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south carolina continue to recovery from rains wind and cataclysmic flooding. ian slammed into south carolina just shy of category 5. the current death toll of at least 45 people likely to come in the days as search and rescue cruise go through blocked floodwaters, as of this morning, 1.3 million homes and businesses still in the dark. according to the latest estimate ian may have caused as much as $47 billion in insured losses which could make it the most expensive storm in the state history. the figure comes from core logic, that's a research firm that estimates losses from natural...

is only beginning. >> sandra: for those of us who have lived through hurricanes we know how scary they can be. chief meteorologist is with us tracking the storm and the latest tally on some of the winds that are being reported across that state. what are we seeing, rick? >> so far, john, i'm glad we had the video that popped up from 2017 up in jacksonville, because jacksonville is going to get storm surge again from this storm, which is pretty hard to imagine. this is a look at the winds recorded so far, verified naples, 112 miles an hour, still with kinds of the worst of the wind of...

And we learned this after hurricane andrew. and we're going to see that unfold over the next few days with hurricane ian is that improved building codes work. we see if you improve the quality and you follow the building codes to a higher standard, you can save lives. and these homes won't be complete losses in some cases if they were build after hurricane andrew as florida's building code was improved. we have seen that in the plains with the tornadoes. we can build storm shelters. there's things that we can do. it's not this or that. there's a lot of gray area. some places we don't need to m...