broken down. if you can get out and those cities that are just about in the middle of the east coast of florida, and down south, you can go above that please do not travel on the roadways. 600,000 people, 600,000 homes without power right now. half of those power outages are in martin and st. lucie counties and the governor said there will be more outages to come. he also said utility crews are already working to restore power. so let's talk about exactly where that storm is. how strong it is. how far it's wiggled to the west. chad myers has that in the weather center. >> carol, i have a question for you. do you have a front loading washer or a top loading washing machine? >> front loading. >> okay so you put a rug in the machine and it does its wash and all of a sudden it's trying to spin and it's on one side of the washing machine, goes clunk, clunk, clunk and then you have to shut it off and start all over. that's what this hurricane is doing. it has one piece of rug on the