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Is the commander in chief and he is doing his job, picking his top advisers and making sure he is ready to defend the country when it is his job. he is receiving defense briefings. i heard there were over 100 defense briefings heetds received. it is more complex than simplified out to be here in your presentation. >> one of the issues theres only one president at a time but right now we have donald trump as president elect commenting and sort of weighing in on a range of foreign policy issues mo...

Light has restored about 27% of their initial outages, which was over 580,000. right now they have about 500,000 homes without power. but look, were only halfway through. were going to have more outages. more outages are going to come. i will be speaking with the utility companies this morning to talk about their plans to start restoring power. its really important that we get power restored as quickly as we can. last night i directed the state begin setting up housing for utility crews in strat...

Broken down. if you can get out and those cities that are just about in the middle of the east coast of florida, and down south, you can go above that please do not travel on the roadways. 600,000 people, 600,000 homes without power right now. half of those power outages are in martin and st. lucie counties and the governor said there will be more outages to come. he also said utility crews are already working to restore power. so lets talk about exactly where that storm is. how strong it is. ho...

Which is a faster rate of return than expected. theres still halfway to go. the big concern, st. johns river. storm surge is going to be the story of damage from hurricane matthew and this represents one of the few cuts in the eastern coastline so the volume of water and storm surge will funnel through making this river, which is already about cresting, plus storm surge and tide, another eight to ten to twelve feet of surge that changes the topography here. changes power. and makes things impass...

Through this dangerous period. we are obviously on alert everywhere. weve lost power in the city. power outages throughout the county. we expect more. we turned our water off last night. so this is the time for people to stay put. this is an incredibly dangerous storm. and you know it. youve been reporting on it for hours now. and our concern is really making sure people stay where they are, stay safe. we have our crews ready to move as soon as they are able but right now theyre not moving anywh...

These resources will be available to any utility. lets remember this, power saves lives. we want everybody to get their power back as quickly as possible. damage assessments are just coming in in areas where the storm has passed. the u.s. army corps of engineers are currently conducting their assessments of lake okeechobee. the south florida water management district is still holding water north to prevent more water from going into the lake. this morning the national guard will conduct assessme...

The state can help you with? and my goal is, as any utility finishes up their restoration, then we use those assets to help any other utility in the state. so i know that florida power and light has brought in over 10,000 people. i know duke has brought in people. the municipals and co-ops have brought in people. so my goal is lets share resources. lets find out where our problems are and get everybody there. >> from governor rick scott of the state of florida. but its mostly positive. he said 6...

At least 24 hours after the storm passes each county. we denied mvxs request to reinstate tolls this morning. department of transportation will continue to review this on a county by county basis. some individual gas stations are reporting fuel shortages. these stations are quickly being refuelled. and fuel is readily available across the state. we dont have fuel issues. the current fuel supply in the state is at least five days. even if all the ports are temporarily closed. so right now we have...

Sheriff and emergency management director. ive not heard there. >> are there any fatalities? >> ive not heard any fatalities. my goal, i hope everybody stays safe and we have none. i dont want any family -- i just cant imagine. >> do you have any -- one of your emergency directors said that the -- theres two missions going on. below brevard and below brevard. and below brevard youre starting to deal with recovery. can you talk about the time frame for restoring power to the southern part of the ...

There is damage to property in downtown daytona beach. boris sanchez sees debris rolling down the street. rescue workers urge people to stay off the streets because there are downed power lines, they are sparking. we have had words of at least one home catching on fire because of sparking power lines. please, if you did not evacuate, stay inside your homes. the governor also came out just a short time ago and did fill us in on some statistics. i want to go through them for you. he said 600,000 h...