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it's top of the hour on cnn newsroom. the death toll from hurricane ian has just gone up. it's now 104 lives lost. 100 of those in florida. search teams finding more bodies as they reach some of the hardest hit areas. more than half of those killed were in lee county which includes ft. myers beach. that city is now closed to everyone but search and rescue personnel. the mayor says there is no time line yet for when residents can return. lee county officials coming under some criticism for the timing of their evacuation orders. now dozens of miles inland in western florida in arcadia,...

Will track down her father in the hospital. >> that is so help fall. coadfl.org for anyone looking for their loved ones in that area. of thank you for that, brian. >> we got hundreds of those. >> yeah. we have crews yesterday that they expect to have 95% of power returned to charlotte county residents and businesses by next sunday. and we're already seeing the traffic lights coming on neighborhood by neighborhood. the power is starting to come on. i talked to four people. the people behind me on my street, their power came on. so slowly but surely we're coming back to light. but we still have ...

They are closing off this area to residents. so for now, it will just be search and rescue teams so that they can safely continue their operations in there, allison. >> okay. thank you very much for the reporting from ft. myers there. so some areas in virginia are in a state of emergency because of wind and coastal flooding. this is from the remnants of ian. and brian todd is in virginia beach. so what do you see? brian, can you hear me? what are you seeing? >> hi, sorry. we had to check out our audio while we establish our position. this the is what you got here in norfolk. we're near virgini...

How long will it take for people to get reimbursed and start to try to rebuild their homes? >> that's what my wife and i were talking about last night. she just made contact with her -- our insurance agent. locally. because of all the local insurance agents who sell you the policies, their offices are closed because they are no power. it goes right to the national hotline. she was contacted the same day but the answer as far as when will the adjuster come out? the person said it could be two days, it could be two weeks or more. so somebody's got to be first in line. somebody has to be last in ...

Are in charlotte county. joining us now is brian gleison, the spokesman for charlotte county. we just been on the air, the death toll in your county doubled. it was 12 a couple hours ago. now it's 24. do you know any of the circumstances or where those deaths were? >> no. those would have been handled by the sheriff's office or the medical examiner. that's the process that's in place for nonhospital deaths. they'll come up with cause of death and then public record. >> what is the situation in char lot county. >> i'm in recovery woman. the poor woman that had a father in the hospital, she can ...