{"id":46788,"date":"2022-10-06T12:15:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T12:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/death-toll-from-hurricane-ian-in-u-s-exceeds-110-nearly-300-000-still-without\/"},"modified":"2022-10-06T12:15:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T12:15:51","slug":"death-toll-from-hurricane-ian-in-u-s-exceeds-110-nearly-300-000-still-without","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/death-toll-from-hurricane-ian-in-u-s-exceeds-110-nearly-300-000-still-without\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll from Hurricane Ian in U.S. exceeds 110, nearly 300,000 still without power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 110 people, including 105 in Florida and five in North Carolina, have died due to Ian, according to a tally by CNN on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Florida&#8217;s Lee County has reported 55 fatalities while Charlotte County has seen 24 deaths.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Joe Biden traveled to Fort Myers, Florida, on Wednesday to survey storm-ravaged areas.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 300,000 customers in Florida remained without power as of Wednesday afternoon, according to PowerOutage.us.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Ian made landfall in southwestern Florida, bringing catastrophic storm surges, heavy rains and destructive winds, and dangerous flooding.<\/p>\n<p>Biden previously said that hurricane Ian &#8220;is likely to rank among the worst in the nation&#8217;s history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Estimated losses from Ian&#8217;s wind and storm surges are between 28 billion and 47 billion U.S. dollars, according to CoreLogic, a U.S. research firm that estimates losses from natural disasters. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) &#8212; The death toll from Hurricane Ian in the United States has exceeded 110, while hundreds of thousands of customers remain without power.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-46788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46788"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46788"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}