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Statewide. losing life, you never get excited about that. reporter: your establishment is close to the beach. so you have some boarding up to do. they are shutting the bridges down tomorrow:00 a.m. as we were closed tonight we did have a few of the guys who are utility men that are here for the electric, they came, five of them came over and asked us if we were serving food and we were not at that point. a couple came right after them so we decided to open up for these guys that were here. repor...

Governor scott and him iran large organizations and they were result oriented. this is a time where leaders have to be result oriented, not rule oriented. have to throw some playbooks out and you have to say what do we need, when we needed, and can supply it. i want to say a special word about what the president and governor scott both have to think about. they are thinking about and that is what is very clear. they know that they are asking people, not just folks to get out of harms way, they a...

Authorities have become much better at and why florida power and light with those utility trucks and using those locations with those repositioning of those assets so those utility workers to come and cut the trees down they are here and ready to roll. >> live from daytona proposed a safe. >> historically a strong hurricane even though hours from landfall feeling the effects. >> more than 80,000 homes without power as people prepared to ride out the storm.

They definitely dodged a bullet but they know they will be dealing with tropical storm force winds around 3:00 tomorrow through late sunday night they put boards of the windows and have shut things down to be mostly vacant except for those utility workers they have staged their trucks that the daytona speedway. florida power and light there could be millions of people without power the next couple of days and those could last weeks there is a lot of power utility workers clearing trees and dayto...

Korea and japan. there are f-16 fighter jets that remain on alert at this time in south korea. mike? >> lucas, it feels like we have been hearing for decades there are no good military options when it comes to north korea. our lucas tomlinson at the pentagon, many thanks. arthel: now to the recovery efforts in texas after tropical storm harvey. authorities warning a west houston community under a mandatory evacuation order that more flooding could be on the way after a controlled release during ...

Light has restored about 27% of their initial outages, which was over 580,000. right now they have about 500,000 homes without power. but look, were only halfway through. were going to have more outages. more outages are going to come. i will be speaking with the utility companies this morning to talk about their plans to start restoring power. its really important that we get power restored as quickly as we can. last night i directed the state begin setting up housing for utility crews in strat...

County. as of now, florida power and light has restored about 27% of their outages which was about 580,000. right now, they have about 500,000 homes without power. look, were only halfway through. were going to have more outages. more outages are going to come. ill be speaking with the utility companies this morning to talk about plans to start restoring power. its really important that we get power restored as quickly as we can. last time i directed them to set up housing for utility crews acro...

There is damage to property in downtown daytona beach. boris sanchez sees debris rolling down the street. rescue workers urge people to stay off the streets because there are downed power lines, they are sparking. we have had words of at least one home catching on fire because of sparking power lines. please, if you did not evacuate, stay inside your homes. the governor also came out just a short time ago and did fill us in on some statistics. i want to go through them for you. he said 600,000 h...

Into the sky, followed shortly by fire and sparkles of light, and just debris falling all around. >> cameraman jeff nichols captures the yellow-orange fireball. the explosion blows dangerous chunks of concrete and other debris into the air. >> you can see in the left corner of the screen that this panel of debris just kind of floats down from the sky and hits one gentleman in the back. >> nichols arrives at the scene 20 minutes before the blast, expecting to capture utility workers fixing the le...

>> and that full recovery, they say, will be made in part because as they put it the doctors here, spencer stone is a real fighter. steve? >> we know that. we know that for sure. >> thanks, jonathan. >> all right. meanwhile, at the top of the hour, heather is following breaking news situation out of arizona. >> yeah, thats right. this happening just a short while ago within the past couple of hours. were just getting new information in and now we can confirm that one person is dead and at least ...