let's go live to kristen dolgren in ft. meyers. after spanning the city yesterday, it appears the storm has passed with as we were saying with bill, some relief for folks the storm surge has not been that bad. what itself the scene on the ground there this morning? >> reporter: we're still trying to see exactly what the scene is on the ground there, some neighborhoods are cut off. while there is this sense of relief that maybe the storm surge wasn't as bad and the winds weren't as bad, for some people, it may have been. so we are still waiting to see rescue crews, really working harold now to try to get out to the hard-hit areas like marco island, where that eye came ashore, they're still not sure if there are people trapped, if there are casualties out there so that is within place they are really focused on getting to right now. also everglades city to the south of that, we are told that the road into town is under water. so at this point no vehicles able get in or out of everglades city, so that's a city that's under water, they

let's go live to kristen dolgren in ft. meyers. after spanning the city yesterday, it appears the storm has passed with as we were saying with bill, some relief for folks the storm surge has not been that bad. what itself the scene on the ground there this morning? >> reporter: we're still trying to see exactly what the scene is on the ground there, some neighborhoods are cut off. while there is this sense of relief that maybe the storm surge wasn't as bad and the winds weren't as bad, for some people, it may have been. so we are still waiting to see rescue crews, really working harold now to try to get out to the hard-hit areas like marco island, where that eye came ashore, they're still not sure if there are people trapped, if there are casualties out there so that is within place they are really focused on getting to right now. also everglades city to the south of that, we are told that the road into town is under water. so at this point no vehicles able get in or out of everglades city, so that's a city that's under water, they

we will talk to you throughout the morning. >> nbc news' kristen dolgren is in ft. meyers, it's an area that has been hit very hard. give us an assessment of what you have seen so far. >> reporter: hi there, good morning, conditions here are getting better, but that just means that now is the time that rescue workers, officials can get out and do these damage assessments. and what we are hearing right now is that rescue officials are working very hard to try to get on to marco island. that's where the eye came ashore. that's to our south, south of nape him itself. >> that is the area that they are this morning the most worried about, where they believe the most damage was done. they are trying to figure out. there were people who stayed out on marco island, make sure all of those people are okay and assess the damage to homes. they're also working to get into everglades city, that's farther south from marco island and that is a very, very low lying area. it is under water t. road the one road into town right now is under water and so it is going to take boats to get