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Search and rescue efforts continue. door to door efforts continue under the unified structure for the land, air, and see certain rescue. there will be needs throughout the recovery phase. folks start -- there trying to get the resources they need to do that. they will be with florida. it is impacting communities throughout. >> let me ask you about the low hanging fruit. i have been out there on the streets. ive seen the electrical workers, the line workers. they have done a great job. theres a l...

And for millions of floridians, theyre still in the dark. you know, we have power outages all over the state and its going to take a long time to get power restored. although governor desantis says that restoring power is going to be a top priority, around thirty three thousand utility and line workers are here in the state right now. theyre weathering the worst of the storm and theyre going to be deployed all over the state trying to get that power back . but it is going to take some time becau...

Biden did finally reach out to governor desantis. but he also declined to cancel a fundraiser tonight to help more, you know, obviously democrats get elected governor. which just seemed, i dont know, seemed off. i dont want to politicize this but it does seem off. >> and if president trump did that you can imagine what the left would say and youre exactly right leadership matters. we had great leadership from president trump and great from the governor. the governor said they already have 40,000...

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>> reporter: talk to me about those preparations. one of the really interesting sights when you head towards a hurricane is you see the streams of power trucks coming from other parts of the country in some cases to stage, to be ready for when they need to take action. how many people do you have at the ready? whats that like? >> sure. currently we have 16,000 restoration personnel pre-positioned throughout the state of florida. those restoration personnel are not only florida power and light em...

>> thank you. good morning. im jim bush, an directsor of external affairs. on behalf of fpl, thank you governor, coming ute to greet the men and women who have come to respond. we have assembled a restoration workforce of more than 19,000. that includes employees, contractors, and men and women from partner utilities from around the country. there are more than 30 states represented here today. we have line workers who traveled in at this site from as far as texas and oklahoma, minnesota and nor...

We have assembled a restoration workforce of 19,000. that includes fpl employees, contractors, and men and women for partner utilities from around the country. there are more than 30 states represented here today. we have line workers who traveled in at this site from as far as texas and oklahoma, minnesota, and north dakota. all to help florida respond to this challenge. now they are here to return the favor. were very grateful for them for that. here at the processing site, these men and women...

Some of the more hazardous areas. you are also going to have power workers going in. we were just in lake city, i was thanking -- we had all these power workers, line workers from different states. i saw them from texas, louisiana, all these different places stage, we have a massive, massive mobilization. their job is to get in there and help restore services. you are also going to have folks bringing in things like food and water, so theres no need to rush back in. there is going to be a lot go...

0 from the shoreline to the back bays and also to rivers inland. so, know your high tides. >> we are looking at the images, increasingly dire. stay inside as the storm approaches and wreaks havoc, pray for the charlotte county community and the rest of florida as we toss it over to "america reports." >> john: any moment now we are expecting an update from florida governor ron desantis as the eyewall of hurricane ian begins to move on shore bringing with it the potential for catastrophic damage. ...

0 do on normal types of storms. and then having major structural damage to the underlying electrical infra structure. when you have a category 5 storm hitting potentially and massive storm surge, that is going to interrupt, most likely, a lot of the underlying infra structure. when fpl and other companies are going in, some of those tasks are going to be -- youll have to rebuild some of this stuff. so the folks in those affected areas should just understand that if its as simple as simply just h...