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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'v...

newsroom. i'm jim acosta in ft. myers, florida. first thing, we have some updated figures from here in the hurricane zone. sit the most current death toll of people who sadly did not survive hurricane ian here in florida. that new official death toll is now 74. 74 people here in florida have died now as a result of hurricane ian. of course, those figures are coming in. as they develop, we'll bring them to you. residents say there is a growing sense of fear that more bodies could be discovered. some areas remain fairly inaccessible to first responders. we'll show you what i saw on the...

will be able to run. members of four unions are taking part in the strike in a long—running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions. our transport correspondent katy austin reports. shutters down, empty platforms — it's the most disruptive train strike yet. i've got no train, so now i'm having to... i've just rung my husband, he's got to drive two hours, well, longer than that, down to here, to pick me up. everything has gone up in price so they need to be paid for the work they are doing. but i don't like the strike, no. so, for my money, 100% behind them, all power to them, - and...

>> reporter: it is startling to see how ghostly quiet, frankly, lyman is after it's been at the focus of a strategic victory for ukraine. we got in about 30 minutes after ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy declared the whole town had been completely cleared of russian forces. on the way in we could at times hear -- this afternoon and a number of locals all going around on bicycles. significant destruction to the buildings in that town and particularly to the railway why this was a focus of russian efforts and a knock-on efforts to losing control of lyman. some locals said to us that essen...

Together and voluntarily pulled out. on friday, possibly, in fact, almost complete and ukrainian official we spoke to said some russian units did try and burst their way out, some were successful, some were indeed hit. it was a remarkable idea to think that on friday when russian president vladimir putin was signing papers in the kremlin to suggest lyman and even where i'm standing, large parts of ukraine, in his opinion, have suddenly become russian territory, his own military were pulling out of an area stra tegic as lyman. if it hadn't got to the kremlin, or if it had, he gave messages of i...