yasmin vossoughian. at this hour, we are continuing to track again and the destruction left in its wake and we are now learning as well the death toll from the storm continuing to rise. now standing at 54 people. in fact we've lost a last from the storm. so progress is being made, though getting the power back on. at this hour more than 1.2 million americans are still without power in florida, the carolinas and virginia. we are continuing to get visuals. shocking visuals really including these heartbreaking and before and after images. side by side on your screen. demonstrating the sheer destruction in fort myers beach florida. all coming as florida state officials announced an additional five rescue teams have been the played so far today. bringing the total number to 16. we continue to hear from victims about what they have been through. >> -- i lost everything that i own

and i am trying to be brave and know that my family and i are safe and i will worry about all of that other stuff later. >> i am 67, lived here for five years. and now it is gone. it is underwater. >> underwater. so much of that area still underwater there, want to go to matlacha in florida. where liz mclaughlin standing by for us. let's take us there if you will once again. joining at the top of the last hour, as you are still in that area that is just completely devastating to see a road completely broken up really. crumbled upon itself. water still surrounding the area. what more are you seeing? >> absolutely yasmin this does not look like the result of a hurricane. this looks like an earthquake or something. it is just crumpled concrete, the only artery to the height of pine island behind me. matlacha, this idea like kind of fishing village now just

completely crumbled. and in fact there are some remains of homes here. one zahra behind it are completely gone. just washed out to sea. folks are just starting to come and see the damage and they just can't access if they're already evacuated but coast guard is now coming to pick people up as well as cajun navy. residents helping residents and neighbors helping neighbors. to bring people back in respect to people as they were getting off of those boats what they were going through and they said a lot of people are scared. they are scared to leave and they don't have any communication. they don't know if there is going to be water or food coming. some people have children say with special needs and there is a big an older community there not are struggling to try and figure out what to do and they are still we heard from the residents dead bodies being pulled from the rubble so the death toll continuing to rise

dozens already in florida. we spoke with a resident here who is kind of made a home base where some of these residents are being brought to announce a serve shop and he talked about his experience so let us listen. >> we stated for the storm fay -- after going through that for 12 hours, it did not matter what we saw here and we were just pretty grateful to be here. once we got here, it was a scary scene. we certainly expect of the worst we are actually a little bit surprised at a building was still standing. but again you know all of that is so miniscule to what is really happening here. the lost lives and lost property and things like that. >> as residents are pouring in, we are starting to hear about their harrowing experiences. some are keeping a good attitude yasmin and one man said that he watched his car

wash away from other have and made a joke about how we needed to clean out his garage. so maybe an unusual light hearted response. most of the people that we talk to just grateful to have survived the storm. feeling lucky for those dozens who were not. >> yes cannot imagine what happens after you go through something like that and having to relive it in your mind. days later. liz mclaughlin, a let you get back to. it thank you as always. we are also following this developing situation, sarasota county on the florida gulf coast, there is a possibility break threatening flooding of up to 15 feet. the hidden river community. a neighborhood of about 50 homes or so and the sheriff's office issued a shelter placed morning early saturday morning for an emergency response teams. going door to door to ensure that that morning is actually getting to residents and i want to bring in nbc's jesse kerr. she has been following this for us. give us an update. what is happening? alas we spoke, we look at those images that we brought to us

and we hadn't got the confirmation that the levee had broken but it looked like it had considering what we have been seeing at some of those images. where are we now? >> yes so yasmin, within the last half hour we have gotten an official update from the sheriff's department they're confirming that the levee has been compromised. and i want to show that image again that we were talking about earlier. this is something that has been shared, an area from the sheriff's department. they have a red arrow pointing to an image which shows a section of a levee. where there is blue and there is water, instead of green from the earth works there. clearly, we knew that there were some threat at minimum and now it's official, it has been compromised. i do want to stress that the sheriff's department is a very specific immunity. one neighborhood that we try to access but it's a private community, appears to be one of those airport communities where people of planes and their neighborhood. it's a private neighborhood so we could not go inside, however it was a calm scene around

their. authorities believe about 70 homes would be impacted and they don't have any reports of missing people or fatalities at this point. that is good news, also authorities say that it is just not isolated community not is facing the flood threat because of the levee issues. it's just not going to be a widespread cascading impact. however yasmin, there are still widespread cascading impacts from floodwaters more broadly we have been trying to access various parts of florida's west coast throughout the day and continually, we have had to pull around, turn the car around and try to find another way. we have still not been successful and that because roads were open for us, they close later for other members of our team who are trying to link up with. self under section has been spotty, there aren't gassed agents working and all of these areas as well so there are any number of challenges that people will be facing and even talking to you right now, about 20 minutes and almost half an hour from that community. for that level u.s. compromise

and we are here because we needed some perception and access to other supplies that we just couldn't get over and that more isolated area. a lot of farmland over, there we saw horses that we saw cattle and we saw huge swaths of land under water over there. no question, there still a lot of standing water throughout the area, still hearing reports of more roadways that may have been wiped out and certainly major roadways that are underwater as well making this very treacherous terrain to navigate whether you are trying to go and check on loved ones, going to see four homers okay. or if you remember of cleanup rescue crew, some other group that is trying to repair infrastructure. that is damaged as well. a lot of headaches here and it's still an evolving situation almost three days and if not three full days at this point and it seems that religion track of time out here since and first made landfall on florida's gulf coast. >> all right jesse for us, thank you good to talk to you. let us move a little bit north now everybody to charleston,

south carolina. you're watching the track of the storm over the last few days, obviously went through florida and went out to see once again and circled back. making landfall once again, just north about two hours north of charleston, south carolina at that point. it was a category one. obviously, charleston you and i were talking the last hour, sustaining some damage but nowhere near what florida has been dealing with and nonetheless how folks they're doing today? >> nowhere near what florida had to go through and that is what you are hearing from many citizens and from local officials here. they are saying they are breathing a sigh of relief, they feel like they have dodged a bullet, that is not the say that they're not experience any damage. this is some of the damage that we have been seeing as we've been going around the city. one of what the city says, 55 down trees, across the city of charleston. when you look at what charles said at the face and he asked the eye of the storm is about 60 miles north of charleston. that still means that they're about 70 mile an hour wind gusts that they experienced.

still means they had historic amount of rain. they had the rainiest day since anytime and any 24-hour period since 1938. the impact that they face were significant but they pale in comparison to what we are seeing in florida. and because of that the recovery has also been accelerated. the city reporting most of the roads that were flooded that were closed have since been cleared. this is one of the roads at about an hour ago works closed off. it is now open again, power company reporting that at its peak, there is about 100,000 people without power, right now about 5000 and expect most people to have their power back by 8 pm. the recovery is underway as we drive around, you hear the homes of the chainsaw, the leaf blowers but many people saying that they are fortunate that that is all they are dealing with when they compare what they are seeing to what we know is happening in florida. >> all right as always good to talk to you and thank you as well. from there, we do want to go

back to florida now and disaster relief efforts are still ongoing. residents continuing to struggle with access to basic needs as we've been learning like electricity, food, water as well. want to bring in now our tequila crews, ceo of -- an organization that assistant responding to natural disasters. art, thank you for joining us on this. we appreciate it, i know you knew in your team are currently import charlotte i believe right? just a little bit north of the fort myers area. a lot of images coming out of port charlotte, are just devastating as well, and still on the west coast of the area on the left. what have you've been seeing or teams have been seeing on the ground there? >> oh, looks as if we just lost art. that want to talk him about they will try to get him back everybody, and situations like this throughout the last hour and the coverage is pretty spotty. and comes to the cell phone and access. as bush and some of the more

devastated areas. and try to get it back for you and we certainly appreciate the efforts and helping folks get rescued and get the safety. all right everybody, following the breaking news from the white house now as well. breakiafter the release of individuals we are hearing now seven individuals that were held and venezuela have now subsequently been released. we are getting news from the white house on that. we are following developments on that story. also following and continuing to follow the effects of and throughout the hour as well. including the federal response to aid americans who face up under the storms, destructive path. >> we shouldn't be alive right now. we should not be alive right now with that storm. at the power of that storm, if that would have crashed into the side of the house, we would have been swept away. >> we are also following new developments and justice five to review the documents he's from donald trump's mar-a-lago

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mentioned briefly before the break. the white house, we are following this breaking news, after the release of seven americans detained four years in venezuela. i want to go to nbc's josh lederman, josh, talk to us. what are we learning about this release and the presidents reaction so far? >> we are learning the last few seconds that this was part of a prisoner swap between the united states and venezuela. the u.s. was able to get back from venezuela, six u.s. citizens and a permanent u.s. resident. five of them are part of what's been called the citgo six, which is a group of oil executives from houston based citgo who had been imprisoned for about five years in venezuela. one of them, the sixth, had

already been released earlier. in exchange for these released americans, president biden made the decision to grant clemency and release to venezuelans who are the nephews of medora's wife. they are known sometimes as the narco nephews because they were arrested about seven years in haiti on drug smuggling, attempted charges. they were convicted of drug smuggling charges. they had been detained in the u.s., we were told by senior biden administration officials that it was a tough and painful decision by the president to make that choice to grant them clemency and release them, because it was so important that he be able to get back these detained americans. we are also hearing from officials that all seven of the americans who are being released today, they are on their way home. they are all said, so far, to be in good health. which is really good news. but of course, there are still additional detained americans. not only in venezuela, but in

other countries like russia. that the biden administration is still trying to get back. but they are calling this one major successful step in the effort to get out from jail. americans who believe -- wrongfully imprisoned, jasmine. >> all right, josh lineman for us. josh, i will ask you to stay right there if you will. i do want to bring you back in just a couple of minutes. on the white house response to the devastation that we are seeing so far from hurricane ian. so thank you in advance for that. want to get now to the latest when it comes to the ongoing fight over documents recovered from trump's mar-a-lago residents. the doj filing a fast track appeal, to the 11th circuit court, making it official their request to get this whole special master document review to an end. arguing, a centrally, that it continues to impede their investigation. all of this coming as the january 6th committee looks ahead to their next hearing, after speaking to ginni thomas, wife of supreme court justice this week. for more, we want to bring in the guardians hugo bowl, and

nbc legal analyst joyce vance. you go, let me just start with you on this one. i want to read a little bit for folks, some of your reporting here. saying this. doj argues the 11th circuit has already ruled the district court abused its discretion in approaching a special master, and that reasoning applied more broadly, quote, further proceedings before the special master wouldn't. pick up there if you will, you go. and more of your reporting on what is taking place here. >> yeah, look, doj filed this motion to fast-track, doj 11th circuit. late last -- >> and it looks like we may have lost hugo as well. joyce, if i have you. i am going to bring you into the conversation. because i know that you obviously had a reaction online. i saw your tweet earlier today, talking about this appeal filed by the department of justice. let me read that for folks. trying to get you go back, to, so we want to bring him back

into the conversation. doj has filed a motion to expedite the remaining issues pending from the 11th circuit after the mar-a-lago search. they cite the appropriate local rules for expediting, and make a compelling -- talk us through the case [interpreter] -- [interpr eter -- ready for the court of appeals to rule. the parties have reached the fact of top with the law and their papers before judge cannon. the 11th circuit has already had a first by the apple when they ruled on the state motion. the issue here is whether judge cannon should have exercised jurisdiction and heard this case in the first place. doj says no, she shouldn't have. the panel on the 11th circuit that consider the stay motion agreed with doj, although they were careful to say that it was

just limited to that one early request for relief that they were viewing. but doj also says with greater weight that judge cannon was wrong to slow down their criminal investigation he shouldn't have prevented them from using these documents. and that her order should be reversed -- >> without a crystal ball, joyce vance, how do you expect the 11th circuit to peel, considering how they have to decide, i should say, considering how they have decided so far with some of their earlier rulings. >> in the circuit, frankly, yasmin, it can be hard to predict. this panel of three judges, that's how courts of appeals or configured. in just one judge, we have three judges now. in the 11th circuit, these panels that consider preliminary motions like the motion tuesday are not the same panel as the panel that here is the substantive appeal. so very likely that we will have different judges. but the doj's case here is a

very compelling one. in fact, it is a straightforward sort of a legal case, that hinges on the fact that once you are the former president, you don't have the right to retain these materials. you might have the right to look at them, right? i mean, trump can certainly, like any other president, go to the archives and use his materials for research, if he wants to. , but he can't keep them at his hotel. >> yeah, okay, hugo, we got you back. the gremlins are out today, that is for sure. tech gremlins. i want to talk a little bit about ginni thomas, if we can, and some of her testimony. benny thompson essentially saying that they will only use her testimony -- i think they said it is something of merit. what are we learning of our testimony, other than the headline, which is, of course, she still believes the 2020 election was stolen. >> yeah, look, the january 6th committee came out in that interview with ginni thomas, they really -- i don't think we saw anything new about her role in the efforts to kind of obstruct the

certification on january 6th. whether she had been talking about efforts to overturn the election with her husband. i gather that some of the responses were not as illuminating as the committee had hoped. so i think the committee is at a junction here isn't it. how much do they want to go after a wife of supreme court justice, especially when it is so politically charged. when she doesn't seem to have played such a large role in the narrative leading up to january 6th. i think it is more likely that at the upcoming hearing the committee focuses on like stone and ben and people who have known ties and over connections to people who have stormed the capitol. >> it is interesting, joyce, because i can tell but go back to the conversation i had with zoloft in months ago in which i asked her only record whether they would subpoena g thomas rusk for coming to test, money and share it at that point said no. obviously more things surfaced after that conversation, subsequently i believe the text

messages it was or the exchanges with john eastman. that is what j six committee was really focusing in on, her relationship with eastman. all that being said, what do you expect to come out of this testimony? any connections that she could provide here? and also, i just wonder, joyce, totally out of left field, if her testimony, at all, her beliefs, her involvement in this puts the supreme court justice, her husband, in a precarious or vulnerable at all position? >> i don't think it puts him in a vulnerable position at all, because as a supreme court justice, he is pretty much free to interpret his ethical obligations as he chooses to. but, you know, in an era where so much has happened that is shocking, that we have almost lost the ability to be shocked. the fact that the wife of a supreme court justice believes that the election was stolen, that joe biden is not a legitimate president, is

something that really should still have the capacity to take our breath away. that she is that out of touch with reality, that separated from the law. and it certainly suggests that if justice thomas we're acting out of intent to preserve the integrity of the institution and peoples confidence in the court, he would recuse from any matters with her work or her relationships in this area. you know, yasmin, i think the most interesting thing that comes out of her testimony is this. and it's really a question. it's, will her testimony get the attention of anyone in the department of justice? will they see the name to put her in front of a grand jury, where the questioning will be, as hugo has alluded to, less polite. more pointed, designed to illicit information that may move the criminal investigation forward. >> all right, so that is something to watch. hugo lowell, thank you. joyce vance, thank you as well. good to see you both. up next, everybody, the president has improved yet another emergency declaration

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following breaking news on the death toll from hurricane ian, now up to 58 with four new deaths announced in north carolina. florida disaster relief efforts are still ongoing, -- continuing to struggle with access to basic needs like electricity, food and water, we have our delay crews now back with us, the ceo of tumeric, an organization that assists in responding to national disasters. thank you were scrambling, i know we had a little bit of a connectivity problem earlier but we all understand, especially with what y'all are dealing with and all the relief efforts that you are providing for folks. so thank you in advance for that. what have you been seeing, you have your teams been seeing there on the ground?

>> a couple of things we have seen is, number one -- ian is a giant storm. [inaudible] a lot of water damage, a lot of wind damage. in particular, on the ground we are seeing road clearance. i.e., clearing roadways with downed trees, and sometimes even roofs that have been flipped off of houses and we are pushing them away with heavy equipment and cutting through. but a lot of damage throughout this area, you know, today we are in port charlotte. >> how bad is port charlotte? i know that part charlotte is just a little bit below for fort myers. we spoke to the mayor of fort meyer in the last hour. we were in fort myers beach, first one on the ground as well. how bad is it where you are in port charlotte? i know landfall was just around there. what do residents need. are people getting rescued in time. are there still people stuck in their homes waiting for help, what do they need? >> yeah, we haven't seen much in the way of necessary

rescues. it is mostly people that have, you know, their access been cut off from roadways. there were some families that we saw in other parts of port charlotte, still standing, their home has been flooded. almost throughout this entire area, there is a lack of power. it, again, complicates -- recovery. >> i know, are, that team rubicon helps in a lot of rescue and recovery efforts. have you ever seen anything as bad as this? >> yeah [inaudible] hurricane dorian. >> yeah. >> some of the things we saw from ida last year. it seems like the sequences of these storms continues, the strength, intensity, and the length and size of each of these storms continues to go. so [inaudible] disaster type of scenario. >> are, we appreciate you hanging with us. i know that our connection is still a little bit shoddy.

but thank you for making it work. i'm gonna let you get back to work, and thank you again for everything that you and the team are doing down there, appreciate it. >> so asean is continuing to move north, everybody, it is leaving behind this unimaginable amount of damage in florida, south carolina as well. you have federal and local emergency response is happening now. president biden granting immediate federal funding to both of the states. urging people there to listen to local officials and to follow the instructions they are being given. want to bring you back nbc's josh lederman, standing by for us at the white house. so the president, we know, josh, mediately approved federal funding to florida, south carolina as well. how are the president and these governors there, how are they working together? >> a lot has been made, yasmin, of the fact that these states that are most affected by the hurricane tend to be republican states, republican led states. you know, most notably florida. of course, where governor ron desantis is perceived to be a potential opponent for the

president if he runs for reelection. and former president donald trump does not seek another term. now, we know that the president has had a chance to speak with desantis twice since the beginning of the preparations for this hurricane, in addition to a couple of other times they spoke. prior to that. president biden was asked this week how he is able to work with those officials. he said, look, this is not about politics. everyone wants right now to focus on saving lives. that a lot of this is assistance is pretty matter-of-fact logistical stuff, it's pretty easy to put aside some of that politics. the president has sent the fema administrator to be on the ground coordinating this federal response. the president says that so far, desantis has been fairly positive about the help that he is getting from the federal government. which, of course, not only includes all those fema resources, prepositioned in areas near the storm son. but also, of course, the assistance with coordinating

all of these national -- from multiple states that are now at work on these recovery efforts. >> as the president planning on visiting these areas anytime soon. i know oftentimes with situations like this, so the president plans, or whatever president is in office at that time plans to wait a little bit until they can kind of get through the rescue efforts, not kind of take away from the concentration there. >> yeah, the big concern is always that when the president travels anywhere that he brings a lot of people with him, including a massive airplane, a massive motorcade that requires all kinds of law enforcement resources that, right now, should be focused on hurricane recovery efforts. so president biden says he does plan to visit florida, just as soon as he is able to do that without being distracting. so we expect that to be fairly soon. the president, by the way, also says that he plans to visit puerto rico as well. >> all right, josh lederman for us, thank you, josh, appreciate it. for more on the emergency response to the storm we want to bring in fred fawn gate, the chief resilience officer at one

concern, as well as a former director of fema under president obama. the former director of the florida emergency management division as well. craig, it is good to see you as well. we spoke to the beginnings of covering efforts and rescue effort as well. now we are into i believe,, what day three. i mean still, devastation is unimaginable. as you take a look at the scope of everything, the devastation that you are seeing. what are your biggest concerns when it -- let's first go folks to safety and try to get them back to some sense of normalcy. >> well normalcy is gonna take a while for some folks. i mean, the big thing i'm seeing is how much temporary housing -- you, know how many hotels and motels are gonna be available. once we get into safety, now we've got to find somewhere for them tuesday. while we figure out what can be rebuilt and hungry soon you can rebuild in. all of this infrastructure is gonna have to be rebuilt. some parts of the state will go

quicker because they are going to be repaired, they will get it back up. but in these areas, that is gonna take longer. people are going to need housing to be able to begin this recovery. so that's the next big step, i think. where are people going to stay. housing assistance, in particular for people that can stay in hotels and motels or willing to move out to that area where there is available property. they will stop providing that. that is part of what the president turned on when they declared individual assistance across this counties. >> talk us through how this is all working, craig, for a moment. for folks that have luckily not been in a situation like this. do you have individual from fema going door to door or area to area to register who, in fact, he needs help. because even an individual, right, to get help for fema, for instance, need housing,, money whatever it is that you need. you need relief. you want to go online, it, seems right, to register that. if you don't have electricity, you cannot do that. and of course, there is an issue of kind of equitable

disbursement, making sure that folks that don't have these resources are getting the help that they need. so, how does this whole thing work? >> well, what we do when i was fema administrator, and this is still the plan. once we get to the point where it is safe to get into these areas, again, we don't want to get ahead of ourselves. being able start putting teams out there. what we found is exactly what you said. we have to go in there, we have to help people register. we have to go into the shelters. that is really, i think, one of the things that we have been really focused on. fema needs to go where the people are. not many people can come find fema. start that process, because a lot of this assistance can be turned on pretty quickly. they have also changed a lot of their policies, if you remember previously, there was a lot of issues about, you know, people who couldn't prove a lived there. or renters, that you, know they didn't have the documents. or they lost their drivers license. or, you know, got passed out from generation to generation. didn't have proof of all. that fema addressed a lot of this last year. so they've enhanced their

policies. they are also trying to make sure that distribution is based upon need, getting help to the people. so they have done a lot to change how they have been approaching individual assistance. now they will be implementing it on a large scale. >> well, let's look ahead, craig, if we, can for a moment. i spoke with me last hour. but as we look ahead to rebuilding, every storm that we have seems worse than the last, he's significant storms. they are hitting areas that are the most vulnerable, low lying areas. marshland areas. area surrounded by water. does there come a point in which you've got to pull the cord and say, we can't rebuild in these types of areas. because you are gonna rebuild and it's gonna happen again in five years with even more loss of life the next time. >> it is a balancing act. we can rebuild in some areas, but it's gonna be much more expensive to rebuild their. so that runs the problem, as i see it, gentrification. we do rebuild in hazardous areas, but we rebuild much stronger. that cost goes way up.

there may be areas that make sense to let it go back and use nature to help these areas. build back out of some of these more vulnerable areas, particularly low lying areas. i think florida spilling the code is looking like a lot of the newer homes that were impacted by water to. good but we still have a lot of older homes that had tremendous roof damage. so, again, we are gonna have to go back and look at it. making sure that when we rebuild, we build back better. but we also have got to be careful that we don't result in gentrification and forcing people out of their communities. >> yeah. >> kenya liver. >> yeah, absolutely, craig, thank you for talking to us. >> the people of cuba are also dealing with countless problems from ian. >> [noise] >> that is the sound of pots and pans being banged on by residents nightly across the island. it is their protest after going without power since tuesday. authorities have not said what

percentage of the 11 million residents remain without electricity, excuse me. however, we do know that some power has been restored to the east side of the island. that did not receive the brunt of the storm. meanwhile, just east of there in puerto rico, authorities there reporting a short time ago, at least 25 are dead from hurricane fiona last month. and the islands emergency website still shows power outages in some area. but more than 80% of the island doesn't factor now have electricity. all right, coming, up russia now facing a significant setback in their war against ukraine, with troops withdrawing from a key frontline city. the greatest sandwich roster ever assembled. tony, the new outlaw's got double pepper jack and juicy steak. let's get some more analysis on that, chuck. mmm. pepper jack. tender steak. very insightful, guys. the new subway series. what's your pick?

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water and saved people. i lost one friend, i couldn't save her. she got washed away. >> the devastation is unbelievable. you know, i was a paramedic, firemen, for 25 years. it is just unbelievable. >> that was a few florida residents there dealing, really, with the devastation, continuing to deal with the devastation that is still just becoming so clear after the hurricane hit their state last week. nbc nightly news anchor lester holt spending some time with those on the front lines helping people in need. >> two days after iain slammed into florida with those ferocious winds and that wall of water. tonight, entire neighborhoods remain submerged. others reduced to rubble. the scale of eons fury only starting to begin. >> we look at these things, i was totally washed out. you just hope that those were folks that had left, or that those structures were not

occupied. >> florida officials have sent thousands of certain rescue personnel to try and find those still trapped. coast guard rescue teams plucking people from decimated santa belle island in baskets. this woman clutching her two cats, helicopters and boats now the only way out. >> no picture better demonstrates the power and ferocity of hurricane ian than this one. this gap is the roadway that leads to the sanibel island bridge on the other side. that island now virtually cut off. >> it's a big commitment 20 municipality. >> devastated fort myers beach, we wrote along with florida task force seven, a search and rescue team comprised of firefighters from tallahassee. >> this dog is looking for human remains. >> yes. >> [inaudible] >> fire department! [inaudible] they knock on door after door. >> state law enforcement! >> the day of search and rescue members marking with orange

spray-paint -- they use and, that they can digitally map -- cover a lot more ground, a lot more quickly. >> as we made our way through the neighborhood, i met nancy delay, a nurse who had just moved here from messages. >> we floated on a mattress for a while. >> we flip it on a mattress. >> she and her fiancée did not follow the evacuation order. >> we stayed for the whole storm. >> yeah. >> we called 9-1-1 and they said they couldn't come, and we understood. >> she says she feels lucky to be alive. >> do you regret the decision. >> i absolutely regret the decision to stay. i don't ever recommended. >> how difficult is it for you as a first responder, when people don't heed the call to get out. >> well, it's, it's unfortunate that we have people who have nowhere else to go. >> so many here have lost everything. >> we had so many good times here. >> we met people leaving floor meyers speech on foot, with what little they have left in

those two cases. >> it's like a war zone right now. >> yep. >> the whole island. >> the devastation is unbelievable. >> then we met barry lawrence. >> i will never experience it again. >> he was writing that the storm from a third floor condo on the beach, when he says he started seeing friends homes swallowed up by the waves. >> i went into the water and save three people. i lost one friend, i couldn't save her. she got washed away. >> but they were also incredible stories of survival. >> firefighters and residents jumping into pull this man from what is left of his home. early estimates suggest that the damage for me in could cost as much as 47 billion dollars. that would make the costliest storm in florida since hurricane andrew 30 years ago. entire families are displaced. >> my mom had two feet of water in her apartment, or her house. my grandmother's house was destroyed. these are houses that i've lived in my whole life. >> while airports here have resumed flights and orlando

theme parks began phase reopens today. for millions here, this will be a very long road to recovery. >> all right, still ahead, one of the smallest survivors of hurricane ian's devastation has found a new home with his rescuers. a heartwarming update to one of the most viral videos from the storm. that is coming up next. that's a “club” i want to join! let's hear from simone. chuck, that's a club i want to join! i literally just said that. i like her better than you the new subway series. what's your pick? i have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. now, there's skyrizi. ♪things are getting clearer♪ ♪i feel free to bare my skin♪ ♪yeah, that's all me♪ ♪nothing and me go hand in hand♪ ♪nothing on my skin♪ ♪that's my new plan♪ ♪nothing is everything♪

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before we end today's show, a heartwarming ending to one of the rescue videos that was shared around the internet as hurricane ian ripped through the southeast. the cat who was seen being saved from an air conditioner by a florida man who had to wade through eons flooding waters to reach him. he now has a new home, and a new name. mike ross, the little orange -- grove and shot the video, they are now the proud owners of their for a new friend. now, given the moniker even after the storm. to honor what they are calling their miracle catch. the couple started a gofundme to raise money to restore homes destroyed by hurricane ian. half of those proceeds will go to the humane society of naples as well. so far more than $19,000 have been raised. all right, that wraps it up for me everybody, i am yasmin. i will be a back in the chair tomorrow. at 2 pm eastern. simone starts right now.

>> greetings, you are watching simone. we are getting a firsthand look at devastation from hurricane ian in florida and south carolina. many people are discovering what is left of their homes and their communities. in south carolina, the governor will tour damage from hurricane ian, which made landfall again friday afternoon. now, it has been downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone. in florida, the death toll is rising. hundreds of thousands don't have power and some don't have running water. even more flood waters are expected in the days ahead. we will have live reports from the ground and local efforts to help hard-hit areas rebuild their lives. plus, president biden has approved an emerge