i spoke to a single mother with a two-year-old daughter with cerebral palsy and, wheelchair bound and has to be fed with a feeding tube, operated electronically and she has no electricity and they said they cannot accommodate her here and gave her a hotel room for the night and her next 24 hours are certain but after that, it is untern and puts a face on the absolute urgent need another power crews to get the power restored. earlier today we heard from virginia dominion power about the prognostications about getting power up and running for everybody in the region. we are doing the downed wires and a lot of this emergency work, and we are doing things that have to be done, right now. so, when you see a pepco truck you may see it for an hour or two and it runs to another stop and we are like the pony express, doing the critical that has to be done. reporter: exacerbating the problem, is the fact that there is no preparation time for the storm, as you would have in a
doing the emergency work, that have to be done now. so when you see a truck you may see it hour or two and run to another stop. we are doing the absolute critical that has to be done. reporter: a representative with the dominion power that provides much of the state of virginia they start sticking to an ambitious timetable that will restore power to everybody by next sunday. that will have been nine days since the storm first hit that people are going without power and the hot weather that is under hundred degrees is not expected to break until friday. gregg: what a tough situation. doug, thanks very much from maryland. heather: new reaction from the white house as republicans renew industrious repeal president obama s health care law. supreme court up holding the
thing. the power lines can electrify those puddles. if there s any debris around them, is that good advice? that s great advice. if you go outside you re inviting danger. debris is still falling, loose branches, and again those power lines down all over our city. it s a dangerous thing to do. this is a great day to stay inside, take the day to rest. less us do the emergency work, and keep monitoring the news. you guys are doing a good job of alerting people. how about any evacuation orders? do people listen when they were told to stay out of harm s way? you know, unfortunately not. we ve had a lot of homeless people we had to move into they have gone 41 they ve not
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basement, the building collaatpd and we came out of , but yes. reporter: you were in the basement of the south tower? no, we were in the basement of building 5 6. and i was in building 5. we had to dig our way out. reporter: you dug your way out. what was that like? scary. scary, but i was a volunteer fireman for years, so you learn not to panic. reporter: one last thing, what do you right now to try to get to those people? how long before you get to those people? we re going to have wait and make the building safe. we have our engineers here, we re going to make the building safe, then we re going to send in rescue teams. we re already breaking the men and women up into rescue teams, and they re ready to go once the building is declared safe of what s left. reporter: and how soon? we re going to do this right now and i hope soon. i hope so. reporter: is any of the builng still standing? we can t really see. i can t see either. i see what you see. i don t kn