Fort Myers Mayor Felt ‘Helpless’ Watching Hurricane Ian’s Devastation



ABC News’ Linsey Davis spoke with Fort Myers Mayor Kevin Anderson about the damage and destruction caused by Hurricane Ian and what the battered city needs now. ABC News Live Prime, Monday through Friday at 7EST and 9EST WATCH ABC News live stream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Ma8oQLmSM SUBSCRIBE to ABC NEWS: https://bit. ly/2vZb6yP See more at http://abcnews.go.com/ LIKE ABC News on FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/abcnews FOLLOW ABC News on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/abc #ABCNNLPrime #florida #hurricaneian #fortmyers

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46 comments

  1. Review link below 👇
    https://youtu.be/GFMCZkn-sR4

    Floridians & American 🇺🇸!
    As you can see these young individuals don’t want work!!!
    But they have time come loot area these property owner lost 😞 everything.
    So American 🇺🇸 is wrong have judge sentence these individuals to come back to area chain work help clean up the debris’s they try to loot!!
    Is this wrong 😑 so rest of 1% criminals think twice come over Ft Myers area try to loot.!!
    We working class must put our foot down!!!!
    Amen!

  2. Maybe he shouldn’t have been so caulky in his interviews before the storm on local news. “Buildings are built to survive these storms and I’m 40+ years living here. I’m not concerned”

  3. Quick Quick, tell them again how Climate Change is a plot by Democrats to destroy their constitutional rights. For 30 years you were warned. You laughed and ignored the warnings.
    Worse is yet to come. Large areas of Florida will be under the sea as sea levels rise.

  4. Yes I guess so after hat dim witted mayor of yours told you guys to stay put knowing that the storm was heading your way. That man is responsible for many death in Lee County. But y’all stupidity will put him back in office again if he has to run for mayor. I’ll be honest I’m wishing y’all a quick recovery but I don’t feel sorry for your citizens at all.

  5. Jesus promises a fall to the one who lifts himself up above others thinking he or she is somehow better JESUS so love the world he gave his only begotten son for us thank you JESUS AMEN 🙏💕

  6. rock you like a hurricaneda da

  7. Climate change deniers created this situation. Of course you're "helpless" in the face of a superstorm – but it's partly because you refused to do anything to control global warming. More and bigger storms are coming to Florida before it finally sinks under the ocean. Smart people will leave.

  8. Mercury vapor lights are easier to tell, but if you zoom in on them they get greener on camera than they look visually. Are these replaced again with mercury vapor lights in important evacuation areas like the purple streetlights tend to be in cities also? They are both UV based. I think that they seem like they mark areas for evacuation from cities when people really want to leave.

  9. How to know which purple streetlights were replaced with purple again: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqgX2CQ4iXrlDn_inAwJFXK_oxXFhbXTM

  10. By the end of the century or sooner Florida will be under water . 🌊

  11. need more hurricane like this in many parts of usa like 200 more for creating teh world akd destruction all over the world …thsi is so tiny compare to what the world and other weaker and poorer country goes thru from scumbag usa human trash

  12. Prayers for everyone hope no one got hurt everyone I know it’s sad when a storm chop down your house/car or store but you can’t give up you need be strong God is with your watching you and Jesus Christ is your strength and shield to protect you from everything.

  13. we'll have tons of "like new" cars for sale at great prices here in texas.

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  15. Terrible that it happened. Hope they build back smarter and better the business area were all on top of each other and traffic was ridiculous.

  16. Bad infrastructure. Where are the big tanks to pump the floodwater into such as those big tanks they use to hold oil? Where are the homes and buildings built to withstand 150 MPH winds? What did they expect? They were "sitting ducks". How about using some intelligence next time instead of sitting there like a bunch of idiots? Gosh, even my shed is rated at 150 MPH, I checked. What the hell do these city planners do all day, choke their chickens?

  17. ☝️Climate Change is a HOAX created by globalist commies in order to control you and tax the living crap out of us.

  18. This is the state that elected Trump and their little Trump governor who don’t believe in climate change. They have built way to much on Florida and destroyed the ecosystem and now Mother Nature is taking it back. I do feel bad for the people, their clueless.

  19. new building code needed
    house build with wood has no chance

  20. hurricanes gets stronger every year…

  21. All I can think of is hundreds of destroyed vehicles, homeless people, mourning people, dead pets…

  22. MSNBC has already had people on to try for political points with criticism off DeSantis, getting giddy over their demonic hopes that DeSantis will now have to become a big government hack like them…

  23. Prayers from the Philippines. 🙏♥️

  24. He the money is powerful but hey the water too very powerful

  25. LOLOLOLOLOL GOD IS GREATER!!! not amerikkka

  26. I'm hoping the loss of life is low…I hope rebuilding can be done quickly.

  27. The people of Fort Myers are strong and will build back stronger and better than before! ❤

  28. Sanibel causeway is completely destroyed

  29. MDMSSB wish everyone Happy New Year 2022.Lets work otogether to overcome the covid-19 trauma asap. Latest news sharing. J

    "We support human Work life balance"

  30. The News anchor is such an Idiot, looking and asking for Fatalities………….Ha!

  31. Humans aren't the aoex predator after all, Mother Nature is.

  32. This is terrible I live in palm beach with the family this is terrifying

  33. Atleast the governor is getting the migrants out lmfao

  34. Now Florida need illegals immigrant to rebuilt the estate

  35. Good way to thin out the the herd by the one and only god himslef

  36. So hard to watch,
    The devastations are unbelievable, such large scale of loss. In the face of mother nature, humans are so small, next to nothing.

  37. This Hurricane is caused by Evil Biden.

  38. Need font hoes like catapillars

  39. Need better drainage along the beach.

  40. How we felt when Trump won and lost BUT won Florida 🦩🪲

  41. A sheriff this morning said 100 confirm fatalities yet this republicans mayors said none . What is going on here .. the next thing the republicans politicians will say is Ian is not causing any damage and our governor have the magic wand.. come on let the people know the truth nothing but the truth is there too much to ask .

  42. Mayor call me , I have 100s of $10 gift cards for McDonald's
    Didn't get to finish cri ming in Texas
    (( YET )) you know me napping documented migrants with our federal funds.
    No worries ,
    I have to embrace socialism now if I don't want to mess with my higher aspirations , of being president
    🤣👈🏻not going to happen now👉🏻🤣