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Carnage. 90% of collier county is without power. the roads are impassable. the water is rising. its impossible to get an assessment this early on just how bad that is. and how much its going to take if there are people that need to be rescued. we drove a little bit and we saw some. as can you seat wind is picking up. we havent seen a single emergency crew, electrical power crew out here. nothing of that we are getting word from the officials asking people to literally shelter in place. stay in p...

And they are going to make their way home. but the important thing now is the electric lines in the road, accessibility. they are urging people to stay where they are for the moment. i will tell you that patients only last so long. and where we are in orlando. its been a remarkable thing. if they hear the kindness and the patients on behalf of so many people. but it will run out. but for the people here in orlando, 300,000 lost power. they got lucky. >> melissa: we are watching a lot of traffic ...

Was a metal door. we were on the second story. we were in the best possible place. today had another room in the middle of the building that we couldve gone into that was surrounded by a block and no windows. we did not have to go that far. it was brutal. and i know you guys have to go, but the emergency services were stationed down a marathon, they had to pull out and evacuate during the hurricane back to ilan marotta they lost a number of cruisers. >> harris: we have to go, because you my frie...

Lisa: for those who left in advance of the storm. any idea when they can return? >> thats a good question. the city, a great part of the city does not have electrical power. the sold city is under a boil order. if somebody wants to decide to come back to the city there will be extreme circumstances in which they will have to survive. a boil order for water and a loss of electrical power. lisa: for those who decided to stay, any advice for them? >> we had a good outcome, not too many problems. wh...

Back from the wind hitting it. >> from the boards over your windows, youre saying. >> can you hear it? >> well, not as well as you can, but i take your word for it. but its intense. you can hear the wind pushing, pushing on the plywood. >> yeah. are you all in -- how are you -- you boarded up your windows, obviously. >> correction. >> what else do you do to take cover? >> ive been through this before in 2004. i felt like an experienced soldier. and i still have power, electrical power. the north...

And it looks like electrical power. >> he certainly -- hes so genuine. you can see his warm embrace. hes got a million-watt smile. and when he delivers the sermon, it will be much more serious, but when hes with the crowd, he simply lights up. >> weve seen him in business-like situations with aides, with security, and he looks like anyone would. but then weve seen that face change character entirely. hell turn around after a discussion of how much time do we have here, can i go over and greet th...

Water, they have no place to sleep, shelter a big problem. and several people who work for aid agencies, theyre frustrated too. theyre managing to send supplies in. be it slowly. those supplies arent able to reach the people theyre suppose to reach. a lot of frustration all around. >> as you mentioned, malika, an impoverished country before the quake struck. with humble means. how much connected with electrical power. and the like. we know that weather conditions are making things difficult. the...

Needle in a haystack. the haystack is smaller but we are still doing searching. >> they signed off hm 370. prior to that the flight changed directions 12 minutes before he signed off. tell me this particular plane, the boeing 777, how long could it fly without power? >> you mean without electrical power? >> thats a toughy. it couldnt fly very long without electrical power if there was nobody in the cockpit that was able to fly the airplane. this is a fly by wire system and it needs electrical po...

Manually in flight? and a retrofitting of planes so that they do have more modern technology? >> well, i think theres going to be discussion about it. but there are -- there are reasons to have the transponder be able to be switched off. and, remember, we dont know that that transponder was switched off. we know that it ceased to function. was that an interruption of electrical power? was it a failure of the transponder? or was it deliberately turned off? we do not know that. now, the acars is a...

For some radar blips, if you will, theres nothing that can be sent from a boeing 777 that would indicate mayday, mayday or anything else? >> not really. >> that sounds like -- that sounds crazy to me. >> well, i mean, the systems are coming online. but were not quite there yet. if off 80sb for example that sends a tremendous wealth of information, but right now you have to have a ground station to receive it. and so that didnt -- that wasnt true in this case. >> because the so-called black box, ...