collier or county, florida, where 911 services are down as search and rescue efforts continue across the state. rachel: search and rescue efforts still underway across the state as 30 people have been confirmed dead with 27 deaths in florida alone. more than 1 million people many florida still without power. here with us today is representative greg steube, he s from the house foreign affairs committee, and, of course, he is from florida. what do you know about this leveesome because we ve been getting conflicting reports, congressman. so i talked to the sheriff and, unfortunately, he couldn t join you because he could give you an update. if they were trying, northport from police and the sarasota sheriff s department has been trying to get people out on boats and and airboats, and they were actually using that intersate area to go back and forth and bring individuals from their homes to the interstate because that was the only way to get them in and out either by airboat o
they re missing so many, you know, inputs into what they need to to put roofs on on people s homes. that s prior to this hurricane. have you been thinking about that, that part of the situation? we have edward on from, edward graham from samaritan s purse saying one of the things that has been remarkable to him is how much roof damage he s seeing in florida. yeah. i mean, everybody s going to have roof damage in this area,s and my entire district was impacted by this. st going to take a long time for us to pull out. i mean, i just came out cell phone on cell service, we don t have power where i m at, just north of the myaka river, manatee county has a little bit more power, but the majority of my district is still over 50-60% without power. some residents don t have water. communicated with some residents on casey key this morning, they just got their water back on. so we re going to be dealing with this for a significant period of time. fort myers probably isn t going