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pawleys island, the storm washed parts of the pier away. authorities are still assessings damage and working to restore power. and brian todd is in naples, florida with a closer look at the damage there. >> nothing left. zero. >> the full extent of hurricane ian's destruction now coming fully into view. aerial damage assessments showing coastal florida neighborhoods with roofing tore off, homes flattened, house either flooded or wiped out. some buildings with nothing left but the concrete slab. remote lotions locations cut of the mainland. these images showing how hard sanibel was hit. >> only way to access that is either by sea or by air. >> reporter: so far more than 700 people rescued the governor says. this car in orange county was filled with water up to the seats when the passengers were rescued. the coast guard making rescues by air from flooded communities along the coast. here a rescuer is lowered this to the water. find as woman in a house vo surrounded by water. >> have a bag with i.d., clothes, wallet. >> reporter: a basket is l

. >> in speaking with people hear from charleston hereto pawleys island. is a tremendous sentiment of sympathy for what they are witnessing down in florida. a relief in a certain case they feel like they've missed the bullet here. in past storms it has been far, far worse. they're hoping for swift recovery here in south carolina. jon: let's hope they are right. molly line on pawleys island. >> for the residents getting now a better look at the full scope of ian's destruction for the storm wiped away entire houses, severely damaged infrastructure and left many roads still underwater. no major concern is river flooding in sarasota county, sheriff's deputies were going door-to-door warning door warning people of a possible levy break there. steve harrigan isn't northport, florida with more on that, st steve. >> jon i've got a gator boat behind me pulling it a jet ski over here. we have seen everything that floats go in and out of these roads which are now pretty much river ways. people going to check on their houses purred going to bring people out. we have s

they host about 300 guests per year, in behind me in the shot you can see the pawleys island pier.pier alex was washed away yesterday when ian came through here. there was an american flag pole on the end of the pier flying out there. and it went away and that debris is out there in the ocean no. so i want to say, so everyone knows, this is a private pr. not a big win that the public has been visiting for years. but that damages there, and it's continuing to look north and south side garden city, myrtle beach all the way up to cherry grove, damage is there. >> assessments across florida, john, they show entire neighborhood submerged. others reduced to just terrible. let's take a listen to get there to what some residents said about eons. impact >> it's like a war zone right now. >> the devastations unbelievable. >> i've never experienced anything like it again. >> my mom had two feet in her apartment. her house. but grandma's house were destroyed. these are houses of lived in my whole life. >> war zone, devastation, and mean, pretty powerful words there. how does even compare to th

who were trapped on the second floor of this building about 20 miles south of here, a pier at pawleys island collapsed and a number of private docks destroyed. many residents unable to reach their homes after roads flooded over and shut down the island access now, despite the damage, some locals here tell me pawleys island, myrtle beach and charleston dodged a bullet there were no evacuation orders but there are a number of road closures, some downed power lines and flooded streets. charleston, another low-lying area affected by the storm their downtown seeing flooding as well. we're told there are nearly 200,000 households without power in the state but officials say they expect it to be restored quickly. now, for the most part the people here say they are ready to clean up and move on and, shep, the mayor of charleston said as soon as the storm is passing he's sending rescue teams to help those in fort myers. he says his community is praying for southwest florida. >> all in this together. shomari stone, thanks. adam, that storm surge, wow. su. and just relentless, this ian. >> yeah, it's b

several piers including this one on pawley's island collapsing due to the storm surge. let's now check in with chief meteorologist rick reichmuth for the fox weather forecast. hey, rick. >> pretty crazy. some of the storm surge in south carolina and north carolina were third and fourth highest ever and pretty amazing and even the impacts from the category 1 storm coming on shore yesterday and the weather map in florida. this is your recovery forecast and temps throughout the day today into the low to mid 80s and we warm up a little tomorrow into the mid maybe a few upper 80s but overall tons of sunshine and no precipitation in the forecast. it's been rainy season, the rainy season is pretty much over and this storm kind of ushers out all of the moisture and we're not going to be seeing a return to any significant rain, which is great news. i want to take you through the recovery forecast and parts of the carolinas as well. temperatures into the 70s and couple degrees cooler tomorrow and getting in towards monday and temps for a high to the mid 60s and same for the mid t

. >> this drone video shows the devastation ian left behind on south carolina's pawley's island. anup has begun. >> literally the whole island was submerged and now we lost power and we're digging out. >> ian tore through the state with a six-foot storm surge and winds up to 92 miles per hour. people are counting their blessings that the damage wasn't on the scale seen in florida. >> we are very fortunate. i feel sad for everybody else, but we're very fortunate. >> the category 1 hurricane was powerful enough to tear the coastline apart and batter a historic water ship docked on the coast. in myrtle beach firefighters rescued apartment residents trapped by floodwater. >> it gotad ride it out. and what happened? >> that generator started smoking. >> and the water started rise. >> the flooding damaged neighborhoods up and down the state and crews are working to restore power to tens of thousands of homes, but the good news, the governor says it appears no lives were lost. >> there's damage. there's some heartbreak. there's work to be done, but all in all it is a good story, another

so they -- those were -- in one case on pawleys island, half of it was destroyed.hat's a very, very substantial structure. it gives you an idea how powerful even a category 1 storm can be when it combines with the tide coming in as well. we spoke to a man who was right near where ian came ashore. >> during the worst of it, you could not see outside. rain sideways really loud. in fact, the house we're in, there were a come of leaks especially and the sliding doors. the hard part was mixes in hurricane weather with high tide. that's what caused all this devastation. we were at the high tide mark when all this occurred. >> reporter: so you did have a lot of people lose power in south carolina. there was a lot of localized flooding, trees down, wires were affected as well, the electrical wires. but people listened. there were no mass evacuations in the state, but because florida was so bad and people were really thinking about what was happening there, they were paying attention and amazingly and fortunately no one was seriously injured or killed in south carolina. bac

the two piers here near myrtle beach, one here in north myrtle beach, one near pawleys island, they'reishing piers, beloved by the community. people would go out there for years and decades and fish and keep records of all the fish that are caught on those piers. so those residents we spoke to say they're already going to rebuild those. we spoke to one person who was right near where that hurricane came ashore, where the eye came ashore. here's what he said about conditions. >> during the worst of it, like you could not see outside. rain sidewayings, really loud. in fact, the house that we're in, there were a couple of leaks every now and then, especially around the sliding doors. >> reporter: now, despite the fact that this was only a category 1, people paid attention to the warnings because florida was so hard hit. it was a shock to see it. from here, it was on everyone's mind that we spoke to here. the preparations and the seriousness with which they took the officials telling people to stay home, there were no evacuation orders in south carolina, but people really paid attention to

the causeways to access pawley's island are at a certain level. they could be made higher.ut the roadways on pawley's island itself are even at a lower elevation than those causeways themselves, and that's a challenge that we have that we're trying to work through. it costs a lot of money, there's a lot of priorities, but we as a town, we know that's an issue, and it's always more evident and reveals itself when we have storm surge like we had yesterday. so, yeah, i agree with you. i will say that we do have, fema does require homes to be built to at least 14-foot level on the island. obviously, we've got older homes that are grandfathered in that experience more issues and problems when we have storm surge of this nature. neil: you have a lot to cob tend with, mayor -- contend with. i'm glad you're well and your folks are well. a lot of things can be are repaired, lives destroyed cannot. best of luck to you. >> thank you, neil, for the opportunity. neil: ken anderson of fort myers, florida -- kevin ankerson. we're going to be talking about marco island. service hit as well

water rushing inland on pawleys, inland on pawleys island, approaching the tops of street signs. video shows the partial collapse of the cherry grove peer on one of four destroyed ie store. florida absorbed the bigt blow. the damage, they are callg it catastrophic. this view shows shows the mass destruction and devastation along the gulf coast. houses were ripped from the foundations. search and rese crews are there on the land doing what they can in fort mye, florida. a man was trapped in the rubble. a group of good samaritans rushed in to pull him him to safety after a woman offered her sweater and covers m up. we are also hearing incredible stories of survival. one woman in fort myers returned returned to find her family's new home in pieces. >> this is what we found. we have only been here for six mon. we just pooled all of our money to buy it. it's gone. >> i literally watched my house disappear withg in it. right before my eyes. >> so far, at least 21 people he died in florida, and the death l could rise. if you want to help the victims of hurricane ian until we have a link

today, the south carolina coast, places like charleston and pawley's island, police there called floodingtrophic. >> oh, man! it's washing away! >> reporter: in cherry grove, the local pier washed away into the atlantic. this category 1 hurricane brought misery galore. 85-mile-per-hour winds, up to 85-meven feet of storm surge, and in some spots, eight inches of rain. >> it's still very dangerous, and there are still winds even where there's not much water. >> reporter: and where there's too much water, a half block from myrtle beach itself, we watched this rescue, apartment residents trapped by a moat four feet deep plucked to safety by fire crews. >> it got really bad. we thought we could just, you know-- >> reporter: ride it out. and what happened? >> the generator started smoking. >> reporter: and the water started rising? >> yes. >> reporter: near with the atlantic pours onto ocean boulevard, we rode with master corporal thomas vest. his message to blunt ian's human cost... >> the big thing for us is making sure people stay safe, stay insid and off the roadways so we can keep emergen

off pawleys island, debris from a pier ripped apart by the sea. in charleston, powerful winds tossing boats in the harbor. sheets of rain rushing into this garage as ian roars ashore, making landfall here in south carolina. south of here in folly beach -- >> it's raining, it's windy, it's flooding. >> reporter: conor o'malley and his fiancee alyssa nejame sheltering in place. they're supposed to get married this weekend. ian now a monster storm, 1,000 miles across and still a force to be reckoned with. david, officials here are still assessing the damage. this is some of what they're finding, toppled trees cutting off streets like this one. and tonight, david, officials are warning people to stay off the roads. they say with the ground so saturated, there's a possibility more trees could come crashing down. david? >> all right. elwyn, thank you. elwyn lopez leading us off. let's get right to senior meteorologist rob marciano in the storm zone all week for us. he's in fort myers again tonight. rob, this storm is moving up the east coast, still very

. >> we've got quite a mess on pawleys island and we need resources from the state to make sure that can get the island cleaned up in an expeditious fashion. >> and in a sign that the worst appeared to be over, the police department tweeted out t this photo of rainbows as the storm moved out. >>> coming up, latest on a coup, we'll find out just who is in charge of burkina faso. stay with us. ah, these bills are crazy. she has no idea she's sitting on a goldmine. well she doesn't know that if she owns a life insurance policy of $100,000 or more she can sell all or part of it to coventry for cash. even a term policy. even a term policy? even a term policy! find out if you're sitting on a goldmine. call coventry direct today at the number on your screen, or visit coventrydirect.com. zyrteeeec works hard at hour one and twice as hard when you take it again the next day. so betty can be the barcode beat conductor. ♪ go betty! let's be more than our allergies! zeize the day. zyrtec. when we started selling my health products online our shipping process was painfully slow. then we found shi

this was a scene a few miles south and nearby pawleys island. streets are turning into rivers look at this. the power of the storm surge as the hurricane was churning, the atlantic ocean, it sliced a peer into. as ian news northward tonight, a tornado watches now in effect for parts of the carolinas and virginia for at least one more hour until 10 pm eastern. meanwhile, back in florida, the extent of the destruction, well, it's staggering. this, that we're looking at, that is aerial video of fort myers beach. much of the committee has simply been totally obliterated. the result of a hurricane smashing into that part of florida as a massive category four storm. last night, the sheriff's office in lee county what you campuses the fort myers area, is releasing this new video, showing even more of the destruction. sadly, we are reporting at least 45 deaths are being reported in florida. officials, unfortunately, fear that number may climb as search teams are now combing through the rubble. i want to show you some before and after photos of sanibel i

it's pretty messy here on pawleys island. >> they're trying to get it cleaned up and as some of you may know, i've spent more than 20 summers, the past, 20, 25 summers with my family and seeing the pier gone is he heartbreaking and i've been sending messages to people that live there. does it look like they're already moving into a recovery mode there in pawleys and other south carolina areas you've been to? >> yeah, it looks like people have done this before. utility crews are on ground and sewer crews, and the utility crews. police were here had the streets blocked off making sure to get the heavy equipment in here and clear off the streets so residents could get safe passage to get to their homes. that's what we're seeing, for the most part people are able to get back and assess the damage to various residence. hopefully it's going to be able to rebuild swiftly and you'll be back on vacations again. >> sound good, thank you very much, molly. jacqui. jacqui: ian continuing to weaken as it moves through north carolina and virginia. meteorologist adam klotz has your fox weather forecast

molly and pawleys island, south carolina. rich edson with the latest on the federal response. but first we are going to go to adam tracking the storm's path what is the most important information that you have to give us now, adam? >> it is still a rainmaker print yes it's no longer a tropical storm. running over to the mid atlantic eventually up into new england all through the weekend as it makes its move. this is a future forecast. you can take a pay attention to the time step in the quarter. the heaviest rain over eastern portions of west virginia. not a lot of movement is reset this into motion. eastern and west virginia. slowly starts tracking off to the east before it drags all the moisture across the mid atl atlantic. even getting rain at a southern portions of new england. at times is going to be very heavy rain the best chance for seeing flash flooding is in the initial area i showed you per east end west virginia very mountainous region. the rainfalls are quickly goes down here you fill streams and rivers is going to be the low-lying areas you see the best risk for

and as high winds purged with storm surge higher, two pier, one in pawleys island, and this one in northyrtle beach partially collapsed and just washed away. ian is blamed for at least 45 deaths. the severe category 4 hurricane wednesday packing sustained winds of 150 miles per hour. the coast guard said it has rescued more than 200 people. but volunteers have gone out to save many more. the cajun navy came to the rescue of a woman in fort myers beach who said she stood on her bed for hours as waters rushed into her home. >> i am up to my neck in water. >> okay. all right. >> i am so cold. >> hopie, i'm losing you. i can't hear you. >> i love you. >> i love you. >> oh, my goodness. you can just hear the desperation and the toerror in that woman's voice. across the state, 1.3 million homes still in the dark this morning. and for many able to evacuate, they are unsure of what they're going to return to. >> my grandparents are still at the house. we have animals there. they didn't want to leave the animals. whether we left on the boat, it was a scary feeling you don't know if you're ever go

. >> a powerful storm surge flooded a pawleys island near georgetown were ian made landfall.he pure collapse and floated away, piles of debris littering the beach and streets. heavy equipment and repair crews descending over the weekend as homeowners returned to survey the damage. >> the water came up really rapidly. we were surprised how fast it came up. and it can all be up to the very top of this mailbox post here protects historic flood prone charleston escape fairly unscathed with them either flooding. residents relieve the impacts were not like storm's pastor. >> you could see waves coming across his whole park. they swirled in here and fortunately we did not see that this time. we are lucky. >> people here are telling meet their hearts go out to the people in florida, shannon. thirty-seven molly line in south carolina, thank you very much for joining us now fema administrator deeann criswell. welcome to fox news sunday. >> shannon thanks much for having me on today. >> i know is very important for you to get there on the ground and take a look around. you spent years a

s four second time in south carolina a few hours ago video from the pawleys island police department shows winds whipping rain along streets at already flooded from the storm. we welcome in meteorologist roberta gonzalez. hi, roberta christina, certainly a force of nature, let's get to it. it plowed on shore at 11 05 our time today as a cat one hurricane there you have it, making landfall just outside of georgetown, south carolina. i'm gonna give you a better view of this because boy, the rain feeder bands extend out 1000 miles, the wind field at least 485 miles. this is still a dangerous and deadly system. right now it's been downgraded to a tropical storm. we'll just call it ian 60 mile per hour winds moving to the north. north and wobbling to the west of 15 mph. we have storm reports all up and down the coast from the carolinas all the way into. now virginia, you see a strong storm surge there. you have also tornado right there that has been reported and a whole lot of flooding. this is going to continue all weekend. this is going to continue this weekend as well. a finger fog mov

he immediately goes to action and announces there will be a temporary bridge on pawleys island.l expectations and putting dates out there to make people absolutely in awe of what the government can accomplish. it is not what we would expect to hear appear and certainly, you know a lot of the politicians are afraid to put things out they are endlessly missed them. so there is a lot of people excited by his ambition, motivated to see this kind of repair, but we know it will be a good long mile. he is clearly very, very prepared what might happen to florida and that speaks highly to him. >> neil: we will watch the ramifications of all of this, lee carter, thank you. just to alert you oil prices are rising so even with the administration indicating that will tap the street there strategic petroleum again. the opec is cutting production went out to peer that has a lot of people in the business community very, very nervous. i talked to one of them. when my last customer discovered a crack in his car's windshield, he scheduled at safelite.com. safelite makes it easy. we're the experts

you look at pawleys island, an entire pier was washed away. that was what the police department called historic and catastrophic flooding. so many people say that they have gotten better in this area. the water is receding. but still, a significant impact here in this region. >> i want you to stay safe. please, my friend, you've done as a lot, you know how to do this. keep your team stay. even the storms, as they pass through, they can still cause. damage shaquille brewster in charleston. this is what used to be an rv park in san carlos island near the trump factory, across the road from it. look at the broken would, the roofs strewn about. think about the structures that were and the people who call that home. where are these people tonight? more ahead. stay with us. stay with us covid-19. some people get it, and some people can get it bad. and for those who do get it bad, it may be because they have a high-risk factor. such as heart disease, diabetes, being overweight, asthma, or smoking. even if symptoms feel mild, these factors can increas

we also have images from pawleys island. the police department sending these out again. whitecaps the storm surge those high water levels and in those photos that appear that the very end of it collapsed and swept away. by that storm surge and myrtle beach and other areas seeing water levels at least five ft higher than normal and christina here in south carolina . the governor has declared a state of emergency and across the state today over 200,000 people without power. now ian has made its final landfall and is expected to dissipate sometime tomorrow over north carolina or virginia. in charleston, south carolina. jacare alexis ktvu, fox two news before we let you go there. can you just give us a sense of what people are saying? those that you have talked to that have surveyed the damage? what are they looking at? in the area that you're in? well christina charleston is a low lying area, which means it's at a higher risk for flooding. this area has flooded before with rain, nowhere near as much as you would see from a hurricane, but since it made the storm made landfal

one of the hardest hit spots is pawleys island. they were inundated with ocean water there in that area. there were some high water rescues, a midway fire department pulling out those high water rescue vehicles. and they even lost their pier, which was last seen floating away to the south, according the police department will . >> right. molly line, thank you so much. those details now, folks. >> weather hurricane specialist brian norcross joins us . brian , where is the storm now and where is it going? >> well. >> well, the storm is located in north carolina. now. take a look at it there. and i'm going to do a little meteorology with you here. you can see this line right here. so this storm system is called post tropical with top winds at 60 miles an hour, mostly over the ocean. >> and it's called post tropical because it's more like an inland nor'easter. >> now, it's morphed itself. >> so that line i was showing you, that's the line. it didn't draw that well. that line is between the cold air to the north and the tropical air to

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at pawley�*s island, local police captured the end of a pier collapsing before it floated away. 0fficialssidents to avoid going out. if you don't need to go outside in the wind right now, stay inside. if you don't need to drive anywhere, don't drive. be careful and be smart. still, the damage was nowhere near as devastating as in florida, where the coastguard had to rescue people by helicopter from barrier islands cut off from the mainland. and beach destinations along the south—west coast such as fort myers were battered and forever transformed. clearly, there is still a lot of clean—up ahead, and besides the personal loss from this storm, businesses are now going to be suffering too. right ahead of what should have been a busy tourist season here, the beaches, the marinas are devastated. the storm—weary lined up for hours to purchase petrol and water. they all said this was unlike any storm they had ever experienced. honestly, it's sad. hearing all the stories about it, my friend's house — underwater. so, everyone i grew up with, everyone that i knew, their houses are all underneath wat

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part of a pier in pawley's island was torn apart. while parts of historic charleston flooded all of it comes as search and rescue efforts intensify here in florida where 21 people are now confirmed dead and where some areas remain underwater. the magnitude of the destruction becoming more apparent by the hour today i got a firsthand look inside one rescue effort through battered neighborhoods but we begin in south carolina emilie ikeda is in charleston. what's the latest there? >> reporter: lester, ian packe a punch with wind gusts toppin 90 miles per hour here but the biggest threat was storm surge. racing into south carolina's coastal communities. a wall of water slamming into south carolina's coastline today. as hurricane ian made its second landfall in the u.s. after already bulldozing through florida and then reintensifying in the atlantic ocean. south carolina's entire coast faced a hurricane warning as the cat 1 storm transformed roadways into waterways and neighborhoods into lakes >> my gosh. >> reporter: link watching in hor