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Of update. this is going to take a long time for people's who infrastructure has been knocked out by irma. one of the power guys here told me last night, i said how long -- what do you think it's doing to take you, days. weeks, months? that's what he said. in many places they can't begin that work, allison, it's a tall task to save the least. now, today is a day to remember tall tasks, though, this is 9/11. president of the united states is going to remember when the first plane hit one of the world trade center towers at 8:46 a.m. we will never forget and it's a message to all of us no matt...

Tampa was one of the biggest fears yesterday as that storm moved up the west because that storm surge could have been so devastating. >> yeah, you know, it was a very different story. not what they were anticipating 48 hours ago when they thought it was going to be mostly east coast. tampa got the alert that it move today the west and coming directly towards tampa. it was a lot of concern, it could get as high as 130 miles per hour, thankfully, that did not happen. they did get hurricane forced winds but not to that height. but the concerns about the storm surge, we're still waiting for report...

People try to get over this storm. chris. >> reporter: the loss of power, the not knowing what was going on, feeding the frustration and now the anxiety of wanting to get home and maybe water in places won't let you and can be very dangerous if you persist. so, we'll keep an eye on it, drew, thank you very much. john berman, back to you in miami. >> reporter: we had a welcome site here in miami. we had a caravan of utility crews and tree cleanup crews drive by just about 30 seconds ago. they have a lot of work to do here. there are still cities dealing with the brunt of the storm. and you had ...

Windows were going to break. and, yet, what happened to me has happened virtually to the entire state of florida, even pensacola on the far west of panhandle of florida is getting some of the rain bands. so this is a massive storm like florida has never seen. >> and, you know, millions of people are without power, 650,000 homes and businesses just in the tampa bay area without power. what is this state going to need in the days and weeks and months ahead? >> it's going to need a lot. it's going to need a lot more than the 15 billion that we appropriated last week for texas and florida. that's ...

We're all glad that you are safe this morning to continue break for us, we'll check back with you. meanwhile, irma has left many of floridians in the dark. the hurricane has been downgraded to a tropical storm. he's the vp and chief communications officer from florida, power and light. i know you have a busy day. do you have any sense of how much of that state of florida is in the dark this morning? >> well, it's a large part that's in the dark. we extend from the georgia boarder all the way down north of the keys and we come around toward tampa. we've got about 3.6 million customers that are ...