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Next we've kind of moved our stations to a protective posture along the low-lying areas of south carolina, actually closing a couple of the stations and moving those assets upriver, which has severely degraded our ability to currently respond to search and rescue inland and offshore. still able to conduct those rescues, but it is hampered, and those responses now will be delayed up until the storm and then after until we assess the ability to get back out has been achieved. >> another question for you, captain reed. what's the plan for emergency response post-storm? i mean you're deploying hel...

What's the plan for emergency response post-storm? i mean you're deploying helicopter crews to savannah, georgia, post-storm response, right? what are you doing? >> yes, that's right, don. we have crews, not just our aviation assets from air station savannah, but we have environmental response teams coming from the gulf strike team in mobile, alabama. we have flood pump teams, which are shallow water rescue capabilities that are staged for both north carolina and south carolina. the coast guard is bringing operations and mission support teams and personnel from miami, cleveland, really all aro...

Power. 58% of its residents without power this morning. just astounding and really miami may not have been as hard hit or close to the eye. but we got hit hard despite the fact that the eye did not go through here. again, we had power lines down. water 3 feet high in brickell avenue. cranes two collapsed in miami another in fort lauderdale. we also had panels flying off of buildings. post storm. and on top of all of that we have seen police patrols in neighborhoods to try to stop looters. looters caught on video trying to get into a foot locker. number 28 according to miami police department 2...

What's going on. many shelters have plenty of room so that's what we want to see, is people at least taking time to go to a shelter if they don't evacuate. the charleston harbor will be closed at 10:00 a.m. national guard, yes, 2,000 on duty, 3,000 on standby. we are receiving like i said multiple resources from other states who have offered help but also fema is really stepping up and making sure we have the pre-storm supplies that we need going forward to man the shelters and do all the things that we need to do, then they will stay through the post-storm to make sure that goes on as well. o...

Into the station. it gives you the extent of the flooding issues post-sandy. >> remember tweeting a photo of it coming through the elevator door. fascinating to see the sheer devastation of that. >> oh, yeah. >> kudos to everybody working around the clock to get everything up and running here in the city. >> and the shutdown for several days, not a few weeks, post-storm. they have gotten it back up, which is great. you can see the extent of the damage. slowly but surely getting there. surely staten island is in a world of pain. hopefully getting life back to normal out there. when we come ba...