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That is going to be the focus for the first few days. search and rescue, get into the injured, getting to the trapped. looking at where they need critical supplies to get ahead. and then you start getting into the phase of this. if you can get power turned on for a lot of states that are losing it, you're going to find that a lot of the first response can now be better handled by local officials in the private sector. that will allow fema to stay focused on the areas with the heaviest devastation. we kind of know all the way down to the far south, you heard from the commissioner there. north a...

We can see it on our screens right now, when you get water dumped at this rate, it is always shocking when you are around, it how quickly that water will get on you, whether you are in a car or out. the flash flooding gets to people before they realize what's going on. you can see the sheer volume of water. as you said, outer bounds, orlando is going to get a ton of water before this is over. that's obviously a densely populated area which people haven't evacuated and are going to be sitting this out. i hope the power holds, which it looks like right now it. is >> yes, and, again we're talking...

A lot of wind here, too much wind for rescuers to get out there, certainly too much for those 42,000 electrical workers to get out and start fixing the powerlines. we have reports of 1.8 million people already without power. as bill said, this storm is above orlando now, a highly populated area. it's going up to jacksonville. it's going through the st. johns river, which always floods and puts people out of power. then it might make a turn and come back as a category one. this is a remarkable storm, and chris. it has done a great deal of damage. probably the worst is over, but for some people ...

Category two storm with maximum sustained winds of 105 miles per hour, and is making its way very slowly across northeast florida. the hurricane isn't expected to reach the atlantic ocean until late tomorrow. and even then, it will continue north in a week and form. states of emergency have been declared as far north as virginia, into dissipation of what the storm may bring in the coming days. in florida right now, nearly 1.9 million households are without power, as wind and water, knocked down trees, and power lines. curfews will be in effect along the west coast. the greatest danger is the s...

This is in an area where the storm will have weakened when it reaches us at its full force in the hours to come. it is still hours away, and already we are seeing this. i can tell you, just in the last ten minutes, things have deteriorated rapidly here. thankfully, at this point, we still have power, cell phone communications, and the power outages in the area appear to be minimal. at this point, as officials have warned throughout the day, wherever people are, they should be planning to hunker down. the threat here isn't so much the wind. we're not looking at storm surge here. there will be g...