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Search and rescue efforts continue. door to door efforts continue under the unified structure for the land, air, and see certain rescue. there will be needs throughout the recovery phase. folks start -- there trying to get the resources they need to do that. they will be with florida. it is impacting communities throughout. >> let me ask you about the low hanging fruit. i have been out there on the streets. i've seen the electrical workers, the line workers. they have done a great job. there's a lot of power back on their. and that, i am staying in naples. the drive here to fort myers beach, t...

And for millions of floridians, they're still in the dark. you know, we have power outages all over the state and it's going to take a long time to get power restored. although governor desantis says that restoring power is going to be a top priority, around thirty three thousand utility and line workers are here in the state right now. they're weathering the worst of the storm and they're going to be deployed all over the state trying to get that power back . but it is going to take some time because these winds are still gusting in many areas and they can only raise their bucket trucks when ...

Biden did finally reach out to governor desantis. but he also declined to cancel a fundraiser tonight to help more, you know, obviously democrats get elected governor. which just seemed, i don't know, seemed off. i don't want to politicize this but it does seem off. >> and if president trump did that you can imagine what the left would say and you're exactly right leadership matters. we had great leadership from president trump and great from the governor. the governor said they already have 40,000 line workers on stand-by national guard on stand-by. they've got planes ready to go. i think you...

0 our growing family. i need a home office and i needed us to not have a roommate anymore. and real time alerts made sure i never missed out on the listing. it makes home buying so much easier. >> start saturday, strong saturday on fox .com. we called michigan's dominant ground game in a tough protest against dial. a lot of big names saturday on fox. this is fox, whether on fox news and we're tracking hurricane in a powerful and dangerous storm making landfall as a cat for her game this afternoon in southwest florida, just west of fort myers. yeah, incredible video out of the bay. and i'm sure...

>> reporter: talk to me about those preparations. one of the really interesting sights when you head towards a hurricane is you see the streams of power trucks coming from other parts of the country in some cases to stage, to be ready for when they need to take action. how many people do you have at the ready? what's that like? >> sure. currently we have 16,000 restoration personnel pre-positioned throughout the state of florida. those restoration personnel are not only florida power and light employees but we also have line workers and linemen and line women coming from 27 other states. they'...