going to get no closer than tha that. there still a countywide curfew in effect that runs from 10:00 p.m. until 6:00 a.m. in part because of all the debris on the roads and all the cleanup left to be done and because there s 150 street lights that are still out in volusia county. a lot of intersections are pretty dangerous. you have to stop at those there s no sign, so you have to stop at the stop lights and a lot of people are doing it. they re trying to keep order, there s a lot of cleanup left to be done. jon: and two-thirds of the state without power as we are. i imagine that the case they re entitled to beach too. it s about that number. maybe even a little bit more. hundreds of thousands of customers were knocked out. there were a lot of utility trucks staged here in the area, hundreds of them at the speedway, we are now seeing those trucks heading out to try and repair these lines. at the winds have died down, the rain has stopped. there was a lot of work to be done.
they re going to be okay. and one of the most tender moments we ve seen of our coverage was a family that came back to see their business levelled by this 120, 130 mile per hour winds as they came through here. their first order of business, beside removing the sandbags was to put up the texas flag. we talked to the owner he said i want to give hope to the community here. we are here, strong, and we re going to come back from this. there s a lot of cleanup left. you can see how much cleanup there is to do. i mentioned there is talk of shutting down this town entirely, revak waiting the people who are still in a shelter and moving them somewhere else. the national guard has shown up, as have neighboring counties and across the state. folks hit really hard there. i remember talking to the mayor yesterday who described what a
the nation, john, appreciate it very much. and all the best to you and your family. thank you very much, sir. shepard: a staff photographer for the daily oklahoma newspaper if you want to follow them online they are good, newsok .com. jim becksome a staff photographer there and he just reported in that at least six semi trucks on their side at a way station on i-40 west of that goes along with everything that we he have been hearing. i just have gotten from kokh our television station there reports of people who were helping and volunteering with the moore cleanup left the area several hours ago because the last thing they wanted to do was be caught up in another one of these weather events. looked like that is what the situation was going to be and certainly moore, oklahoma which is just a few miles to the south of oklahoma city is very much in the line of fire. and this line of thunderstorms