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We went down to southwest florida for the second day in a row. We were able to do a little bit more extensive touring of some of the damage that we saw. And you have places like Fort Myers Beach, santa bell, some of those areas really where the front line got the massive storm surge and an extensive damage throughout there. You also have Charlotte County had damaged north north part of naples and collier county. The one of the things that were working on and is having staged all the power and everything is the restoration of services right now statewide, 85 of customers have power and the main...

And the governor talked how impressed with what the coast guard was doing this morning. These are dangerous missions, and grateful for the brave women and men, and one team risking their lives to save others and we are going to learn a lot more in the coming hours. Many families are hurting, many, many are hurting today, and our entire country hurts with them. Its all over the country, so many crisis, but in florida today is the epicenter. We are continuing to see deadly rainfall, catastrophic storm surges, roads and homes flooded. We are seeing millions of people without power and thousands h...

Working on is having staged all the power and everything is the restoration of services. Right now statewide, 85 of customers have power. And main outages are, of course, in lee and charlotte counties had the most as well as hardy but then you also have about half out in collier. You have about half out in sarasota. And then it really gets better in many other parts of the state until you get seminole is about a third out or 40 out. Volusia is about 50 out. Flagler is about 40 to 50 out. Then it gets much better as you get to st. Johns and jacksonville and nassau county. Theres over 42,000 fol...

Were taking risks. You have power lines down, trees down. You have a lot of hazards right now. We do anticipate a lot of the water will subside in some of the Barrier Islands and some of the coast. Some of those inland places off rivers and off these inlets you are likely to have standing water there throughout all of today and even in the days ahead. So thats a hazard and just be aware that is something that if you with weathered this storm we want to minimize any harm to any one. We have had 26 states provide support. We really appreciate that. It will be put to use. This is i dont think wev...

Seen anything like this. Our families have lost everything. And ian is still storming and were still following. Fox on top of Recovery Efforts now full swing in florida. Governor ron desantis will have a News Conference in a few minutes. Well bring it to you live. And havoc is wreaking right now having made landfall in South Carolina packing winds in excess of 85 miles an hour. Heres what we know right now. In South Carolinas pauly island, part of the pier is washed away. The death toll from Hurricane Ian standing at 21 in florida. That number expected to climb. More than 700 rescues taking pl...