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Well, including some of the airports. fort lauderdale international closed. all commercial flight operations and other operations will be shut down. a lot of schools, also closing in dozens of florida counties. weve seen other signs of prop, including the national guard being prepped. high water vehicles and helicopters and that sort of thing. some 17,000 line workers. ready to move out and move into areas that could be affected by the storm. but, trace, the big question is, will we see the hurr...

It is already started in some counties and coastal counties to the north. but if the storm is moving slowly, it will be some time before we get that. you mentioned earlier, we are running concurrent with rising flood waters. now were beginning to see instances, i-40 has a closure to wilmington. as you move crews in to assist with restorations, that flooding creates real challenges getting crews where they need to be. >> do you have resources, have crews available that once winds die down, youll ...

It will probably be a couple days before they can get out and do restoration. they have to do assessments of the damage. and in some areas, there is a great amount of flooding. >> absolutely. do you have any guess at this time when you think all the customers will be back up? >> we intersected 1 to 3 million customers to be affected by the storm. and thats moving in that direction, certainly. i think were looking at many, many days. at least a week for most customers. weeks for some areas where ...

Forced to admit that not everyone in the middle class is going to get a tax cut. what? the former economic adviser to vice president biden. first, issues from white fish. one of my faves. not going away. according to "the new york times," the company from zinkes hometown paid line workers up to 63 bucks an hour but they charged puerto rico $319 an hour. oh, gosh, that math doesnt add up. a spokesman said simply looking at the rate differential does not take into account white fishs overhead co...

Virgin islands. stationed in the islands, ready to go. thats incident management teams and medical teams red i do go along with national guard assets. and then we also have multiple ships out at sea circling waiting to get in. so the goal is going to be life saving missions with search and rescue teams opening up air bridges and pathways. not only through air assets off the ships, but then also through our ports. and so were ready to push a lot of commodities, a lot of food and water, hygiene ki...

And as the president said yesterday, the focus is not on, you know, fixing things as far as convenience in getting everything together as far as operating the city. its rescuing people. so you have so many people, again, if we can pan up. just focusing on trying to pull people out of the rubble. and so i imagine that that has been slow coming back. i will say that a large part of the city is fine. i mean, you can drive around to much of mexico city and you would have no idea that an earthquake e...

Were walking checking out their boats shake being their heads wondering if they would ever get them back in the water or if it was even worth trying. >> lets talk about the power situation, just across florida, how long before thats expected to come back online? >> unfortunately, officials here say it could take weeks and weeks. we have more than 6 million customers right now in the state of florida without power and about 800,000 in miami dade county alone. if you listen to officials, its going...

To come back online? >> unfortunately officials say it could take weeks and weeks. we have more than 6 million customers right now in the state of florida without power. 800,000 in miami-dade county alone. if you listen to officials its going to be a undertaking to get it back un. they have nearly 20,000 line workers who are going to be out in force, were told theyre going to be working 24 hours a day. with every turk and tool they have, theyre using drones to fly over areas to identify the plac...

Air. they deftly have lost power in some areas, and obviously theyve lost a lot of power across the state. like i mentioned before, the guys who are gonna fix a lot of power, some of them are staying in the hotel down the block, they came from 30 states to help out down here and he doesnt know where or when hes going. theyre just on stamp standby. when they get their orders they get the truck and had that way. >> thats whats amazing. they are ready for the cleanup "after words" because they did ...

Kind of weather. there are 29,000 customers of the keys energy services, the power public utility here and 29,000 customers without power this morning. they have about 190 line workers from around the country who have come in ready to mobilize once the storm has passed, but it looks like the extension cord that plugs into the mainland and powers the florida keys went out last night some time around 11:00 p.m. they tried to re-energize it remotely but no go. so were lighting up this shot off a ca...