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>> jon: broward county florida is on the eastern side of south florida, just north of miami-dade county and it was not spared from hurricane irma either. flooding, downed power lines and trees, still posing serious dangers to residents there. barbara is the mayor of broward county florida and joins us now on the phone. what is the biggest issue, the biggest problem for your county right now, ma'am? >> avoiding and a death from electrocution. if we have of standing water and downed power lines currently broward county has over 600,000 people without power and that's a significant amount of line...
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Martin like you will never forget. >> yes. >> our storm is over, but for people in texas and florida and st. martin, they have a long way to get home. we are lucky to get home and we need to make sure nobody forgets and everybody can chip in all the way through, and it's important nobody changes the channel and forgets about what happens down there. >> what was the hardest thing for you emotionally and seeing all the loss and the pain down there? >> it was a little kid i saw in the shelter. she was sharing the same room with us, and we were in a room with maybe 25 people, and she was probably ...
Continue it. i think other cities that are coastal cities are going to want to do the same thing. >> jon: philip levine, the mayor of miami beach where, as i recall, nobody can live more than about three blocks from the ocean when you are on miami beach. mr. mayor, it sounds like things turned out as well as can be expected given the situation. thanks very much for spending some time with us tonight. >> thank you for the opportunity. >> jon: you bet. miami beach open tomorrow morning. coming up a storm tracer gives us his inside story of battling hurricane irma and how it compared to previous ...