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the scope of hurricane ian's devastation is becoming clearer for days after the category four storm slammed into the coast of southwest florida, with record-breaking strength. 85 people are dead, 81 in florida, and four in north carolina. the death toll rises each time rescue crews reached new areas. and searches are going on around the clock. but some people are still stranded and waiting for help, like these residents of sanibel island. >> there has been no communication, nobody official has come on to the island to tell us what is going on. >> we don't have places to go, we have n...

>> mr. souza, thank you so much for being with us today. i know this is a trying time for all of the people of florida. folks in sanibel, especially. and our hearts are with you. thank you for your time. >> yes, thank you very much, simone. >> thank you. for more on what is being done on the federal level, we will now talk federal level and help hurricane victims. we have frog hugh gates, he is joining me on the phone from gainesville, florida. he is the chief resilience officer for one concern, and the former administrator of fema. thank you for being with us today, craig. it is my understand...

Coast of africa. this is a hairy few weeks in front of us, but many of the teams have been mobilized, a good word to hear. better safe than sorry. bring all the resources. sure, it's costly but more costly not to do it. we'll have teams but, remember, this is risk for them. this is potential for them to have to go into action when they wouldn't have to otherwise. you want to get power back up, but you have to do it even more quickly, and you can do it less effectively when you have to rescue people, and when people are reliant on that energy to survive, so these are the variables, and that's w...

One team. my goal was to come in and join that team. we try not to talk about ourselves as local state or federal. we have to work together. i'm seeing that play out, you know, there will always be hiccups. that's why we call disasters. the real issue is how quickly we're able to work and solve that as a team. i'm big at get things done, solving problems. we know there's going to be challenges. it won't be perfect. we're going to do everything we can to support the states and get those issues resolved and make sure we're not falling behind what the state needs us to be doing. >> let me sneak i...

Diss the president. >> right. just stay out of my city. what mayor says that to a president? >> what mayor? >> michael bloomberg. >> harold, what do you think? as the president of the united states, while your people are suffering, wants to come to your district in memphis, do you say no under any circumstances? >> we would probably take it. if i were still representing memphis. >> probably. you would take him. >> gladly. but i respect the mayor. i think the mayor has done a pretty darn good job -- >> that's not the question. don't try to be lit cal hepolit. >> i'm not. if the mayor believes i...