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Want to get this out of the way fairly quickly, because when you can sitter that three quarters of sarasota county is without power, this debris is certainly going to cause some trouble for those utility crews that are standing by and trying to get through this this area so they can start restoring service. you know, you've got these these large tree limbs and other debris and the way it's going to make it hard for those utility crews to get around this is this has been expected for days now. governor desantis santurce talked about just the other day. take a listen. to as soon as emergency cre...

Make sure we were safe earlier in the day yesterday, we did go out into some of the neighborhoods, into the sarasota bay area to see what it was doing. it was still in good shape then ,but we don't know right now. so we're hoping that we can get out there and sort of get a lay of the land to see what the damage is , if any. but right now, if tree limbs and things of that sort are the extent of it, i would say that folks here fared pretty well. >> all right. and , of course, you know, with with daybreak and the dawn ,the hours and just a few hours to come, that's going to really reveal the exte...

As , you know, it could take power lines down again. so, again, folks are going to have to be patient. we've already seen some of these crews out here maybe surveying some of the damage. so there is work being done right now. you just got to pack your patience, guys. back , you boy. >> packing your patience. that is going to be , i think, a theme not only this evening, but really in the days to come. charles , real quick, you can still hear me. i'm curious. you know, i'm looking around you. there's a it looks like there's a tree down that's that's next to you. >> what is the extent of the dama...

0 >> and i just want to send a quick thank you to our first responders. i mean, you see these images of them cutting down trees, trying to remove the debris so that we can get our days back to normal. but we still have quite some time to get through. >> and we're going to do, you know, it is the firefighters, it's the police officers. >> it is just everyone working behind the scenes. >> and hurricane ian water in parts of southwest florida, streets and buildings completely flooded, power knocked out at one point over two million people. and one of the most powerful hurricanes ever to hit the u...

0 with first cause of this surge right now. reporting in fort myers, robert ray fox. >> whether. all right. thank you so much for sticking with us. right here on fox weather. a hurricane in a water log in southwest florida. streets and buildings completely flooded, as you can see here. power knocked out to two million people. and one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the united states . the hurricane making landfall wednesday afternoon near jocasta. a protected barrier island just west of fort myers in the hours since landfall in have moved inland, hurricane force winds likely to be...