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The city is prepared because they knew they would have this problem. the mayor already called in reinforcements. when were talking about first responders, we dont even need to just talk about emergency personnel like police and firemen. after a hurricane here, first responders include utility workers, people here trying to bring the electricity back. thats why mayor andrew gillum called in 500 to 600 additional electrical workers to be prepared for after the storm. theyll be needed here. that 11...

A different mission and got word that this thing was looking like it was going to make its way our way, and immediately got back here. between that evening and today we really had to ready ourselves rather quickly. on the good side, i will tell you in my community -- i mean we felt really prepared for this storm event. we were able to very quickly get over 100, 150 utility workers from across the state of florida and really across the country, as far away as nebraska, here on the ground, ready. ...

This storm in your community? >> yeah, thanks so much, wolf. coincidentally, im actually out in a utility vehicle right now with some of our -- one of our utility workers as we take observation of what the damage looks like, particularly to our electric utility system. what were seeing is there are trees down everywhere. that really remains our biggest threat. as just reported, these bands of wind come through, and because the ground is saturated, you know, trees come down. it doesnt take many t...

Feet. most people have heeded the mandatory evacuations in low-lying areas, for those who decided to hunker down and wait and see what was going on, their window of opportunity of leaving is rapidly closing. here is what governor scott had to say about that this morning. >> if you are an inland county you may have one last chance to seek shelter. but only do so if local officials say its safe. again, if you made the choice not to evacuate, please find a place to shelter, seek a place of refuge. ...

The utility workers are taking assessment and stock of the damage. and starting at about 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning theyre start with the restoration process to get our community back up and going. >> let me talk to you about the politics of climate -- i know youre running for governor. i think about the water level coming up within a few feet of miami, how your state is in danger by climate change. is this regular weather were getting now? category 4? your thoughts? >> no. listen, its stuff ive...

Situation they were tragic deaths. do you have any updates on any fatalities? do we know of any at this point? >> so many people did not leave their homes, with all of the coastline looked like and even to take you further inland where it turned into category three after it went through tallahassee, florida, for the capital is, huge oak trees were snapping in half, just falling over. in leon county alone where the capital is, 167,000 people are out of power. just in lyon county. youve heard over...

That could be 3,000 customers -- im sorry, 3 million customers, who could be in the dark. they are saying it could be notches two days, but weeks for a lot of these folks. they do have an army of utility workers on standby, we are told 40,000 utility workers have been staged with heavy equipment but they cant obviously respond to the outage here or anywhere else until the worst of the storm moves through. its going to be a while before they can get into start making the repairs and those repairs...

The way inland, very saturated ground means potential for catastrophic flooding, trees down, power lines down it is you heard kristin mentioned power outages for weeks in some areas, thousands of utility workers waiting to move in as soon as the storm is out. >> be careful and thank you for your reporting. we have more later in the hour. politics as usual in washington, two prominent voices speaking out claiming the book is inaccurate at best, im struck by the selective and misleading portrait i...

We have thousands of utility workers standing by waiting to move in. >> shannon: be careful thank you very much for your reporting on scene there. well have more later on in the hour. meanwhile, politics as usual in washington. took a more prominent voices featured in bob woodwards book are speaking out claiming the book is inaccurate at best. former white house staff secretary rob porter says that he is upset about the portrait it paints of the president and his administration. gary cohn says, ...

The world trade center health program at mt. sinai hospital here in new york. he says 72,000 people are enrolled, including firefighters, police officers. but also utility workers, medical examiners and others. of them, of the 72,000, 8,000 already have cancer. >> yes. >> are there enough resources to diagnose and care for these people, for the 72,000? >> whats interesting, i think the answer is yes. >> okay. >> but per his comments, you know, hes really encouraging anyone who thinks they might ...