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>> i think american was pretty hard hit because miami is one of its hubs. nick, thank you so much for all those details. for all of you, we're going to take a look at the real threat of storm surge in just a moment with cal perry.
Surge than wind damage from what i've seen in the coverage and from what i hear from people in palm beach county and brevard county. right now it's a state responsibility, so people can thank their lucky stars it didn't turn into a disaster and they have a home to go back to. >> thank you for that. i'm sure we'll be checking in with you again. joining us now, nick mahahus, reporter with the "miami herald." i want to ask you about whether or not the assessment is that miami-dade, broward counties have dodged a bullet in terms of the amount of damage that's been done, and then we'll get to the p...
Were preparing as if this storm were going to hit us full-on. luckily it did not. we had some downed trees, the power outages that you mentioned. but really the storm did not come anywhere close to us. >> how many people are without power right now? >> in the south florida region, the latest numbers, we have 102,000 people without power tonight. most of them are in palm beach, about 80,000 in palm beach. dade has is fewest people without power and they're getting the service back up because the wind has died down. overall, that's only about 4% of florida power and light customers down here. so...