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obviously, there were some concerns about that devastating floods that didn t happen. but what are your immediate concerns? what are your immediate jobs this morning? well, good morning. the job right now is to handle the power outage we have in our cities. we have a lot of people trying to get back on the road and causing some traffic issues. we have about 90 people now without power. is your advice to people just stay home right now? we re actually doing a press conference telling people to stay at hopme, stay in place. just get some of the debris clear. we have our major roads cleared. just some of the side roads. people want to come out and look at their businesses to see if everything s okay. what are you seeing in term also of the worst of the damage? we heard from jacob rascon. they have seen tree limbs down. for most part are most homes intact? what we re seeing right now
can downed trees and people with their children out here. directing traffic. we re going to switch over. you can see they have the chain saws out. one-rain road. pardon? that way is blocked further up. it s blocked? thank you very much. yeah, people kind of trying to figure out the traffic pattern here in bradenton right now. they experienced the side camera. we got the people with the chain saws attempting really here at this point what they re dealing with besides just trees down is a lot of power outages. more than half of manatee county lost power, part of that 5 million without it at this point in florida going over the river, this bay area which is it s high but not over the bank, john and that s what they were really worried about was getting that storm surge. the fact that tampa bay and the fact that bayou didn t get the surge they were expecting spared a lot of people s property. the wind did come through pretty fierce and, again, it s up high. that water there but did
where are you? what you re seeing is downed trees? yes, st. petersburg, the tampa bay area, all part of the same area. these are among the homes that don t have power. they lost power yesterday afternoon. in fact, karen who lives here, told me when she went to bed, she thought that irma was going to hit as a category 3. remember, that was the worst case scenario that was still possible. that s what they expected when they went to bed. she said she went to bed with pill lows over her head. she was terrified. she didn t even hear the tree topple. we were hear watching her. she was of course just stunned and thankful that it didn t fall the other way on to her house. so there s no damage, no leaks in her house she can see. public works because it s blocking there will come out and chop it up. over here, you see another family who is here cleaning up. there s a lot of debris like that in the road. these people, among other, who boarded up their windows. this is really the worst of the
until tomorrow. even residents. if you work here, if you have a business here, they re letting you in. if you have a business card or can prove you work here. they re letting workers in to get things back and on track here. even if you re a resident, you can really come in here. they still have some live power lines down they believe. i see some, you know, first responders about to cruise through the area here. we ve seep a lot of police presence as well. people who rode out the storm are coming down today to get a look at what s going on. we ve seen folks on their bikes. a lot of people taking pictures. even just had a drone in the air above us a little earlier from someone just trying to get a good shot of damage around the area. that s the way it looks here. it s the way it looks for a good part of florida as well. the good news is buildings intact, structures intact that we have surveyed along the area. and this glass intact. so for most of these buildings, that s good. the bad new