together. we have john burr man in miami, anderson cooper in tampa bay, and allison, of course, in new york. so, john, the story for you of the storm was that miami was one of the places that would you say to get a pass not in the least and not for the longest time. >> yeah, chris, i really can't believe the breath of this storm. it's hard to wrap your head around the fact that it effected all county. you know, we had the storm surge here, 6 feet, flooding the street, look where i'm at right now, we had 100 mile an hour winds, category 1 storm here in miami but it hit for hours and hours and hours and that's part of the story. million people without power in miami-dade today. that will be a giant story in and of itself that's only a small slice. we had the storm hitting up in jacksonville and gainesville and up in tampa, where anderson is.

tampa was one of the biggest fears yesterday as that storm moved up the west because that storm surge could have been so devastating. >> yeah, you know, it was a very different story. not what they were anticipating 48 hours ago when they thought it was going to be mostly east coast. tampa got the alert that it move today the west and coming directly towards tampa. it was a lot of concern, it could get as high as 130 miles per hour, thankfully, that did not happen. they did get hurricane forced winds but not to that height. but the concerns about the storm surge, we're still waiting for reports of flooding in the tampa bay area, i'm talking about clear water, st. petersburg, tampa, as well, there is often flooding here, some 650,000 homes and businesses without power, but you can see just from the river. we're watching this very closely, it does seem to still be rising a little bit here. it has not topped the banks over

there. that's one of the markers we've been watching. you know, when the water was moving out during the early part of the storm when that counterclockwise movement of the storm when it was really hitting you, badly, john, the winds were sucking all this water out. it had dropped about 10 feet or so, all that water is in now, still waiting for reports of flooding, definitely seeing police vehicles moving around trying to assess the damage. it's still a lot to learn about what has happened here. and folks are just waking up, obviously. there are bands of rain and light wind, nothing severe, just kind of irritating unpleasant, particularly for those people, john, who have lost power. >> well, also, anderson makes it harder, john knows this, as well, makes it harder for people to get out there and do the work of search and rescue. that's where we are, in the parts where we are that's the story. here in naples it was about the gusting wind that was a very big

deal. i had never seen anything like that, let along stuck my nose in it. but the damage wasn't as bad as could have been feared. yet we saw a drone footage and they haven't been out into some of the parts of naples. let's bring in chad meyers, this storm was longer, stronger in duration than they could have ever imagined, not over yet, although we do have an update. >> tropical storm now, 70 miles per hour, but life threatening flooding occurring right now anywhere from tybee island all the way down to jacksonville. this is the area that has been pushed in the water and pounded all night with rain now salt water surging 8 feet deep. this may be the highest surge we've seen. we know ever glades city really got hit. this is the area, this morning. this is the focus. a flash flood emergency for jacksonville downtown. the water has never been this

high. hurricane dora, 1964, it was a foot lower than it is right now and it's still going up. for tybee island and for the savannah river, it was 12.4 in matthew. it's going to 14.4, two feet higher than matthew because of the way the surge is working. now, eventually, it moves to the west of atlanta, all of georgia, south carolina will see wind gusts above tropical storm force today. they will still bring down powerlines and trees. look at the winds in naples, we watched you go through this, chris, yesterday, 1:42, marco officially 1:30, after that we don't know if it got higher than that. original land fall, 120 miles per hour in the lower keys and we know many of the lower keys are now still impassable, so you can't go back and forth, you can't get back to key west, don't even try. >> it's also one of the reasons,

as much as we appreciate the opportunity to do this kind of broadcasting and reporting i can't wait to get off camera and see what's going on. >> ever glades city, too. >> can we get on the island -- right, we're going to try to spread out there. we'll coordinate easier access. because there is still a lot of unknown. and as chad was just pointing out, it ain't over. tropical storm is no joke, more than enough to incapacitate a city and to cause death. so let's bring in al, he's in jacksonville. we hear about this wrong kind of history, al, the most storm surge they've ever seen. is that true and what is the situation? >> right, good morning, chris, thanks very much. yes it is the highest storm tide -- surge on st. john's river since october 1846. we didn't have gauges on the river, then. we had extreme damage on the st. john's river at that point.

our real concern right now is we have record water in these higher st. john's river from downtown jacksonville, southward through the city of falaco. the winds are now coming to a southerly direction and that wind is going to push that water northward into the city of jacksonville at the same time we are approaching high tide. the water can't get past jacksonville, it's got to go up and over the banks into the sanmarco, river side, south hampton, landon park and downtown areas. so, basically, we're looking at 4 to 6 feet of water, possible along the east bank of the st. john's river. as we start getting into some of the neighborhoods, about 2 to 4 feet of water in the streets. we're asking people to not try to get out in the flood waters but to evacuate. this message has been coordinated with jacksonville emergency management. >> vertically evacuate, tell us

what that means and tell us why people need to stay out of that water. they'll see 2 to 4 feet and say, well i can handle that. >> right. 2 to 4 feet of water is extremely dangerous when you're talking about the weight of water and the fact that this water could be moving swiftly. you don't know if electrical circuits have malfunctioned and putting electricity into the water. we prefer people to do to get as high as possibly can in their home. if you have second story, go there and stay there. this will be or already is a tide of record in that area and it's going to get worse as the winds go from the south. we have an observation network on the st. john's river. we're seeing a response with the gauges leveling out in the south part of the river. we have southeast winds in jacksonville that tells us now that the water is being pushed

northward towards the city of jacksonville. >> one quick reminder, obviously, al, you know this all too well, people are going to hear, it's not that much wind, at least it's not that dangerous. water is what kills you in a hurricane. it is responsible for well over 90% of the deaths. it's the water that kills you, it's the winds that get the headlines. what are we talking about duration? how long before first responders start to get out there and address people in need? >> that's the other problem. forecasting storm surge is a bit of an art. we do not see how it will hit it until 1:58 p.m. today. the water will be rising now from the other side. it will be a sign this afternoon before work levels go down appreciably in this area. >> so it's going to be some time before they can get out there. how are you staffed in terms of search and rescue and having the

boats, having the high water vehicles, having what you need? >> well, that's question for jacksonville emergency management, but i will tell you we had been messaging this with them for a long period of time. that one time where we'll be seeing the hurricane come very close to the st. john's river, we had actually messaged with them the possibility of record flooding. so we've been talking to them for several days and county emergency management i'm sure is prepared for it. i know there have been some swift water rescues reported to us, already. they're out there and doing what they need to d. do. >> we heard some flash flood warnings in effect. we heard about some rescues, thank god, so far. we heard about nothing terribly tragic. as you said it is early. all right, al rs, we'll stay on it. as there's information that people need to know -- >> please. we're getting some reports in the city of saint augustine,

too, when you're talking your message, it's probably all the way down flagler beach, impacting saint augustine areas, as well. we know ain't saug steen is significantly flooded. >> i think chad is listening, we'll make sure to relay the information to him and thank you very much and allow us to return the favor. anything you need, please come our way and be safe. >> thank you, chris, we really appreciate the opportunity. >> thank you. thank you for making our jobs easier and for helping so many get through this storm. let's get to drew griffin. he spent so much time with people in fort meyer, florida. what's the latest from there, drew? >> chris, you know, the misery continues here. this is the roadway that people are trying to get out of the shelter now. several of them have stalled where the road dips down. we had to come in a few

different ways just trying to get to the shelter because so many people's cars have been stalled as they try to evacuate. hey, can you talk to us for a second? how was that night? -- we're on live tv, let's keep in clean. >> it was not pleasant. the whole thing hasn't been pleasant. power went out? >> yeah, that was no big deal. >> roof leaked? >> yeah. >> when you got here, they weren't ready. people stood out there for five and a half hours in the heat, some people passed out. they couldn't get in. >> was it frightening at night when the storm was coming through or did you feel safe? >> i felt safe. a lot of them was upset and no one was talking to you. the place was clanging and banging and stuff was flopping around and you didn't hearing anyone saying, you know, it's just shutters, there were never any updates. >> scarey, would you do it again, though, i mean, you lived

through it? >> i'm from michigan. i don't know. >> we'll bug out sooner and get the hell out of state. >> that was probably the best idea. we'll let you go. >> it double backed on it and came to the west and screwed our plan up. >> chris, that sounds familiar. it screwed our plan up, too. we'll let him try to drive out of here in this water. as we see these hurricane irma refugees, you can see this fella here coming out of the shelter, now. they're trying to leave this dome of safety. i don't know, can you go to the top and see the roof damage, chris. i don't know if you have a monitor. but during this storm, the roof started peeling off. it was never a structurally issue, it scared people, it did start raining. they had to move some people down on the ground. they issued the problems here at the germane center arena outside of fort myers, just continue as

people try to get over this storm. chris. >> reporter: the loss of power, the not knowing what was going on, feeding the frustration and now the anxiety of wanting to get home and maybe water in places won't let you and can be very dangerous if you persist. so, we'll keep an eye on it, drew, thank you very much. john berman, back to you in miami. >> reporter: we had a welcome site here in miami. we had a caravan of utility crews and tree cleanup crews drive by just about 30 seconds ago. they have a lot of work to do here. there are still cities dealing with the brunt of the storm. and you had to move inside because it simply wasn't safe to be where you were outside, any more. >> reporter: that's right, john, where we were standing our live position was behind concrete barriers of hotel. bovr them were awnings, we had street lamps and we had even the sign of this hotel that came

crashing down during our last live shot. we wanted to play it safe from this hit and talk to you from inside as you're seeing the wind blowing outside our windows. it is subsiding a little bit, so much so i'm seeing a lot of emergency vehicles actually get out and about and try to respond to any calls they're getting. i do know from orange county fire and rescue that they have rescued more than 100 people within one hour from this area. so it definitely got some flooding and some major issues in this orlando area, even though we're not by any of the coasts. what i do expect in the near future, john, in the orange county convention center, there are 1,500 emergency vehicles that came here from all over the country ready to respond after irma hit and i expect all of those guys to get out and respond to the hardest hit areas, john. >> they could be moving south very quickly, maybe even in the florida keys, that's what we heard from emergency management down here. brynn in orlando, thanks so

much. let's go to tampa with anderson cooper. >> reporter: we talked a lot, john, about first responders, and we're now starting to hear about some of the things they have to respond to during the nighttime hours and even today they'll be responding to a lot of calls. i want to have you meet some folks from coral springs, florida which is north of fort lauderdale. it was a dispatcher, and assistant fire chief all join me now. lou, you got a call. the call came in it was about a woman who was giving birth, what was the call? >> well, yeah, it's, you know, the life of 911 dispatcher is 24/7, 365 and i want to say thanks for having us on. during a crisis like this you never know what's going to happen. usually it's not positive, this one is very pleasant, because of electric emergency in a negative way, it was a positive, we were going to bring life into the

world. when i picked up the phone, baby was coming. mom was in the background vocalizing that baby is coming. my job was to make sure i knew exactly what was happening and get our call in on our system and make sure i had the proper unit responding. that's what we have to do, make sure we get all the information and get it out and let everyone take it from there. >> and what time was this, what point of the storm. >> it was in the middle of when it started picking up over here, which, of course, it's going to happen. the wind started picking up, really, emergency vehicles weren't responding to, you know, many of the emergencies, but of course something like this, we have to get the team together and get, you know, the vehicles out there and the troops out there to go bring april into this world. >> sergeant meyers, chief way -- weiland, what was the scene when

you got there. >> when you got the call to do this, we weren't sure we were going to be able to go. and they chose our command vehicle that myself and chris hurst were assigned to because of the low profile of the vehicle and the fact that it was four-wheel drive and said if you can make it, we need you to do it. we absolutely went, no problem. our crew here at the fire station ran out into the -- their trucks and the bay collected all the equipment that they thought we would need in case anything went wrong, including ob kit and live birth kit. and we stuffed our little truck full of it. my driver chris and i took off and we had no idea what we were going to encounter. immediately, as soon as we left the station, we had very heavy winds and driving rain which is usually a problem. we ran across some heavily damaged areas in route to the house. and we were lucky that we were chosen for that, the regular vehicles would not have been able to get through by any means

to get back to bring april into the world. we were able to get back there using our four wheel drive and driving over some big trees. my driver, chris, was instrumental in that because i'm not sure i would have been able to do it. he got us there and we were able to go inside and do what we needed to do. >> how long were you actually there? i mean, was the baby actually -- had the baby been born then or did you help in the delivery? >> i'll let chris my driver talk about that. she was holding the stomach of her. the baby wasn't presenting very well at first. once we got the baby wiped off. he was stimulated a little bit, she came right around, after two minutes, she pinked up real nice, nice beautiful baby girl. >> reporter: that's got to be an extraordinary experience for you all, i mean, from getting the

call, you guys able to respond in the mist of this potential tragedy to help bring a new life into the world. it's got to be an extraordinary feeling. >> what's important was the police department with the bear cabin, they had an armored vehicle that we put the baby in and the mother. we could not put her in the pickup truck by all means. we put her on back board and that was very instrumental in getting the patients to the hospital. >> reporter: well, it's quite a drive to the hospital for a little baby to be in armored vehicle. thank you all for what you did, i'm sure they're thankful and they'll want to meet that little girl again, soon, appreciate your time and appreciate your efforts to everybody in coral springs let's go back to allison. >> god bless those folks for helping people weather this storm. we'll be back with you momentarily, anderson.

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beach, what's the latest? >> reporter: i can tell you, again, winds die down, but now the winds have shifted. before they were coming right at us right off of the beach. i want to show you what it looked like on daytona beach. right now we're getting gusts of winds but it has slowed down significantly at what it was earlier today. around 4:20, we got hit with the strongest winds that this town had seen in many, many, many years. i want to let you see the moment at around 2:00 a.m. when those w squalls started coming in from the eye. >> it's the strongest winds that we have seen since we have been here on the beach throughout the entire event. irma's winds are -- how -- having a fun time because the

wind is -- concrete walls just below me and we're standing on the fifth floor of the hilton hotel. >> my face looked like stretch, armed drawn there. it was difficult to talk and stand up. i want to give you a quick look, chris, behind me, you're seeing some of those boats who are -- folks who are going to be jumping into this vehicle there, as soon as this wind passes, they're going to go out and try to help restore power to millions of people. there's unprecedented number of people without power and unprecedented number of workers ready to take care of that. chris. >> i'll take it. sarah, my hat is off to you. i don't know how you kept your compose sure and able to speak in coherent sentences during that force force of winds hitting you. that was remarkable reporting.

we're all glad that you are safe this morning to continue break for us, we'll check back with you. meanwhile, irma has left many of floridians in the dark. the hurricane has been downgraded to a tropical storm. he's the vp and chief communications officer from florida, power and light. i know you have a busy day. do you have any sense of how much of that state of florida is in the dark this morning? >> well, it's a large part that's in the dark. we extend from the georgia boarder all the way down north of the keys and we come around toward tampa. we've got about 3.6 million customers that are without their power. if there's any silence. automation, the three billion dollars that we've invested over the past ten years, has gotten about a million customers, close to a million back on in the past 24 hours since the storm started.

that's not good enough for the people that are without power. it is a massive storm. and regardless of all those investments, this storm took a toll on our system. >> for sure. we should tell people, i mean, you're obviously not the only power and light company in florida. you're a big one. there's something like last estimate we got, 5.8 million people without power, so you have line share of that, but not all of that. lots and lots of people are suffering. as we understand it, the hardest hit area was on the west coast and it's going to take more than just a simple sort of flip of a switch to give people their power back. tell us what's involved in rebuilding. >> yeah. we've prepositioned the largest force, not just in our company's history, but, really, in u.s. history. we have 17,000 restoration areas poised in the territory ready to go. the challenge has been waiting

for the wind to subside. because our bucket trucks can't find in winds that 35 miles an hour or greater. as we see the weather subside, we will collapse like a military operation from the north to the south and into the west. what we're fearing that we're going to see is from the west coast, rebuild effort given the devastation that we're anticipating seeing, that could take weeks, if not longer, on the east coast of our territory and, frankly, we've been seeing greater impacts as you've just shown in the north, daytona beach, saint augustine, flagler county, all those areas are taking a beating, as well. so we have, basically, our entire service territory under attack from irma. so we're going to be aggressive with it. but this is not going to be a very quick restoration, for sure. >> understood and that is good information for ul of our viewers to share with their relatives. this is going to require a lot

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irma continues. we are here in naples florida. they saw some of the strongest gusts of winds in this city and they did not expect it. flood surge was the major concern. we haven't been able to get out there and see. people are starting to clean up first responders are just getting out there to survey the damage and they're going to find things that nobody is going to want to see. so in terms of what this storm is doing right now, it's still category 1 storm, not true. tropical storm now is what it is. but that's 70 mile an hour sustained winds, only five mile an hour distance. it's going to stress a lot of resources, as a result. we know now that over 5.8 million people are without power. they could last days or weeks. six million were evacuated. a place like jacksonville, they

thought they were going to escape the worst of the storm has had historic storm surge. we had someone on, they told us they haven't seen water like they have in the river there since the 18 hundreds. now, john, you're in another place, miami, where it was not suppose to be the worst and yet the duration and the intensity caught everybody by surprise, including your legs. >> reporter: yeah. i appreciate that, chris. your hair held up well in the storm out in naples, as well. look, this went on for such a long time here in miami as the wind bent around the peninsula here. it did push the water into the streets where i was standing. there was four feet of water. yesterday it turned into the brickled river with water gushing down the street and into the first floor is here some of these buildings. this is the area right now in miami now covered with mud and

we do have people out on the streets walking around, i think, checking out, perhaps their businesses, their homes, just seeing what happened even as the cleanup crews are trying to assess how much work they have to do. but it's just astounding to me that i'm here in miami, you're in naples, anderson, you're up in tampa. it is practically -- it is every major city and population area in florida that has been effected by this storm, anderson. >> you know, it's absolutely true. i think we're still trying to figure out exactly the extent of it in law enforcement and fire departments are still trying to figure out the extent of us. we've seen police cruisers going around on the kennedy boulevard bridge. law enforcement is out in force to try to assess the level of damage, the level of flooding, you know, how many people are without power from 650,000 from the tampa bay area. it's still a lot to learn. thankfully, you know, people

haven't poured out here. and light rain, some winds. but, you know, obviously, it could have been a lot worse and i think, you know, everybody here has got to be thankful. this is not a direct hit from cat 3 storm, which is what it was here, john. >> people are driving around with looks of relief on their face today, no question about that, anderson. joining me now to figure out what happened next and how the response will go, former director and emergency manager here in the state of florida. david, what we didn't necessarily see we knew was happening was enormous movement of resource bs ever the storm, there's going to be more even starting right now. >> absolutely. it's really in two phases, life saving, moving resources down to help the locals to do what they can. the other is life sustaining. one of the secrets here in florida is state logistic warehouse, 300 truckloads of water shs that's about close to

2 million gallons of water. meals are there in orlando, more than likely, they've already been moved out to the locals. back behind it, the food and water that fema has, we supply the warehouse and move those out when necessary. you've muched -- you've moved that much today. >> it's going to move out everywhere. it's down in the florida keys, which we haven't heard much from right now. we're trying to get a sense of the damage there, all the way up to jacksonville which is seeing historic storm surge this morning. >> this is unbelievable. that is why orlando is central in prestaging the resources is essential so it can move out of the south, north, east and west. as far as life saving, those resources are coming down the interstate right now. they're being moved into the area. the national guard will be on the move. and, certainly, all of the search and rescue teams will be ready to help. we need to hear something from

the keys. we don't really know to what extent it's necessary to help. >> how do you get there? how do you find out? how do you help the keys? >> more than likely you want to get aircraft, helicopter, boat or ship to get into the area to see how bad that is. >> we're dealing with five million people without power in the state of florida right now. that is going to wear on people's patience, how does it effect the recovery effort. >> as we're seen here today, a lot of people right around the area, some are looking into the business and see how they faired, which is certainly legitimate. without power you're not going to get the business back up and running which isn't going to get the family out of the house. definitely, you're not going to have any of your day care, your schools can't open because you're still using them as shelter. power, getting electricity back up and running is the key. we may be weeks away in some area when that happens. >> is there anything unique

about uncovering the storm surge. yesterday the water would have been up higher than the waist. now it's gone accept for the mud and debris. will there be longer lasting implications here. >> it depends on the infrastructure, what's been damaged, what's below this. are the road surface, have they been uplifted or damaged because of the water and the swells. where are the electrical grids, how high above the ground are they effected. telecommunications, of course today, satellite communications, all of that, a lot of that runs under ground to be able to get to above ground. >> power went out, water went out, everything about my body, my cell phone was still working throughout the day. they said this will be the biggest recovery effort this state has ever seen, most complicated, maybe longest lasting. why, they saw this storm coming, were they not ready the way they should be or was it so big, so many places effected that it

will take a long time. >> it's so big, so many places, you've said it exactly correctly. we're looking at the entire state of florida. we had 20 million people in the state of florida. you know, five million customers without power. probably going to be larger numbers as we head north. they only have so many crews. they're calling in crews, trust me, from all over the united states. i remember -- we had crews here from canada looking at it, going, you know, here i am to help florida. >> i remember after super dome sandy, he said, great to have you here, the recovery effort has begun already in this state. allison. >> john, we're obviously not just covering this morning the after the math of irma, but also, today, marks the 16th anniversary of 9/11. so about four minutes from now the country will observe a moment of silence and we will take you to washington and the pentagon from that, when we come right back. kevin, meet your father.

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anniversary from the 9/11 attacks. you can see the president and the first lady coming out to mark this moment. there are already crowds gathered in washington, outside of the white house, outside of the pentagon where another plane struck. and we will watch and we'll listen to this moment of silence right now. for

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you see the flag being carried through the streets at ground zero. the first plane struck at 8:46 that's why we pause for that moment of silence. houses of worship were asked to toll their bells at the same time, as you can hear. the names of the victims are read aloud every year since

then. we should mention, this is, of course, president trump's first 9/11 president but he's a native new yorker. and he was in manhattan on that terrible day when the plane struck the twin towers, he watched it from his apartment, the black smoke he could see, even at midtown at trump tower, he then watched the aftermath from his office windows, he says. on that day 16 years ago many local tv stations interviewed donald trump and they said he was a real voice of calm and reason. and he had a very measured sober tone. what he said on that day was, the big thing you will have to do is never forget. and so today we remember all those killed on 9/11 and the terrible, terrible day in our country's history. more coverage for us of tropical storm irma in just a minute.

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nelson, you and i were here in tampa yesterday talking about the concerns of what tampa might be facing, obviously, they dodged a big bullet on this one. they were very very lucky as many were many places as that storm tracked a little further east. it could have been a lot worse. i'm wondering what your thoughts are this morning as we're trying to assess the damages in the keys, marco island and elsewhere? >> anderson, when i left yesterday and went back to my home in orlando, i thought i was getting out of the path of the storm. low and behold, it came between tampa and orlando, we got, at 1:30 in the morning, 100 miles per hour winds, i thought the

windows were going to break. and, yet, what happened to me has happened virtually to the entire state of florida, even pensacola on the far west of panhandle of florida is getting some of the rain bands. so this is a massive storm like florida has never seen. >> and, you know, millions of people are without power, 650,000 homes and businesses just in the tampa bay area without power. what is this state going to need in the days and weeks and months ahead? >> it's going to need a lot. it's going to need a lot more than the 15 billion that we appropriated last week for texas and florida. that's just the down payment. in october, we're going to have to come back and do more appropriations and then after that, we're going to have to do

more. it's going to be a massive clean up effort both in texas and florida, and i suspect up in georgia and even further north from there. anderson, i just wanted to -- since we just came through the commemoration of 9/11. i want to say i was on the west front of the united states capitol building on that fateful day watching the tv of the twin towers and someone bursts in the room and said the pentagon has been hit. we left to the window looking over the mall in the direction and saw the black smoke rising from the pentagon. the next thing we heard in the u.s. consulate was, get out, get out, run, run, get out of the building. they had the report of that fourth airplane headed towards washington. what a day it was.

what a day that americans showed the strength of this country just like floridians have shown the strength of this state through the last 24 hours. >> yeah. i don't think any of us will ever forget nor should ever forget that, that horrible day on 9/11 and a lot of residents in florida, obviously, are never going to forget what happened here and what happened to their families over the last 24 hours. governor nelson, appreciate talking to you, as always. i want to bring back in allison, john berman, chris. chris, there's going to be a lot of assessments and a lot of needs in the hours and days ahead and all throughout today i think we'll hear a lot more of what we clearly want to know, particularly, on the keys, what the situation there is, marco island, some of these outer lying areas that we haven't gotten the reports in from yet. >> reporter: yeah, and the cuban government is reporting to

sources here that they lost 10 lives in this storm. so we saw what it did there. we saw it was similar to the keys. we're going to have to check. we'll take off after john's -- >> we'll all be in the field today and we'll report that, john. >> reporter: yeah, chris, i think assessing is the key word anderson just used it right now. so many people driving by and trying to get a sense of what the damage was, when they'll be able to come back. you know, miami not hit by the eye wall, but still hit by hurricane irma, you know, such a relentless storm. >> well, you're all doing a wonderful job, i can say. thank you so much for all information and being there in the eye of the storm, literally there for us, cnn's coverage will continue after this quick break. stay with cnn.

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i'm john berman in miami, pop pi harlow in new york. chris cuomo in naples, florida. now tropical storm irma, but nowhere near done.