e best part? the prequel is pretty sweet too. ♪ ♪ >> the news continues. attended over to laura coates who is filling in for don lemon tonight. laura? >> nice to see you, john. great coverage on the hurricane. so important to have your perspective on the ground. we are here tonight. this is don lemon tonight, i am laura coats in for don lemon. ian is no longer a hurricane tonight. that's true. it's been downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone. doesn't sound that much better, does it? the danger from this massive storm is far from over. it's still packing drenching rains, high winds, and the threat of flash flooding as it goes north to the carolinas into virginia, and even the

mid-atlantic states. after leaving florida, ian did make landfall earlier today near myrtle beach, south carolina, as a category one hurricane. it heavily flooded a local street. do you see this? this was a scene a few miles south and nearby pawleys island. the streets are turning into rivers look at this. the power of the storm surge as the hurricane was churning, the atlantic ocean, it sliced a peer into. as ian news northward tonight, a tornado watches now in effect for parts of the carolinas and virginia for at least one more hour until 10 pm eastern. meanwhile, back in florida, the extent of the destruction, well, it's staggering. this, that we're looking at, that is aerial video of fort myers beach. much of the committee has simply been totally obliterated. the result of a hurricane smashing into that part of florida as a massive category four storm.

last night, the sheriff's office in lee county what you campuses the fort myers area, is releasing this new video, showing even more of the destruction. sadly, we are reporting at least 45 deaths are being reported in florida. officials, unfortunately, fear that number may climb as search teams are now combing through the rubble. i want to show you some before and after photos of sanibel island. the before votives, on the left, you are seeing, that is the before. the scenes of destruction, utter destruction, on the right. buildings that are still standing, now they're hulking wrecks. many homes are completely destroyed. they're not empty lots where families used to call home. there is one estimate that puts the enormity of all of this destruction in the state of florida, get this, at 47 billion dollars. cnn's team is out covering the storm and its aftermath, bill

weir in fort myers, ryan young is in orlando, and miguel marquez is in myrtle beach. what we are seeing, gentlemen, it just astounding. you've all been on the ground, you're seeing it firsthand. bill, we'll begin with you. we've been all over today. tell me what it's like on the ground and what do you have been seeing? >> it's interesting, laura, to see the evolution of the psychology of, it of folks coming out now, and you could see them dazed with phones, talking to family, trying to describe what they're seeing. there's all these jumbles of both houses nash together. it takes a moment to wrap your head around it. we try to get out to fort myers beach, which we here has been decimated by 90% of that community being wiped out. it's been cut off, there's been a roadblock, their sheriffs won't let folks. and while we're waiting, we're waiting around. here is just a sample of what you see on the side of the road these days, south of fort myers. >> look at this. i will always remember the

sight of captain griggs boat, the crackerjack, which is now parked on top of this chevy suburban. you could see the alarm going off inside the boat to alert the captain that something is wrong. it's heartbreaking, in the setting, another bait shop over, here and you find stuff like. this look at this. a random -- this is a rewards card, just sat down there by the most violent storm to hit this part of the coast in history. meanwhile, over here, the beeping of earth movers as they try to shove these granted sailboats out of the way, as we learn, in irma, and maria,

cleanup can be as much of a man made disaster as the hurricane itself. if not properly managed, but we can only hope that all available resources will manage to on jumble this mess as soon as possible for these folks. >> you have to think not in terms of property damage, but insurance companies in this state are taking a brutal beating. there's no denying that. these are homes for a lot of people, laura. when i look at what's happening out here in the yacht basin, and you look at how many of these boats have some, they have to check, those four people, it's heartbreaking everywhere you look. >> i mean, looking at the destruction and knowing fort myers relies on the tourism industry, at that, the idea of trying to rebuild even for that sector of the economy, let alone for people who live there, who as you say, looking at that

boat out there, bill, to go from the sea to where it was positioned on the dry land, on top of a car, it's unbelievable to see. there is so much destruction. i wonder if there is a sense at all about the amount of time it's going to take to even get things up and running at the basic level for people to even, maybe, return to inhabit their, homes or even see the damage? >> i think, honestly, if you judged by history and past storms, it comes down to separate communities, and recovery plans, and cleanup plans, and now it's, sort of, all politics is local, all cleanup and recovery is local in a storm like this. of course, fema will help and the state is promising as many resources, and we've got people flooding things. there's donations pouring in as well. this is a big, big, big mess to clean up. you, know they're still cleaning up after maria in puerto rico.

that's a different, of course, infrastructure. that was five years ago. it's going to take a while for this place to heal. >> ryan, i want to go to you as well. thank, you will come back to you, bill. ryan, you're actually in orlando, where some residents, as bill and i were talking about, they are traveling by boat to help their neighbors. tell me about the effort happening there to help. >> this is really something to see. a lot of these people went to sleep around 4:00 in the morning, and when they woke up the next day, they had no yard. in fact, they had no mailbox because the water was coming up so fast. this is a neighborhood that is known for flooding. the folks who live here say they've never seen the water rise so fast, and so high. at this hour, tonight, there are still people who decided to stay back there and not evacuate. want to show you this video because we got on a boat with a guy who said he could see his neighbors continue to suffer. he wanted to make sure he went out there, and started shuttling medicine, start and

sending pets. people left their pets behind yesterday because the national guard and the fire department had to come out here and help them as the water was rising. today, people were concerned about the pets they left behind, and the medicine they left behind. we've got on that boat, we saw people huddling inside garages, together, who decided not to leave their home, and they feel the government has left them alone. there was no one shuttling them besides their own neighbors. take a listen to one of the people who is on that boat who say they said more than 40 people today to go back and forth and to get out of those homes. >> we saw older residents you guys were helping out earlier because people were talking about trying to get their medicine. how heartbreaking has that been for you to see the pain folks have had throughout the last few hours? >> i just couldn't -- i couldn't live knowing that the people in my neighborhood where suffering from this hurricane. what's its name, ian? i just had about, and me and my

sister-in-law, my daughter, we dropped and went to saving people, helping people out. >> laura, there was a line here today, allowing to get back into this neighborhood. as we went through there, i can't tell you how expensive the neighborhood is. we saw more than 60 cars underwater today, and there were people who were still arriving at this point of night, who decided to walk back their, despite the fact we saw snakes back there, and there had been reports of gaiters in the area. we saw a gator at the committee next. or it's something you've got to think about. people are literally waiting in the water, not knowing what's out there. >> my god, to even think about that danger, the idea that it's dark, as you are out there, not knowing what's there, and thinking of the desperation and what you're trying to get back to. for some, it's pets, for some, it's medication, for some, it's just nowhere else to go. since you were on that boat earlier today, and how heart wrenching it, is to even have somebody with so much resolve to say, look, i can't sit by and watch this happen. some in the area actually saw

that on cnn's airing and offered to help as well, i understand? >> there was an immense response. in fact, while we are here, a man showed up with an airboat and didn't start helping neighbors go see their home, started helping people get medicine, and providing a second but because, as you know, with more than 40 homes back there, one guy with a is not enough. the fire department also arrived, but they don't have a boat, so the man with the airboat who says he plans to come back tomorrow and so does the guy who we were on his boat, henry, he's going to be back tomorrow to make sure people get back and forth. the thing that struck all of us is a look inside a couple garages, looking at people huddled with no power, with no lights, sitting there, knowing there is no way for them to get out, and the only way they could get out as if somebody shows up with about. some of them decided they are not going to leave their homes because they said there is no way they're going to leave their possessions at this point. >> is that the reason they're giving, they're afraid someone might take, it or looting in some way?

is that the thought? or the idea just the comforts of home, and feeling safe there? >> it's -- you know, some of it has to be that comfort point, but i will tell you tonight, there were people who walked by as you said they just wanted to get home to get their bike. one guy said he wanted his dog because they couldn't take the dog yesterday. they actually brought the dog out, and that's all he wanted, his dog. you could understand how people have these connections with their animals, especially people who lost their pets back there, yesterday, and they were heartbroken to find that out as they had to go back. a man pulled up and asked us, could he drive back there? of course, we said no. the same point as he wanted to drive and see what his house looked like. you understand why people are trying to figure this out at this point. there's no pumps, there's no way to get the water out right now, we just have to sit and wait and see what happens next. >> unbelievable. thank you for your reporting, as always. ian, nick valencia is here, excuse, me and ian made landfall in south carolina as a category one hurricane.

even know if it's a lower category, the devastation is still there. what is the latest, nick? >> laura, people know they dodged a bullet, here especially when we look at the damage that our crews are showing the world, in florida. hurricane ian made landfall south of us in georgetown, south carolina. it did bring some significant damage here, particularly to the peers in this area known as the grand strand. we understand from local officials at least four of the peers in this area were damaged, including the cherry growth here which suffered a partial collapse, pieces of it floating into the atlantic ocean. it's still very active scene here. you could see behind me these folks that have been working all day starting to come back. and these power crews, those helping with the downed trees, and that process of getting things back to normal here is underway. as of 7:30, the local emergency management here in the county closed their emergency operation center. the cleanup is a concern. it's just a while ago, in fact,

laura, the lights in our hotel, came back on. they've been off, basically, all day. laura? >> have you had clean water? as water and issue at all? is the power, the primary concern at this point, now that it's been restored? what about drinking water? i always think of that. >> there's thousands still here without power, drinking water is, you know, an issue after storms. you get these major storms that come into an area, they damage the sewer system, the drainage system. we've been drinking bottled water, we've seen residents do the same here. i want to show you video we shot earlier, which was just striking to see. about 3:00, when we were on the air, we saw a shrimp boat come out of nowhere in the atlantic ocean. we didn't know at the time whether or not there was a crew on board. no reports of fatalities or injuries in this county, we should say, we did eventually talk to the sheriff in the county who said that crew on the shrimping boat was evacuated, taken off yesterday by the coast guard. it was anchored down a few miles away, but just because of the severity and intensity of the wind, and rain, it broke free from where it was anchored,

and ended up coming adrift on shore in myrtle beach. one person was arrested trying to climb the boat. officials were trying to push back a crowd of 50 people from getting on that, some excitement in the midst of a lot of excitement earlier today. we felt those tropical storm gusts of wind really just got pounded by that heavy rain as it came through this area. laura? >> unbelievable. nick, thank you. i'm glad to know no one was on. hopefully that trump vote. there were others out there, of course. bill, i want to go back to you. look, when you see this storm barreling through florida, and to regain strength and hit south carolina, can you speak to us about what we are seeing in the climate now that we are seeing this extreme weather that really allows this to happen? buildings where you are withstood hurricane charlie. it withstood places -- witnesses from hurricane irma. now, what is this telling you? >> well it's just the earth science that we have been talking about for a few

generations now. it's heat-trapping gases, warming up the planet, and on a warmer planet that warm water is hurricane food. it's steroids for these storms. there is a attribution now. climate attribution is undersized where they can look at the storm and tell us that this particular, it was 10% wetter than it would have been before the industrial and revolution change they -- it's been the warning that engineers at exxon gave their bosses back in the 80s, and said that this is going to happen if we keep doing this. and so the decisions were made not to complain to the public with that, and here we are. so this is the reality. what's interesting is that people say we shouldn't politicize, don't talk about climate change in the middle of a storm like this. well, every official here today,

all across the state, reminding people, don't run your generator in your house. the carbon monoxide will kill you. or make you very, very sick! don't do that! nobody says, hey why are we politicizing the generators in the middle of this crisis? it's because the generator lobby and their friends in congress aren't the most powerful businesses on the planet. and by burning those same fuels that are pumping carbon monoxide into your home, which can kill you, it's also burning carbon dioxide which is not going to kill you immediately, but is a heat trapping gas which is contributing to all of these things that we are seeing. if you don't believe me, check out our friends at nasa. the guys who hit that asteroid 7 million miles away, those geniuses, that will explain it to you. i just reporting what they are trying to tell us and these are the implications of these warnings that we have been hearing. ad nauseam, since al gore won the nobel.

i'm frustrated that we can talk about it in those terms, because city planners and families need to make educated decisions about what is next for themselves, for the communities, for florida, all of these places we agree on should be safe and protected to the best of our powers. so yes, you know, the climate piece is just kind of in our faces. it's hard for people to come to grips with the idea that all of the energy sources and all of the innovation that made it so great to be human beings, and advanced human life spans is the same stuff that is now coming back to haunt us. that's a hard thing to come to grips with, but we have to do it as best we can, just for the future. >> bill, i hear your frustration, all of you are on the ground saying what is playing out. i'm in a studio, i don't see what's going on, i'm not touching it, i don't feel it, i don't smell it, i don't see the people who are there. it's so important that you

continue to sound the alarm, all of you, on the ground, and let us know what's happening. there is that greek mid, the fate of cassandra, who would know the future, and no one would ever believe her! i hope we are not resign to that particular faith. gentlemen, nick, ryan, bill, stay safe, we will be back to you. thank you. >> the devastation, i mean it is so severe in parts of lee county florida! which includes, fort myers area, and you have to wonder, listen to what we are saying! what we are reporting! what you are seeing! what will it take to rebuild those communities? not to mention that we are gonna get to the commissioner next. dupixent helps k keep you one step ahead of eczema with clearer s skin and less itch. hide my skin? not me. serious allergic reactions can occur that can be severe. tell your doctor about new or worsening eye problems such as eye pain or vision changes, including blurred vision, joint aches and pain,

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hello, colonial penn? >> all right here are some of the newest pictures of the mass destruction in lee county, florida. that's home to places like fort myers, kick, all pine island. the county manager tells cnn that it's not an overstatement

at all. to say that hurricane ian decimated parts of the area. says quote, it's a look to someone just dropped from the sky. picked up hotels, and buildings, and took them away. at least 16 people are confirmed dead there. i want to win the county commissioner kevin lewin. commissioner, thank you for joining us tonight, i'm a looking at these pictures and the devastation, lee county, we are talking places like santa belle, pine island, fort myers beach, cape coral. this is unbelievable, devastation that we are seeing! what are you saying? and what does your community need most right now. >> so i had an opportunity yesterday to go up and in the holocaust, or review the area for about two and a half hours, saw the devastation, so i was here the interest doctor is compromised. we have roads, power, wi-fi, they were all compromised.

so we are going to rebuild, repair, i'm here at the operation center in lee county, we are here with local regional, state, federal partners. everybody is here trying to work together. there is one group, it's what americans should be working together to solve the solution. >> it's so important to hear about the coordination between the local, state, resources, because it looks like everything has to come together. just shows you the notion of being all in it together. what has that coordination been light between the emergency response team, for the local, state, federal, is there a hierarchy? a prioritizing? is there a way in which the resources are being either apportions out or handled and some way? what is that like? >> so they're all mission orientated. so it was search and rescue first, and then we divide all the infrastructure issues. department of transportation both state and federal, they'll have a design for the college with the next 30 days, they

have a shortage that will stop working right after that, rebuilding that. so you have that area. you have water, and we are trying to rebuild our water supply system. we have the engineers helping us assisting us in the sewer and the pipeline. all the things that are compromised when we need additional resources. we look at power, we have multiple power companies here right now. wishing lines and rebuilding infrastructure. we have meetings where we are rising, team able, to at&t, trying to do drones, drop, in the necessary things that we can communicate with your loved ones through wi-fi. so this is a coordinating efforts look at that person. i've been in politics for many years. i've never seen local, state, federal, work together as one, and put all party stuff aside. >> that tells you as well just how much the need is. it's amazing to think about that. but also devastating to think about why that coordination is necessary. but you know, not just with the county. you are actually the mayor of sensible. and not only were you the mayor,

you were the mayor during hurricane irma, and charlie. so when you hear now, santa belle's new mayor, today, saying that the island is not livable now. what goes through your mind? it must be all the more personal to you? >> so you are right, i governed there for almost 14 years, the longest serving mayor for 11 years. you know these people firsthand when you are in a small town, usa, and that's what i got to know. so it's really gut-wrenching. especially as i'm saving peoples lives. we had 17 million helicopters, coast guard, bringing them off rooftops and bringing them back. so you look at the devastation, i can remember, and charlie seemed very, very, very minor compared to this. it's just really trying to get your arms around. it every day i come here, do what we need to do, this is home where i call home. my family is safe, so just trying to help the community, my district is the most devastating district, work

through south, abel works through the south. parts of cape coral, pine island, and both on ground. >> commissioner, really unbelievable to see this and we're looking at the infrastructure and then aid that is still there. thank you for doing nothing us, i know you need to get back to. what we wish you the best, we'll continue to focus on your community. thank you. >> thank you, god bless! >> god bless! >> well russian president vladimir putin. he's announcing the siege are up nearly a fifth, a fifth, of ukraine's territory. but is it a move based on desperation or some kind of perverse strategy? we'll talk about a next?

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. i want the kyiv authorities and their real masters in the west to hear me, for everyone to remember, people living in donetsk, luhansk, san ree sha are becoming our citizens forever. >> yeah, forever. that rules out peace talks with ukrainians. >> secretary, i want to turn to you here because think of the words he said and the idea of the sham referendum and also this on the backdrop of what we know to have been propaganda to try to convince the people of

russia that he had some sort of justifiable reason to go into ukraine. the facts state otherwise, but we saw hundreds of thousands of russians fleeing the country because of putin's mobilization. is all of this in your mind an act of desperation because maybe that propaganda is cracking a little bit? >> well, i think the tougher or the more dangerous rhetoric, the weaker he looks. i think under the circumstance, he said, i'm ready to negotiate, sure. after he's made millions of refugees, tens of thousands who have been murdered and raped and now controlling 15 to 20% of ukraine, now i'm ready to talk. you have to put that in the context of he's losing on the battlefield. his forces are poorly trained,

equipped, poorly fed and led, and they're losing as a result of that. he's now threatening to use nuclear weapons. that threat is really going to be taken seriously as much as we have a bomb threat in any of our public institutions we may think is low probability but a high impact. but we'll take it seriously. what he has to take seriously is the united states and western allies also have a great capability to cause great harm to the russians. so we have to be careful and take everything seriously. >> secretary, on that notion, speak on keeping on pushing, all that putin is doing, the ukrainians seem to have the upper hand, and he's saying that any attacks on the annex areas is an attack on russia itself. is he creating a kind of pretext here where he could do something to try to engage the west, and

something drastic at that? >> he doesn't believe in the rule of law. he's got, this is my territory. and you as a lawyer would remember the days in law school when you say well, 9/10 is enough possession or ownership of a territory. but he's annexed a territory he hasn't even conquered or seized yet. i think at this point, we have to keep taking the battle to him. ukraine has to continue to get as much land as they can going into the winter months. we're providing as much money and equipment as we can to make sure they can take the battle on to the russians, and they're doing that. we'll have to wait and see. no one can predict how this will turn out, but the west cannot afford to blink or go wobbly in supppporting ukraine. we have to continue supporting them with whatever we can. >> gentlemen, please stick

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well, vladimir putin has announced annexation of nearly 1/5 of ukraine in defiance of international law. back with me now matthew chance and secretary cohen. putin has been rattling this nuclear saber for some time now. we got word recently that the u.s. officials have been trying to talk russia down. in fact, our own fareed zakaria asked secretary lloyd austin about this very popt. listen to this. >> to be clear, the guy who makes that decision, it's one man. there are no checks on mr. putin. just as he made the irresponsible decision to invade ukraine, you know, he could make another decision. but i don't see anything right now that would lead me to believe that he has made such a decision. >> what do you think of that, secretary? >> i think he's being prudent

and cautious in coming to any conclusion about what's in president putin's mind. i just want to pick up on something that was said on -- by your prior guest when he looked at the devastation taking place in florida. i just felt the same way, proud to be an american, part of the united states. but what you saw in florida is just a sample of what would take place if there were a nuclear exchange. church hill once said, we may one day return to the stone age. what he was talking about at that time, a threat of a possible nuclear exchange between the united states and the soviet union at that point. we have to be very careful and to caution our allies and countries like china and india and turkey. everybody loses. so at that particular point, he gets more serious about that, they better get involved in a major way, or the catastrophic

result could hit us all. >> a very scary opinion you have. thinking about that that no one could be on the sidelines. matthew, part of who can't be on the sidelines, one has to wonder about the people in russia in particular. how are the people in russia reacting to all of these moves by putin? >> there's been some very dramatic developments we have been witnessing over the past couple of weeks. as these scenes tonight in moscow were played out with a huge carefully played out show piece taking place in the capitol as people kind of welcomed the annexation of these four territories of ukraine into the russian operation, you can see them waving the flags and chanting patriotic notion as putin cheers them on, you go back to those images, outside

the walls of the kremlin and elsewhere in the country, we have seen these dramatic antiwar protests taking place, we've seen hundreds of thousands of russian men trying to leave the country as soon as they can to avoid being plunged into the blood bath that's the front line in ukraine. so not only are we seeing a disconnect between the fact that the battle is going to wrong way for vladimir putin, yet he's still annexing this territory, he's annexing territory he's retreating from at the same time, but also there's a huge disconnect between the rhetoric we're seeing him voice in moscow and the sort of mood of many russians who are increasingly, it seems, against this war. >> wow. and yet, secretary cohen, putin was blaming, quote, anglosaxons.

i wonder, why do you think putin is driving a racial wedge into the conversation as well? >> well, because it feeds into his argument that the ukrainians were nazis. we're going to denazify ukraine and that appeals to the minds of so many russians going back to the nazis invading the soviet union. so he's feeding upon that, and he's also calling us say tannic. it's almost as if he's buying into the conspiracy type argument he's making to his own people. so it's messy, it's religious, it's racial. it's a combination of all the above. >> all the trigger points, trying to prey upon whatever people are feeling as a way to pump up the propaganda even further.

thank you both. everyone, make sure you do watch for the interview with secretary lloyd austin at 10:00 p.m. eastern and pacific on sunday right here on cnn. there's also been a huge ocean surge, and it's enhanced by hurricanene ian, and it's crashing into a pier in miami. we'll explain this video and what happened next. such as eye pain or vision changes, including blurred vision, joint aches and pain, or a parasitic infection. don't change or stop asthma medicines without talking to your doctor. ask your doctor about dupixent.

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even well outside the area of hurricane ian's direct hit, we see the fast-moving danger in the water. i mean, look at this ocean surge from a king tide in miami beach today as it's slamming into a pier. let's stop for a second to watch and listen to what's happening . i mean, this is very scary. six people actually went to the hospital with head injuries or

scrapes and bruises, and here's another view from miami beach as the king tide sends the ocean water rushing in and quickly even surrounding a police suv. let's talk to jennifer gray in the cnn weather center as we look at what's going on here. i mean, jennifer, this looks unbelievable to even think about. i want to hear a little more about what's going on here because the images are just stunning . [ bleep ]. >> we need some rescue here. we got a big wave. about five people into the wave.

>> i mean, it's unbelieve to believe hear and see what's going on there. just the idea of this is not in the line of the direct hit. just think about the ways in which there are repr cushions and it's going out like the domino effect of everything here. you just think about all the different areas of florida, let alone that it's marching up the coast and into south carolina. it's slammed today as well, and this all happened after leaving behind a path of destructition. we're going to follow w this ahd after a quick break hehere and e what else is g going on, and wee in the areas that have been hardest hit. we're on the ground in both of these states, and we're going to go there next. anytime. anywhere. even here. that's because nobody... and i mean nobody... makes hybrid work, work better.

hurricane ian is making land fall yet again, bringing punishing winds and devastating

storm surge to now south carolina's coast. it comes after florida's wide destruction from this storm. this video shows debris is everywhere. you've got communities completely destroyed, and ian is now blamed for at least 45 deaths in florida. cnn's bill is in fort myers, and nick is in myrtle beach, south carolina. gentlemen, i'm glad to see you tonight. bill, the destruction in fort myers, it's been unimaginable to see. what are you seeing on the ground? >> reporter: well, we're seeing the obvious stuff everywhere here. this is the fort myers yacht base in which a big huge boats just came loose and pin balled around here, shoved them up against the bridge, so there's those symbols, and then as you walk around through the debris, you get reminders that these represent human lives. there are families that lost

everything in some cases. so it makes you wonder who did this belong to? was this a grand parent who lived on one of these boats, so it's really something. we went out this morning, we tried to get out to fort myers beach which we heard had been wiped out, 90% of that community we heard reports that it was gone. they still hadn't opened it up. the sheriff's department was sort of turning everybody away. just where we were standing between here and there, here's a little sample of what you see just driving down the road after hur cain ian. these are shore birds and pell cans walking across wreckage in what used to be san carlos harbor. it's seen better days as you can see. this is the destructive path of ian. it came raking across here. a lot of the businesses here of course have to do with recreation here in paradise. kayak rentals, bai