you ve also got the uss abraham lincoln, an aircraft carrier, a destroyer and a cruiser and they are all here for humanitarian relief, positioned right off of key west. the main thing they can provide since commissioners say nobody needs to be rescued, he doesn t even think a full 10,000 people stayed in key west, he thinks most of the keys to evacuate. the best these ships can be used for his platform so you can vary in and helicopter and supplies and everybody who is down here are going to need those things, water, food, all of the essentials because finally the convoys of food trucks and supply trucks will probably start coming in today. the overseas highway runs coming down south, we have seen superlong convoys of utility trucks as well as fema convoys.
they ve been inspected but haven t been officially cleared yet, perhaps that will happen as soon as tomorrow or the next day. people are certainly hoping that in fact does. you must member that cell phone service and power is spotty from key largo all the way to key west, from islamorada to key west expect a zero cell service power, no drinkable water and a zero sewage. you can go in and see the damage but most likely, most people are then returning to head back to the mainland and stay at a hotel or friend s house, wherever they ve been writing out this very devastating category 4 hurricane irma. melissa: look at all the debris around you. we heard a small may be is down there as well? what are they doing? it s a small strike force.
melissa: just incredible. when you look at the water in jacksonville, that was one place people were not talking about. jacksonville wasn t even really on the radar and as the storm rolled in, look at that water flooding the streets. jon: the i came ashore pretty close to key west, jacksonville is a five hour, maybe six hour drive away from there, on the northern end of the state. the eye came ashore on the southernmost part of the state, this is a monster storm. look at all that water. melissa: the jacksonville sheriff s office tweeted out. they did feel like they had warned their residence to
housing along the florida keys. melissa: phil keating s live in the keys with the latest on the destruction there. the gates opened at sunrise? some days it s great to be home, other days it is not. otherwise, it s of gorgeous day in the keys, blue, very unusual for september. this scenic highway scenery is dominated from north to south by tons and tons of debris, wreckage, and homes totally lost for good. right before sunrise this morning, the most seven-point on the the mainland, hundreds of cars lined up to finally after being evacuated and exiled from their houses for a week, finally came back home. they could come down as far as halfway to key west, they have not been here for six or seven days. today is the day, they finally
crews trying to restore access and connect the bridges. if you are in the keys, you ve seen the pictures, you re just praying everybody is alive. i ve been talking to the people down there, we are still getting the water started back up, sewage and power backup. melissa: that is really the case all across florida. heard earlier today on the west coast of florida, they were saying it could be as late as the 22nd before they get power back fully restored. they hope to have power restored on the east coast by this weekend. that is a long time when you don t have power. food is getting more and more scarce. jon: when i lived in miami i once rode my bicycle from homestead to key west, i know that chain pretty well, they are very low-lying. that storm surge came up and obliterated so much of the