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Here. look at this. as far as the eye can see, power lines down. and we have a drone giving you a different perspective. just mass devastation. everywhere that we have driven around today, businesses destroyed, power lines down, trees down. it is going to talk weeks and we -- take weeks and weeks to get the power restored and the roads cleared. so much work ahead. >> so much morning ahead. -- work ahead. and when we hear this they now have to deal with looters, the story only worsens. now let's turn to mexico beach where we have been seeing scene after heartbreaking scene of destruction. gabe ...

Pole and restringing new lines. so we've got our work cut out for us. we have requested maximum support to get our utilities back up and going. so we'll have the manpower, womanpower we need to get going. the question is how long this process might take, and we won't know that answer until we get a complete analysis of the storm's impact. >> you took the words out of my mouth. you do have your work cut out for you, and we especially thank you for coming on tonight given the situation of tallahassee. thank you, mayor. >> of course. take care. joining me now is the mayor of apalachicola, flori...

Are lines that have been brought down that might be a little bit more easier to put up than frankly reassembling an entire pole and restringing new lines. so we've got our work cut out for us. we have requested maximum support to get our utilities back up and going. so we'll have the manpower, woman power we need to get going. the question is how long this process might take, and we won't know that answer until we get a complete analysis of the storm's impact. >> you took the words out of my mouth. you do have your work cut out for you, and we especially thank you for coming on tonight given t...

Slowly. we saw all kinds of debris, trees down, which you would expect, giant billboards signs, those were down. but again, what was remarkable in some areas, we passed by a mobile home park that didn't seem to have a lot of damage, and then right next to it, we would see major damage in a parking lot, and on the other side of the road, boats that were untouched, which makes you wonder what happened here in terms of tornadoes. a woman i spoke to who sheltered -- she evacuated to the shelter in panama city, tells me when she was in the shelter yesterday, there was a tornado warning. they ushere...

Up, and it goes back some way and this was not the only place we saw. i can look across the street there and see shingles blown off the building across the street, and we look down this avenue here to the side here, and we'll point the camera down that way. you can see all kinds of trees down as well, trees down, power lines down. the updated power numbers here, nearly 400,000 customers in the panhandle and beyond have lost power already, and like i said, we expect that number to go up because we drive by, not over, but by a number of downed power lines on the street in just the mile it took u...