CNN CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield July 7, 2024
feet high, could plunge into the neighborhood. it's just one of the many gulf coast communities still suffering from catastrophic flooding. >> it's been quite an operation. some of our major thoroughfares have become impassable even as the water recedes, there's washouts. so we have a long, long recovery period. >> all of this following hurricane ian's destructiv ive h across florida. it slammed into the gulf coast as a category 4 hurricane. entire towns leveled. florida governor ron desantis is expected to give an update on the situation later on in this hour. we'll take that for yo...