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path the danger is real to state the obvious. please obey all warnings. brian in florida desperate search and rescue efforts underway this morning. at least 10 confirmed dead. officials warn that number likely to climb. significant damage that i saw was on fort myers beach there have been more than 700 confirmed rescues and there is likely many more than that. brian: there you go. before and after photos showing the extent of the damage in fort myers. curfew being enforced there to prevent looting. more than 2 million people across florida still have no power. we have live team coverage this morning. meteorologist adam klotz is standing by with ian s latest track. but, first, fox weather correspondent robert wray is live in fort myers with a look at the damage. robert? yeah, it s tremendous. it s really everywhere you look. and especially when you start heading down to fort myers beach where all those rescues have occurred and where governor antioxidant just tal ....
counties. that s along the gulf of mexico, southwest corner we pointed out a moment ago. you have 40,000 linemen on the ground. they will need them in order to restore power. dana: they have restored power to a significant portion already. it is impressive the work they ve done. there is a long way to go. 14,000 people in shelters. also a call for everybody to make sure they are being very smart in using their generators in order to protect people from any problems there and from electrocution and also from carbon monoxide. follow those instructions very, very carefully. bill: we are tracking ian and get back to that in a moment. we listened to governor desantis. pine island, sanibel, those are going to be rebuild efforts. the sanibel bridge had breaks in multiple parts of it. it was not where the water and pylons were. those held up well. it is where you had it on the sandbar and it got washed out. dana: the scale of the wreckage is southwest florida is stagger ....
dark. the governor clown ron desantis is set to speak at 8:45 this morning after this chilling assessment of ian s wrath. it s going to rank as one of the top five hurricanes to ever hit the florida peninsula. pete: flash flood warnings are in effect. we re live across the state with a firsthand look at the devastation. senior meteorologist janice dean is standing by. fox team weather starts with robert ray in fort myers right where the hurricane hit. robert? good morning guys. look at the devastation on the streets of fort myers. this was completely under water yesterday evening as the surge came in you could see some of that video will remnants of what was published in and around downtown here. there is just debris everywhere. the window field here yesterday was just tremendous we could barely stand by. this vehicle coming through. it s an active scene here this morning as believe it or not, there is some power that has come back at least in this part of fort my ....
torrential rain. hundreds of miles away from where ian first came ashore as a hurricane at this hour they are inundated by water. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. breaking news with new developments now. let s go to orlando. look at these pictures. tropical storm ian hitting that metro and already our reporters are showing us conditions where high water rescues are underway. some 127 so far. returning now to sanibel island. look at the left side of your screen. those were the moments just before hurricane ian hit. look at the right side of your screen. the height of the storm with 155 mile-per-hour winds and a massive storm surge that left sanibel in ruins. the way in and off the island, the sanibel causeway major destruction. this was the only option for vehicle travel between the island and florida s mainland. we ve had coast guard rescues, urban search and rescue teams from the state of florida, the national guard down in southwest florida. ....
special master and that has turned out to back fire on him. when we were locked out it was something like a war zone. it s going to hit home. it s going to be emotional when they see their properties up close. everything that you see is being contested by the ukrainians. the russians have completely dropped any pretexts that this is going well. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is wednesday, october 5th, 9 a.m. here in london. 4 a.m. on the u.s. east coast. it s been a week since hurricane ian slammed into florida and u.s. president joe biden is expected to visit hard-hit fort myers in the coming hours. he ll meet with governor ron desantis, fema and officials to assess the damage there. meanwhile, florida residents are returning. it will be a difficult transition for those who call the island home. what they ll see is really an up close look at destruction that they ve seen from the video clips on the news and some ot ....