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obviously, the latest news from Hurricane Ian continues to be devastating. Obviously, the strike by Hurricane

Ian on the west coast of Florida has had some dire consequences, some hundreds of people apparently

missing. The Florida government is doing an excellent job of ensuring that the resources have

been brought to bear. You have emergency teams that are on the

ground, essentially right away looking for people trying to help out any survivors. The state itself

is mobilizing not just in terms of state resources, but also in terms of private charities.

Pretty much every private institution in Florida has been mobilizing trying to gather food

and resources for people who are out of power on the west coast of Florida.

The storm, Hurricane Ian, continues to actually swirl around off now the east coast of the

United States. It's going to make landfall again in South Carolina. It may in fact be a hurricane

at that point. According to the Washington Post, Ian is a hurricane once again, a storm system

that re-intensified Thursday evenings. It turns toward South Carolina with 85 mile per hour winds. And with the National Hurricane Center called Life Threatening Flooding and Storm Surge, it's set for yet another U.S. landfall this time near Charleston around midday on Friday. In its wake, Ian left a path of devastation in Florida. But much of the state is still making sense of the exact toll after rescue missions began on Thursday. in an evening briefing, Governor Ronda Santas said that he expected to have mortality from the hurricane.

There had been more than 700 confirmed rescues.

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