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Safe. look, i was telling people in jacksonville, if this wasn't my job, i would have left the city days ago and wouldn't have been here for the storm because i understood the seriousness and impact of it. and we just hope that, you know, people take this seriously. we don't want another event like this, but mother nature is mother nature and we want people to be serious about it. >>reporter: are you pleased with the lack or loss of life here? >> we have no reported casualties as a result of this storm. that we're aware of at this point. so, yeah, i'm incredibly grateful. >> every life is impo...

Let's listen. >> i want to thank the national guard for showing up. i want to thank highway patrol, we had 1700 officers keeping the roads open. we had traffic, but the truth is, it never stopped. we had to open up shoulders in places in the state. so they have already, the d.o.t. opened up all the highways. all return routes are open again. we're working to make sure there's fuel on them. we'll be getting the fuel trucks out. next i want to thank the federal government. it starts with president trump. i have talked to president trump pretty much every day. the day before yesterday i talked to...

The caribbean. but there's a question of whether the infrastructure in certain areas can actually handle it. 29 million people visit the caribbean every single year. $35 billion is spent from tourists every single year. and so you're talking about a major, major economic impact here. that has repercussions as well here in miami, of course, and throughout the state of florida. we rely here in florida on 110 million tourists coming through. >> nobody is heading to miami that doesn't live there most likely. nobody is chilling on south beach. i would assume same with key west with the devastation ...

To the normal life as quickly as possible. so we have a lot of work to do. but everybody is going to come together. we're going to get this state rebuilt. and this state is a state of strong resilient people. and we're going to get our jobs back and help build our companies again and then get this all cleaned up and hopefully get more tourists back in our state and get everybody back. now i'll turn it over to the major. >> i want to thank the governor for always being on site and the opportunity to show him some of the areas that were impacted heavily, the rescues happening yesterday, where th...