million customers in florida without power and it could take weeks which is something we ve heard from officials, as well and an interesting note from tom bosser, the two areas of acute concern for the administration are the florida keys and jacksonville, florida, also where we ve seen terrible flooding just over the last few hours. i don t think you could pick two points in florida further apart than jacksonville and the florida keys which just shows you the scope of the devastation from hurricane irma. let s go to jacksonville right now if we can. kaylee hartung is in jacksonville and has been covering this flooding and the images that we ve seen from this, kaylee, have been astounding. what s it look like now? reporter: john, the waters of the st. johns river is still rolling into downtown jacksonville. we are two blocks inland from the st. john s river. the good news, i m not standing in water right now. i am standing on high ground and
prestaged with eric trump before hurricane irma arrived, they have started working and restoring electricity to homes and businesses last night. there are still a lot of people without electricity, about 1.5 million households, two people for household. no electricity, no power, no air conditioning. about 900,000 remained. still a big job, utility crews moving just like the work crews, coming in with the buzz saws, chopping the trees down, quickly pushing over to the side of the road, moving onto the next job. shepard: phil keating in miami, let s go to jacksonville where the local station, this is cbs 47 jacksonville. this is right in downtown jacksonville, the st. johns river runs right into downtown
storm chaser. wind gusts reached 130 miles an hour there. a local official called the destruction in parts of the key as humanitarian crisis. police have blocked off u.s. 1, the only way in and out of the keys until crews can expect the damage and make sure bridges are safe. a look at the path now. the national hurricane center says irma slowly weakens as it moves to south georgia and continue to memphis. could bring up to 15 inches of rain in parts of the state of georgia. today irma s tropical storm force winds extend totally more than 400 miles. let s go to jacksonville where the waters have been rising much of the day. peter doocy is there now. what is the situation, peter? looks like the water has started to recede. it started to leave the streets and go back into the banks of the st. johns. there s a big deep mess here in
september 11th, police, fire, emergency responders are out there doing their work for our citizens. i would ask everyone to be thankful for them, the final work they do. beyond that, ask everyone to be calm and we are going to dry out and cleanup. everybody help your neighbor and cleanup. were going to be back to normal in short order. mayor john teck lindbergh, i appreciate your time. shepard: the last bands of the storm should be moving out shortly. let s go to jacksonville where locals are reporting from the beach, villanova beach in st. john s county. horrible damage. listen. 15-foot walls in this house fell right over. different perspective. we were up on the cliff looking
uninhabitable for weeks or months. it s remarkable. when you look at that you look at that satellite picture and you can see the upper left quadrant of the eye wall, dangerous energy that that particular part of the storm and it just hugs the coast there with all of that energy, for the latest from the hurricane s path, let s go to jacksonville, all the up the east coast, rosa flores, we re looking at the pictures as the satellite imagery is frightening for how powerful the storm is. 120-miles-per-hour winds, 213,000 people in florida without power. what are you seeing where you are? reporter: you know, you mentioned this hurricane is now a category three, but the latest that we ve got from the city here is they re expecting it to hit as a category four here in jacksonvil jacks jacksonville, and in fact they ve practically closed down the airport.