events, so it could be a microburst or a tornado. there s adverse interaction with other buildings with the wind, it could cause higher than expected wind speeds through funneling and it could have been an error in construction, you never know at this point. arthel: you ve got about two dozen cranes perched on on construction sites in the miami area and you just laid out many variables that could come into play. the question is why couldn t the cranes be moved before the storm? good question, a lot of people ask that. these things take up to a week, each one to take down, and they take specialty contractors and there s not a lot of them. so it s basically unfeasible to get them all down in time. arthel: so mr. duckett, this is the first time the new building codes and construction requirements have been put to this kind of test. what kind of review will take place after irma? well, certainly in these
in daytona beach shut down. a sand truck blocking the lanes there. there have been power outages, lines down, 5,000 customers affected. they restored power to about 4,000, still about 1200 customers without power. and we told you about members of the fp and l restoration workforce staged in daytona beach. there are hundreds of power trucks and tree trucks that are now parked at the speedway, they re staging with hundreds of workers on standby and some of them have been dispatched to prepare parts of the power grid affected by the winds and storm and again power lines in the area were taken down which had to be repaired but they expect the situation could be far, far worse. we were told by fp and l earlier that 2 1/2 million customers lost power due to the storm so the repair will be extensive. eric: the number expected to go
want to live, and you are starting to see right now the type of flooding that is caused by the storm surge in miami. this is as bad as we ve seen it personally so far, and take a look, we ve got downed things here, and this is some of the debris we ve seen come down from that building, and this is the water that we re seeing. the j.w. marriott here in brickell. this is the hotel. the water has come down a little bit from right after the storm, based on previous reports but it goes all the way out there on brickell and about twelfth street, brickell avenue. this goes all the way south past coconut grove so it appears to be going down a little bit but not a good situation to be. in i know that the storm, at least the bulk of it has gone past miami, we re getting heavy gusts, the rain is coming down
is ahead the next few days and weeks? well, you know, for myself as mayor, as i ve said before, i am the eternal optimist and there will be a bright side to this. it s been a hellacious couple of days, even when we had an inkling that the storm might hit florida, might hit us. naples is relatively difficult to hit naples with a hurricane, and looking at the magnitude of what could be out there, well, you know, we re going to do what anybody else would do and do it with pride and we ve got a wonderful staff, good people, a very, very good city council. we ll do whatever is necessary to bring naples back to her beauty. eric: mayor bill barnett of naples. thank you, our thoughts and prayers are with you and the
avenue. arthel: bryan, this is art, you are from miami. how does it feeling there walking on the street with ankle high water and just wa you re seeing around you? reporter: it s interesting because i just came back from houston, and i didn t ride out storm, there i was there after the recovery. just began to recover. it was amazing to see houston had that flooding. i hadn t seen that flooding here, but this reminds me of it. and having been down here, i haven t seen this flooding, even with hurricane wilma. remember, we haven t been hit in a very long time. i was here in 2005, hit by katrina and wilma. many of us in south florida had not experienced a bigtime storm until now. i think in terms of the flooding, i don t remember it ever being this way after that storm. so, you know, and i was in boca raton, an hour north of here. it may not have been the 10