it's 1:00 here in washington. from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. we start with very desperate times in the aftermath of hurricane irma. the storm has moved off, but the trail of wreckage will last much longer. the worst of it in the united states is in the florida keys where officials estimate that at least a quarter of all homes are destroyed and nearly two thirds sustained major damage. our bill weir is going down the coast of the florida keys. tell us the latest. >> reporter: we are anchored in a lower key mile marker 72-73. that's the u.s. 1.

it looks like there is a traffic jam as we have been watching. big earth movers are getting the sand irma spread across u.s. 1. those are all first responders and supply chaps and there might be residents trying to make their way south. this is about the limit to where you can drive. when we kim in, it was obvious what kind of damage the waves did. that storm surge. wind damage on the roofs. for those familiar with this stretch of u.s. 1, there used to be a popular restaurant called mr. lobster that is completely gone. most of it is scattered on the other side of this harbor. as rod pans over, you can see the shipping containers that used to hold the seafood and the kitchens for that place. you can see they were pushed across and they are sunken boats all through the canal here. sea grass and lobster traps from the oceanside blown over the

highway into people's yards. some boats are shoved up into the area and the good news is we are seeing so much activity here. proof of life. as we came and motored in through the harbor, people with the storm shutters open and generators going. stuff drying on their railings and people waving cheerfully. right here things are -- all things considered, it was good. we were not able to go ashore and if they had diesel they could spare or gasoline is the most precious commodity these days, ice being a close second. all kinds of activity here as people move from search and rescue and the initial shock of what they have seen at their properties to clean up. and recovery. >> we are reporting from the florida keys.

we are going to get back to bill shortly. i quickly want to bring in ryan young who is with the coast guard as they try to bring desperately needed fuel into the state near tampa. what are you seeing? tell the viewers what's going on? >> we are in tampa bay near the skyway bridge. you can see the coast guard. we are definitely with the response team as they go through the shipping channels to give the all clear. this is a critical last step to make sure the channels are back open. i will walk you back outside to give you a view here. if you look outside, that is the skyway bridge. this is tampa bay. what they are doing is going to make sure the roadway is back open. the critical ships can bring the fuel in. you work with the coast guard. explain why this last accept is so important to get the ships back in. >> we are doing everything we can to make sure that tampa bay is safe to pass.

especially for the commercial vessels and they had cargo and fuel and everything. making sure that it's safe for them to come in and make sure they don't hit anything and it's safe. >> one thing we witnessed is we saw them lined up. i will grab my cameraman and turn him a little bit. the green dot, explain how they use that. >> for those of you familiar with the water, that's a buoy. how mariners make sure they know which side of the channel to be on and steer between certain buoys. those are vital as far as the commercial boats coming in. >> as you can imagine, the power of the hurricane coming through here definitely disrupted some of this. they have seen damage, but the good news is it looked like the shipping channel may be back open soon. we still have one more step before it's over. >> we have one more step to make sure we open it back up and get normalcy going back here in the

port of campa. >> you talked about the service. you understand that people in florida need you, but you would rather not be noticed. tell me about that. >> we are in the navigation community. it's working and nobody will notice you doing your job. we are doing everything to get back to normalcy so we can go back to anonymity. >> so many people are thanking you for being there when they're needed, how does it make you feel to be a person who served the country for so long? >> it's what key signed up and it's rewarding for us and we are happy to do it. >> thank you so much from the middle of tampa bay. we might find out within the next hour or so whether or not it will be back open. we saw the container ships all lined up. they had that gas to check the depths and make sure that will be back open.

there was damage, but they think this should be back open in the next hour. we are live here as we do the survey. as soon as we find out more, we will let you know first. >> from the u.s. coast guard, they are doing important work on the men and women of the coast guard. the storm has left a trail of fallen trees and right now, 7 million people across the southeast have no power. for some the lies may be out for weeks. renee is here and first of all, what are you hearing about this power situation? it sounds awful. >> it is awful. we are talking about millions of people in the dark in one of the largest states. the state of florida. off the top there, seven million customers without power. when you think about how many individual people that means that, translates to about 15 million people as we speak are without power. the officials have been very up front in saying it's going to be

sometime before all of that power is restored. we do have a little bit of good news. we heard from florida power and lights and they say that on the west coast of florida, they expect that power should be restored by next friday. as far as the east coast, they are saying that should be restored by the end of the weekend. they are making progress, but we are talking about so many towns and so many cities within this large state of florida. it's a massive effort to restore the power. 30,000 people have come from out of state for restoring power. >> we will speak with a representative of florida power and light. the major airports down in florida, miami, fort lauderdale, among others. >> what we are seeing are essentially that the big ones are starting to see operations come back slowly. the smaller airports like south florida and international airport in fot. myers and key

west airport. no operations there. good news is fort lauderdale opens this morning, orlando, tampa are operating as well as miami international flew in flights this morning. before folks get too excited, you want to check with your airline. although they are up and running, the limited service, it's going to take time before things get back to normal. >> thousands of flies have been canceled over the past couple of days. more will be canceled because of the uncertainty. >> there is always that ripple effect. the air system is so connect and when you have a huge state like florida. when you are talking about so many airports, there is going to be that ripple effect. >> thank you. the vast majority of the power outages are in florida where crews are spread out across the state trying to restore power. joining us is rob, the vice president of the chief communications officer. thanks very much for joining us.

are we talking days or weeks or in some cases months until service is restored? >> what we have done is done our assessment and there is encouraging news from what we are seeing. i will explain that in a moment, but what you heard is right. we will split the state down the middle. the east coast didn't have as much damage. it still has a lot, but we are talking about the end of the weekend we should have essentially all of our customers restored. certainly there were pox of tornadic activity and severe flooding and other debris that is going to cause issues. that may delay restoration, but on the west coast, we expect to have all restoration complete by next friday. again, what we are seeing is certain parts of investments are paying dividends for customers. some of the feeders.

30% performance better than non-hardened features. where we have concrete poles and in place of wood poles. they held. we are not seeing any transmission structures. that's the backbone of our infrastructure. the interstate highway of energy. we have not seen any of those structures come down. that is very good news for the customers. >> would you say next friday, i want to be specific. you mean a week from this friday, 10 or 11 days, is that right? >> that's correct. we are talking about a 10-day restoration in total. it's a long slug. i don't want to suggest that my words of encouragement are going to make this any easier. we know a lot of our customers and many of our employees and families are without power. we want to get that power on as quickly as possible. again, i want to emphasize what we are seeing is encouraging in the sense that the investments

that we put in the system over the past decade since the last rash of storms seems to be paying dividends. >> the good news is the east coast of florida will have power back 100% and the west coast another 10 or 11 days by the end of next week. what about the keys? >> we don't serve the keys. they are hard hit, but i suspect they will face the same exact issues we are facing. we run from the georgia line to the tip of the keys and back up to tampa. for everybody, it's going to be a long slaut. the biggest thing we hope our customers and i'm sure all the other utilities, be safe. exercise caution. the time to be safe is now. most fatalities do occur after the storm has come through. >> because of the downed power

lines especially if they hit water? is that right? >> that's the big thing and generator safety. if you are out and about with all the flooded water, there could be a line that you don't know is there. it may not be moving. if you step on it, it could be energize and that could be fatal. we will have customers who will not use the generator correctly. it needs to be outside the garage not near windows and doors. we will get through this, but at the end of the day, we ask for patience and safety. >> rob is with florida power and light and we will continue to check back with you. thanks for all the help. cnn is on the ground in naples for us, one of the hardest hit areas on the west coast of florida. what he found and he is joining us live. also a paradise lost. large parts of the caribbean

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>> the devastation in the keys is so enormous. we are getting a report with our affiliate. i want to you watch this report. >> this is a jims of what the florida keys looks like. many of the homes are partially destroyed. the side and the roofs ripped off. neighbors coming home to find the devastation. >> when are katrina hit louisiana and stuff like that, you feel sorry for people and you think that, but it hits home. it's not just us, it's

everybody. >> house after house damaged by hurricane irma's eyewall. neighbors shawn and dawn rode out the storm. >> me and my girlfriend stayed in the bathroom in the hall ways. for two days it was hell. you didn't know if you were going to make it or not. >> when the gusts came by, you could feel the floor jumps and a piece of the sheet rock and the ceiling came through. there is widespread damage from key largo to key west. the only road in and out is in bad shape. >> this is a mobile home park and you take a look around and see everything is pretty much totally destroyed. they are ripped apart and we are hoping no one was here in the storm. communication continues to be a major problem. no cell phone service and no electricity. people who rode out the storm

are not able to tell families and friends they are okay. thank you for all the prayers that came from home. >> a report from our affiliate. we will take you back to the keys in a few moments, but first i top the go north to the tampa bay area where residents were spared a direct strike, but suffered significant damage. our correspondent is on the scene for us. what's the main concern where you are? >> reporter: wolf, you are looking at it at this point. here at this point we are talking right now most of them don't have gas because they don't have power to use the pump. >> we will get back to diane. the audio keeps coming in and

out. we will fix that and get back to her and update you on what's going on as thousands and thousands of people see their homes now for the first time since the hurricane. what's the risk of them coming back into the destruction zone? the race to get power restored gets more desperate. the former head of fema is standing by live and we will discuss. the scope of this storm stretching all the way up the coast. parts of historic downtown charleston, south carolina under water. you will hear from the homeowners there.

welcome back to continuing coverage. we restoebed communications with diane gallagher outside of tampa reporting on the fuel shortage and what seems to be significant. diane, you and your crew just

got the fuel. >> that's actually why we were here. we have been driving around so much yesterday reporting on the damage in this area. we couldn't find a place that had additional fuel. to brandon, florida. we heard from someone at the desk from where we were staying. they got a supply late last week. it's almost like a liquid gold situation f. they do have fuel, 36% of people in hillsborough county don't have power. that includes a lot of businesses. these people here are learning that they have fuel because other people are telling them.

i was inside and some of the customers were saying once people find out there is fuel, this place will be insane. just yesterday when we were going by, there was not much open. one gas station over in bradenton. it didn't have fuel, but it had food. there was a line of 40 minutes to wait just to buy things like bread or ramen noodles for people. at this point right now, most of them trying to get additional fuel to top off cars in case they have to go to work. their lives have to continue even though we don't have power for nearly 40% of the county. >> all right, diane, thank you. diane gallagher on the fuel shortage that is so significant, huge parts of florida outside of the keys, one of the hardest hit parts was napeles on the west coast from where irma made the second landfall. damage can be seen all over town

and they are telling residents to boil water until they can determine it is indeed safe. ed has been throughout the storm area for us. ed, you heard from the mayor of naples. you have breaking news on the cost of the recovery. >> reporter: we spoke with the mayor, bill barnett and the city completed the initial damage assessment. this is only for the city of naples. they estimate so far some $100 million in damage. the mayor execs that total to continue to go up. that includes the clean up and wind damage repair and those sorts of things. they have started tabulating that. $100 million price tag in one city alone. that doesn't take into account the rest of the areas in the much larger metropolitan areas. of course the clean up is a big issue and getting the power

restoration is really one of the things that is starting to wear on people that cuts through naples. you can see the crews that have been working. there are about 210,000 customers that need power here in collier county where naples s. the last we saw, 186,000 people need their power restored here. that's a tremendous amount of work. let's listen to what the mayor had to say a little while ago. >> from the immense clean up to the buildings that were damaged, it's property damage, it's structural damage and cleaning up flooding. anything and everything that you can possibly think of goes into that. it will be broken down. almost on a piece by piece. >> reporter: the question we hear repeatedly over and over, everyone is talking about when

is the power going to be back on. it's impossible to give an exact answer, but the mayor was hold the worst case scenario, it would take another 10 days to get the entire city back on the power system. that's 186,000 people and the mayor said it could take until september 22nd. >> we're heard from rob gould from the commission over there it could takes en or 11 days for the western part of the state to have power. they are doing better on the eastern side. by this weekend. at one point, parts of the town of naples were under water for at least four feet of water. some predictions were much higher. they have a higher storm surge. did naples escape the worst of it? >> you have to think so. that was one of the things and we were here in the 24 hours

before the storm. you got that sense that people were number one moving away from the coast. there was mandatory evacuations and we spent time in marco island, about a 20 or 30 minute drive south of where we are. those folks were really preparing for the 10 to 15-foot storm surge and the police chief said yesterday that they really only saw to four feet. that's welcome news. on that particular island, one of the dramatic thing they saw is a lot of single family homes, the water was creeping up and came within six or seven inches of flooding many homes on the island. since that surge didn't quite reach where it was predicted to reach or many people feared it would reach, the water levels didn't creep into the homes. folks will take that. the predictions might have been overblown. the experts will have to analyze why all of that happened. they will take that three to

four foot storm surge considering the eye of the storm came through here. >> good point. a huge issue as we have been reporting for the people of florida. power at about three quarters of the state is without electricity as we speak. joining us, the former fema administrator. thanks for joining us. what do you think about this power thuj is affecting so many millions of people in florida and how do you fix it more rapidly. >> what we told people ahead of time, i don't have power and i'm not sure i will get it back. the utilities will get power back on fairly quick. the problem is going to be in the heavy hit areas where they have to rebuild power lines. it takes longer. the individual houses, can they take power or is there too much damage. this is a large area without power.

this is driving the narrative and shortfalls. >> a lot of people are getting back to their damaged or destroyed homes. what are the risks involved. >> right now they are going to be gas on the routes to get back. when you get there, most of these areas don't have power. still a lot of clean up to g. we are advising people if you don't have to get back, stay where you are at and give it another day or two. when you head back, you need to be prepared. the likelihood is power will be out in the hard hit areas. >> there is a short supply of gas. people want to fill up. how long is it going to take to get back to normal as far as fuel is concerned? >> again, we did our fuel out of the ports and as they took ships back in, they are getting the trucks back on the road. we are seeing deliveries taking place. it will take a couple of days to get up to meeting the demand.

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irma's trail of destruction extends far and wide, impacting nine states one way or another. even as a tropical storm, it brought torrential rain to south carolina. some of the streets of downtown charleston look like canals with rescue crews using boats to get around. nick valencia is in charleston and has the water receded at

all? >> this is the first time in hours that we are not standing in it and the first time in hours people are emerging from homes to check out what happened last night. this is the battery. you are familiar with this site. this is beautiful water and a beautiful site to the city. it was filled with white caps, the storm surge made people board up their homes. the velocity was something that residents have never seen here. they have been living here a long time. sandra, you had home inches in the basement? >> 10 inches and 26 inches in the yard. we measured. >> you went through hurricane matthew. what was this like? >> this was a lot worse. i felt like i was sitting on the ocean in our house. i think too it's because it's daylight and high tide. it was the full moon. all of that had a lot to do with it. are people said it happened

fast. like in 20 or 30 minutes. then you are flooded by water. >> we're tried to keep it out of the basement and all of a sudden it just appeared and started rising and rising. there was no way to get out. they said if you are going to leave, you need to leave early. >> for those that are watching, they say charleston floods. this happens. why was this different? >> i don't know why it was different, but it happened in a hurry. we had flooding and i haven't had any flooding in my house before that. it was the last two years that we had major flooding anywhere from six inches to 10 inches in the basement area. it's frightening to go through this. >> absolutely. it has to make you nervous rate here. >> to be able to protect our house. >> you showed a maying video and hopefully we will be able to turn it around. thank you for taking the time. a maying video from the garage.

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president trump is making a move to push ahead on tax reform and other items on his agenda. he is having a dinner with bipartisan members. india knowa's joe donnelly and joe man chin of west virginia. several of president trump's lawyers were pushing for the son

in law jared kushner resign from the senior adviser over the russia investigation. joining us now to talk about this and more, our chief political analyst and bloomberg reporter shannon petty. you have been doing a lot of reporting on this issue as well. some of the private attorneys representing the president wanted kushner out. dana barb and i have been following up on the story and it appears there was a meeting sometime in may in which the prospect arose apparently promoted by some of the president's then attorneys. mark was the spokes men and perhaps other people on the staff like steve bannon, for example. saying that there is so much there that perhaps it would be best if jared were to step

aside. one source i spoke with said that one of the other lawyers blew up and said you can't do this. that's ridiculous and absurd and the matter was dropped. it was describe to me by either attorney as much morphoof a political issue than a legal issue. as we all know and you know this really well, there political divisions inside this white house. and many times jared kushner found himself on the opposite side of people like steve bannon. >> at issue and you have been reporting on this as well, at least in his official security clearance forms, he failed to mention the three or four meetings he did have with the russians. >> there is questions about his business and whetheree is mixing the white house and business. but to gloria's point, there has always been people who don't think he belongs there because

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clinton's new book coming out today, her memoir from the campaign. this video we just saw from "usa today," she says she's convinced there was collusion between trump officials and the russian officials to help trump get elected. >> that is hillary clinton. there are lot os other legal matters regarding this. we do know that the intelligence community overwhelmingly believed that the russians did try to hack the election, and that, of course, smarts for hillary clinton. but you look at the people lining up for hillary clinton to sign their book. it's very clear that the bad feelings that she has are echoed in a lot of places. i mean this is -- i mean this new york. and then hillary clinton has a following, a tremendous following. although as she has said, she's done with political office.

>> she has godden serious criticism on blaming her defeat -- she says she takes responsibility, but all of a sudden bernie sanders, james comey, and everyone else is involved. >> one person who has been eerily kwee yet hquiet. i wouldn't be surprised to see in the next few days him starting to chime in on his thoughts on this. i wouldn't be surprised if people started asking him, mr. president, what do you take on hillary clinton. >> for him it's low-hanging fruit. it's not a tough call for him. it also means he's not tweeting about russia and other things he

shouldn't be tweeting out. >> she is saying she'll be actively involved in politics because she sees so much at stake right now, but she's not rubbing for office anymore. >> no, apparently not. so you can cross her off the new york's mayor list. trump thrives on having an enemy. he likes having someone to punch at. if it's not russia or mueller, maybe it's hillary clinton. if he has somebody else to focus attention to, that takes away from others, even his own cabinet. >> let's see what she says about donald trump. we know she called him kind of creepy when he came up behind her during the debate. i'm sure there's a lot. >> i'm sure there is. we'll see a lot more of her. gloria, shannon, thanks very much. an important viewing note, make

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rex and i were just discussing not big. i don't know if it has any impact. but it was nice to get a 15-0 vote. but those sanctions are nothing compared to what ultimately will have to happen. >> that resolution that targets some of pyongyang's most vital imports and exports and could cause the regime a sizeable chunk of its revenue. but pyongyang remains defiant. cnn's will ripley is in pyongyang. will? >> certainly they're angry, but they think the idea that they would bunkle under the additional sanctions after the nuclear program, they think it's rid ldiciculous that the united states would think the sanctions would have an impact. you have the threats from north

korea of unbearable consequences and revenge against the united states. it's also believed that south korea believes north korea could launch an intercontinental ballistic missile any time. it hasn't happened next. for north korea, we know it's not a matter of if but when. what the sanctions do is makes it difficult to bring in more money. they can't get in textiles, coal, food. there's a cap that could cut oil supplies by 30% which could have a long-term impact. but at least currently north korea promising to deliver weapons of mass detrukz. >> by the way. this is will's 15th year doing an outstanding job for all of us. will reporting from pyongyang. much more coming up.

we're standing by to see if north korea takes any action, nuclear tests or intercontinental ballistic missile tests. we'll have much more coming up today "the situation room." that's it for me. 'll be back at 5:00 p.m. "the situation room." for our viewers, amanpour is next. in our "cnn newsroom," newsroom with brooke baldwin starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com all right. we'll take it from here. i'm brooke baldwin. thanks for being with me. we'll continue on the hurricane. we'll see how badly it decimated the florida keys. fema telling us homes are in ruins. 60% are damaged and the 10,000 who chose to ride it