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from an mess nbc rolled headquarters, welcome in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. we begin this hour with the big story of survival and recovery, mostly in florida that state hit hardest by hurricane ian. the total death toll from that storm is estimated 78 people. power outage numbers are down from reporting last hour, now it's -- over 21,000 in north carolina and just over 7000 in virginia without power. 1200 in south carolina. search and rescue operations are still underway, with the coast guard leading most efforts as 100 of thousands struggle with basic necessities like p...

The community, though, is rallying together. as well there are churches providing resources, food, water to people. more shelters are opening, but they're also gonna tolerate dating to certain degrees. they are providing transportation to and from shelters, so people have somewhere they can go. >> colin, -- stay safe and keep on doing that work. it is so important. thank you so much. >> hurricane ian is expected to be one of the costliest hurricane to ever hit the u.s.. its price tag right now is estimated at 67 billion dollars and rising. that puts it in company with the historic deadly storm...

Inland as well. >> is there a direct link between climate change and the frequency and intensity of the storms we're seeing over the last few years? >> so, hurricane scientists are cautious to draw too strong of a link, but what we've seen so far is there is some good research out there that suggests that climate change, a warmer world makes it more likely we'd see more intense storms. so less cats 1, 2 and 3, maybe more categories 4 and 5. other research suggests we'll see slower and water storms sort of what we're seeing with dorian, what we saw with harvey and florence. really the strongest...