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State as they support that. and then fema, who backs up the stat state. >> understandable. this place has gotten hit worse, in my nonexpert opinion, the level of degree and frequency of the devastation. it's going to take a long time. i can tell you this. those first responders were given their own water, own gatorades out to people they found. they were supposed to start at daybreak, dave. if their resolve is any kind of indication of what you're going to see in the waves of those who come in to help recover, they'll get on their feet quicker than i would have expected. they come in in the mi...

Long. and the conditions that they're dealing with here, luckily the national guard did a really solid job of clearing a lot of the roads so they can get through with their heavy equipment. no normal vehicles would make it through. but the devastation that they're seeing is remarkable in its frequency as well as its degree. it's like nobody seemed to escape it down here in big pine and, as we get closer to cudjoe. what's your understanding of what remains behind and what the situations are. >> the situation varies depending which island why your in. we're 100 miles of islands connected by 42 b...

Brazilian author paolo quello has a passage, fate whispers to the warrior, you cannot withstand the storm and the warrior whispers back i am the storm. that is the resolve you see in the first responders. they look at the devastation around them. we picked this because it's a good scenario. darwin is still alive. they feel they're equal to the task. that's so important in being able to overcome just completely mind boggling devastation, alisyn. >> chris, first of all, let me just say it's remarkable to have you there in big pine key. you are, as far as i can tell, the reporter who has made it ...

And immediately organized, alisyn. they immediately got into groups and going tout homes after we got here, after this incredibly long drive. none of them slept all night long. they went house to house in these horrible conditions dealing with their own shock of what is here. this is ground zero for hurricane irma. 120-mile-an-hour sustained winds. what you saw us dealing with in naples, it was 140-mile-an-hour gusts but the sustained winds were about 100 miles an hour. here they had it much worse. the devastation will bear that out. i want to play you the chief and organizi organizing princip...