MSNBC: Daylight Revealing Damage Across Florida Keys

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CHAMPION: "And this is kind of what you’re seeing around the beach area. I’m standing in the middle of the road and these palm trees are down across the road. This is why right now, residents aren’t allowed to come onto the beach. Mayor Phillip Levine tweeted not long ago that they are working to reopen those bridges and allow residents to come on by noon tomorrow, and they are opening to get it done even earlier. They had some reports of power lines down. I have not seen any live power lines down, but I have seen a lot of this. And these are fairly new plantings. This is my neighborhood, Ali. This is how I know. These plantings, and in this case, where they were taking a direct line wind from the beach, these plantings still have the columns, the support columns up. So they were fairly new, they didn’t have root connection with the ground yet. So when that wind is coming straight off the beach, this is where you see a lot of tree damage here."