p & l. they control most of the power in florida. they were up in the new york area looking at sandy and how quickly folks got their power back. most of it within 90% of a week. so f p & l came down here with some of those lessons. they put flood sensors in more than 200 substations. so that helps because if the water s getting into substations, they can protect those. now let s break it down into east coast and west coast. on east coast, we have a lot of lines down. they say and power people tell us you can get lines up pretty quickly so a lot of the east coast areas we feel good that power will get up faster than a lot of people are hearing because you re hearing that multiple week kind of estimate. so let s go west coast. because that s where this comes in real, real, real important to know. west coast areas that may have been inundated by water, by saltwater where the substations could have been flooded, those areas will take a little bit more time to get their power together. step
you get into the question of, what are you willing to trade for that so you don t blow up the deficit? mortgage reduction, state and local reduction, every one of these things has a powerful constituency behind it. if you can t get rid of all those and the corporate rate very low, it is tough. trump says publicly, this would be bad for me. but he does his taxes on the pass-through basis. and we have never seen them. so we can t know, but we are assuming that he s taxed on pass-through level, which is individuals who report business income on their taxes as pass-throughs. and they are talking about lowering that rate as well as the corporate rate to 15%. all the very rich people who do pass-through income could get a huge tax cut. there you have it. i want to ask you, steve bannon is trying to make the point, mitch mcconnell and paul ryan better get in line. who ultimately has the power here? because while mitch mcconnell is the most powerful guy in washington, president trump has
that person and said, can we come stay with you, we feel like it s more of a secure home. so they fell back to that area. they re starting to get through here. one of the things we ve seen is there are lines down almost everywhere. it s very difficult to navigate through these roads. there are boats in the roads. a lot of the marinas, a lot of the waterways, the boated flooded out and have now landed in the road so it s difficult to navigate around them with cars. so some of these areas that have been inaccessible until now, people getting out with tow straps. but very dangerous because a lot of these lines are still down and it s unclear whether or not they re going to be re-energized as the electric company tries to restore power to this area. try to help those people while you have those satellite phones. call their families. absolutely. all right, let s turn now to nbc s morgan radford. she s live in jacksonville where we have seen record setting amounts of flooding. morgan,
inside of her home just outside of the city. here in jacksonville, people are finally beginning those steps. schools remain closed. businesses remain closed. about 200,000 people are waking up in shelters across the state of florida. stephanie. all right, i mean, those images are stunning. for anyone who said maybe the storm wasn t so bad? did you hear that? two-thirds of the population in the state of florida are without power. two days from now, the shortage of electricity, the shortage of fuel, it will continue to hurt this state. the recovery is going to be brutal. there s also a ton of flooding in coastal south carolina where many people just weren t anticipating this. nbc s rehema ellis. i spoke to a family in charleston who said they couldn t get out of their house. their cars were covered in water and they simply weren t prepared for this. looking down the street, they said it looked like it was the ocean. yeah, in fact, in some
stations that just don t have power. can i go one step further? let s say you have a generator and you don t have gas. so these are the problems. that s why half of the gas stations, you can t get gas. let s go live now to msnbc s mariana entencio who spent the morning in a helicopter surveying the damage over the keys. mariana, i saw those images with you. when you think of the 7,000 or so people that stuck around, i moo en, they re going to need support. reporter: it was devastating to watch, stephanie. i literally just landed about ten minutes ago here at the airport. and we were surveying the devastation over the keys. it was hard to fathom especially if you ve been in that area of the keys before. considered one of the most beautiful areas in the country just ravage bid hurricane irma. we started our trip in key largo, then moved to con key and