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Will be added to the mix. over 470,000 homes were damaged or destroyed, causing an estimated $140 billion in damages. as crews carve their way through the catastrophic damage, their progress is slow. but they met a major milestone this month when 1 million customers had their power restored. utility crews say they won't stop until everyone is back online. >> there is no set time frame. we are here for the long haul. the mission is to restore power. that's what we are focusing on. >> wednesday night, the puerto rican governor said they will receive approximately $35 billion in federal aid but a...

The thomas with 140,000 acres burned. scott jones joins me from ventura, california. scott, the headline now the l.a. times right now is firefighters has been able to take a turn. but boy it still looks really tough. >> reporter: that's right, richard. and what happens oftentimes in a fire this size, this thomas fire, you get a one step forward, two steps back sort of situation. so where i am, south, kind of in the south and east end of the fire, truly starting to lift some of the evacuation orders. you have utility crews coming in here. but at the same time north and west of here, into santa ...

Ventura county is by far the largest wildfire. what can you tell us about that, how much of it is contained and what are fire crews expecting? >> well, louis, it's still only about 5% contained and it's grown to 115,000 acres. but on day five of this crisis, there are a few small signs of encouragement. number one, as you may be able to tell, while the winds are still blowing, they have died down considerably. we are still seeing gusts of up to 45 miles an hour in some areas, but that is considerably less than the 70 and 80 mile an hour gusts we were talking about earlier this week. and those ...

Visits? >> very little. >> at all encouraging to you? >> very little. it all starts with power. if you don't have power, pumps don't operate and people can't operate equipment to clean their home. so it's very hard to get the society up and running until you have the power restored. and there's been very little progress on the power. i've heard the reports that whitefish has people working, but you're talking about thousands of crews you're going to need there. they are nowhere near that capacity. it's been a month. and the federal government knows how to do this. we do this literally on a mon...