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Southern part of mississippi. >> 187,000 across southern mississippi. and that's in addition to the other 80,000 -- >> mississippi power and light. and we have private electric power cooperatives and they're reporting 80,000. again, we do have very robust crew of lines men, so we expect that the power outages to be greatly reduced now that the winds have died down and the sun is coming up. >> that's a significant increase, more than a quarter million in mississippi alone. there are line men out trying to get those folks back online. lee smithson, thank you very much for that update. we have ...

Sending messages or putting stuff on twitter. so it really takes some time to really assess what's going on. i think we'll probably get a better of idea of if there's damage or if there's some significant flooding that we may really see that probably as the sun comes up. but lee smithson, who is with the mississippi emergency management agency, he's in charge of it, he says that right now from all of the reports he's getting in that mississippi looks like it's doing pretty well. faring rather well. and of course that's encouraging news, guys. >> as you're mapping it out there, kerry, he is at ...

Sometimes they're on piers or dock-type bridges. >> you were just on screen telling us about the wind, kerry, what are you seeing? >>. >> reporter: i've felt some that have required me to spread my stance here but nothing like the sort of gusts that we felt during hurricane irma when i was down on naples when the winds were in excess of 142 miles an hour. i got off the phone just a short time ago with lee smithson. he's from mim -- mema, the mississippi emergency management agency. so there have been no reports of