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Are, brooke. >> so thats the keys. again, going back to what the white houses point was, they said the federal focus on jacksonville which is where you see a lot of the flooding and what do you do if youre in the rest of florida. to me, general, if there are 6 million without power. 75% or so of just the city of miami out of power, how do you advise those people? >> again, thats when you will start looking at the most vulnerable population. those people that health will start to deteriorate beca...

Safe to drink. ill boil order is in effect. theyre hoping in the next week or two therell be safe water for residents. also there is a lack of power. some 7000 homes were still in the dark in the power company will restore power to most of those homes except the one surrounded by water or where equipment is rendered by water. the other issue is a lack of drinkable water and food thats being passed out with bags of ice at distribution points across the city. three we visited today residents were ...

Ill boil order is in effect. theyre hoping in the next week or two therell be safe water for residents. also there is a lack of power. some 7000 homes were still in the dark in the power company will restore power to most of those homes except the one surrounded by water or where equipment is rendered by water. the other issue is a lack of drinkable water and food thats being passed out with bags of ice at distribution points across the city. three we visited today residents were lining up to ge...

Safe to drink. ill boil order is in effect. theyre hoping in the next week or two therell be safe water for residents. also there is a lack of power. some 7000 homes were still in the dark in the power company will restore power to most of those homes except the one surrounded by water or where equipment is rendered by water. the other issue is a lack of drinkable water and food thats being passed out with bags of ice at distribution points across the city. three we visited today residents were ...

Drinking water seems to be very scarce. certainly a very long road to recovery. am i right? >> absolutely. the biggest issue facing the residents of beaumont is the lack of running water. the river overflows earlier this week. they are now still trying to fix that water treatment facility in the backup system. both of them failed because of the heavy, heavy flooding and not cut off water to some 118,000 residents in the city of beaumont. what we see here today is one of the distribution points a...

In one part. city of beaumont without water, the grid went down and its surrounded by water which means the roads are impassable. creating an air lock to left stuff or get high enough trucks where you can get the flow of water and start distribution points. the problem with water is distributing it. its heavy. its not easy to handle. handle it in bottles and consider a community like this that may be four or five miles. where do you put the water point where people can come. you cant get it in s...

Ready to go. just got delivered about an hour ago. cars are now getting those as well as, and one bag of ice. by our estimations we think about 5,000 cars have been serviced from this location so far today. but thats not the case everywhere in this city thats trying to get safe drinking water to the people. there are a couple other distribution points. there was one at a church today where they advertised four truckloads of water were coming in from college station. a member of the congregation,...

Together. you know, right here, where the brunt of the category 4 hurricane winds came in just north of corpus christi, were already starting to affect recovery. recovery is a slow process. but rest assured were doing everything we can to unify efforts down to support. to local, first responders weve had here. yesterday put eyes on the ground in rockport. already points of distribution flowing. working in conjunction with the governors national guard. fema is flying meals and water, and the nati...

We are already starting recovery, recovery is a slow process but we are rest assured that we are doing everything we can to unify our efforts. yesterday i put eyes on the ground down in rockport, we already have people working with the governors national guard. the national guard is helping to run the distribution points, thats how the system works. all eyes are on houston, weve got a long way to go, we are going to have to continue our unified effort down to help the state of texas ultimately r...

The brunt of the category 4 came in, were starting to effect recover. recover is a slow process, but rest assured were doing everything we can to unify our efforts now to support the local responder, the first responders we have here. yesterday we put eyes on the ground down in rockport. we already have points of distribution flowing. were working in conjunction with the governors national guard where fema is supplying meals and water and the national guard is helping to run those distribution p...