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And as the president said yesterday, the focus is not on, you know, fixing things as far as convenience in getting everything together as far as operating the city. it's rescuing people. so you have so many people, again, if we can pan up. just focusing on trying to pull people out of the rubble. and so i imagine that that has been slow coming back. i will say that a large part of the city is fine. i mean, you can drive around to much of mexico city and you would have no idea that an earthquake even occurred. but in these pockets where it's bad, it's very bad. and any sort of power outage only...

Were walking checking out their boats shake being their heads wondering if they would ever get them back in the water or if it was even worth trying. >> let's talk about the power situation, just across florida, how long before that's expected to come back online? >> unfortunately, officials here say it could take weeks and weeks. we have more than 6 million customers right now in the state of florida without power and about 800,000 in miami dade county alone. if you listen to officials, it's going to be a mammoth undertaking it get it back up. they have more than 20,000 line workers out in fo...

To come back online? >> unfortunately officials say it could take weeks and weeks. we have more than 6 million customers right now in the state of florida without power. 800,000 in miami-dade county alone. if you listen to officials it's going to be a undertaking to get it back un. they have nearly 20,000 line workers who are going to be out in force, we're told they're going to be working 24 hours a day. with every turk and tool they have, they're using drones to fly over areas to identify the places of greater need. one thing they tell us it will be over 1 million man hours to get the lines ...

Air. they deftly have lost power in some areas, and obviously they've lost a lot of power across the state. like i mentioned before, the guys who are gonna fix a lot of power, some of them are staying in the hotel down the block, they came from 30 states to help out down here and he doesn't know where or when he's going. they're just on stamp standby. when they get their orders they get the truck and had that way. >> that's what's amazing. they are ready for the cleanup "after words" because they did have a lot of warning. we talked about the guys in the hotel's who will go out and work on the...

Kind of weather. there are 29,000 customers of the keys energy services, the power public utility here and 29,000 customers without power this morning. they have about 190 line workers from around the country who have come in ready to mobilize once the storm has passed, but it looks like the extension cord that plugs into the mainland and powers the florida keys went out last night some time around 11:00 p.m. they tried to re-energize it remotely but no go. so we're lighting up this shot off a car battery. we're really starting to see these feeder bands light up. we're on the bay side of key l...