Rick Scott: 4 Million Customers’ Power Restored So Far

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SCOTT: "We’ve got flooding up in the northeast. We’re working hard to get our power back on. We’ve restored — our utilities have restored over 4 million homes already. We're down to about 25 percent of our homes. Every person in our state wants their power back, we all want our power back, but I want to thank them for what they’re doing so far. We have high expectations and we want our power back as fast as possible. I want to thank the federal government for all their support. As soon as our ports reopen, we get our fuel back in our state. We’re short of fuel. We still have lines at our gas stations. The federal government is going to partner to help make sure our ports get open so we get the fuel back in the state. We have done law enforcement escorts of our tanker trucks to get back to the gas stations to make sure we have fuel. Everybody has worked hard and I want to thank our National Guard. We called up over 8,000 National Guard members, we have National Guard members from other states here making sure shelters were open, people were comfortable. We opened almost 600 shelters in record time."