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Situation they were tragic deaths. do you have any updates on any fatalities? do we know of any at this point? >> so many people did not leave their homes, with all of the coastline looked like and even to take you further inland where it turned into category three after it went through tallahassee, florida, for the capital is, huge oak trees were snapping in half, just falling over. in leon county alone where the capital is, 167,000 people are out of power. just in lyon county. you've heard over 300,000, but all the power companies are working together. governor scott activated the emergency ...

That could be 3,000 customers -- i'm sorry, 3 million customers, who could be in the dark. they are saying it could be notches two days, but weeks for a lot of these folks. they do have an army of utility workers on standby, we are told 40,000 utility workers have been staged with heavy equipment but they can't obviously respond to the outage here or anywhere else until the worst of the storm moves through. it's going to be a while before they can get into start making the repairs and those repairs could take quite some time. >> shannon: as a brick just reported, a couple minutes before that, ...

The way inland, very saturated ground means potential for catastrophic flooding, trees down, power lines down it is you heard kristin mentioned power outages for weeks in some areas, thousands of utility workers waiting to move in as soon as the storm is out. >> be careful and thank you for your reporting. we have more later in the hour. politics as usual in washington, two prominent voices speaking out claiming the book is inaccurate at best, i'm struck by the selective and misleading portrait it painted the president and his administration. gary cohen says this book does not accurately portr...

We have thousands of utility workers standing by waiting to move in. >> shannon: be careful thank you very much for your reporting on scene there. we'll have more later on in the hour. meanwhile, politics as usual in washington. took a more prominent voices featured in bob woodward's book are speaking out claiming the book is inaccurate at best. former white house staff secretary rob porter says that he is upset about the portrait it paints of the president and his administration. gary cohn says, this book does not accurately portray my experience in the white house. newly released text messag...

The world trade center health program at mt. sinai hospital here in new york. he says 72,000 people are enrolled, including firefighters, police officers. but also utility workers, medical examiners and others. of them, of the 72,000, 8,000 already have cancer. >> yes. >> are there enough resources to diagnose and care for these people, for the 72,000? >> what's interesting, i think the answer is yes. >> okay. >> but per his comments, you know, he's really encouraging anyone who thinks they might have been exposed to go and get evaluated. because the resources are there. and a lot of these can...