this morning the devastation in florida becoming clear -- whole towns leveled. near the famed ft. myers beach, the damage is historic. >> you ain't going to be able to get in that house safely. >> reporter: we met john strong, a volunteer out checking on neighbors, hoping to help those who lost everything from a storm that rewrote the rules. >> we were irma ready. >> reporter: but not ian. >> no, absolutely not. >> reporter: communities on florida's gulf coast left cut off. sanibel island, once a picturesque escape for vacationers now the scene of complete devastation. >> we got hit with biblical storm surge. it washed away roads, it washed away structures. >> reporter: the island taking the brunt of ian's impact as the monstrous tomorrow made landfall. time lapse video shows the storm surge drowning the area, the wall of water rising an estimated 8 to 15 feet. there was just stuff going

everywhere. i've never seen damage like this in my whole life. it's unreal. >> reporter: boats tossed like toys. the lone bridge connecting the island cracked and crumbled with the storm's winds putting some sections totally under water. >> we had about 200 households that didn't evacuate on the island that we know of. >> reporter: anyone still trapped on the isolated island now waiting for rescue by boat or air. we joined the lee county sheriff as he surveyed some of the hardest hit areas to see the full scope of ian's power. >> you know that as we are speaking right now, there are people that want us and need us and we can't get to them. >> reporter: people like jack and betty. an elderly couple who hasn't been heard from since the storm hit their continue dope. >> the worst part is the waiting and the unknown and not knowing that they're okay. >> reporter: their son scott says his parents were unable to

evacuate in time and forced to hunker down on their ground floor. but rescuers are stepping up. the coast guard racing to those stranded in sanibel and across the region, communities coming together to help out those in need. so many people already stepping up to help out in a big way. we do know that drew v crews have restored power to about a million floridians already, but that still leaves about a million more in the dark. as for that bridge running to sanibel island, the governor of florida has said it could take years before it is fully operational. a new one may have to be completely rebuilt. in the meantime, they are trying to establish a ferry service to bring some sort of sense of normalcy and/or transportation to those who still call the island home. willie? >> yeah. that's going to be a long wait and an agonizing wait in the short term for those families waiting to hear from loved ones on the islands. morgan, have you been struck talking to people there, as i have from a farther distance, by

the shock almost of people, even in a state where they've experienced some of the worst that weather can offer? we heard governor desantis calling this a 500-year flood event of biblical proportions. he's not alone in that assessment. as they woke up yesterday morning and really began to appreciate the scope and the size, the damage, the power of this storm. it is shocking. >> reporter: shocking, absolutely, and even floridaens who have been battle tested by hurricanes before have told us that they were even a bit caught off guard by ian's power. we were on davis road yesterday, still under water from that storm surge, and it's well inland, willie. a woman named sue, her home a total loss, she said she prepared for irma, which happened several years ago, another very powerful storm, but i said i guess that wasn't enough. she said absolutely not. ian was -- irma was no ian.

and that's when you realize that no two hurricanes are ever the same and just how powerful and how seriously each one needs to be taken. willie? >> yeah. now making its way up the atlantic towards south carolina today. morgan chesky live from ft. myers beach, florida. thanks so much. mika? as we mentioned last hour with an official from florida's largest utility company told us that power had been restored to about a million customer. that leaves more than a million still without electricity. bloomberg is reporting that parts of the state's electrical grid must be completely rebuilt with some residents facing days, even weeks without power. that is despite the state's four biggest utilities having spent an estimated $3 billion on storm protection in recent years. governor ron desantis yesterday said lee and charlotte counties are, quote, basically off the grid at this point. he's speaking right now, so

let's listen in to governor ron desantis. >> -- have water at this point, and you need that to be able to function in society. they've requested support from fema, and then we -- fema was able to provide the army corps of engineers, and they were on the ground after kevin called them i think at, like, 3:00 in the morning yesterday. they were on the ground from jacksonville to southwest florida in the afternoon. they've been working to assess that situation. we also have florida national guard personnel standing by to help the army corps if they need it. but at the end of the day, you know, that is something that will be very, very critical to be able to get that back, and it may require more of a rebuild, maybe it requires some more short-term mediation. they're going through that, but that's clearly a top priority, and we're thankful that fema and the army corps are there helping out. obviously, there is a lot of

folks in affected areas that evacuated. some did shelter in place. as of last night, we've contacted over 20,000 floridians that filled out a shelter in place survey on floridadisaster.org. over 10,000 have responded, and all 10,000 said they were safe. and the state sent the first alert late last night and are expecting more responses this morning. cell phone connectivity is sparse in some areas and sometimes it's easier to get out a text message, so the process has been streamlined. there's now a stand-alone site to report your location, so if you're having issues contacting your family via phone and if you're sheltering and you want to know they're safe, there's a website, missing.fl.gov. these forms are triaged by staff in there's and dispatched to responders that are on the

ground. in addition to the rescues yesterday, rescue personnel have gone to more than 3,000 homes in the hardest-hit areas, going door to door to check on the ok you pants of those residences. there are over 1,000 dedicated rescue personnel who are going up and down the coastline. they also are going to be doing more and more inland in some of our counties, inland portions of charlotte and lee, but also de soto and hardy counties. i think hardy county is the most without power right now. i think they're 99% without or -- >> yes. >> yeah. so you see the really troubling images of washed-out homes on the ft. myers beach, and that really is ground zero and obviously very important. but this was such a big storm that there are effects far inland and these rescue personnel are sensitive to that, and they'll be helping. we have two major points of distribution for food and water

this morning. first, charlotte sports park, the spring training facility for the tampa bay rays in charlotte county, and then the lee county sports complex, the spring training facility for the minnesota twins. these are pods that are much bigger than normal pods. there have been over 1.6 million gallons of fuel into southwest florida that have been moved in to support the response. i think what we're finding with the fuel is the fuel supply is flowing. it's just a matter of the gas stations need to have power to be able to operate, and if they have a certain number of pumps, they're required to have a generator. i was in lee county yesterday and i saw some of the larger gas stations were operating, so that's good sign. as of 6:00 a.m., there are about 1.9 million people, customers without power. right now the hardest hit areas are hardy, 99% without power as of this morning, charlotte and lee both have 85% without. de soto is at 80% without.

sarasota, collier, manatee, close to half of the customers there are without power. hillsborough and pinellas, 15% to 18% are without power. and these crews have been on the ground since it was safe to do so. and they are working 24/7 to be able to restore power all throughout the state of florida. that's over 42,000 linemen and associated personnel that are on the ground. fdot has had over 1,300 people on the ground. they've cleared more than 1,100 miles of roadway. i was happy to see the traffic flowing in southwest florida. obviously there are some structural problems in some of the bridges leading out to sanibel and pine island. but by and large, they were tossed, the traffic is flowing in southwest florida, probably better than would have been anticipated so soon after such a major hurricane. so we appreciate that. they've alsoment inned and

reopened 800 bridgess the state, and this includes 67 high priority bridges inspected and reopened in lee, charlotte, sarasota, and manatee counties. pine island, sanibel, those are going to be rebuild efforts. the sanibel bridge had breaks in multiple parts of it. it was not where the water and the pylons were. told held up very well. it was where you had it on some of the sandbar and that basically just got washed out from underneath. in the meantime, kevin can talk about this, they're going to be running barges to be able to bring more heavy equipment onto the island to be able to hem with the response. the first responders that have been there by and large coming in via air, you know, they do have some equipment, but they're traveling lighter just to be able to go and get the people as quickly as possible. there have been six health care facilities evacuated southwest florida. they were having problems with water or problems with power for

an extended period of time. we're also prioritizing getting power and running potable water to the rest of the area's health care facilities. there have been 117 facilities ha had lost power that now have power restored. the ports, tampa bay, miami, everglades, they are reopened for fueling, and i think between today and tomorrow, all the ports in the state of florida up and down both coasts will be operational. food and water, massive amounts, and where kevin is sensitive to the water situation in lee, so i'd say this is an extraordinary amount of water that has been staged and is continuing to be brought into the area. so, fema has activated their individual assistance program, so if you're in need of help of recovering in those affected counties, you can go to

disasterassistance.gov or call 1-800-621-3262. 34,000 people have already registered with fema. make sure if you're looking at claims on your property you document that, take photos, make sure you have it. we want you to be able to made whole as quickly as possible. there will be, in conjunction with fema, the state of florida, and the local communities called disaster recovery centers, those will be set up very soon. that will be in place. if you need help with individual assistance, but you don't need to go there. you can do all this online. there's also going to be insurance villages set up under the leadership of cfo jimmy petronas. you'll have a lot of flood insurance claims as a result of this. you will have some wind claims as a result of this. and it's our view that, you know, these claims need to be paid very quickly so that people can get back on their feet. i want to thank the first lady

for spearheading our efforts for volunteer florida and activate the florida disaster fund where people can donate. if you want to contribute, you will be joining a lot of people who have done a lot of money, and we now have over $12 million 24 to 36 hours after the storm hit, pretty incredible that's happened. if you want to do, go to floridadisasterfund.org. more than $12 million has come in, and there's lot of interest to do a lot more. why is that important? fema has certain things they can do via statute regulation, but if it falls outside of that, they just can't do it. that's not the way it works. so when you enlist private organizations, they can be a little bit more nimble, they can tailor their response to maybe some of the more unique needs that citizens may have. obviously, you have people that have been dislocated, people

that no longer have homes. so there will be a wide variety of things they'll need in the coming days, week, and months. volunteer florida. visit volunteerflorida.org to find volunteer opportunities. this is one way you can make an impact and i know people really appreciate all the outpouring of support. i want to commend the folks that we were able to meet with down in southwest florida. this has been a major event, of course, and these people have been working around the clock to be able to serve their constituents and serve their communities. we appreciate the dedication, we appreciate the perseverance. we know that there's a lot of difficult days ahead, but they've really done a great job standing up for the people of their community. i'm going to let kevin give a brief on the state response, and then we'll have the fema administrator come up and provide some perspective from fema.

>> governor ron desantis talking about the difficult days ahead, especially in southwest florida, in the wake of hurricane ian. we'll monitor his head of emergency management there and this news conference, especially when it goes to questions to make sure there are other relevant facts that we bring to you. as we monitor that in our control room, the governor, to sum up here, really talked about the big issues that face the hard-hit areas of south florida, the biggest immediate issue, of course, being power. that's the key to communication. gas stations can't even be open without power. it's hard to have anything happen without power. and there are some areas that are extremely hard hit where the grids have been severely damaged. he focused on hardy county, which right now is 99% without power. almost as bad, charlotte and lee county at 85% without power, de

soto county, 85% without power. that is the predominant area being completely without power, any source of power, for cell phone use, for anything. rescuers are going door to door, but the issue as they look for any last-minute rescue tunltss is trying to help people get back on track and trying to get people to have power again. sarasota, collier, and manatee county also 50% without power. so that's a huge hit. that's a swath of area that is unusable until they can get people back online and get the power grid restored or get something temporary in place. again, we'll be monitoring this news conference. there are bridge inspections happening across the state right now. and as the governor said, rescuers are going door to door to see if there's anybody that

still needs to be saved or is trapped or stranded. so that all is happening right now in southwest florida. the focus of course lee county, charlotte county, ft. myers being really the epicenter here when you can see many homes are just simply demolished. it will be a long time to come for many communities in southwest florida. the power being the main issue right now. let's go to the president of duke energy florida, and melissa, tell me about your customers, where are they, and how many of them are still without power. >> sure. so duke energy florida serves about 35 counties, 2 million customers across the state of florida. in our hardest hit areas from the tampa bay area and through the central part of the state, we have right now about 441,000 customers that are still without service.

we have restored 472,000. we are making very good progress with the overall restoration in the state of florida. >> 441,000 without service. how bad is the damage to the grids? what's the time line look like? >> so, what we are facing is primarily a restoration effort rather than a complete rebuild as you saw and as your team has shown the video for those hardest hit areas to the south of us. so we're fortunate for our customers it will be primarily restoration. we are already providing our customers with estimated times of restoration. here in the tampa bay area we will have about 90% of our customers restored by midnight tomorrow. and then later today we will come out with estimated times of

restoration for our hardest hit areas, which are volusia county, highlands, and polk county. and then a third set of restoration times for other counties such as orange and seminole. >> and just really quickly, for that third set, what's the time line for that? >> for the hardest hit areas, we will know by this evening what the estimated time of restoration is. we are still completing our damage assessment, but the teams are moving rapidly and safely through that process because we want to expedite getting information to our customers so they can plan around getting service back to their homes. >> okay. looking for answers, then, at least in the next 24 hours. president of duke energy florida, melissa seixas. thank you very much. willie? we've been talking a lot about the hospitals in southwest florida as well, working to restore services, protect their patients amid those power outages and critical disruptions

to water supplies as well. joining us now is president and ceo of sarasota memorial health care system, david beringer. thanks for being with us today. what is the state of your hospitals? we've heard stories of some having to go offline effectively and send their patients to other hospitals while they repair power and get water into those facilities. what about your hospitals this morning? >> willie, we're actually in very good shape this morning. we have two hospitals, one our trauma center, large tertiary care center in the city of sarasota. we are open and seeing patients. the other is the community hospital in venice, florida, the southern part of sarasota county. we are open and seeing patients, and we are seeing a lot of patients show up there from lee county and charlotte county because their services are obviously greatly impaired at this point. >> good to hear that your hospitals have held up well. just so our viewers understand, how does that system work

exactly? i know you all have a network, so lee and collier county, if their hospitals are in trouble, it kind of kicks in, doesn't it, where you all begin to semitheir patients, triage them, absorb them into your system? >> it does. obviously, they have a lot of patients that are down there and a lot of needs that are down there. so they certainly can transfer their patients to us, but it would overwhelm our system as well. so there is a statewide response to get their patients to other places. i've been in contact with their ceo, dr. larry antonucci, a good friend, and we have been trying to support them as much as we can. obviously they're in a pretty bad situation. >> we were talking a little bit earlier this morning, david, with an e.r. doctor at tampa general, and he was kind of outlining for us the extraordinary measures that hospital takes in, an aqua fence they put up that protects from 15 feet of storm surge. they've sealed their doors. they each moved their generators to the roof over the years. what kind of precautions have

you all taken at your hospitals to have it hold up as well as it appears to have held up here? >> well, our main facility is -- you know, goes back 100 year, and certainly we have a lot newer buildings than that. as we have gone through, you know, the decades, we have more hardened our facilities to where we can withstand cat 3, cat 4, even cat 5 hurricanes. during the storm, we did evacuate certain older parts of the organization or older parts of the hospital into the newer parts just to make sure our patients and employees were safe. the hospital down in venice is a new hospital we built this past november, so it's almost a year old. so it is to the newest standards and it held up very well during that. >> we're happy to hear that. the president and ceo of sarasota memorial health care system david verinder. thanks for the time. we appreciate it. let's look at the path of this storm as we bring in meteorologist bill karins.

bill, this has become a story about the atlantic, a story about south carolina, north carolina, apartments of georgia. >> yeah, willie. when we watched the storm heading towards south florida, we were using words like catastrophic, life-threatening. obviously, we've seen the pictures. that's exactly what happened. this won't be catastrophic. this will be damaging but still life-threatening because we have storm surge potential high enough to be life-threatening if someone is on the beaches or the low-lying areas. we also have a lot of trees that will be falling and that could be life-threatening. on top of that, flashflooding in the next two days too. that could be life-threatening. right now we're coming off lee tide. this is the myrtle beach area here. you can see with our earth cams. you can see still plenty of sand up to the dunes. high tide is between 11:00 and noon today. that's when the surge will come as the storm approaches land. that will be the key time to see how bad it is as we get the

damage from the water and the waves. the storm itself is only located about 90 miles due south, about georgetown, in between charleston and myrtle beach, and it seems to be headed north and swinging towards the north-northwest. that will bring that landfall around 2:00 or 3:00 this afternoon. so just after high tide. here's what we're looking at windwise. above 50 miles per hour, we start getting power outages. gusts in charleston at 44, last check about 10,000 to 20,000 people without power in south carolina. that will grow. the hurricane warnings were extended last night towards the wilmington area, so it's the myrtle beach, wilmington area, southwards to north of savanna. we've had flashflood warnings for charleston, the virginia beach area. they have the tide coming in.

there will be damage done because of water as we go throughout the next 24, 48 hours. will it look like southwest florida? no. but if your house gets ruined, that's what matters to you, right? 2:00 p.m. this afternoon, there's the landfall. it looks like the hurricane-force winds kind of small. i don't expect to see houses ripped apart by the wind. we'll have roof damage, trees down on houses. that's what you'll see north of charleston and south of virginia beach. but the tropical storm-force winds will be 40 to 70 miles per hour, still enough to knock down trees. that goes 265 miles. moorhead city down through emerald isle, carteret county, wilmington and savanna. that's the area of wind concern. the storm dies out later on tonight. as far as storm surge, the worst of it will be to the right of the center like this one. it was just south of the center when it was in southwest florida. it made landfall just north of ft. myers and naples and bonita springs. that's where the worst storm

surge was. same case here. the rain, this will go through tonight, flashflood threat in charlotte through this evening, raleigh will be through this evening. that heavy rain comes all the way up through the mid-atlantic. we're not going to have flashflooding issues in areas like new york city, but it won't be a pretty saturday morning either with a lot of heavy rain out there. mika, the bottom line is we still have the threat of people losing their lives to this storm as it makes landfall today. it won't look like southwest florida. they don't have to fear that. but just listen to your emergency managers. if they tell you to stay inside for today, do it and come out tomorrow and clean up. >> bill karins, as always, thank you so much. good to see you. and we will go live to south carolina as that state prepares for its first direct hit from a hurricane in six years. we'll also speak to the head of the coast guard, admiral linda fagan on its preparations and rescue efforts. we'll also take a look at the financial cost of hurricane ian with early estimates making it one of the costliest storms of

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that obviously now could include those four ukrainian regions. for now, let's bring in keir simmons. keir, this has been quite an address. i touched on the part where he's going to annex these four new places after those so-called sham referendums. but also accusing the united states of blowing up the nord stream pipeline and other outlandish claims on what the west has been up to and what ukraine has been up to. >> reporter: those four areas, are the areas in the eastern part of ukraine annexed now. that's the news, that they have now been an necked by russia. there is some bureaucratic loopholes to go through as far as the russians are concerned. obviously, none of this will be accepted by the international community after those votes in those areas that are widely discredited outside of those areas and outside of russia.

then we have this fiery speech from president putin, people things would recognize, attacking the west, insisting that ukraine is part of russia and you could argue in some ways going further accusing the west of wanting to colonize russia just as critics of president putin accuse him of effectively trying to kind of reheat a colonial russia if the 19th century that at the same time putin saying the west is trying to break up russia and own russia, if you like. the rhetoric continues from president putin. the reality is now there are concerts in moscow, crowds brought in, encouraged to come, you could say, by the kremlin in order to sort of celebrate this moment of annexation just the same as we saw in 2014 when crimea was annexed. so all of that is happening. but it doesn't really disguise

the reality that this is the biggest political crisis for putin he's ever faced. the simple political challenge for him really, the thing that goes to the heart of his problem, to be honest, is the mobilization that he announced because we are hearing from towns in russia of deep, deep disquiet, places that i have been to many times, just to paint a picture, the kinds of places where people watch cable, the russian version of cable or satellite tv, that the russian channels that are piping out propaganda and are very much in support of president putin, those places are learning their sons and brothers and fathers are going to have to go and fight. of course politics, it can be so simple in many way, can't it, and everybody will recognize that. politically, when a decision by a leader reaches right into your family, into the heart of your community, and has a real impact on the people around you, the people you love, that has a real

impact on what people think. president putin still has a lot of support in russia, but, again, you can easily say this is a crisis for him. the question for the world is what does he do next. >> just a few moments ago president putin said of the citizens of those four regions he's illegally annexed, "they have become our citizens forever," warning the west an attack would be an attack on russia. what does this portend for the war now, strategically, politically? what does it mean now that he has said in a way that these four regions belong to russia? >> reporter: the supposition is what he's trying to indicate, particularly with the nuclear threats, is to threaten the west and ukraine that if ukraine backed by the west intends to take these areas back, he will threaten a nuclear strike or

some kind of, you know, ratchetting up of the conflict, and the conflict with the west. we have to be careful. there aren't any signs as far as we know from western intelligence that there have been actual movements or changes in russia's nuclear capability. in other words, a lot of words but no sign of any action. if there were to begin some kind of indications that russia was shifting its nuclear readiness, if you want to put it that way, that would worry people deeply. they have made these nuclear threats in the past, and so far no real change. the trouble with president putin is for the entire time he's been present and by his own account, he's argued that when you're in a corner, just keep fighting. he claims that goes back to his childhood. the question is now, he's in a

corner, how much does he keep fighting and what does he do if he continues to lose this conflict? how does he respond to that? he's never had to face that kind of scenario. again, all bets are off in a certain kind of sense. having said that, though, and there's another point to make which is very important, this is a man who protected himself from coronavirus, was worried about his own safety, so counterveiling view, and an important one, would be that he's not going to do anything that might put him at risk, and that of course, would include a nuclear conflict with the west. >> extraordinary for today, though, the news is he claims russia has annexed those four territories and warning the west if you join in this fight and you do attack those territories it will be attack on russia. keir simmons, thank you for explaining it to us. we always appreciate it. up next here, the commandant of the united states coast guard will be our guest. the agency's been working around

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42 past the hour. hurricane ian will be the costliest storm in terms of money to hit florida since hurricane andrew made landfall back in 1992. property analytics company core logic is estimating that recovery could cost anywhere between $28 billion and $47 billion. ak ou weather estimates it around the same. the most expensive was hurricane katrina. hurricanes harvey and maria are the only other storms to surpass the $100 billion mark. let's bring in co-anchor of cnbc's "squawk box," andrew ross sorkin, and editor in chief of the personal finance website the balance, kristin meyers. andrew, can you talk about the analysis of the dpaj this hurricane cost, the impact it

will have on the economy and the ripple effect financial lip for people in the area and across the country? >> there's a couple of points to be made. the first is we're seeing estimates this morning that suggest the cost could be higher than the $100 billion that people are talking about. but i think the larger piece of this if you're on the ground in florida is the insurance piece, which is to say that about 50% of those folks who are right in the floodplain did have insurance. that's the good news. but many did not. 50% right in the floodplain didn't. outside of the floodplain but where there's still an enormous amount of damage, you're looking at homes that only about 10% of those folks had insurance. so you're going to see insurance costs go up remarkably. sadly, there have been lots of scams taking place in the state of florida that have put so many insurance companies out of business or other companies that have decided they don't want to do business in the state. so after the storm, i think they're going to have a big

debate over the cost of insurance, who should provide that insurance, who will provide that insurance. i think that is probably one of the bigger pieces to this from an economic standpoint. the last piece of course is we've been talking about the country and the inflation, the state of inflation in america right now. it is going up, and this is only going to make it harder, this is going to take supply out, and things are going to get a bit tougher. then of course the question is going to be what does the federal reserve do about this. this morning, a member of the federal reserve board suggesting that the fed is going to continue to press on things. so it's not clear that they're going to let up even though this situation of course is going to make the economic conditions more difficult. >> yeah. to the insurance piece, i think you're right, that will be a big debate moving forward, pulling insurance from certain areas, maybe timing right before a hurricane, exactly what they cover and what they won't cover.

>> right. >> i mean, and in areas that did not expect a storm to hit that didn't have insurance, this is i think going to percolate and bubble up in the weeks and months to come. kristen myers, i don't know if you want to chime on that or other impacts of this hurricane on the economy. this was a huge tourist area. there are parts of southwest florida that are decimated. >> yeah. i mean, just piggybacking off what andrew was talking about the insurance piece, i'm most concerned for those households that didn't have any kind of flood insurance. a lot of people think i have homeowner's insurance so i must be protected in case there's a storm or something happens. that's not true. we're going to see huge out-of-pocket cost a lot of famiies are going to to have to pay. inflation 8.3% over the last year, and yet, as most families are struggling just to buy groceries, now they'll have to be able to buy a new roof and replace the windows or other

things that might have been damaged or just completely destroyed. and when you think then about those families, we have to think about those families that are struggling the most. people that frankly aren't that wealthy or that can't really afford some of these emergencies. again, as the economy continues to hammer them, as they keep having to pay more and more out of their wallets for basic necessaryies, this is going to knock them back even further economically, further financially. that's going to have ripple effects not just many the aftermath in the next week and months but even years to come. >> absolutely. editor in chief for the balance, great to have you on. come back. as always, cnbc's andrew ross sorkin, thank you both very much for being on this morning. willie? we've been hearing stories of rescue and survival since the hurricane made landfall in florida on wednesday. "the washington post" telling of one olderly woman who recounted how the water rose so high, she had just six inches of space in

which to breathe. the couple described looking out a window and seeing several large fish swim big. another woman said, "i was holding my front door because of the wind and i didn't know what else to do. i thought the ocean was going to come through." there have been hundreds of rescues made as well, many caught on video. the coast guard rescued several people from sanibel island after part of the only bridge connecting that bridge to the island collapsed in the hurricane. you can see this woman and her cat being hoisted to safety. joining us now, commandant of the u.s. coast guard admiral linda fagan. admiral, thanks for taking time with us this morning. can you speak to the scope of your mission here? we've seen some extraordinary video of the coast guard swooping in with those helicopters, pulling people to safety. how dig is the mission here? >> yeah. thank you for the opportunity to speak about the coast guard efforts and response to this disastrous storm. our hearts go out to all of the families that have been impacted by the storm. as of this morning, we have

successfully saved 117 people. we're doing that as a part of an integrated federal, state, county, and local effort. we are really focused on this critical lifesaving for both people and their pets as you've seen in that video. most of the rescues have been either from rooftops or shallow water. we've also got a number of shallow water boats in the area that are helping to effect those rescues. you've seen many of the video camera footage that's airing now this morning. >> admiral, with no power in many places, no cell service, you're missing all the typical ways you might hear from some of these people, how are you finding people in need? how are you getting into these homes and making those extraordinary saves, 117 of them? >> obviously, if you're able to call 911, that is the best way to reach out for help, and we are dispatched through that 911 system. but as you've seen in some of

the video footage, literally it's house to house, just ensuring that anyone in distress or need is located and brought to safety. we were at it all day yesterday. the teams and crews are back out there today to ensure that we get the people safe. in addition to the lifesaving mission, we're also working to ensure that the marine transportation system is restored, that the ports are reopened, and we have cutters returning into those areas to ensure that our commercial lifelines are also available for the reconstitution effort. >> admiral, i mentioned sanibel island. we saw that bridge collapse in several places. only way in and out from the mainland. we know there have been rescues made out there as well. can you say more about that mission, the focus on those barrier islands that are so isolated now with people definitely still there? >> we've definitely been focused on sanibel and, you know, are continuing to work as part of the integrated effort

systematically. you know, there's grid systems put over the area to ensure we don't miss anybody as they look for routes to safety. i'm proud of the effort of the coast guard. partners. our rescue swimmers mottos is so others may live. we're living to that and will do so to ensure everybody gets to safety. >> the u.s. coast guard admiral linda fa garks n, thank you for being on this morning. and hurricane ian is now set to make a second u.s. landfall hours from now as a category 1 storm. a state of emergency has been declared in south carolina as the national weather center is warning of life-threatening flooding, storm surge, and strong winds. here we go again. let's get the latest. joining us from charleston, south carolina, nbc's kathy park. what are the conditions like

right now? >> reporter: good morning to you. so ian is supposed to make landfall right around midday. so the noon hour, but as you can see, we are really feeling the impacts of this storm. it's only expected to get worse. the rain has picked up once again, but the big headline, as you can see, are these intense wind gusts. we're told that conditions are only expected to get worse in the next couple hours. but really the timing is critical in all of this because if this all kind of shakes out the way it's supposed to, this could happen right around high tide. keep in mind there's storm surge warning that's in effect so we can be looking at storm surge 4 to 7 feet. so is when you combine all those things together, we could be looking at widespread flooding in the area. not to mention power outages. the wind gusts could clock up to

85 miles per hour. so you can probably already see some of the debris that's object ground right now. you can see all the grass is kind of waving around and these boats are tethered down pretty good, but they are starting to rock. the governor of south carolina has declared a state of emergency, but stopped short of mandatory evacuations. but told everyone to have a plan in place to get to higher ground, if necessary. i think you mentioned this not too long ago. if hurricane ian does make landfall around noon today, it would be the first time since hurricane matthew hit this area back in 2016. this area is prone to flooding. they are known to have a lot of hurricanes come through. we were out and about yesterday. we noticed a lot of businesses are boarded up. sandbags are out. so people are ready to see what ian has in store for them. >> kathy park, thank you very much. stay safe. we'll be watching this hurricane as states of emergencies have

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finally this hour, doll fellowships quarterback suffered a frightening injury to his head and neck last night. the incident raising questions about whether he should have been playing in the first place.

nbc news correspondent miguel almaguer has detailed. >> you're thinking about the back and ankle, but he gets thrown to the ground. >> reporter: players and fans watching the game, holding their breath after a frightening injury on the field in a game between the miami dolphins and the cincinnati bengals. the dolphins young star quarterback lying motionlessly. his fingers contorted this front of his helmet after a sack that left him seemingly unconscious on the field. the commentator saying this after talking to long-time trainer and sports medicine analyst mike ryan. >> he sees that, he's watching that, it's a nurge logical response to head trauma. >> reporter: tua remained on the turf for seven minutes before he was taken off the field into a hospital. the dolphins saying he suffered head and neck injuries. adding he is conscious and has

movement in all his extremities. the dolphins head coach sayin tua likely suffered a concussion. >> that was an emotional moment that is not part of the deal that anyone signs up for. sdplr the injury comes four days after tua hit his head in sunday's match against the bills and appeared to leave him discover yented after getting up. tua briefly left that game, but later returned to lead his team to victory after clearing concussion protocol during halftime. >> i kind of hit my back and kind of hurt and then i got up and that's why i stumbled. my back locked up on me. for the most part, i'm good past whatever concussion protocol they had. >> reporter: after tuas's quick return to sunday's game, the nfl players association questioning whether the dolphins violated the nfl's concussion protocol saying overnight a review is

ongoing. emphasizing their concern tonight is for tua and we hope for a full and speedy recovery. the dolphins saying an independent doctor had cleared tua to play. fans posting their outrage on social media. one tweeting, the dolphins and nfl failed tua tonight. >> miguel almaguer with that report. it wasn't just fans. it was kurnlt players, former players in the nfl who were outraged by what they saw last night. and frankly, it's just hard to watch. you see a man who is seized up because of head trauma in the middle of a game. >> we'll be having many more conversations about this issue, and the safety of foolk in general. so we have had a lot of coverage this week with the hurricane. what do you have this weekend for sunday today? >> obviously, we're going to be focused on the cleanup in southwest florida as the storm moves up into the carolinas today. we'll be watching that closely. we also will turn to my sunday

sit-down with actress mila kunis who is in a new film called "luckiest girl alive." that's this sunday on nbc. >> that's awesome. we need that. she's so great with her efforts in ukraine. she's very intelligent. i can't wait to see the interview. thank you. and that does it for us this morning. jose diaz-balart picks up msnbc's live coverage right now. good morning, 10:00 a.m. eastern. i'm jose diaz-balart live from fort mers, florida. one of the areas hardest hit by hurricane ian, which has cost the lives of at least 13 people so far. the storm is now barrelling towards south carolina expected to make a second landfall there as a cat 1 later today.