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that number could rise even higher as search and rescue crews work to reach cutoff areas, removing debris from destroyed homes and businesses along florida s southwest coastline and we re learning that miami-dade fire rescue crews are conducting helicopter evacuations on sanibel island. boris sanchez is there in fort myers, florida. boris, you just spoke with the lee county sheriff a few moments ago. what was said? reporter: fred, there have been a lot of questions today about the timing of when lee county ordered evacuations. we re in lee county right now in fort myers. what we ve learned is lee county ordered its first evacuations more than a day after forecasts met the county s criteria despite the fact the county has an emergency plan that suggests evacuations should have happened earlier. the county s comprehensive emergency ma or more of water would indicate the need for hurricane evacuations in the most vulnerable areas. a lot of lee county is a vulnerable area ....
that responds to mass fatality incidents has deployed resources to assist medical malmers in lee and charlotte counties. officials in lee county are macing mountaining questions about the timing of this evacuation orders. the first ones issued less than 24 hours before the hurricane ian landfall despite evacuations should have been happened sooner. i ve been on the ground in lee county documenting the devastation and today matt le shay today in bonita springs. here is a look at what i saw. did you ride out the storm or anything? did i ride out the storm? . the water was up to half way to the front door with the waves crashing in the house. and our neighbors got stuck here and they had to safe harbor in our house. it was six inches of mud. i m going to see if they could salvage it. and we re just the back is worst than the front. the back is blown out. can we take a look? yeah. i said i leave in paradise and there was a roof over my head and i was literally i ....
electoral college, armed guards will throw them out. i m the president [bleep] i m challenging all of it. [laughter] challenging all of it. violence. [inaudible conversations] shoot to kill. see an antifa, shoot to kill. howard: and the other networks kept replaying the footage of the veteran gop operative and donald trump pal. clear that in some sense roger stone was a go between. the actual election didn t matter to stone. the vote didn t matter. roger stone, some of his words are quite chilling. don t know how they ll hold up in court, but they do indicate a lot. howard: but then the hurricane forced the committee to cancel the hearing, rennering all this old news by the time the session is held later this month. i m howard kurtz, and this is mediabuzz. joining us now to analyze the coverage in saratoga springs, new york, brian kilmeade, cohost of fox & friends weekend excuse me, cohost of fox & friends and host of one nation with brian kilmeade. ....
a crisis with no ordinary solution because this was no ordinary storm. look at the staggering scale of destruction. complicating hundreds of rescue efforts. it laid waste to entire towns, robbing people of their homes and livelihoods. some residents are now beginning to pick up the pieces. others have no pieces left to pick up. i just returned from a boat ride with the cageous navy where i saw some of the destruction for myself. this is what ian did to matt lachey in lee county where most of the deaths occurred so far. in matlacha. they find one of your neighbors? yeah. yeah. they found, like, i think three bodies so far in the water. i know there s more. cnn s nadia romero is in arcadia. we begin with brian todd in naples. officials said it could take months to recover. we have seen evidence all day long from our boat ride to where you are right now. where do things stand today where you are? jim, we re going to show you more evidence of why it s going to take ....
take a look at your screen right now. part of the states completely saturated still 200 people remaining without power in ten people dead. carley: tracking the hurricane with us all morning long but we began with doug luzader on the ground in charleston as ian approaches. what are you experiencing this morning? good morning, guys come a little bit of light rain is all we are seeing right now and some winds to pick up and the intensity will wrap up through the course of the day. now we have been watching a couple of things closely with this storm as always, the track. as far as the track is concerned it is shifting to the north. the second landfall might happen close disadvantage to georgia but then we started talking about charleston and now it is looking more and more like north of charleston may be closer to moreland beach. as we tracked the track itself, we are also making intensity and this is a category one hurr hurricane. this is something perhaps expecting. t ....