Lee County, Florida Sheriff Carmine Marceno told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Thursday that fatalities from Hurricane Ian are “in the hundreds” and thousands are waiting to be rescued.
“I don’t have confirmed numbers, I definitely know fatalities are in the hundreds. There are thousands of people waiting to be rescued, and again, we cannot get the true assessment until we’re actually on scene… We can’t access people, that’s the problem,” said Marceno.