DeSantis clarified the sheriff’s statements during his morning news conference.
“That number that was put out by Lee is basically an estimate of, ‘hey, these people were calling, the water was rising on their home, they might have not ended up getting through,’” DeSantis said. “So we’re obviously hoping that they can be rescued at this point.”
Don Lemon had his climate-change-republicans-fault harangue ready to go. He will probably use it anyway, but he really wanted to include “hundreds of fatalities.” Low number of deaths is a big disappointment for the left.