roads have been impassable. you see the devastation. you see how difficult that is to be anywhere near. carrie sanders was actually in the storm as the eye was making landfall. there is the wind speed as i m standing next to building. i can just take a knee here. okay, you guys got it. i m going back up. this is really hard. you get the idea. that s power that s mother nature that s the power of mother nature and that s what citizens have been urged to evacuate for. the journalist you see have safety techniques as well as back up to try to deal with covering the safely. but appreciate their service. it is going to push to florida. it s just gonna come in here for a second. it is a slow-moving aspect, eight miles per hour they re bracing for two months worth of rain according to estimates that will come down in a matter of days. we it is live in naples, ali, what are you seeing in your report? outer bands, it is a dirty end of the storm. obviously, this part hit us. a
hour or more. ns last 30, 40 minutes it s gotten dialed up. you see portions of trees just clinging to i don t know what that have been flying through streets. you ll hear the sound of metal grinding from the awnings that are shaking over me right now. teen stop signs that are bolted into the ground have been swaying back and forth. certainly dangerous conditions here as well. it s kind of a good segue to talk about the power outages we ve seen throughout the state of florida. we know this is going to be one of the major story lines. 1.5 million floridians right now, customers with no power. it s about 80% of the people in sarasota county. from last check, i got to refresh the power outages u.s., port charlotte where that landfall occurred, 96.7% of customers with no power. then you think about the other things so important in the midst of a hurricane and how we cover it, health care, hospitals, people s access to help. i was on the phone with sarasota