

Stock of the civilian toll. a lot of focus on the military casualties. we know day by day endlessly civilians are dying from the russian onslaughts and now we get a sense of ukraine continually dictating the narrative to some degree. in fact, russian officials have been reporting what ukrainian strikes on areas of the border regions between ukraine and russia in the belgorod region there. thats near where we were yesterday up by the border. outgoing and incoming too, but far away. this is essent...

Clean drinking water be restored? >> good morning, dana. thanks so much for having me on here today. yes, i was able to go visit on friday, traveled with the white house infrastructure director mitch landreau to really talk to the mayor and talk to the plant workers to find out exactly what is going on. as you said, there has been a lot of infrastructure damage that has been present for many years. and so where we are focused right now from fema is being able to make sure we can provide and supp...

You saw on the ground there. you did get a firsthand look at jackson. what did you hear from residents and officials on the ground? and when will full access to clean drinking water be restored? >> good morning, dana. thanks so much for having me on here today. yes, i was able to go visit on friday, traveled with the white house infrastructure director mitch landrieu to really talk to the mayor and talk to the plant workers to find out exactly what is going on. as you said, there has been a lot ...

But then i want to make sure that what fema does really well is we bring in our federal partners, and we want it bring in the appropriate federal partners to talk about what is going to be needed in the mid term and long term to bring this treatment facility back to a safe and operating level so jackson doesnt have to experience this again. >> how long do you expect it will take to get things back to normal in jackson? >> yeah. i dont think we have an answer for that right now. thats why were br...

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Damage to infrastructure from the magnitude 7 earthquake that struck Abra and nearby provinces in Northern Luzon last month has reached over P1.8 billion, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) reported Wednesday.