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of the florida coast of that this is sanibel island, an island decimated by hurricane ian. right now there's no way to get help in to sanibel. the only bridge that connected the island to the mainland, it's a long causeway, it's caved in. so there's no way to get on or off the island unless you travel by boat. and that's been incredibly difficult for anyone to do. and that loss right now spans the florida coast. i'll show you cape coral. our bill weir was here today. this is a picture he took. you can see home after home totally destroyed and flooded. the ones that are still standing...

Recover from this monster storm. earlier i spoke with jack seiler, the mayor of ft. lauderdale and began by asking what the priorities are. >> we've got obviously to dry out a little bit. we've got a fair amount of rain from a very, very big and bad and very, very broad storm. but we're in a phase right now where we're dealing with trying to complete our assessment. we've been out of the storm now for about a full day, but our area being just a rather large urban area, greater ft. lauderdale is almost 2 million people. we've just are in the process of finally doing our assessment in terms of p...