"We could see millions of people without power in Florida for multiple days"

“We could see millions of people without power in Florida for multiple days in some areas, maybe weeks, and so I think it’s very important to set the expectations of citizens,” Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Brock Long told CNN’s Rene Marsh at his agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., Saturday. “This is why we ask and plead with people to be ready for multiple days, and unfortunately this is coming into reality.”

Asked for a specific number of those who could lose power, Long said, “You know it’s hard to speculate, but some of the estimates could be 5 million people without power based on this, you know, south-to-north trajectory, and it’s not just Florida; it’s going to be moving into Georgia as well … over the next five days.”