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And in the interest of protecting our public interest, i have asked the board of the power authority to invoke the cancellation clause in the contract immediately. >> the governor's announcement comes two days after fema expressed quote significant concerns about how whitefish was awarded the contract. still, it has been six weeks since hurricane maria plowed into puerto rico and 70% still has no electricity. martin savidge is in san juan. how does this controversy impact the ability to actually get the lights back on? >> reporter: well, unfortunately fredericka, i would say that this is proba...

By earnestness he was devoted to his mother fredericka and with whom he shared a profound love of german language literature and music it cemented the bond between mother and son. the devoutly religious father leo uncial was a broker in the timber trade he forced his son to move from a german to a hebrew school pull suffered under his father's orthodoxy poetry not prayer was his native element. chant of it halfway between kiev and bucharest krakow and odessa was the secret capital of europe where the pavements were swept with bouquets of roses and which had more bookshops them bakeries. ceylon...

Within a few hundred yards of where they're actually picking up the water. this is very close in fight that they have going on right here now. they are pouring everything into it. look over to the right here, how heavy that black smoke is, that's dense forest. it was blowing to the north, it's blowing toward the south, and blowing toward communities not only here in santa rosa, but the city of sonoma itself. there are lots of evacuations up and down this valley here. >> this is a well known highway here. they hope to hold the line here. the neighborhoods back in there are at most risk now. thi...

How are these evacuations facilitated, how do people do this? >> they're pretty sophisticated and getting better at it. they have an alert system you can sign up for your phone. i signed up for it when i came up here. i signed up from all over the area. i got calls all night long about different evacuations. this is one of the areas, this is probably the hottest area right now in terms of fire, where they're hitting it hard, mandatory evacuations went into effect here. you saw the video of the police officer going through several days ago. that's a couple miles from here. that place was absolu...

Subdivisions. >> oh, yeah. >> it's wild. >> fredericka, this is that scene. >> this is extraordinary. this is a very concentrated residential area, and to see how many cars were left and possibly how many people were rescued out of that is astounding. earlier, we had an image from a nursing home, and it was in that very neighborhood as well, where the water had come in and the people who were staying in that nursing home, were in their chairs with the water waist deep. extraordinary work that your friend is doing, the two friends who are staring the boat are doing by rescuing people, neighbor ...