Holly. Latest. Holly. tiffany thanks holly. We will check back with you through out the morning. james good morning and thanks for joining us. Im james fletcher. tiffany and im Tiffany Mcelroy. Mcelroy. No major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. San mateo bridge less then 30 min from 880 to 101. James James James the devastation is enormous in florida after irma. To help get the state back on its feet. There are several rescue teams from the bay area there now. tiffany kron 4s Justine Waldman tells us what. And how they are doing in florida. The brunt of the brutal storm has passedand the rescue and Recovery Efforts are about to begin. Members of oaklandbased california urban search and rescue task force 4,made it to florida just in time. Sot bridges are closed, one closed right behind me fortunate to get through right before it happenedover the phone, battalion chief robert lipp tells kron 4 news. The team arrived sunday and spent the night at the Or
North florida. Millions of people in florida right now are without power. Rescue teams with all sorts of equipment trying to make sure we dont lose anybody. Its impossible to tell who survived. Communication is impossible. These are storms of catastrophic severity. When americans are in need, americans pull together. This is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. All right. Im chris cuomo. Were in the florida keys. We now know the truth of what Hurricane Irma did to this country. We saw it go through the caribbean, puerto rico. It took lives in many places, including in cuba. This is the first time weve been on the ground and seen what actually happened in the florida keys. It is absolutely devastating. Right now, we are inside ten miles from where it actually made landfall, where that eye did its most devastatingesques in a place called cudjo key council here. Were in big pine key, a little north of there. Well be showing you things this morning. This is the first set of eyes o
Adam housley has more. How is it looking in. The estimation of one in four homes, that doesnt count smaller damage. A lot of businesses have problems here like the gas station where the pumps are bent, the sign is down. You have the smaller price tags to the bigger price tag, it will be significant in florida to clean this up, not to mention the possibility of casualties out there. We had a chance to be at the bridge on the north part of key largo at 7 20 a. M. They opened the bridge and let locals back in for the first time. Along with locals came a plethora of folks coming in here to help, too. All sorts of companies coming from as for as wisconsin to help replace the power lines here, for example. Tree services. One after the other. Gas companies all coming to try to help people recover here and get back online. We had a chance to drive down to about mile marker high 40s or so, just outside of marathon, florida. Thats as far as you can go. They shut the road down there at that point
Key West Mayor Teri Johnston pops up rather frequently these days in my social media “on this date” memories. That’s because in April 2020, we were smack in the middle