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just moments ago, governor ron desantis revealed that all of lee county is out of water. and here in fort myers with the sun now up, you can see the level of wreckage residents are gramming with in the wake of this brutal storm. i'm just going to give you a piture of a random sm of the brutality of this storm. here on the marina, there was a couple shops a little b and b getting ready to set up shop above it. the wine bottles that were stored in here are perfect. none of them broke. and yet when you see the intensity of it, talk about randomness, you see the bed. you have the mattress and the box spring. they are not separated. but the building is blown out. is and here is what is just gives you a real clear idea of the ferocity of the storm. the water and the wind. this is a 50-foot yacht.

it was docked over here. it ended up on top of that suv. it didn't clear the power lines, but look where it ended pup. and do you see that big ship over there? that one was docked behind us, behind the buildings that are behind you. that ship cleared the power lines and ended up in that area of trees there. think about that it cleared the power lines. the water and the winds were so ferocious. this took 150 miles an hour hit. a cat 4 storm did. the people that we have spoken to talk about those moments as being just filled with fear and many feared that they would lose their lives.

>> i thought it was going to go over our heads. i called my daughters and said good-bye. next time, we'll know to get out. >> i pretty much think i lost everything i own. i'm trying to be brave is and know y family and i are safe. i'll worry about all that other stuff later. >> i am 67. i lived here five years. now it's gone. it's under water. and i don't know. we'll go from there. i don't know what to say. >> reporter: joining us now is sam brock. he's with us here in fort myers beach. kathy park is in south carolina. bill karins is going toft latest forecast. i know you have been here throughout here. i have seen you speak to so many people that have seen their lives uprooted in such a

visceral way. >> it's like the descriptions that you hear. it's almost as if a bombs was detonated on fort myers beach. you look out all you see is concrete slabs. and that's it. it's been an incredible number of resources channelled to try to help people. you mentioned the top of your show, officially a 13. they expect that to rise much higher. you have more than a thousand personnel on the ground that are going out there not just along the coastline, but now inland as well. so many portions of florida have been affected. going into homes and making sure people are okay. some 3,000 homes. the state had people filling out surveys to let them know where they were before the storm aarrived so officials could go check on them. emergency responders after the fact, 20,000 people filled those out. 10,000 have been contacted, which unfshtly to say there's a large population of people that have not been contacted. that's where sort of the big question marks come. also a major storyline as i look at this giant boat. you'd think boats, you

characterize this well. these are our charter boats. people take tours on these things. i talked to the gentleman who watched from across the street that boat start to elevate and elevate and then it swal load up everything else. hours later they come back and it's on top of a car. someone had been trying to drive in the storm and he was watching it like a bad movie. >> that 50-foot yacht was docked in front of of us. so it went a good 50 yards. >> that's not even the largest boat. there's ones that are two times as big as that in the middle of the street. it was surreal to look at this. telecommunications has been a real problem for people. three quarters of the people that live in these counties have no power right now. but also trying to reach loved ones to let them know they are okay. i have been talking to people that cannot reach their loved ones. portable cell phone towers are

coming into the communities. >> what an amazing organization we have seen. you just see lines of ambulances that are just going around the area. the 41,000 plus linemen that were prepositioned in 30 different parts of our state here getting ready for as soon as they could to go in. and power is being reestablished at really speeds that we haven't seen before. >> prepositioning is a great word to use. the 700 fema official, the 41,000 linemen, the reality of of the matter is you couldn't anticipate how this storm was going to play out, which populations would be affect, but they have so many people on the ground ahead of time, it's paying off now as it's truly a matter of life and death. >> so bill, let's talk about where ian is now and what's next for this storm. it's inconceivable that this storm that was a category 3 when it slammed into cuba, category 4 when it slammed into here is now going to be going to another part of our country in a category 1. >> we will have more damage.

look what you guys are standing in front of. we're not talking a catastrophic landfall. we're talking about a hurricane. those are life threatening. so we have storm surge to worry about. we have winds that are going to knock down trees that could be on people, houses, cars. and then the flash flooding. flash flooding kills more people in the year than anything else. more than hurricanes. so that's going to be the concern. so the storm right now is only about 100 miles off the south carolina coast. we'll get landfall late this afternoon. the heavy rain is well ahead of the storm. there's not a lot behind the storm the highest winds and rain is now until landfall. things are going to calm down as we watch it moving inland. we got a ton of rain through north carolina up towards virginia beach and the norfolk area. they are under flash flood warning. so the storm moves inland. there's the timing of it. we think landfall is probably later this afternoon because it's a little more up the coast

now. it's not at charleston anymore. we're towards georgetown and myrtle beach. but the max winds, 96 mile an hour wind gust is going to cause damage. there's a lot of beautiful trees in this area of the coastal plain here. we will see problems with trees down and it's raining so much now that loosens the soil up. that makes it easier for the trees to tip over. this is probably worse than if it was dry 96-mile-per-hour wind. so we'll see how that plays out even farther to the north, we'll have scattered power outages. even charlotte to raleigh towards the coastal areas. there's the 15 million people under the flood watches. and now we have new flood warnings starting to pop up here. as far as storm surge, you're watching the damage, that's all from storm surge. that's where all the water rushed in with the wave action on top of it. naples it was around 4 to 6 feet high. that's possible today.

if you have seen the damage in naples, that was significant. so to the right of the center, so if we take the center on shore here to the right of that up around georgetown, heading to myrtle beach, this is where the highest storm surge will be. and high tide, this is important, high tide is going to be this morning about two hours from now. so if we can get this thing to come on shore later this afternoon, that would be closer to low tide and minimize the amount of damage at landfall. that's the only good news. it looks like landfall will be closer to low tide than high tide. >> so bill, what do we tell folks in georgetown and myrtle beach and those 15 million people that are under that cone? what do we tell them right now before this hits? >> listen to your emergency managers. know your elevation and you have to know what zones you're in. if you're told to evacuate, you should. if you were told to hunker down and just wait the storm out, this is going to be different. this isn't going to be the wind that's going to destroy your house like a category 4.

if you don't have a lot of huge trees over your hours, you stay in your house, you're going to be fine. the peak of the storm is still go to your safe room, an interior room with a lot of walls around you. just wait for the wind and the high winds to pass. then you'll be fine. but for the people down on the coast, if you live within walking distance beach, you make sure you listen to your emergency manager. >> important stuff, bill. thank you. what are officials in south carolina doing to prepare for the storm? >> reporter: jose, yesterday was really the day to prepare. and the governor said, look, have an emergency plan in place. especially as we go throughout the day today and the water level hads rise. we have been out here for several hours. i can tell you the conditions have really gotten a lot worse. i mean, right now the big headline, as you can see, the

wind gusts right now. you might see some of the sea grass behind me is shaking around. the boats also wobbling around. they are tethered pretty well. but the rain is pretty intense. we're getting hit with several bands of intense rain, but things are supposed to get worse as we get closer to landfall. just listening to bill there, it sounds like the landfall is supposed to be later on this afternoon, which is some good news, because we have been closely monitoring the timing of the storm because of high tide, because there's that potential of high tide and then landfall. then we still have that storm surge warning in place. that storm surge could be up to seven feet. when you combine those things together, we are looking and bracing for potential widespread flooding, but because of these wind gusts, obviously, you can probably see on the ground right now all the debris on the ground. this is probably a taste of what's to come. power lines probably going to be

knocked out as well. so the power outage numbers will likely increase. the governor did declare a state of emergency, but stopped authority of mandatory evacuation. they encouraged people to have a plan in place. but really as you can see, the conditions are deteriorating. the best course of action right now is to stay in place, not to the get on the roadways, but we have been monitoring some of the bridges that are off to our side. we have seen some cars passing through. so far things are moving smoothly. however, the next two hours will be telling. we noticed the water is slowly starting to rise. the rain is coming down really hard. but here in the low country, folks are used to this. they know the drill. yesterday we were out and about in the town town area. businesses are boarded up and ready to kind of hunker down and see what comes next. >> thank you all very much for being with us this morning. joining us now by phone is rick

lacastro who rode out the storm on marco island. what an experience. i'm just -- we're getting a a sense of the damage and the potential loss of life. what can you tell us about your community? >> had a big chunk of the area, these are coastal communities that people either retire to or have seasonal folks. we have lived through hurricanes before in 201. people know how to prepare here. they hunker down and have homes that can take those kind of winds. this storm was totally different from my community. he we had winds and storm surge that was horrific. normally when we get estimates, people say, oh, that's an

overexaggeration. and a lot of times it is. it's a guess. this storm came at us at the right angle, at the right speed and all the things that made it catastrophic for us. and as a lot of the meteorologists said, they were following the eye, but they would say whoever is in the southeast quadrant, that's the worst storm surge. virtually, my entire community in my district is susceptible to storm surge and water. but it's nothing we have ever seen before. although we don't have a lot of structural damage that they have further north of us, the flooding is at levels that have structures that are basically unlivable and a lot of people are displaced. a lot of people that have

catastrophic damage, they don't know it yet because they are not here. >> when you see these images, it's like i know it's not that scientific. it's like a tsunami. images of a place that gets hit by a tsunami. i know you have been receiving reports about people trapped in their homes during this process. do you have any updates on the rescues and how many people might still be be unreachable? >> they had heroic efforts. but the numbers have been a lot more. you heard about the definite station in sanibel island and the loss of the bridge and people stuck on the island here. we have had some of that. some estimating the numbers of who might still out there is difficult. our cell service only last night did we start to get -- i'm surprised i'm talking to you now so clearly, so it's come back. but we don't have a crystal ball to know where everyone might be.

we have a very elderly population. so it might be that somebody rode out the storm in their house that kept them secured structurally, but they could be sitting up on a countertop of three feet of water needing help, but not being able to contact anyone. it's a methodical process the last update i got is it's a initially during the storm, a lot of water rescues. as i drove around my county yesterday, i saw so many vehicles that were floaters. they had floated from a parking lot and they were leaned up against a tree sitting out in the middle of the median. some of the cars if they had people in them, those were the rescues were. >> i can't tell you how many of the floater cars we have found these last 24 hours. it just seems like there are parts that are just filled with

these cars on the side of the road. some of them in the middle of the road. commissioner, i thank you for being with us. it's been a pleasure to count on your voice. still ahead, i spoke to a family here who's lost everything. i want you to see this video. this is the video they filmed, as they were about to leave their home during the storm. because the foundation of the house was shaking. what they told me about their terrifying experience. this is them getting out. it was a family with four childrens desperate as their house was virtually destroyed. plus the mayor of savannah, georgia, has already declared a state of emergency. he joins us next with how the city there is helping residents prepare for flooding. we're also keeping our eye on the supreme court where the ceremony is underway for justice brown jackson. but first, a florida woman reduced to tears after seeing her business destroyed by ian.

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22 past the hour. hurricane ian takes aim at the south carolina coast, officials in georgia are preparing for heavy rain and heavy winds. earlier this week, georgia's governor declared a state of emergency in anticipation of ian's arrival. joining us is the mayor of savannah. thank you for being with us. what are you seeing now as your city prepares for this hurricane? >> first of all, thank you for the opportunity. our hearts are prayers are with our friends in florida. we are a blessed city.

the storm has shifted eastward and kind of around us. although we're still in the tropical winds. high tide is coming. it's been previously reported, so storm surge is always an issue for us. we're a low-lying city so flooding is always a concern. we're a city of 8,000 trees, so high winds are always still a big krp for us. we're letting our residents know although it's not as bad as it could have been, we still need to remain up and down. we need to remain safe until this passes us. then we'll assess where we are and how we can help our folks and see how we can help our friends in florida and south carolina. >> what are your biggest concerns? are is it water? >> biggest concern is always water. again, we're a low-lying area. we have areas that are naturally basins. we have some areas in our

county, for example, how at ten feet, it can be washed away. so that lacks access to a significant part of our community. water moving in from savannah, surrounded by water, so it's always a concern to us. >> and the other issue of concern must be power outages. this is something that happens when there's any kind of strong winds or this kind of a storm. are you planning for some of that? >> we are. sometimes it doesn't take a heavy wind for power to sometimes go out, but we have great friends here at georgia power. they are standing by ready to address issues of power outages immediately. they have been doing some of that during the night. then as this second wave comes, we'll assess where we are. but georgia power has been some

great local partners to us. and we're ready. we're ready to deal with what comes. >> tell me a little bit about savannah. >> savannah is absolutely gorgeous city. it's the first city in georgia, the first capital of georgia, it's the mother city of georgia. founded in 1733. if you have not visited, you need to visit. i came from new york and could not leave. it's a place of history and culture and architecture and food. we love to feed folks just because we like to eat. it's a place of drinking, home of the second largest st. patrick's day in the country. and we are a very, very proud community, but we're also a coastal community. all those wonderful things that we celebrate about savannah, we often have these times in between june 1 skpst december 1st where we're dealing with the issues of mother nature. so for us, issues of climate

change is real to us. sea tides are rising, it's important to us. we're working to be sustainable and resilient through all of that. >> mayor, i they thank you for being with us this morning. appreciate your time. up next, we'll get the latest on what to expect from ian. but first, listening to the details from one florida resident who escaped the flood waters. >> the water came up to about here. when it got to there, the way they were saying on the news, i thought it was going to vench yuflly go over our heads. i called my daughters and said good-bye. >> i think i lost everything i own. i'm trying to be brave and know that my family and i are safe. i'll worry about all that other stuff later. >> i am 67. i lived here five years. now it's gone. it's under water and i don't

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myers beach area are struggling to figure out what comes next after losing most, if not everything. just a little while ago i spoke with a family that lost everything. they actually shot this video from their cell phones as they walked out the door of their house when they felt the foundation starting to move. the walls started coming down. the mother and her husband and her four children held hands as in a chain as they walked out as this hurricane was barrelling down on their town. this is part of what their story is. >> we were calm in our house until 1:00 p.m. at 2:30, more or less, we came out and the winds and the water

because it was the water was inside our house. we opened the door and all the water came in. >> how much water? >> three or four feet of water just came right in. we ran out. my kids and i held hands ask we came to a house that had a second floor. the wind was at its strongest. we were being moved left and right. we couldn't even -- we sometimes lost our grip, but we were able to grab on to each other once again. we got to that, thank god to that two-story structure, and we went to a laundry room.

we were there five hours with panic because the water kept coming up and kept coming up. we were crying and really, really ugly, so horrible. and the house almost fell. it opened up. almost the foundation came up. it all got destroyed and we lost everything. we're left with not one single thing. >> what was that like when you stepped out? >> focus on where we had to go. just kind of not think of what was around us. >> did you fear for the worst? >> at some point, i did. but i had to pull myself together and get through it.

>> he was crying, mommy, don't let me die. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> god protected us. god protected us. >> they lost everything.

everything that they had worked for, they lost everything they had planned for. they are staying at a friend's house. that friend also lost part of his house. no power. the windows were blown out. they are all living there. now they are looking for a job. and a lot of people like that family for a number of reasons, a lot of it has to do with fear, probably won't have access to a lot of of the federal help, the state assistance that is out this. they haven't received a single thing. they are out looking for work. they say god protected them, and now it's time to start again. hundreds of rescues have been conducted here in florida. a coast guard crew based out of miami shared videos of them rescuing people in sanibel, florida. you can see people in waist and

chest-deep water. they also helped a grandmother, her grandson and their dog. >> they were all safely air lifted out of the area. across the state, nearly 2 million people are still without power according to power outage site that tracks outages. let's go right with the supreme court of the united states. this you see ketanji brown jackson and her husband just outside. today was a private ceremony,

but a very emotional one. they are now concluded that investiture ceremony. history is being made. wanted to share that moment there after history was made. mike memoli is with us. the investiture ceremony was held today. president biden was there. >> yeah, that's right. this is obviously, as we know, the supreme court conducts so much of its official business outside of the view of the public. so we have no cameras in the court itself today to see this historic moment, the investiture of the first black woman ever to sit on the supreme court, but this is a significant moment. justice jackson has been already

sworn in and she was in july after her confirmation by the senate in april to be on the bench. but this really marks the official start of the supreme court's new term and her participation as now one of the nine members of the supreme court. now president biden is, as you say, in attendance as is the first lady, kamala harris, her husband as well. this is obviously something the white house is eager to highlight as well. you know that the president made the key promise during the campaign to nominate the first black woman for the supreme court. he did that. saw her successfully confirmed. the white house wants to use this moment to shine the light on the broader record of nominating and confirming members of federal courts more broadly. the white house pointing out the president has nominated 143 federal judges, 68% of whom are women. and that he's nominated 13 other black women to circuit court judgeships. significant progress from the perspective of the white house

as it relates to the federal judiciary. now some other news coming from the white house relevant to where you are in terms of the storm damage. we just learned from the white house press secretary that president biden has spoken this morning once again with governor ron desantis. he again wanted to get a sense of what the state's needs are on the ground, what more can be done from the federal government. just an important update as we also expect to hear from president biden later today at the white house to discuss more of what is being done on a federal level to help not just florida now, but south carolina now in the eye of the storm as well. >> and mike, obviously, the situation here is so fluid. it would not be prudent in so many ways because of the president because of the amount of security that it takes to get him here, but there is no doubt that he is considering coming to florida soon. >> yeah, i would expect that. we have seen the president, especially in the wake of other whether it be hurricane affect ing new york, new jersey or

tornadoes like we saw flooding affecting kentucky, the president likes to be there in person when, as you indicate, it is not a distraction from other response efforts. so the white house is in conversations with the state at a level belw the president about when is the appropriate time, when is the time the president can best come in and see things firsthand. i would also note the president is keen to also visit puerto rico as well. he indicates that to reporters yesterday. they are dealing with hurricane fiona. so perhaps a joint trip upcome ing for the president, but no official announcement from the white house just yet. >> mike memoli, thank you. and back here what we're seeing are ambulances, west coast southern medical ambulances that just passed right behind us. and you heard the sirens. this is a situation that is continuing to unfold. right now, the governor says that there are at least 13 people who have lost their

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fort myers beach in so many way was the epicenter of only of the strongest parts of hurricane ian, as it barrelled through west florida, a very strong category 4. joining us is john morales, meteorologist and hurricane specialist for nbc 6 in southern florida. john, you have been such a voice of reason and explanations in these past couple days. ian is now back to cat 1.

what's it doing and what should the folks in south carolina and georgia and in other places be thinking about right now? >> thanks, jose. it's about 100 miles from the coast. it should be arriving mid-afternoon. the center, but the tropical storm force winds have expanded considerably. so they extend out almost 500 miles from the center of ian, meaning up and down the southeast coast, these tropical storm force winds are, indeed, being felt. the worst of the storm, of the hurricane is closer to the core. hurricane force winds extend out 70 miles. and that's quite relevant because when it was a cat 4 approaching south florida, it had winds extending out 35 miles from the center of those winds. so even that wind field has expanded. thankfully, they are not as strong. they are 85 miles per hour instead of 150, as it made landfall earlier.

what to do along that coastline, there's going to be a storm surge. there have been evacuation orders. hopefully those folks listened to authorities and have evacuated because the water will come, particularly from charleston and points north towards myrtle beach. that's where the storm surge could be as deep as 3 to 5, potentially as high as 7 feet aboveground in some locations. that's quite considerable addition to the hurricane force winds and the driving rain, let's not about the floods in florida. this system when it dies down in the carolinas and into virginia, it will be bumping up against the appalachians. you can expect 8 inches of rain and the risk of flash floods. >> john, you have been telling us a lot about storm surge and what that means and what that really could turn out to be. i just want you to explain to me something that i can't explain. that's a 50-foot yacht.

that was docked that way. and it came over and crossed the highway and ended up on top of that suv. that's a 50-foot yacht. and just down the street, there's one twice that size, maybe 70-foot, that actually cleared the power lines. how does that happen? how does a 60-foot yacht clear power lines and end up over there? >> the clearing of the power lines is interesting considering that we were talking about potential 16 to 18-foot deep storm surge aboveground level. i will tell you, we will not know exactly how high that storm surge was until surveys are conducted. but i have good news about that.

the u.s. geological survey deployed 150 sensors across florida and even georgia to measure exactly how deep that storm surge was and be able to do these surveys and determine what exactly happened. but the force of the water is just immense. it can move a car with only about 6 or 8 inches of water, it can start driving a car, especially if there's a current. imagine what it can do with those boats and yachts, they just float away. the homes, you saw fort myers beach and what was left of their business district there. totally wiped out. the force of the water is immense. that's what happens when the storm surge comes in. >> john morales, thank you very much. it's always a pleasure to speak with you. we'll talk to the ceo of team rubicon. what his teams are seeing.

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take a look at these live pictures from charleston, south carolina. this is as we speak what is going on there. ian is now a category one and 105-mile-per-hour gusts, 85-mile-per-hour sustained winds and it's moving about 9 miles per hour. but take a look at just how intense the rain is in charleston, south carolina, right now. back here in florida, disaster relief teams are scattered across the state, including volunteer organizations like team rubicon. joining me now is art delacruz, ceo of team rubicon. tell us about the organization, what it does and what your teams are doing on the ground here. >> team rubicon is a humanitarian organization that helps communities respond and recover from natural disasters and humanitarian crises.

behind me you see one of the core operations that we're bringing to bear and we're route-clearing. we have heavy equipment that moves large debris to the side of the road. additionally we have reconnaissance teams, five of them, moving throughout the area to understand what kinds of needs our volunteers can address. we know we're going to tarp roofs, we know we're going to have to help with tree removal. we're positioning volunteers across the country to work here in florida. >> you know, art, i was just with a family that lost everything, they lost their home, they're starting a new life. but they're really ground zero again in their life. is there ways that, you know, your organization and others can reach out to folks who don't have the wherewithal to speak

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♪♪ hey, everybody. good morning. i'm yasmin vossoughian here at msnbc headquarters in new york city. right now ian, it's got new steam and a new target it's bearing down on. the deadly storm has reintensified. you're looking at live pictures off the coast of south carolina where ian is forecast to make its second u.s. landfall early this afternoon.