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We have florida still reeling from the devastation from hurricane ian. >> we're concerned about the storm. i should have left and shouldn't have stayed. >> listening to the winds, which were horrible for hours. >> the storm now soaking the mid atlantic making its way up north and death toll in florida continues to climb. pete: alexandria hoff is live in fort meyers beach. alexandria. >> well, good morning. we're here on san carlos island, part of fort meyers beach and aside from the utility crews working up the street and the occasional police siren, the scene is quiet, it's still and sad. it'...

Wet, completely saturated. so when you have that, you have to consider that even though the worst of its elements have moved out of here, the ground's wet and these trees could be uprooted. so you could see the possible of some of these trees uprooting, knocking over into the streets and possibly pulling down more power lines even after they've maybe been fixed. so folks definitely have to be patient in the next couple of days as utility crews get out there again. governor rhonda census's, they've got thousands of these crews up and down the coast to help these folks. >> but it's going to take...

Here in this county ever when it comes to the flooding and the massive amounts of rain and wind that we're getting. >> absolutely. i mean, you mentioned the power outages. what about utility crews? have you been speaking with any any emergency officials out there? you know, planning ahead for what could come in the coming hours? >> yeah, actually , we're blessed. the daytona international speedway is located here, and that is ground zero for power companies who have come in throughout the southeastern part of the country. so we're in a good position in volusia county because that's the staging...

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...

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...