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Can -- downed trees and people with their children out here. directing traffic. we're going to switch over. you can see they have the chain saws out. one-rain road. pardon? >> that way is blocked further up. >> it's blocked? thank you very much. yeah, people kind of trying to figure out the traffic pattern here in bradenton right now. they experienced the side camera. we got the people with the chain saws attempting really here at this point what they're dealing with besides just trees down is a lot of power outages. more than half of manatee county lost power, part of that 5 million without i...

Saving countless other lives that moment. those lives remembered, as well this morning. john. >> you know, poppy, i'm always struck by the fact that the kids who lost their parents 16 years ago today, they're now in college, they've now moved on. they're now getting married. living legacies to those people who were lost and on this day, simply we have to say we will never forget. they're always in our hearts. poppy, our thanks to you. i'm in the situation with hurricane irma which is tropical storm irma. more than 5 million without power in the state of florida, had an impact over the entire s...

As we heard the president say this morning, beautifully remembering 9/11, 16 years ago, this is when americans come together and the two of you are certainly seeing it down there in florida, john. >> yeah. look, you know, i'm loathed to talk about the advances of social media and how it changes everything, but this to me felt like one of the first social media hurricanes. the entire country watching what was going on in florida and the caribbean first and then everyone in florida experiencing it with each other as it was happening. chris, while we were lose power, while our equipment was on th...

Question mark hanging over that chain of islands because they are not fundamentally dissimilar, geographically, top graphically from cuba, from puerto rico and we saw what happened there. >> bill weier in key largo and can't move right now because he doesn't have fuel to get out of his location and so many people who chose to stay are in the same situation. . it's a good sign, we see people out here walking, but the recovery just beginning. and poppy, you had the discussion with christine romans, there's no sense yet of how much this will cost because they haven't even seen all the damage that...

Let's go back to john. he's in florida covering the latest on irma john. >> poppy, thanks so much. not just a florida event and really not just an american event. not even close. it did so much damage in the caribbean and only now are we getting a sense of the scope of damage in cuba. we heard earlier at least ten people had died there and our patrick who was in the midst of the storm for so many hours, patrick, you are now just surveying the damage. what are you seeing? >> absolutely. it makes it one of the highest death tolls so far and unusual for cuba to have so many dead because they do o...