look at all the tree debris you have in this neighborhood. trees brought down lines in many cases. we also saw lines where just whole rows of them were just sort of laying over to one side. 6.6 million households. so that s many, many more people across five different states are affected by this. florida power and lights says that they hope to have most of the service restored along the coasts by the weekend. but here in palm beach county, for instance, about 53% of the county is without electricity. this is also in the interior where we are now. places like punevertheless county, lee county, fortt myers and up in sarasota there up to 77% of people without electricity. so while the hope and desire is there to get it back on by the weekend, it is a massive work
we d like it to be faster, but that s what we have to deal with. this is a wind event and surge event that is beginning now. that s why we have the flash flood emergency for the marco island area. control room, show us the weather channel for a second. there our meteorologist is at ground level in naples. 88 mile an hour sustained gusts to 131. now starting to see things slide, right? starting to see tree debris. you can barely see anything down u.s. 41. s with intensity of the wind and the rain right now. this is a category 3. this is what a category 3 is.
daphne a reporter with the palm beach post. thank you for that. we want to go south to phillip mena remains in ft. lauderdale with us. how is it shifting now with all the rain and wind? reporter: it s still pretty intense. it s coming in waves but they are re frequent and they are more intense. one thing i noticed, some of these palm trees behind me as the morning as gone on they re getting thinner and thinner. they re losing branchs left and right here. we know we re seeing a lot of tree debris. we notice that pool, that parking lot that s kind of looking like a pool now, the outages we mentioned they are now in the six figures for both broward county and miami dade. we have a quarter of a million people in miami dade without power and ft. lauderdale is in broward county and they have 130,000 outages reported.
saying basically stay off the roads so we can try and clear them. i m at the corner of what was woodbridge and woodhaven. obviously you can see the street signs down. you can see the tree debris in the yard and you can see what i m standing in, which is about 12 ichlnches of water. but as far as the people here, most of them decided to wait out the storm. they felt like they ve been through before. they put shutters on their windows. they did everything they were supposed to do, stocked up on food but that still didn t stop the water from accumulating and that s really what they re going to be dealing with over the next couple days. this is what most front yards and driveways look like in the neighborhoods surroundings victoria. a lot of this debris is actually clogging up the drainage ways so we ve seen folks out here trying to pick up branches just to let the water get off the street. and this is still very early for them. they re going to see a lot more rain. as you can tell, you kn
texas. at least 11 people are reported killed and about 300 homes were damaged there. greatly complicating rescue efforts in the flood ravaged areas of texas are scenes like this. a bridge near the town of whimberly that normally sits high above the blanco river was no match for the wall of water that seemed to slam into it yesterday. up to 400 homes were also washed away, one person is confirmed dead, two others, including a fire fighter, lost their lives due to the flooding in oklahoma. cnn s alina machado is joining us with the latest. it looks like a mess from the pctures from high above in helicopters and looks like a mess behind you as well. what are you hearing? yeah, kate, it s an absolute mess. before we slow you the damage, i want to show you, see this, it s raining which is what people here don t want to see. this is what we ve been seeing. the more we walk around the area of destruction, this is what we see. piles and piles of tree debris, mixed with pieces of people s