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>> well, in our current city, we, as i mentioned, have about 100,000 customers that are out. our total customer base is about 120,000, and so we've been significantly impacted by this storm event. we did pre-stage over 100 linemen in our community prior to this storm's impact. those folks will be getting to work as early as 6:00 a.m. in the morning. they've already been out surveying, getting an assessment of what they're working into tomorrow morning, making sure they have supplies. we did have a portion of our sewer system fail but we were able to get it back on so not too much of an inciden...

The president and casting doubt on these women. >> as we say, in 2018 both our weather and our politics tend to be extreme events. our thanks tonight to two veterans of the associated press, jonathan lemire and jill colvin. thank you as always for coming on. coming up for us, the latest on today's extraordinary storm event and a late live update from our meteorologist bill karins when we continue. today is the day you're going to get motivated...

It is a fine line this white house is trying to walk. the president seemingly has tossed it to the side. for a week or two he seemed to be supportive of dr. ford. other advisers like kellyanne conway for a while were too. but now they're toeing this line here where it's about believing the president and casting doubt on these women. >> as we say, in 2018 both our weather and our politics tend to be extreme events. our thanks tonight to two veterans of the associated press, jonathan lemire and jill colvin. thank you as always for coming on. coming up for us, the latest on today's extraordinary ...

What you need to ensure is that you're ready in your own homes and your own neighborhood. we will be able to repair and get back up and going in our communities. what's most important at this time is that you keep yourselves and your families safe during this storm event, which will begin in ernest in just a few hours here. >> all right, mr. mayor. as we say were all local leaders, when this kind of event is headed their way, use us as a resource. if you have information that needs to get out, if you want to coordinate getting help to the people they need in the aftermath, we're here for you. ...

A different mission and got word that this thing was looking like it was going to make its way our way, and immediately got back here. between that evening and today we really had to ready ourselves rather quickly. on the good side, i will tell you in my community -- i mean we felt really prepared for this storm event. we were able to very quickly get over 100, 150 utility workers from across the state of florida and really across the country, as far away as nebraska, here on the ground, ready. these are the same crews that we're going to deploy in the morning to deal with some of the reconnec...