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Is the commander in chief and he is doing his job, picking his top advisers and making sure he is ready to defend the country when it is his job. he is receiving defense briefings. i heard there were over 100 defense briefings heetds received. it is more complex than simplified out to be here in your presentation. >> one of the issues there's only one president at a time but right now we have donald trump as president elect commenting and sort of weighing in on a range of foreign policy issues more so than any president elect has done in recent times. that seems to be creating a lot of confusi...

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, we're only halfway through. we're 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. it's 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 strategic areas across the state just to make sure as we get all these individuals in that we can get ...

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 quest...

Which is a faster rate of return than expected. there's still halfway to go. the big concern, st. john's river. storm surge is going to be the story of damage from hurricane matthew and this represents one of the few cuts in the eastern coastline so the volume of water and storm surge will funnel through making this river, which is already about cresting, plus storm surge and tide, another eight to ten to twelve feet of surge that changes the topography here. changes power. and makes things impassable. so that's the concern from here right now. the gusting winds, not such a big deal. they have...

Through this dangerous period. we are obviously on alert everywhere. we've lost power in the city. power outages throughout the county. we expect more. we turned our water off last night. so this is the time for people to stay put. this is an incredibly dangerous storm. and you know it. you've been reporting on it for hours now. and our concern is really making sure people stay where they are, stay safe. we have our crews ready to move as soon as they are able but right now they're not moving anywhere. >> so the rescue workers are not out and about. they're, they're, thars -- >> absolutely not...