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Great state. and so the number of fatalities continues to rise but there is hope and the good news in the fact that electricity is being restored. the outage down from 600,000 to 300,000 and by wednesday 95% of all alabama power customers will be restored. another good news we have increased number of national guard, alabama's finest on the ground in 14 counties. here's the important thing for our people. individual assistance through fema can be available. eight counties have already been designated and more are to come. so if an individual feels like they are deserving of individual assistan...

They think they're in a county that perhaps will be so designated, 1-800-621-3362. secondly, governor bentley has set up a governor's recovery response center. and i want to give you that for people who are in distress and they need assistance and they feel like they need to let somebody know they need it or there are people across this nation that wish to provide resources, here is the number. this is the number to call. this is a response center. 1-866-465-2241. it is impressive here, my own personal experience yesterday at the governor's request, i went to the rural county of elmore who yes...

Smuggled in here or is there the potential for people to come in from overseas, come through mexico, and get smuggled into the country? >> the vast majority of people are mexican nationals. to date we've apprehended 621 individuals, of those, i believe four of those are other than mexican nationals that have entered or attempted to enter the united states. jon: i spent a long time in miami, as did jamie here, and you know, we know that the coast guard and border patrol work very hard down there to interdict some of these boats at sea. do you have the setup to be able to do that, do you have th...

Lot of people went to change with relatives in a hotel. but as soon as we know who they are and who is out of their house and, again, 1-800-621-fema. we will begin working with them and figure out what their individual housing needs are going to be. are they going to need rental housing for a while? is their house repairable or not? that sort of thing. there are going to be those that will suffer damage no doubt. we're just showing you some pictures and she is describing how people are getting help.

For tennessee. so those resources could be immediately available. people need to know what to do. this is the key number one step. we can't help if we don't know who you are and where you are so it's 1-800-621-fema. or go to www.fema.gov. or go to m dot fema.gov. so those are three easy high tech card that we wrote it has the numbers on it.