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Everybody. thank you so much. good to see you all. happy new year. and happy belated birthday. i forgot yesterday when we saw you on the program. so grateful you decided to spend it with us. up next, new evidence suggesting north korea could be planning another missile test in the new year, this as he warns china he may get tougher on trade if he doesnt do more to sanction kim jong-un. >> plus puerto rico more utility workers. it has been three months and some people still dont have electricit...

It could be may until they have any sort of power in the more remote areas. but brianna, just in the last hour the governor has announced he would like the u.s. army corps of engineers to expand its capacity. and now asking for 1,000 to 1,500 more workers, more utility workers from the states on this island working to restore power in puerto rico. >> all right. leyla santiago, in san juan, thank you for that report. well take a report and well be right back.

Questions given the scale of this thing. and what this company has worked on before. its other government contracts included, for example, replacing a metal pole and adding three miles of wiring in arizona. aaron davis joins us now from "the washington post" along with gabe gutierrez back in d.c. after spending weeks in puerto rico. aaron, walk us through some of the details about this electric company contract, basically. this bid to try to get peoples lights back on in puerto rico. >> right. w...

Buildings that can withstand almost any hurricane. i had friends in florida who left their home on the golf and sarasota. they went to an elementary school. >> the view from the shelter. >> as a result, a lot of people survived. they had downed lines, downed trees and so forth. governor rick scott was on television around-the-clock just the way he should be. telling people what had happened. keep in mind paul, while this is happening, while people are sheltering in place there are thousands of w...

They are sleeping here on the side of the road in their vehicles so that they can survey the damage. people like jon devol, who is sleeping in his car tonight. we should have -- okay. meanwhile, cleanup continues all the rest of south florida. residents at miami beach lined up to try and get home. after evacuating they were lined up today and they are now able to get to miami beach beginning at i would say at 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. look, weve got calories of utility trucks, 30,000 utility w...

The public at 7:00 a.m. key largo. also weve got miami beach, by the way. miami beach is opening up at 7:00 a.m. -- at 8:00 a.m., i apologize, for the first time after they cleaned up all of that debris. a cavalry of utility trucks are now all canvassing the entire state. 30,000 utility workers are out there trying to turn on the lights for 6.5 million floridians without power. 62% of the state, just a staggering number. crews worked to put on power. could go maybe a couple weeks or more without...

This. this: the devastation left by hurricane irma was far greater at least in certain locations than anyone thought. but amazing people working hard. thats for sure. right, mo? >> absolutely. the response to both hurricanes both the ones that hangegged texas and florida sr. something we all should be proud of. everything from fema which has handled this very well to the local officials, to the thousands you have volunteers who are out there. this is america at its best and we should all be happ...

Hour they knocked down trees they will get in the way of people getting back to their homes and tire roadways completely blocked off. road after row after row in miami dade county and brought word even palm beach county. the developing situation you can see a bus that was meant to pick up utility workers in fort lauderdale to get power restored but the paul -- the problem is is stock he cannot even get into this part of the neighborhood he is having a tough time trying to weave around of trees s...

Is a design on atlantic avenue i know this does not compare to the west coast but there is a lot of damage here to deal with in the days and weeks ahead with the power outages as well. we visited the storm down the block with a the window blew out so the stuff in there is wet and ruined with ridiculously relentless conditions. then they can get out to assess the damages but these utility workers will be repairing the downed power lines and is in is they get to the point where they can travel the...

Utility workers that are trying to restore power to 43% of floridas customers who are now without power. a staggering number. on top of all of that we saw all the damage, panels flying off the buildings, flooding on brickle avenue and miami beach. people are just trying to come home and those homes are vacant. so now police are dealing with, yeah, you guessed it, looters. and so now they are sending out video of looters going after a foot locker in miami-dade county here. there is also a tweet t...