the power has been out across the st. augustine area overnight. we estimate about 10% of people waking up with power along st. augustine. the bridges connecting much of these coastal cities remain closed because of those high gusting winds, actually looking out into a marina here in st. augustine. the people who left their boats behind. those are still bouncing up and down. we can t get close enough to see any damage. we do see debris, though, flowing through what our streets looking more like rivers this morning. monitoring the damage, live in st. augustine. back to you guys. all right, alex, st. augustine such of jacksonville in north florida. bill karins, an update out of jacksonville? yeah, we just showed the reporter there on the beach there. the winds that are current. we ll take our weather one computer and so you the wind field of the storm. the storm is currently located just north of cedar key.
into. he also said that around 90% of the city, miami beach, lost power. they re trying to get that power back. they re trying to assess the damage. again, the recommendation is don t think that because the sun has risen and the rain has stopped here in miami people are out of danger. a minute ago before we came on the air with you we saw a man with a surfboard in his car headed to the beach. he said to catch waves. not what officials want to be looking at in miami beach. it s a delicate situation because of the downed power lines and the flooded streets. even though miami beach didn t get the brunt of hurricane irma, it impacted the city considerab considerably. we went to downtown where the flooding around the bay area reached up to my ankles and knees by about 1:00 p.m. yesterday. and also the situation with the cranes. two cranes collapsed because of
came through here hard. there is no two ways about it. we re evaluating this morning. crews, we sent first responders out last night to do a little bit of assessment. there is a lot of water damage. there are neighborhoods that are flooded. we have no power. and there s going to be a lot of work that needs to be done. we ll do total assessments today. unfortunately, that storm surge did not get us or it would have been catastrophic. did you have good reporting, mr. mayor, of how many people were left behind? do you essentially have a list you re going through as those first responders go to check on folks? well, we re pretty we re very fortunate in naples. we haven t heard of any injuries in the city. there were a few e-mails i
were unable to respond to since 1:00 a.m. this morning. our first responders have been cleared to go out and start clearing the calls. we have not heard of any reports of serious injury or death. that s the most parent part of the story. important part of the story. what about damage? we have what you want expect, a lot of trees and power lines down. trees on houses. right now we have about 30,000 of our electric customers out of power. about 50,000 county wide. half our traffic signals are out. all things that we planned for and expected from the storm event like this. it s our job now to try to go out and get those things repaired and get our customers back with power as quickly and safely as we can. other than power and getting the crews out there, and i know this is a huge deployment, they had so many people prepositioned from the power companies, not just from florida but other
this this is a tropical storm. my computer automatically changes and tells me it s now down to a tropical storm and not a hurricane. we ll await the official word. and then we re going to see it and take it as a patrotropical . i think.wind damage will wind before alabama. yes, i m getting a confirmation. the computer was right. we did see this dial down to a tropical storm. so, that s good. we continue to knock the winds down. 70 miles per hour tropical storm, max gusts possible, 90. we still could get power out with this. as far as life-threatening, the st. john s river, we re showing you the picture there, we can go back to jointown jacksonville. that st. john s river travels for some good 60 or 70 miles. there s flooding on that whole river. that s going to be a problem for at least five more hours? high tide at 12:36. that water is going to struggle