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They know it was a serious storm and it's going take awhile to get things back up and running. >> those numbers are very -- 84% power and water is a substantial progress. just a week ago when this monster hit. what is your community like? what's the city that you represent like? >> i couldn't really get the question, but where the damage was tone primarily in our city was along the river. a lot of wind damage, but the damage along the river was obviously from the storm surge. our marinas were devastated. but we have the roads open. we have power coming back on. we had distribution centers for ...

Like now four days in? >> starting to see the shift of getting roads open, getting utility crews on, getting the power on, doing the assessments of what it's going to take to get some of these failed water systems and wastewater systems back up. that's going to really dry. the more power we can get turned on to communities, the better they can manage their recoveries. then you focus more on the areas of heavy devastation that are going to require more work. some places can get power quicker. other places will have to rebuild the power system just to provide basic necessities. >> we heard from ...

Our goal is to keep our teams as safe as possible and keep them moving, though. >> todd: oftentimes, three variables in every hurricane you need to focus on, rain, wind and storm surge, feel like all three will be major elements of what the people of florida need to deal with and specifically the storm surge, we're heating feet heights of like 10 feet, 12 feet, that kills people, quite frankly. what is your plan, what is team rubicon's plan to deal with that massive storm surge and get your resources in and around the area to help people who need it? >> our goal is just to make sure that we ha...

Former fema administrator and former director of florida emergency management division. craig, thank you for your time. from an emergency management perspective, what are you looking at? what are the biggest concerns that you have right now? >> the people to move to high ground. this storm surge, people are comparing this to irma and charlie. they don't come close to this. you're talking 18 feet of storm surge. it's going to push water in as far as i-75. so people need to move to evacuation to the high ground. people node to know the safe places. this is a category 4 hurricane. so this is abou...