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Water. there's no electricity throughout the keys. no cell service at least in the lower and middle keys. there might be cell service in the upper keys. u.s. 1, the only road that comes in and out of the florida keys, there's three choke points that are completely ininaccessible. mile masher 75 is washed out. there is a large pole blocking the road at mile marker 35. and mile marker 29 is washed out. the main impact is the island of big pine key lies between mile marker 35 and mile marker 29. so we don't have any idea what the damage is like there until we can get the road open and get there. ...

Be the next challenge for the political leadership of the state. >> governor, we talk about filling shelters and dealing with that. of course, you know, dicey when you tell people that evacuations are in order, a lot of people looking at the lines of cars some choke points along the florida turnpike, 295, the major arteries going south to north trying to leave the state. how do you prevent what is happening in these locals now where you have traffic jams and a lot of people saying it's too late even if i wanted to? >> neil, you cannot evacuate five people people in southeast florida and anothe...

Matter? >> reporter: no. in fact, alex, police have been really active on this point. they even confiscated the pole to our boom mike to make sure we didn't have anything that could be used as a stick or a weapon. they have used a couple of choke points to keep an eye out for signs that might have big, long sticks so the boston police are being very proactive to make sure that situation doesn't evolve when these two groups eventually meet. >> 500 of them boston strong, that's for sure, and they are on it this day. thank you very much, garrett. i'm joined right now on the phone by evan allen of...

>> reporter: we are on the move. we're slowed down. we're at one of those choke points here, crossing over the highway. i think we're probably a few blocks away. i can see the helicopter in the distance up ahead, so we're closing in on it, alex, one of the things i want to mention as i was listening to some of the coverage here. if you don't mind me taking the baton for a second. >> sure. >> reporter: just the variety of different causes represented out here. the jumping off point for all of this was this free speech rally that people wanted to protest against, equating it to a hate speech. bu...

If you have the bollards or plastic ones that fill up, the van or vehicle cannot physically get in there. you cannot protect everything. but we can at least cut off or create choke points to end the madness of the vehicular murder that we are seeing. >> trace: let's take it out of the u.k., talk about the united states. every week, on any given weekend, 25 places that you know are soft targets. the french border, football games getting out of thousands of people are there that seem to be very difficult to secure. >> it is a lot of locations. i'm sure that there are a couple of hundred if you d...