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Customers have had their electricity restored. that's largely good news. but, again, some of the residents here feel that luma has not done a good enough job in restoring power here. we spoke with an official who says there have been complaints about this company since it took over last year. luma has said there has been issues with power generation and that would fall to the responsibility of prepa which is the government-run utility here. a lot of finger-pointing. some of the residents that we've spoken with feel that a lot of the resources have gone to the u.s. mainland, of course. we've he...

The spotty, and scattered on the coast, and we don't have any large neighborhoods out, and just scattered here or there, and they should be all right in the short term, and tomorrow, we will have a warming sen te open at the council for the aging for people if the power is out, but the issue is the safety of the line crews from the electric company, and they can't go up in bucket trucks if the winds are gusting more than 35 miles per hour, and right now, it is twice that, and so until the winds die down, you won't see the crews doing the restoration work, and so the people should know that the...

>> i saw sparks outside of my window. >> reporter: in cohasset, the press box at the high school football field blown over. the entire northeast was affected. in morris township, new jersey, a tree limb hit two cars, killing one driver, injuring the other. david, the winds and the waves are still whipping at this hour. this is going to delay getting the power back on to so many. we're told line crews can't begin their work until the wind comes below 35 miles an hour and that may not happen until well after midnight. david? >> all right, phil lipof back in new england, a region he knows well. p...

Health are still relying on generators, but as ida struck, neurosurgeons faced an emergency. >> we brought him into the operating room, took a piece of skull off. >> reporter: in a hurricane. >> the lights flickered and dr. smith said i guess we'll do the whole thing under candlelight. >> reporter: the lights came back on just in time. thousands of line crews racing against time, fighting brutal heat and ida's after math to bring one disaster to a close. >> morgan chesky reporting there. joining us now dr. ed rock, chief medical officer at global medical response which includes american medica...