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the lives that are broken. people on the margins whose homes, whose jobs, even their own bodies and their health are now precarious. people who dont have the insurance or the resources to rebuild. my team down here and i went for a drive here not far from where we discovered dozens of people at a shrimping dock for whom that is the situation tonight. no one has reached them and it is not clear if anyone has tried but i saw them. and you can see them too. take a look. >> [inaudible] it ...

Drop quickly tomorrow. we have teams of people that are working hard on that. and lots of other things. ive seen so much destruction yesterday. water is a very powerful thing that can move some big objects. and causes permanent destruction. we can always repair a roof due to the wind or something that hurricane-force winds -- but i think you saw firsthand water destruction, ten feet of storm surge, terrific its horrific. >> commissioner, one of the issues, here one of the issues here in the coun...

So weve got workers from across the u.s. now here to work. but its going to take a while, because we have to let the winds subside. we can only work in winds up to 35 miles an hour. obviously its dangerous to raise the lift on these bucket trucks. it is going to take a bit. so people are going to have to be in the dark for at least some time. pinellas county, duke energy, the main supplier, says theyve installed smart lines that reroute power when theres outages. many some of the biggest problem...