and back with us here in miami is david halstead. talking about the military assets poised to help. obviously, fema likes to preposition resources as close as they can. but when you have a storm this size that is going to hit as big an area of florida, that has to be extremely difficult. >> yeah. we've done exercises on this. the challenges with the hurricane coming up, you didn't drive resources staged to go south. that's why you have to have aircraft, because what may happen is for south florida, they're going to have to supply teams and supplies in, while teams further north are waiting for the storm to pass to respond south. >> and also just in terms of fema has search and rescue teams that they pulled from all over the country. are those assets already in place in florida? >> a lot of them are already staged, but they're air transportable. so i would imagine what fema is doing is looking at this from the stand point how do they get teams hardest hits and fastest. and two of those teams are based in miami. miami-dade county has o

joining me now cnn correspondent, david halstead. vid you got mandatory curfew in miami until 7:00 a.m. in terms of mandatory responders what are they concerned about tonight? >> i think the mayor of jacksonville said correctly, we're really still in that life saving mode. we're still looking for people that might be trapped or caught in a lot of areas. in miami itself, we're worried about people going after dark perhaps looking to do things they shouldn't be doing after dark. the curfew's in place to protect the businesses downtown, the isn'ts and homes that have been damaged. it's important that people obey that curfew and stay off the street. >> we were talking to john about getting power back online, in some places authorities say weeks and weeks. explain the difficulties that entails. >> well, you've just talked to the leadership in key west, they said it correctly, they're going to need support and supplies now. why? primary because of that electrical system has been dropped off. so it's very difficult to get that power grid bac