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the lives that are broken. people on the margins whose homes, whose jobs, even their own bodies and their health are now precarious. people who don't have the insurance or the resources to rebuild. my team down here and i went for a drive here not far from where we discovered dozens of people at a shrimping dock for whom that is the situation tonight. no one has reached them and it is not clear if anyone has tried but i saw them. and you can see them too. take a look. >> [inaudible] it went into the rafters, we were away up in it. it started pushing on us and, long story short, it [i...

Drop quickly tomorrow. we have teams of people that are working hard on that. and lots of other things. i've seen so much destruction yesterday. water is a very powerful thing that can move some big objects. and causes permanent destruction. we can always repair a roof due to the wind or something that hurricane-force winds -- but i think you saw firsthand water destruction, ten feet of storm surge, terrific it's horrific. >> commissioner, one of the issues, here one of the issues here in the county, but was some of it here, is the filler cell signal. and phones. a ton of people that i was tal...

So we've got workers from across the u.s. now here to work. but it's going to take a while, because we have to let the winds subside. we can only work in winds up to 35 miles an hour. obviously it's dangerous to raise the lift on these bucket trucks. it is going to take a bit. so people are going to have to be in the dark for at least some time. pinellas county, duke energy, the main supplier, says they've installed smart lines that reroute power when there's outages. many some of the biggest problems are trees falling into lines, different objects interfering with the powerlines and causing t...