and i am trying to be brave and know that my family and i are safe and i will worry about all of that other stuff later. i am 67, lived here for five years. and now it is gone. it is underwater. underwater. so much of that area still underwater there, want to go to matlacha in florida. where liz mclaughlin standing by for us. let s take us there if you will once again. joining at the top of the last hour, as you are still in that area that is just completely devastating to see a road completely broken up really. crumbled upon itself. water still surrounding the area. what more are you seeing? absolutely yasmin this does not look like the result of a hurricane. this looks like an earthquake or something. it is just crumpled concrete, the only artery to the height of pine island behind me. matlacha, this idea like kind of fishing village now just completely crumbled. and in fact there are some remains of homes here. one zahra behind it are completely gone. just washed out
declaration in north carolina. this is as the state is bracing for up to six inches of rainfall. we are going to talk about it with the democratic candidate for senate in north carolina, jerry beasley. and we are talking about the state of the race, less than 40 days until midterm elections. i am simone sanders townsend, and i have something to say. unprecedented, biblical, just a few words to describe the impact of hurricane ian. now taking its place as one of the worst natural disasters in our country s history. in just a few minutes, we are expecting an update from florida governor ron desantis, which we will bring you live. this week, hurricane ian slammed into florida s west coast, just shy of a category four hurricane. with winds of 155 miles per hour. ripping through south florida. then, coming back to slim south carolina and now, north carolina. we are hearing from residents who survived. we shouldn t be alive right now. we shouldn t be alive right now with that sto
to be seen. there are programs that fema has. but it is not going to be commensurate to having had a policy. this is an issue we will have to d deal with. we deal with this. when you have this about the homeowners policy will cover certain things, but the flood policy covers probably the most significant risk for most homeowners in florida given the risk of flooding that we have in so many parts of our state. so we re sensitive to that. there is, obviously, going to be some folks that are going to be in need of support and relief and we are, obviously, going to work as best we can. i will say that people have been asking about some of the overall homeowners insurance with like citizens. citizens i think right now between 6 and 7 billion of surplus. their modelling for this was that they would still have between 4 and 5 billion in surplus. so they view themselves as being able to weather this. individual carriers have to go through a stress test to be able to have their polici
simone. we are getting a firsthand look at devastation from hurricane ian in florida and south carolina. many people are discovering what is left of their homes and their communities. in south carolina, the governor will tour damage from hurricane ian, which made landfall again friday afternoon. now, it has been downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone. in florida, the death toll is rising. hundreds of thousands don t have power and some don t have running water. even more flood waters are expected in the days ahead. we will have live reports from the ground and local efforts to help hard-hit areas rebuild their lives. plus, president biden has approved an emergency
bill and randy are and points to the south. so you mentioned that this made landfall at 150-mile-per-hour winds. that ties charlie, which made landfall at 150 miles per hour, but this storm is much, much bigger. so the impacts for this storm is going to be much more far reaching than charlie was. all right. stand by, jennifer. i want to go back to randy in punta gorda right now. randy, so tell us about the wind conditions that you are experiencing right now. reporter: wolf, we are experiencing the worst wind that we have seen here. on the front end it was nothing like this before the eye came about 2:00 or 3:00 this afternoon. now we are seeing things flying down. whoa! literally flying down the street in front of us. and the water is it s like bbs hitting your face. it is quite strong.