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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,...

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 ...