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I couldn't be more thrilled for you. >> thank you very much. i'm a childless, middle aged pot belliless bee jann, i don't have much to be excited about, this is it. there'll never be a baby but there's this crossword puzzle and i'm excited about it. >> this is the day we'll all remember where we were when we heard sam noneberg speaking to ari melber. >> roger and i were treated like crap by donald trump. >> it's the thing you're watching, and you're engrossed and you look up and several hours have passed and the lights aren't on. and you understood less. >> i'm not going to jail. >> exactly. >...

I'm a childless, middle aged pot belliless bee jann, i don't have much to be excited about, this is it. there'll never be a baby but there's this crossword puzzle and i'm excited about it. >> this is the day we'll all remember where we were when we heard sam noneberg speaking to ari melber. >> roger and i were treated like crap by donald trump. >> it's the thing you're watching, and you're engrossed and you look up and several hours have passed and the lights aren't on. and you understood less. >> i'm not going to jail. >> exactly. >> it was bizarre. >> you're in on my secret that my workday d...

This is significant. this is one of the reasons why three quarts of miami-dade county is without electricity as we speak. over 850,000 residents without electricity and all because of situations just like this. they closed roadways that con noekt barrier island in the peninsula near miami. this is for a few reasons. they need to check the structural integrity. they want to prevent people from returning home to miami beach region. they want to prevent looting. there is no electricity. alarms aren't working properly. lights aren't on. police are patrolling streets making sure that no one is loot...

So what you see is that sort of electricity going off each time it hits one of those transformers which by the way has caused power outages. if you look at that road you can see the lights aren't on. notice the lights there are not on and that may well be because that tornado is knocking out transformers. there you see the lights on there. that other road you're not seeing lights so that could very well be because of the tornado making it even more dangerous there. it went off right as we were speaking. >> that's something else. thank you for walking us through that. i just cannot imagine what...

But beyond that, what else sort of binds all these families together? >> so, listening to calls, and hundreds of calls are coming in each day, families who can't pay their water, their electricity, they're on the verge of being evicted, health issues, can't put enough food on the table, and then we started working with them. what i noticed is, the stress that these families are under. not knowing if they have to pay one bill or another, if they're going to be able to take care of their families, the stress is just overwhelming. and there's no quality of life. it's just morning till night worry...