Page 21 - Line Workers News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Well, including some of the airports. fort lauderdale international closed. all commercial flight operations and other operations will be shut down. a lot of schools, also closing in dozens of florida counties. we've seen other signs of prop, including the national guard being prepped. high water vehicles and helicopters and that sort of thing. some 17,000 line workers. ready to move out and move into areas that could be affected by the storm. but, trace, the big question is, will we see the hurricane along the coast area? we just don't know. >> trace: live in jacksonville. rick, thank you. wi...

It is already started in some counties and coastal counties to the north. but if the storm is moving slowly, it will be some time before we get that. you mentioned earlier, we are running concurrent with rising flood waters. now we're beginning to see instances, i-40 has a closure to wilmington. as you move crews in to assist with restorations, that flooding creates real challenges getting crews where they need to be. >> do you have resources, have crews available that once winds die down, you'll get people back online and get power back quickly? >> we have the largest deployment in the histor...

It will probably be a couple days before they can get out and do restoration. they have to do assessments of the damage. and in some areas, there is a great amount of flooding. >> absolutely. do you have any guess at this time when you think all the customers will be back up? >> we intersected 1 to 3 million customers to be affected by the storm. and that's moving in that direction, certainly. i think we're looking at many, many days. at least a week for most customers. weeks for some areas where you have the hardest hit. we're in it for the long haul. we've brought in 20,000 line workers and ...

Forced to admit that not everyone in the middle class is going to get a tax cut. what? the former economic adviser to vice president biden. first, issues from white fish. one of my faves. not going away. according to "the new york times," the company from zinke's hometown paid line workers up to 63 bucks an hour but they charged puerto rico $319 an hour. oh, gosh, that math doesn't add up. a spokesman said simply looking at the rate differential does not take into account white fish's overhead costs. guess what, you are welcome to come on, spokesman and ceo of white fish, i'd love to walk th...

Virgin islands. stationed in the islands, ready to go. that's incident management teams and medical teams red i do go along with national guard assets. and then we also have multiple ships out at sea circling waiting to get in. so the goal is going to be life saving missions with search and rescue teams opening up air bridges and pathways. not only through air assets off the ships, but then also through our ports. and so we're ready to push a lot of commodities, a lot of food and water, hygiene kits, and whatever the governors need in there. >> one of the things -- and unfortunately brock, we'...