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for them to get on or off the island. three other bridges have also been compromised so another island, pine island is devastated and we had reporters go out on jet skis and in canoes and in helicopters trying to tell the story of this absolutely terrible, terrible situation our community has been put in. the journalists have been doing an amazing job. journalists have been doing an amazingjob. jet journalists have been doing an amazing job- journalists have been doing an amazing job. amazing ob. jet skis and biker new, amazing job. jet skis and biker new, my goodness. amazing job. jet skis and biker new, my goodness. when - amazing job. jet skis and biker new, my goodness. when it i amazing job. jet skis and biker - new, my goodness. when it comes to the power situation, what is the situation like? the to the power situation, what is the situation like? the situation like? the latest we have had the situation like? the latest we have had a the situation like? the latest we ha
we hope most of our residents did, they re hunkered down away from the wind, away from the storm surge. but we do fear there is some catastrophic damage out there that we re going to see come morning time and come when the winds abate. what s the power situation? are you still experiencing power loss there? absolutely. we have, you know, somewhere around 95%, 98% outages in charlotte county. it s to be expected with storm that has winds as strong as ian does. and obviously much of the population in charlotte county is concentrated close to the shoreline. what s the storm surge like? it remains to be seen. we re in the dark now. we haven t been able to monitor the storm surge levels. i hope it did not reach that catastrophic worse case scenario. but i fear we re preparing for that regardless. our hope is that the impacts aren t as bad as we fear, but it may very well be.
only temporary power for critical facilities but commodities for folks who need them. so what kinds of things, for example, just hearing from gabe s report, 800,000 people without access to drinking water. the power situation, of course, is a critical of critical importance. what is fema doing to help puerto ricans right now? absolutely. we re working closely with the commonwealth. in fact, administrator chris well is touching down right now to meet with not only the governor but to oversee our response and recovery efforts. we have search and rescue personnel on the ground working closely with the national guard as well as working on temporary power missions to ensure that backup generation and power support is ongoing while power continues to be restored on the island. and you know, this today marks five years to the day since hurricane maria devastated puerto rico. what has fema learned from maria that it has applied to disasters like the one we re seeing again in puerto ric
justr gas prices jus gt before the election to make you think gas prices were going down and the market was becoming a more stable. that is a ploy that is beyond sinister because it s dangerous to our national security. now, democrats are not beingno honest.ke as usual, their policies will not make your life an your life anyt specul better in any way.at this is not speculation. we re seeing this in real time. after decades of one party democratic rule in places like california, like new york , like baltimore, philadelphia, like chicago, the standard oftht living always goes down. now, nearly two years. joe biden. well, guess what? every american is nows to f paying more for gas to filill up their cars. they re paying more to hea theit and cool their homes. ng m buy re paying more foore r evey item they buy at every store that they go to. it s getting worse every day. vr anyway, here now the verythe die latest on the dire power situation in california. our very own p trace gallagher, t