has no power. that s 6.5 million people across the state. but john, i mean, that s the vast majority of people in 3450i78 without power according to the mayor. just walk us through the damage to the marina where you are because i ve been watching you all day and just those images of those boats piled, it gives you a sense of just the power of that water and that wind. it really does, especially considering as you just said, around sop, miami did not get as hard as it could have been. i m in the coconut grove neighborhood of miami. this marina was really, really affected by the storm surge. came up four to six feet and just pushed all these boats right under on to the shore here, one boat after the other. and it s too dark to see right now that were just krurnd against the shoreline. a little bit down the street we saw a sailboat in a baseball field. the waters have all receded now, but obviously it s going to take some time to cleanup. we were here all day and people
moving all the fla ming owes for the hurricane. people went out of their way to protect animals. these men helped save a stranded man atee. brought her horses inside during the storm. as irma moved north, it brought record breaking flooding to jacksonville. water levels surpassing the previous held record set in 1964. and in charleston, south carolina, portions of the city are flooded. the governor says thousands are without power. we re going to talk to the mayor in jaksville shortly just to get a sense of the extent of the flooding. there s a lot of water still on the ground. we re also getting a look at the dpaj now at the florida keys. irma as you know hit the keys sunday morning.
our community. and just in terms of supplies right now for residents who are there, obviously water is an issue, you know, electricity. i know cell service is out. what kind of supplies do you need? well, we need the same supplies everybody needs. we need food, water, fuel and communication, better connectivity. we plan for these things constantly, and we know we re going to have deteriorated ability to communicate, but this one has been particularly challenging with the power out throughout the keys and then having the cell phone communications and internet communications out. we ve had to degrade down to old analog pot system telephones, plain old telephone systems, and those have been working. so we ve been making that work. and some of us are old enough to remember how to do that and we re teaching the younger ones. but, you know, that makes it a