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Some steady progress but this is a monumental task. this is a crew from florida's biggest power company, florida power and light. we've seen crews like this all around the area today. that man up in the basket up there, he is repowering that line that had been struck by tree limbs and that will be reestablishing electricity to around 500 businesses and homes. the ceo says that his crews are working 24/7. he has called this the most widespread damage in the company's history. they have so far restored electricity to a million customers but as we saw today, there's a lot more work to be done. st...

Manager, bill moss. bill, thanks so much for joining us. as you know, naples is facing right now enormous clean-up. most of the city is still without power. what are your most urgent needs? >> well, wolf, we had all of our employees stationed here in the city all day yesterday and throughout the storm. so that we were able to mobilize quickly at daybreak this morning. our priority was to clear streets of downed trees and tree limbs so we could provide police and fire rescue to our communities and more importantly so we could allow our residents to rush to the city as close as possible. today w...

Take a look over here. these are downed tree limbs everywhere. a huge number of people in orlando. 600,000 people are currently without power here. and that is because of all these tree branches that are down and debris. so this is the parking lot of a shopping center. as you can see, the whole thing is sort of torn up at this point. awning, tree limbs down. there is a curfew here in orlando until 6:00 p.m. we haven't seen many people venturing out. obviously a lot of folk, families, tourist, are here for the theme parks. the theme parks are completely shut down. it is sort of an eerie thing t...

Little quicker, help us with the cleanup. we would like nice dry weather out there. we don't want gusty conditions with the broken tree limbs. the cloud shield extends from west virginia there are clouds and showers to the keys. an enormous storm located 60 miles north of tampa, it's headed back to the west. let me show you the new updated forecast path and intensity a. lot of people in georgia were worried what we will deal with, if people will lose power. a lot of big powerful pine trees, the storm crosses the border will be going from a hurricane to a tropical storm. again, 50 to 70-mile-pe...

Of naples. the winds have died down enough where we can show you what we experienced here. look -- that's to be expected. those tree limbs there. this is part of the -- this is part of the tile that came flying off the roof of the building that we're in there and now we've gotten a little bit better view and you can really start to see a little bit of, you know, the tree damage is to be expected. as soon as all of this passes through and now it's starting to kick up again. we had a break there to give you a better perspective. but that's what we're facing there. obviously the tree damage is go...