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Key. thats what we are hoping to do. and for those anxious to get back and see what is left of their homes and boats, they are going to open up the upper keys, key largo, up to mile marker 73, and you have to have a sticker that says you are a local or business owner in here, and you know, the folks at least who have power back in miami, its a trip back in time, a trip back to when the spanish first fou found -- >> we lost bills shot. its not about safety. its hard to get a shot on a moving boat...

Well be doing probably two days of call with our utility companies saying how can we help you? people want their power back. ive gotten a lot of phone calls from nursing homes and assisted living theyre having issues with their generators and so were doing everything we can to help them get either generators, fuel, power back on. thats one of the issues were dealing with aggressively to help them. we are trying to get ahold of them constantly. a lot of them are calling me and were working hard w...

In one neighborhood. its a good reminder of a post-storm danger. >> stay away from standing water. its really dangerous. you dont know whats in there. there could be a live wire. power lines that are down, treat all power lines that are down as if they are live. >> fp and l says it prioritizes getting critical info structure like hospitals, police, fire stations on the grid first. the goal is to get power to the most amount of people in the shortest amount of time. >> the system is performing we...

Possible. >> reporter: the white house is also saying they have deployed the biggest army of power workers from all over the country, even from canada. the lucky ones will get power back in hours or days, and others will take weeks. john? >> we have the camera still looking at this front end loader, moving the trees off the streets, alex, which, again, is the sight people want to see. we have folks on the streets watching this because this is what they want and need to get their power back up on...

Bait shop to the lobster, to the charter captains, to the small little inns. it will be a long time before some of these are up and running again. the access, the keys are hard enough to get to now with a single road basically runs down up and down the keys. so you can -- it is also difficult especially if traffic starts to pile up and you have to get the crews in there. a lot of challenges in the florida keys and different parts of the state. were still focused on ensuring that some of the acut...

>> i think what youre going find is some people are going to get their power back on this week. and probably those millions are going to get chopped away pretty quickly because they repair a substation and a whole neighborhood comes on. thats going to hatch. but then youre going to have other areas where a transmission line failed and theyve got to erect a new tire. after hurricane andrew in southern miami-dade county it was three months before they got the power back on. i think this is going t...

Happens in two weeks that would be a miracle. i think certainly in the weeks to get power back on. >> bryan norcross. youre really good at explaining this stuff. thank you very much for taking time to talk with us. >> i appreciate it. much more to come tonight including some news from inside the white house. senior white house officials making a decision that i plum can make absolutely no sense of. and somebody who may be able to explain it. coming up. stay with us. ♪ when food is good and c...

Expensive that none of us were spared. it was going to cause damage direct hit or not. we got hit pretty hard. >> jon: obviously want to get your power back on so you can open a hotels and bring the tourists back to broward county. any estimates as to how long its going to take? >> today when we started working they said there were some people that would get power back in a day in others it would take up to two weeks. what we have some governmental buildings and some schools that we want to get ...

That. it was a top priority after matthew. if you dont need to be on the roads, dont get out. again, there are power lines and all sorts of things like that that were working on. let me just go on down. ive never needed to do this before. the u.s. navy -- the navy and coast guard will be providing resources, the "uss iwo jima" and "uss new york" to provide search and rescue and other things. power outages, we have 65% of the state without power. its going to take us a long time to get power back...

Matthew. if you dont mean to be on the roads, dont get out. theres still for, again, power lines. all sorts of things like that were working on. let me go on down. ive never used this, to do this before. the u.s. navy, navy, coast guard, everybody providing resources. navy deployed, usa of iwo jima, uss new york and abraham linking helping with search and rescue and a lot of other things. power outages. we have about 65% of state without power. its going to take a long time. to get power back. t...