the coast right now. we were just talking a half hour ago you mentioned power outages we are now officially out of power. we just lost power 5 minutes ago, the reason you can see me is we have two vehicles pointing their headlights at me. this is what it looks like when one of them is turned off. this is what we are dealing with and we did see up here from charleston, a slew of power trucks heading this way so i know they were expecting this and they were prepared. they put the town on mandatory curfew at 9:00. police officers were pulling people over on the way in and asked what we were doing. we said we were covering this for fox news.
to get assets in place. i saw one of the caravans, power trucks as i was leaving florida a couple days ago. yeah. ali, thank you, my friend. do appreciate you. have a good weekend. lets bring in craig now, former fema director of florida emergency as well. thanks for your time on this friday. the biggest challenge is right now in the areas that we just saw, areas along the north carolina coast there. well, it s going to be power restoration. both of these states have unfortunately been through this several times the last couple years. and i think for the majority of the area, the high winds, power lines, and trees down are probably going to be a lot of the damages when you get off the coast. so if you can get the power back on quickly, that s going to take care of most people. then you can focus on what s going to probably be a couple more days of getting roads reopened and getting traffic and supplies back into some hard-hit areas. but, again there is a part of the country where
power, but not nearly as many as they have prepared for because, a, we have been talking about it for a week. they have relocated the power trucks, fema, national guard. so everyone is ready for a response. cape hat rouse is the first place since the bahamas where it made landfall. it has had a remarkably different characteristic. in the bahamas it was all about the wind on the east coast. it has now become about wind again and storm surge are katie is. so probably the analysis here, hallie is that this storm turned out in the beginning much worse than anyone expected. but for the carolinas, largely people had evacuated. they have been prepared to move in and execute any rescues. we haven t heard about any in this area. but get the power restored to people missing it. that will be a key thing, ali. jay gray knows that as well. a little south of you in
direction shifts, it s not so bad, but here s it s gotten really bad. just to explain to our viewers, we set up in a position where we re comfortable working. and you never know when the wind shifts if you re going to be in an okay spot. so you re going to hear some debris as it passes over me. forgive me as i nervously keep an eye over my left shoulder. the day started with tornadoes. it s finishing with the threat of this deluge of rain. and now, as you can hear these wind gusts getting up to what we think is about 70, 80 miles an hour, the river behind me will peak again in about an hour and a half. so flood is continuing to be the top concern amongst officials. when you talk to officials, this is not their first rodeo. this is the second hurricane in less than a year. the last one separated the city for four days. the interstate was under water and nobody could get in or out. they ve positioned people, mostly power trucks, on the outside of the storm in safe
places, and they ll get those power trucks in as soon as this wind dies down. about 75,000 customers from duke energy in the state of north carolina without power right now. when you talk to officials here, brian, they ll tell you one of their concerns is, last year people couldn t get back to their houses, so they re worried people stayed behind in this storm whereas they would have normally sort of there it is, yeah. where they normally would have moved on. right? it s a little bit unnerving. that s when you you talk to officials, that s the concern there. again, just for folks that haven t been through hurricanes, when that wind shifts, boy, it is really frightening because you think you know the cover that you have behind a building, anden the backside of that storm comes in. i heard your interview with the mayor there of carolina beach. what we re seeing now is that storm is switching and that wind is switching. so what happens is the debris that was carried one direction is now