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Jillian: it will be days if not weeks to get these roadways cleaned up and get them open to see if there's any damage to the roads themselves. >> yes. but before they can allow line crews to put the power lines up it has to be safe for them. they have to clear the roadways and inspect roadways especially small bridges or anything like that that may have been struck by trees to make sure they can still handle the load of those big trucks weather an alignment or construction trucks or anything like that so we are told to expect the this before the storm i spoke to county managers and they were t...

Doesn't have a track record to do this work? >> well, thank you for having me, thomas. i think the governor did exactly the right thing. first, this whitefish situation is obviously going to get complicate p complicated. he asked for an investigation. congress asked for an investigation. and that will take time and will be a distraction. second, i don't believe that was the right way to go about it anyway. the federal government has the capacity to exercise something called mutual aid, quote/unquote, which it does all the time, which is whereby we ask states to send their crews, their line cre...

We're not going to get too much closer to this one because you can see it came down on top of a power line, knocking out power for this entire apartment complex of about 450 people. that's been the story around town, around southern georgia where a lot of these big trees have come down. thousands of folks without power. they'll likely be without power for quite a while. the georgia power company has put a temporary stop on their line crews going out and working because they're worried those high winds we were experiencing this morning may come back. didn't want to put their people in danger or...

Week. coast guard reconstituting forces. first aircraft in miami in clearwater. helicopters arrived from sea base cutters and reconstituting -- we've been listening to florida governor rick scott, handed it over to the coast guard and we will monitor for the coast guard response and information we need to pass on to you. i want to go to sam champion standing by in miami, recapping and discussing important things we've heard from both the governor and from tom bossert before that at the white house. a few interesting things, sam. dump it on you. what stands out. sound like they're reconditions ...

The weather channel a couple moments ago. >> welcome back everyone. you're watching continuous coverage of hurricane harvey. where i happen to be in texas, right here at the hotel i have the camera over in that direction. but right down the street my field producer reported some power lines just knocked down. that area. would not be surprised to see more of the same happen all across this le region. back in 2003 we had a hurricane that came through and thoked power out to 90% of the city. i think that's going to be another problem. to compound the problem is the power to be restored you have t...