go before the midterm, republicans are regaining ground on inflation, crime, and immigration. ron johnson s opponent on one of key races. and we ll show you part of katie couric s interview on the today show and share our own kristen dahlgren s difficult journey with the disease. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. has rescue workers in florida continue going door to door searching for survivors who could still be trapped. state officials reporting 600,000 florida customers are still without power and more than 160,000 are applying for fema assistance. president biden will tour the damage on wednesday. right now, he and the first lady are on their way to puerto rico showing how they are dealing with the devastation from hurricane fiona two weeks ago. darsha, you spent part of the weekend with fema task force. it was terrifying as they were going door to door. reporter: yeah, to be on the ground with these teams as they re conducting this dangerous a
was a tough one even for them. when we were with the team on the ground, we saw what is behind the scenes when you see those death toll numbers, those tragic milestones, those grim numbers going up, we watched as a team went to a home where they believed there might have been a deceased 90-year-old female. they brought in a human remains dog. they have two types of dogs. life dogs and human remains dogs. in this case, a dog named maui came through, helped narrow the search area. the dog barks when it believes that it smells the odor of potentially a body. the most chilling part of the day was when that dog barked, there was a team of more than a dozen people there and there was silence. there was silence as they then began the work. it wasn t the sort of commotion that you would imagine.
there are secondary collapses that can happen and, yeah, it is a very hard job indeed. ok, so it is a technical collapse. you have already highlighted issues of weight there. what would be their first priorities, then? well, they will have already assessed the scene, in terms of utilities, making it safe from that point of view, looking at go and no go areas, even assessing initial signs of places where voids might be. it was 1am in the morning, most people would have probably been in bed. in terms of survivability, people have lasted a lot longer than we have thus far, so there is a window of opportunity still. and then they will perform a technical search, so you mentioned dogs there are dogs like ours that do collapsed structure scenting and they smell survivors, in simple terms, and tell you where the best chance of a scent is. there are also human remains dogs, which will probably be later on in the excavation of this collapse, but
the collapse structure scenting and they smell survivors, in simple terms, and tell you where the best chance of a scent is. there are also human remains dogs, which will probably be late on in the excavation of this collapse, but they will also have to use seismic and acoustic listening, different types of cameras and also a little bit of piecing together which bit of the building was where and who was there at the time. so multiple lines of search and investigation take place, and sometimes they have to stop want to do the other end again, if you werejust stop want to do the other end again, if you were just trying to put a dog over a space or listen to it, it didn t back a new kind of have to get everyone off because it is so sensitive it will hear boots on the ground or anything like that, so it can appear slow, it can appear like people, a way i could not go back in, but in many ways that is the quickest way to hone in on the survivors viability. fiend quickest way to hone in on