{"id":1664942,"date":"2022-09-29T15:51:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T19:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1664942"},"modified":"2022-09-29T15:52:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T19:52:23","slug":"biden-says-hurricane-ian-could-be-deadliest-in-floridas-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-says-hurricane-ian-could-be-deadliest-in-floridas-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Says Hurricane Ian Could Be Deadliest in Florida\u2019s History"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-says-hurricane-ian-could-be-deadliest-in-floridas-history%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1664942&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Hurricane Ian could turn out to be the deadliest hurricane to strike <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-florida\">Florida<\/a>, according to President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis could be the deadliest hurricane in Florida\u2019s history. The numbers \u2026 are still unclear, but we\u2019re hearing early reports of what may be substantial loss of life,\u201d Biden said after receiving a briefing at the\u00a0Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) National Response Coordination Center in Washington on Sept. 29, a day after the hurricane made landfall in southwest Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The first confirmed death after the hurricane struck was a 72-year-old man who perished while he was draining his pool.<\/p>\n<p>The Volusia County Sheriff\u2019s Office reported the death, which took place in Deltona.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe initial investigation indicates the victim was using a hose to drain the pool down a hill and into a 30-foot-wide canal, where a steep decline into the water was extremely soft and slippery due to the heavy rain. The Sheriff\u2019s Office sends its sincere condolences to the victim\u2019s family,\u201d the office said.<\/p>\n<p>Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno claimed on ABC\u2019s \u201cGood Morning America\u201d that he knew fatalities were \u201cin the hundreds\u201d but later said on CNN that he only knew of roughly five deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said that the number was unconfirmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNone of that is confirmed. I think what that is, is there were 911 calls for people saying, \u2018Hey, the water is rising in my home. I\u2019m going to go up in the attic. But I\u2019m really worried.\u2019 Of course, those folks are now going to be checked on,\u201d he said at a briefing.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis said he knew of two deaths assumed to be from Hurricane Ian.<\/p>\n<p>Deanne Criswell, the FEMA administrator, said on MSNBC that \u201cwe have a few reports of some fatalities\u201d and that officials, including sheriffs, believed the death toll would rise in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Ian could turn out to be the deadliest hurricane to strike Florida, according to President Joe Biden. \u201cThis could be the deadliest hurricane in Florida\u2019s history. The numbers \u2026 are still unclear, but we\u2019re hearing early reports of what may be substantial loss of life,\u201d Biden said after receiving a briefing at the\u00a0Federal Emergency [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1664942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1664942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}