and the rest of the cousins and friends. don t know whenne er ithey rg to open the road here. all right. i ll try. i love you, dad. i love you, dad. fema has warned it might be weeks before power in florida can be fully restored, while temperatures in parts of the sunshine state are expected to be in the 90s. cnn s kyung lah has been making her way to the lower keys, live for us right now in big pine key just east of key west. at least eight people in that part of the state died during hurricane irma. that number remains in flux. it is a challenge for crews going door to door searching for more potential victims. reporter: because they still have so much to go through. remember, the lower keys is not open yet for residents so those door to door searches are still ongoing. what we re talking about here are houses that have been destroyed, like this one. this resident has got to work on
feeling the love? are your eyes dry, itchy and gritty? blurry vision at times? grab some face time with your eye doctor and show your eyes some eyelove. welcome back. tomorrow president trump will visit storm-ravaged florida where millions remain without power and millions are suffering in the oppressive heat. damages have been estimated from hurricanes irma and harvey upwards of $200 billion. joining me now, white house budget director mick mulvaney. director mulvaney, thanks for joining us. devastation from irma and harvey, remarkable, horrific. yesterday cnn s martin savidge toured a section of houston where possessions are still strewn about on the street. homes are likely a total loss. the damage estimates for hurricanes harvey and irma may come up to $200 billion, as you heard me say.
half, roughly to mid-october. at that time i think it would be appropriate to see what money fema would need to get through the medium term, maybe the end of the year. i think by the end of the year we have a chance to start looking at the really big numbers of what it will cost to repair and rebuild both texas and florida. will those funds need to be offset by cuts in other parts of the budget according to president trump? one of the things that we did, jake, last week was try to make sure that the amount of money that we got to fema was large enough to get the job done but small enough to prove to people that were handling the money responsibly. i think one of the things you saw i was involved with the sandy discussions two years ago was that this huge $60 billion number came out without a lot of backing to it raising questions about what the money being spent properly. i think what you ll see both from governors in texas, florida, and the president say, look, let s look clos
is the white house going to be willing to pay for some of that? absolutely. keep in mind, my folks live in key west so i am hearing the same stories out of florida at the same time. in fact i think in florida there are still situations where we re still doing search and rescue. but yes, as we move beyond the emergency situation that s still where we are. priority right now is still taking care of the people who need it right away. we will start to do things like measure the damage. i haven t heard that $200 billion number until you just mentioned it, but it is going to be a significant amount of money. yes, the federal government is going to step up. keep in mind those numbers that you hear oftentimes are the total damage numbers, not, for example, the uninsured loss or things that are covered by federal programs. it is really too early for a bunch of different reasons to start focusing on specific numbers. we re going to, because of the action of the house and senate, the white ho
virtually all of them relying on generators to meet the needs of residents under their care. jake, speaking of those generators, we took a look at some florida inspection reports. of course, these facilities are inspected by the state on a regular basis. i m going to read to you from a february 2016 report. the emergency generator, which is a temporary generator, had not been replaced, nor had plans for a permanent generator installation been submitted. then in december 2014, when tested, the remote alarm the remote generator alarm located near the nurse s station failed to function. in other words, an alarm for the generator. if not maintained, the emergency generator may fail without the staff being aware. now, these two violations, the state says, were corrected pretty soon after the violations were cited. jake? elizabeth cohen in hollywood, florida for us, thank you so much. the president hosting chuck and nancy for dinner at the white house this evening. what political