collier or county, florida, where 911 services are down as search and rescue efforts continue across the state. rachel: search and rescue efforts still underway across the state as 30 people have been confirmed dead with 27 deaths in florida alone. more than 1 million people many florida still without power. here with us today is representative greg steube, he s from the house foreign affairs committee, and, of course, he is from florida. what do you know about this leveesome because we ve been getting conflicting reports, congressman. so i talked to the sheriff and, unfortunately, he couldn t join you because he could give you an update. if they were trying, northport from police and the sarasota sheriff s department has been trying to get people out on boats and and airboats, and they were actually using that intersate area to go back and forth and bring individuals from their homes to the interstate because that was the only way to get them in and out either by airboat o
system, whether or not, when it will be back up and what the real are risk is right now with having that system down. well, yeah. 911 system is down. i do want to let people mow that there is a backup system in place. residents need to call 239-213-3000. that s 239-213-3000. that s the backup system. heir going to be working on it around the clock, obviously, but they re on it. it s going to be up as soon as possible. pete: for our viewers, you can see that phone number on your screen, pass it along if it s something, if you know someone there who could benefit from that. what causes that kind of outage, congressman? is it simply cell phone service? power? how does that emergency system go down and move to a backup? right now i m not quite suring we re just getting this all realtime, so i m not sure what the issue is. obviously, call volume is high, but we re doing everything