when it's not speaking at all. good night. >> shepard: this storm has not stopped killing people. the latest victim: seniors in a nursing home. unable to defend themselves. it will take you to jacksonville, major metropolitan area facing dangerous flooding. in washington, house speaker paul ryan meeting with the minority leader nancy pelosi and a possible plan to protect the dreamers whose parents brought them to this country when they were kids. plus the white house with a strong accusation against the former fbi director james comey.

that's all ahead in this hour of "shepard smith reporting" ." i am trace gallagher. irma is gone but people are still facing deadly conditions. at least eight patients from a nursing home in hollywood, florida, are dead, apparently because of sweltering heat. officers evacuated at least 115 people from the building north of miami which lost power in the storm had no air conditioning. police have opened a criminal investigation. rescue crews started going door-to-door 95 degrees heat to check on elderly people and hand out food and water. the mayor of hollywood, florida, urging people across the state to do the same. watch. >> be mindful of the hot temperatures that followed this hurricane. we had temperatures reaching

95 degrees. i would like to implore upon everyone to check up on your neighbors, elderly, do what you can to make sure everyone's okay. >> trace: investigators at least five people died and more than a dozen hurt after breathing carbon monoxide fumes from generators. orlando, miami, daytona beach. firefighters telling people to keep generators out side. i'm irma caused extensive flooding along the coast of georgia and south carolina. charleston had one of the worst storm surges in eight decades. he looked till he -- utility officials say people are still without power in georgia and soft dilemma. hardest hit area appears to be the florida keys. utility officials say some people there might be without power or drinking water for a month, maybe more. people has started going back to their homes in the upper keys despite limits to access of

basic necessities like water and electricity. crews are working to repair the only highway that connects the islands. the lower keys are still close to residence. a woman who said she just moved to ila medora since rome is completely destroyed. >> this is what i expected unfortunately. after everything i saw on the news. last week, everything was perfect. now we just have picking up to do and start over again. got to remain strong. i am alive. >> trace: the storm made its landfall in cudjoe key as a category 4 hurricane. that's where matt finn is now. >> we did a little bit of a tour of damage, leaving miami and driving 100 miles south to cudjoe key. this trailer park wiped out by irma. some trailers still standing,

others obliterated. in the keys, the destruction starts to get real bad around marathon florida. boats piled up, tossed around like toys. trailer parks destroyed. rotting food and garbage, a foul odor. we spoke to one man who fought tears. he just returned from florida and was describing what he saw. here's more of what he had to say. >> never seen anything like this. no. we come here every day. after the boats come in fishing and such, all of our friends. we don't even know where half of them are. it's terrible. never seen a storm of this magnitude. when you hear 185-mile-an-hour winds, this says to somebody, you've got to go. thank god we did. >> in marathon, florida, there's

also a sign in sheet for people who stayed here to sign in and left loved ones know they are doing okay. also a sign in sheet for boats that have been recovered. authority still have roadblocks come a not letting residents into certain parts. it's miserable for people who would be returning. there's no electricity. limited food and high heat. speak to you talk about electricity being out, the roads being closed. i know a lot of people are relying on their cell service. what's it like there right now? >> there is next to no cell service. in marathon, we were getting a little reception from at&t, nothing from verizon. we have a cellular phone were able to use but otherwise minimal conductivity. >> trace: matt finn live in speed 25 key. irma made its second landfall on marco island. one woman said parts of the island look like an "war zone."

trees snapped like toothpicks. emergency responders are working to restore power and bring back gas and other supplies. mike tobin is live on marco island. >> we have this remarkable phenomenon when people applaud for the power crews. the work is typical across the state. the tree guys show up. they get the brush out of the way. in this case, they are clearing away a tree that knocked down this power line. these guys are just about to wrap up. as soon as they get the debris out of the way, the power crew is expected. lee county powers going to show up. you've got so many people starting to lose their patience, frankly, with the absence of power. they may have to be patient a little while longer because you heard the announcement from florida power & light yesterday. it could be until the 22nd until the lights turn on again. >> trace: the power is out. what about supplies?

>> gasoline is very scarce and very important to the people out here. you have this remarkable phenomenon where any time a gas station has fuel in the tank, a big line forms and stretches about a quarter mile. looks like people are looking at their apps and they find out which gas station have gas. they flock there. they flock to another location. some people don't have enough gas to wait in line. they've got to walk to the grocery store, get the supplies they can and tough it out without any air conditioning. >> trace: tough it out indeed. mike tobin, thank you. irma hitting jacksonville with the worst flooding in more than 150 years. forecasters say it will continue to threaten the city for days to come. people who live in jacksonville say the intensity of the flooding took them totally by surprise, and they have never seen anything like it. meteorologists say even more flooding could hit the city

because the storm waters from the carolinas, they have to move south. rick leventhal is live in st. augustine, florida, purity just south of jacksonville. beach erosion is another big issue, right? >> remarkable. we are in north beach, also known as vilano beach. this area hit hard by hurricane mathew a year ago. a lot of home owners had to do a lot of work to shore up their beachfront homes. they have a lot more work to do. this is a lot worse. look at the house right next to us that has come down on the beach. there are dozens of homes like this up and down the coastline that are either completely destroyed, knocked on the beach or teetering on the edge with their pilings exposed, and they are in grave danger of also falling down into the beach. if you look at the side, the seawall, the ground, the waves carved out eight to 10 feet high at least in some spots. torah background away, 4 yards

and yards of beach away. if you look at this home owners seawall, he built a 400-foot wall to protect two houses next door to each other. you can see were part of the wall collapsed in the storm. but if not for this welcome of these two houses would definitely have been compromised. we want to show you another location we went to in south ponte vedra beach. another stretch of homes or horribly damaged. we saw a two-story house completely chewed apart by the wind and waves and rain. it's destroyed. it will have to be torn down and replaced. we spoke with a contractor who was working on it today. >> last year, the house got undermined. you can't see now. this lab dropped so we jacked it up, reinforced it. we were just finishing the permitting to be able to put a permanent bulkhead out here to protect the foundation. the storm knocked off the back half of the house and took away the work we've been doing for

the last year. >> he told me the ocean takes with the ocean wants. >> trace: before i get to jacksonville, want to ask you where you are now, people have been asking all day. the storm was supposed to be on the other side of the state. how was the storm surge so bad and how high was it where you are in st. augustine? >> the person who owns this home fortunately was not here during the storm. a lot of the folks were not here. there was one person that died in this county from a heart attack, an elderly woman, during the height of it. we don't know what the storm surge was here. if you look at how much beach was carved away, it's literally 10 to 12 feet high in spots where the ground used to be and it's fully exposed. this was a violent storm affected tremendous damage to miles of coastline here in st. john's county. >> trace: amazing. what else do we know about the flooding in jacksonville?

>> is the worst they've seen in 150 years. a lot of the waters have receded but there's still some flooded streets and still danger of more flooding, we are told. there are at least a quarter million power customers who lost power during the storm. most of them, and a lot of them have gotten it back. about 100,000 still in the dark. they are dealing with a lot of other issues in jacksonville. clean up and that sort of thing. they believe they are on the way back. we can tell you the state department of environmental protection is among the agencies trying to help with this problem along the coastline, assessing the damages. there are a lot of people who are now beginning to count their losses. >> trace: statewide. the rick leventhal live in st. augustine, florida. thank you. what do you do when almost everything you have is gone? next we'll talk to a woman from my limited aura in florida. she says she lost her home and she crawled through wreckage looking for remnants of her lif life. now she says she doesn't know

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devastating. give us a better idea of what you found when you got back to your home. >> i really wasn't expecting it to be as bad as it was. when we got there after seeing photos friends have sent, where i am at right now, we have no power. i didn't see it. when we got here, it was far worse anyone could imagine. everything is gone. every single trailer and there is destroyed. some just disintegrated off the face of the earth, just gone. it's crazy. >> trace: there were officials they are saying the florida keys looked like a nuclear bomb went off down there. i know you said you kind of crawled through the debris. were you able to salvage anything of importance to you? >> yes, when we evacuated wednesday, we took what we could to survive. we have our dog.

we left. i did leave quite a lot of things in there. i was able to crawl in through what was left of the master bedroom, which was the floor. crawled in through the hallway. i was able to save some personal items, pictures. i have a wooden bowl from my great-grandmother that i found that i was able to save. it was very unsteady in there, so i didn't want to stay too long. i did get a few things that meant a lot to me. >> trace: as you talk to us, we are watching these various pictures from around florida. the florida keys do seem to have been the hardest hit. a lot of people have asked what's next for you and your family? where'd you go go from here? >> you know, i'm just trying to get through each day right now. i am going to back to ocala for now, regroup and figure out what to do from here.

i'm turning 60 soon, and the thought of starting over now is pretty hard. but you do what you have to do, and we survive. >> trace: you do what you have to do. the best to you. happy birthday to you, sharon. a lot of people like you down in the florida keys and all over the state and we wish you the very best. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. the florida keys will come back. we are a hard working people down here, and they are already making it beautiful. >> trace: i have been there, and they are. they are some of the best. thank you so much. well, fema officials say it's too soon to estimate how much hurricane a raw will cost as far as -- hurricane irma will cost as far as damage and numbers. the feds say they are expecting to pay out $11 billion in flood insurance money mostly in southeast texas. that makes harvey the second most expensive storm for the

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last week president trump said he was ending the program that protects some 800,000 immigrants whose parents brought them to the u.s. without documents as children. the president gave congress six months to save the program or come up with a new plan. today >> ryan told the associated press deporting the dreamers is not in america's interests. let's get to mike emanuel on capitol hill. >> paul ryan told reporters any deal on addressing the status of the young people must include more border security. >> daca is a symptom of a bigger problem which is we do not have control of our borders. while we deal with daca which is something the president has asked us to deal within congress, we also have to deal with the problem in the first place. securing our borders, enforcing our laws. so we don't have a daca problem ten years down the road. >> nancy pelosi talked about the

so-called dreamers and expressed the hope the time might be right for a big deal on immigration. >> of the senate passed conference of immigration reform. we passed the dream act. one -- we couldn't pass each other's. now is the time, long overdue to get it done. >> president trump this afternoon reiterated his interest in a deal on at least addressing the status of these young people. >> trace: i know they are talking about taxes and daca but there's also a couple different health care proposals bouncing around capitol hill. >> no question about it. there are dueling health care proposals, one liberal and one conservative. the liberal one presented by vermont senator bernie sanders is essentially a medicare for all type plan. >> today we begin the long and difficult struggle to end the international disgrace of the united states, our great nation, being the only major country on

earth not to guarantee health care to all of our peopl people. >> the republican plan would take federal health care dollars in dual them out to the states. they are selling it as a very conservative plan. >> if you want a single-payer health care system, this is your worst nightmare. bernie, this ends your dream of a single-payer health care system. >> senator graham taunting senator sanders a bit. bottom line, republicans will see if they can get 50 votes to try to pass the grama proposal by the end of the month. trace. >> trace: we shall see. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel live on capitol hill. thank you. while president trump turning to democrats to help pass his agenda, the president meeting with house lawmakers from both sides this afternoon. and tonight look who's coming to dinner. we are live at the white house. new accusations about

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them, not republicans, on funding the government, raising the debt ceiling and paying for hurricane relief. after some objections from republicans, the white house said there's no question about which party the president represents. chief white house correspondent john roberts is live on the north lawn. >> things changing quickly here in washington now that donald trump has decided he can't get everything he wants from his own party. now needs to reach across the aisle. kellyanne conway saying this morning president trump came here as a disruptor and he's going to make deals with people who can get his agenda across the goal line and share his views for what he believes is good for america. on that front, he's going hard on tax reform, trying to get something done by the end of this year but it's looking like he's going to have to give up some of his big campaign promises in order to get it. one of his campaign promises was that the wealthy were going to get a whopper of a tax cut.

now after being rumored for weeks and being talked around by several white house officials, the president came out today and said while the middle class and businesses will get a lot of tax relief, the wealthiest americans not so much. in fact, they may end up paying more. this is what he said earlier today. >> i think the wealthy will be pretty much where they are. pretty much where they are. we can do that, we'd like it. if they have to go higher, they'll go higher frankly. we are looking at the middle class and we're looking at jobs. okay, thank you very much. >> this was an idea floated by the now departed chief strategist steve bannon back as far as april where he wanted the top income earners in america and that would be people making $5 million or above to be in a tax bracket that began with a 4 instead of a 3. now looks like the president has signed onto that idea, the reason why he has is because if the president wants to get

bipartisan support for tax reform, he can go with that corporate tax cuts, small businesses, he can give a middle-class tax cut. they democrats are drawing the line at the highest income earners saying they are not going to get 1 penny of a tax cuts. the president is kind of caught between a rock and a hard place if he wants bipartisan support. >> trace: what about the politics over the meetings with democrats? >> sending some shock waves through the republican party. the president had dinner with a bipartisan group of senators last night including senator joe manchin of west virginia, heidi heitkamp from north dakota with the president brought on his tax reform pitch to the bismarck area last week. joe donnelly of indiana and a bunch of democrats over today having dinner tonight solely with nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. after cutting that deal with them last week, republicans are looking at this and saying what's going on. the president today saying he wants bipartisan support from

some -- tax reform, infrastructure, wants to get something done to fix the problem with the dreamers. he said this afternoon he's looking at this optimistically but also with an eye that maybe it's not possible. >> i'm a conservative and i'm not skeptical. i think if we can do things in a bipartisan manner, that will be great. it might not work out. in which case we will try to do without but i think if we can do in a bipartisan manner. if you look at some of the greatest legislation ever passed it was done on a bipartisan manner. that's what we are going to give it a shot. >> i don't think the president is under any illusion that if democrats get control of congress, it might not work out so well for him in the long run based on what we've seen happen in the last eight months. but there are a lot of republicans were looking at this and saying maybe we've got to get our act together. you heard that today in the house.

kevin brady, budget chairman, saying we are going to have a plan by the end of september. paul ryan saying he does believe the president is going to pursue conservative tax reform. right now, they are looking at what's going on at the white house, saying what are we really in for? the president is headed tomorrow to the naples, fort myers area to get a firsthand look at the devastation in florida. i will be taking the day away from the white house to the pool duties on air force one. it will be interesting to see firsthand what's going on down there. speak to you and the president appear to be getting an eye full. john roberts life on the north lawn. let's bring in a reporter from political working on a story about tax talks. the people who make above 5 million need to have a 4 in front of their tax number instead of a 3. sounds like from your story you are hearing a little bit of that as well. >> no doubt tromp through the

g.o.p. tax plan for loop as he started courting democrats. some americans might have a tax increase, antithetical to g.o.p. orthodoxy. here's where we are. the big six, the treasury secretary, trump's top economic advisor, paul ryan and mitch mcconnell as well as the top republican tax leaders. they were all together on this plan to write a g.o.p. tax bill that has, follows republican orthodoxy. the white house, sources have been telling me that after this summer with the senate failing to pass an obamacare repeal there is great concern they can pass a g.o.p. tax bill without democrats. right now you are seeing trump reach across the aisle, bringing democrats from purple states, swing states, house moderate democrats as well and basically dangle a carrot and say if you vote for this, maybe we can

increase taxes on the wealthy. this is scaring republicans on the hill. >> trace: this is a big headache, as you say, for a lot of conservative leaders. this is not with the g.o.p. base talks about. there is nothing in the conservative mantra that says let's raise taxes on the rich. in fact, you talk about g.o.p. economics and it's the opposite. this is going to shake things up when you talk to the leaders of both parties. >> yeah, i can tell you i have been talking to a lot of freedom caucus members today about this, about him working with democrats and a lot of them talk about you can't raise taxes on richer americans, they argue, because if you do you are essentially hiking taxes on small businesses will file as individuals. a lot of conservatives expressing concern about this. in the senate, the number three republican said this would be a mistake for the white house to assume we can get a few democrats on board to get this

text go through. there's a lot of people knocking their heads and saying what are we doing? the white house thinks they can do it on a bipartisan basis and they look like they're going to try. >> trace: when you are talking to members of the freedom caucus, that's kind of a problem. the freedom caucus, they go their own way. that's what the president and his advisors are concerned about. can we get the republicans on board so if you mix with the democrats, is the feeling here that maybe you can motivate some republicans to get their act together? >> very well could be. they are pretty good actors if that's what they are doing, trying to play hardball with their own party. you bring up a great points. the freedom caucus has come out and said they do not want to do revenue neutral tax reform. that means they don't want to cut taxes and add to the deficit

over the long-term. leadership does not want to do that. conservative say tax cuts are going to grow the economy so we can add to the deficit because were going to grow. there is definitely a lot of disagreement about what the republican plan should look like. i think that's what the white house is looking at and that's why they are saying we don't know if we can get it done. we're going to need help from moderate democrats. >> trace: i have to go but i have to ask is daca involved in the talks? is there wiggle room? the president saying we can work this daca thing out. is there some talk about that as well this afternoon? >> absolutely. i think trump wants to deal on daca, he wants to do something on that. i can't say i think these two are going to be linked. tax reform and daca. they want to deal with it potentially with spending issues at the end of the year towards december. tax reform they want to move on now. from a republican standpoint, they see the two issues as separate.

however i could see from striking deals with democrats on both. >> trace: thank you so much. former national security advisor michael flynn worked on a business deal involving the russians while he was still in the white house. that's according to "the wall street journal" which shares a common owner with this network. the former army general involved in a project to build nuclear power plants throughout the middle east. this comes as two democrats say they have no evidence that flynn potentially, potentially is the key word, broke federal law. house oversight committee members say flynn may have left out information about foreign contacts and an overseas trip to work on the nuclear power plant deal when he reapplied for security clearances last year. they say they are sending this evidence to the special counsel robert mueller. let's get to our chief

intelligence correspondent catherine herridge. >> thank you. committee democrats first wrote to flynn's business partners in june. based on the evidence they received, they are asking them for additional information about the contacts in the 2015 trip. we have a graphic. it reads in part "since these violations carry criminal penalties of up to five years in prison, we are providing your responses to special counsel robert mueller." it goes on " maybe not anythin. the prompter is busted and i can't read the quote with no glasses. the bottom line is the democrats want more information from the business partners of flynn. they believe he may have deliberately left out information on his security clearance form in order to conceal it. that would be a crime. those close to flynn's say if

there was an error on the paperwork, it's a paperwork error blown out of proportion. >> trace: what do we know about the investigation of michael flynn's son? >> that came up today. white house was asked whether they are aware he's under investigation. michael g flynn worked along his father during the campaign. their work is focused on russia as well as turkey, part of a number of congressional and federal probes. >> it was reported michael flynn jr. is subject of a federal investigation into election meddling. is the president concerned that someone who served on his transition team is the subject of a federal investigation? stick i haven't had a conversation with him about that. i refer you to outside counsel. >> it matters because he traveled with his father to russia as part of a paid speech.

this is the famous picture of flynn sr. sitting at dinner with putin. in an interview with nbc news, he played down, put in play down the contact. flynn has always maintained this trip was fully briefed to the defense intelligence agency. he was the head before and after the trip. clearly the democrats on the committee feel it was not specifically referenced in his security clearance paperwork and they feel that may have been an effort to shield the business activities. >> trace: catherine herridge live in washington. while the the trump administran is stepping up its attacks on the former fbi director james comey, the white house accusing comey of breaking federal law. judge napolitano says comey has

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>> trace: the white house making it case that james comey might've breaking the law. >> the documents were created on fbi computer. he claims they were private property. they follow the protocol of unofficial fbi document. leaking memos regardless of classification violates federal laws including the privacy act, standard fbi employment agreement and nondisclosure agreement all personnel must sign. i think that's pretty clean and clear that that would be a violation. >> trace: president trump fired comey in may while he was overseeing the investigation into russian meddling and potential collusion with members of team trump. comey said the memos were not classified and that he did nothing wrong by sharing them. let's bring in the judge, judge

andrew napolitano, fox news senior judicial analyst. great to see you. i guess what you're saying is that former directors comey, you do not believe broke the law. >> i have not necessarily benefit and of his. i have argued aggressively, agreeing with mrs. clinton, that is inappropriate entry into the political campaign two weeks before the election was wrong and shouldn't have been done. i have also argued he shouldn't have recommended she not be indicted in july of 2015 because there's a mountain of evidence of her guilt. what sarah huckabee sanders summarized yesterday. at the worst-case scenario for jim comey, if everything she said he did his true it's a violation of internal justice department protocols which is meaningless if you are no longer an employee of the justice department. at worst, it results in your being fired.

he has already been fired. none of it is criminal. the leaking of the memoranda to his professor friend, former prosecutor buddy, was not a crime because as we understand it, those memoranda did not contain national security secrets that had been classified. his decision to seek the exoneration of hillary clinton before the completion of the criminal investigation is the type of decision that's made in almost every criminal investigation. the prosecutors know at the outset whether they want to indict or not. they pick which way they want to go, and then they gather evidence to support the choice. none of this is criminal. >> trace: i want to get your take on the turf war fits growing between the department of justice and congress. the doj is not allowing the senate to interview a couple top fbi people involved in the comey firing. is that a sign that the special

counsel robert mueller is investigating the firing of james comey? >> yes, it is. it's also indication that the special counsel is moving a little quicker than we thought he was moving. and it reminds us that he who has the power to indict can bigfoot he who has the power to embarrass. bob mueller can bring evidence before a grand jury and indict someone. congress can investigate all it wants and report all at once and all they're going to do is embarrass somebody. if bob mueller has witnesses whom he needs to bring before a grand jury and perhaps before a trial jury, he's not going to let those witnesses testify before a congressional committee where he can't control what the questions and answers are. this is very, very telling about the broad latitude that was given to him and the seriousness with which he is zeroing in on targets. >> trace: you say this

investigation might be moving more rapidly than we had anticipated. seems like we haven't heard robert mueller's name in the news for the past several weeks. it would surprise people that you say this is going at a breakneck pace. >> they are well disciplined and unlike other justice department investigations where reno was gone before a grand jury and we have an idea of what they said, dead silence. radio silence from the team. that means they are going 18 hours today moving towards a goal and that would be a series and of indictments of people around the president. you can figure out who they are. they already rated paul manafort's house and they have a year's worth worth of financial documents from jared kushner 'of people. they will try to flip the people enter them into witnesses against the president. that's the standard m.o. for justice department prosecutions and that's what bob mueller appears to be doing. >> trace: judge andrew napolitano, good to see you. >> good to work with you.

>> trace: guess who's back? the ex-governor of illinois giving his first jailhouse interview. wait until you hear how he spends his time in prison. next. definitely doesn't have that... you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™ liberty mutual insurance.

>> trace: the ex-governor of illinois, rod blagojevich, talking about life behind bars. he gave his first prison interviews to a chicago magazine and local nbc station. he served five years of his 14 year term for trying to sell president obama's senate seat. he tells the magazine he mopped the floors in prison. he says he doesn't have any bad blood for the "people who have done this to me." julie banderas is live in new york. >> observations, rod blagojevich

still maintains his innocence. he likes to talk about himself and he still has all his hair. he's no longer the lustrous brunette he once was. but still his -- his wife and kids see them three times a year. speaking for the first time since his sentencing, the former illinois governor talks about his job title, tells a local reporter in chicago this. "i have been given the jurisdiction to sweep and mop two floors. my jurisdiction has shrunk. i don't care what anybody says. i believe in clean government and clean floors." currently serving a 14 prison sentence.

blago is in a penitentiary in denver. he received a warm welcome once inside. a care package with supplies. the two-term governor adamantly maintains his innocence. >> trace: live in new york, thank you, julie. we will be right back. lease the 2017 nx turbo for $299 a month for 36 months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. can we at least analyze can we push the offer online? legacy technology can handcuff any company. but "yes" is here. the new app will go live monday? yeah. with hewlett-packard enterprise, we're transforming the way we work. with the right mix of hybrid it, everything computes.

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respond to your incidents. i am trace gallagher in for shepard smith. "special report" with bret baier is next. i will see you back here with martha maccallum and tomorrow. >> bret: "special report" starts at the u.s. treasury department. we are coming to you from the diplomatic room. in a moment, i will speak with secretary stephen the notion about tax reform and other issues. first, the other stories making headlines today. authorities in florida say eight patients at a sweltering hollywood nursing home died in the aftermath of hurricane irma. police chief says the depths appeared to be heat related. air conditioning not working there. more than 100 people evacuated from the facility. elsewhere more families are returning to damaged or destroyed homes. we will go live to florida shortly. university of