 and is now zeroing in on the western coast of Florida apparently about to hit land somewhere south of Tampa St. Pete we're looking at somebody who knows this story so terribly well from so much experience. Senator Rick Scott Republican of Florida and a current Senator Bozo a former governor. So thank you so much Senator for being with us. You've dealt with more than your fair share of these. What do we know about this one. Well what's scary about this one is the storm surge the amount of water the rain we're going to see and the West Coast has a lot of low lying areas. Some older homes. So you've got to be you've got to be really worried for the people along those coasts. I know we have great federal state and local teams working hard starts with everybody you know being careful. I know people are trying to do that. I've been talking to sheriffs and police chiefs and mayors and FEMA state officials. Everybody is really focused on making sure everybody's safe now. And as we get through this then they'll be able to go in and help. Anybody needs help. This is not just a coastal event that we have to understand that this is going to go up through Orlando. It's going to go up through Jacksonville. We're going to see a lot a lot of wind and a lot a lot of rain. So you just have to be careful. So you as I say you have more than your fair share of hurricanes down in Florida. Give us your sense from governor and for that matter now as senator what can be done to prepare for them. Are we doing enough or have we done it just about as much as we can do. Well I think every time you go through one of these you'll learn something. I think every you know where we where you have risk and some of the older homes where you have risk is people that don't take this seriously or they're they're new and they don't really understand it. So I think that's where you're your risk is we've got to just continue to harden the state. We've got great emergency management teams at the state and federal and local level. They you know my experience has been people work well together in a time of crisis like this. So but you know right now it's it's really hunker down. You know if you if you if you're here you're going to stay close to where you are now. You've got to hunker down go through this. But if you're further out if you're away from the coast get prepared. 70S the waters seven days of food. Assume you're going to lose power. Hope you don't soon. You're going to lose water. Hope you don't. But don't take a chance to get everything you need and just assume you're going to have to be by yourself support yourself for at least seven days. So Senator I wonder through the years in your experts are these getting worse. And I guess there are a couple possibilities here. One is climate change which seems to be leading to more extreme weather and the other is a growing population in Florida. I guess congratulations. You're attracting a lot of people. But I think I saw today Tampa has gone up something like 26 percent from 2010 to just 20 now. Well you don't know what it is. It sure seems like it's getting worse. I mean I had four four hurricanes while I was governor. So you mean you look at it and you have to say what can I do to prepare for this as one. You make sure you do everything you can to deal with any of these issues and you'll learn something every time. So I hope it's not getting worse but we all know the climate is changing and we got to be. We've got to be cognizant of that and do everything we can and and have good zoning laws and building codes and all those things. And when you find a problem you know make sure you don't have it twice. There's a lot of talk about partisanship on Capitol Hill and in Washington. Is this one thing is bipartisan. Is there bipartisan commitment to address this. Well I hope so. You know. You know the way I look at life is that we're up here to solve problems around. Governor we're there to solve problems. It shouldn't be a partisan issue to solve a problem. I know that my relationship with FEMA has been very good. I talked to the emissary of FEMA yesterday and the southeast director of FEMA. The I've had a good working relationship with them. I hope everybody continues to do that because this is about keeping people alive. I always say you can rebuild that house but boy you can't rebuild a life. So keep yourself safe your family safe. But first responders in harm's way because you you've got yourself in a bad position. And if we all work together we're going to come out of this even stronger. One last one. I know that you're up there dealing now with a continuing resolution to keep the government open. I believe there's some disaster relief money in there as a practical matter. Are you going to get that continue resolution done. I think the consumer resolution you saw the vote yesterday when you took out what Joe Manchin was trying to do was able to get over 70 votes for the motion proceed. So I assume we'll get that continue resolution done in the next day or so. So Governor I'll stay open. I hope we figure out how to not be doing this at the last minute constantly. And my goal would be that the continued resolution go through the new Congress. But I always see what happens. But I'm you know I'm very hopeful that government will not get shut down on that on September 30th. You mentioned that Joe Manchin a provision on the permitting of reform. Do you expect that to come back. Because there were some Republican as well as Democratic support for some sort of permitting reform. Oh I hope so. I hope that we have a real conversation about how do you deal with you know the federal governments involvement permitting. What I know is if you want to grow jobs if you want take care of the environment you've got to you've got to have logical laws. But you gotta you gotta let people continue to grow their businesses and create more jobs which gives you opportunity to actually do more things for the environment. That's why I did as governor of Florida. So I hope we're able to do some permitting reform hopefully able to also make sure we can become more energy independent. So those things are really important to the country. In the meantime we always hope for those people down in St. in Tampa St. Pete and throughout Florida actually could be affected by this storm. Thank you so much Senator for being with us. Really appreciate it. Senator Rick Scott Republican of Florida. Coming up we're going to talk with Ford CEO Jim Farley about their new super duty line of trucks. They are very big trucks with very big engines. He's going to tell us about what they do that the other ones did. That's coming up next. On balance of power on Bloomberg Television and also on Bloomberg Radio. This is balance of power on Bloomberg Television Radio. I'm David Westin Week talks with Ford CEO Jim Farley about the announcement today of its new line of super duty trucks. Key to the market position enjoys with trade customers and whether they might ever go electric. But we started by asking him what is different about these trucks. David you have more towing more hauling you know more power out of the motors. We have four motor options but I think the real change here is the technology. It's the first truck to have 5G integrated. We have also two trailer features. Even you can even set the navigation to a preferred route for four trailers because that navigation would be totally different than our retail customers. So it's really investing in technology. We can now ship software to this truck where we haven't before and our competitors haven't. And that's becoming a bigger bigger issue or opportunity for us. We have a Ford pro-business and our software sales are growing about 40 percent a quarter because we can ship software to the car. What about electric vehicles. Is there going to be a version that there's electric fields ever. You know look we're we're in the number two electric brand in the U.S. right now thanks to F 150 lightning and many of our other electric vehicles. And so there are there are truck customers who find that electric going. Electric is interesting. The last customer would probably do that would be a super duty customer. As soon as you know most 90 percent of our super duties are towing heavy tooling like ten thousand pounds. And for a battery electric vehicles not it's not a great vehicle. It's up. So you wind up sacrificing range a lot like cut your range in half with towing. So this is this is not the kind of vehicle that we would use for electric. We don't think the segment's going electric anytime soon. So when you bring a new vehicle forward like the super duty do you have to take into account in a way you didn't before the supply chain. I mean do you actually engineer the product to some extent to anticipate a more resilient supply chain than what you had in the past. It is a great question because there's no more complex if you're number one in the super duty business. It's all about complexity in this business you know bucket trucks and cabin chassis and 250 450 650 zeal a very complex business different axle ratios all sorts of different features. So the number one thing we can do to limit that risk is reduce complexity. We've been driving down complexity as well as going to almost 100 percent order to delivery. We don't really deliver vehicles off of inventory and the dealers anymore. We shipped directly to the customer through the dealers. Now a specific order so they they order their own truck. And so we can have visibility of of the supply