Hot with a Chance of Alligators: Florida is in a sweat as millions of people wait for their power and air conditioning to return. The state built on air conditioning is going to be an unpleasant place until its residents can cool off. “Power, power, power,” Gov. Rick Scott said. “The biggest thing we’ve got to do for people is get their power back.”

About four and a half million customers are still without power. As many as 50,000 utility workers are trying to re-connect the state. It could be 10 days before large parts of southwest Florida gets power back, while temperatures are expected to run in the 80s with humidity up to 70 or 80 percent.

The hurricane damage is widespread and extensive, but down in the Florida Keys, the Federal Emergency Management Agency estimates that 25 percent of houses on the archipelago are destroyed and 65 percent are damaged.

The Russia Thing: While attention is focused on recovery from two devastating hurricanes, all is not quiet on the Russian front. Several reports say Special Counsel Robert Mueller is getting closer in his investigation of possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 campaign.

Mike Allen writes for Axios that, “Republicans close to the White House say every sign by Mueller — from his hiring of Mafia and money-laundering experts to his aggressive pursuit of witnesses and evidence — is that he’s going for the kill.”

The Trump campaign has begun turning over documents to Mueller. Several outlets this week reported that Trump lawyers wanted son-in-law Jared Kushner to resign, because he may have some legal exposure in the case.

After the revelation that the Russians set up fake social media accounts to sway online chatter in Trump’s favor, Anne Applebaum asks in The Washington Post, “How did they know how to target their ads? Perhaps they just got lucky. Perhaps they just happened upon broad networks of people who were willing to click on their conspiracy theories and pass them on. Or perhaps they had some help. Certainly the Trump campaign had this kind of information.”

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon told CBS’s Charlie Rose that Trump’s biggest mistake was firing FBI Director James Comey, and Mueller may use that firing to accuse Trump of obstructing justice.

Allen says, “Trump associates tell me Trump mused about firing Mueller. But now, one associate said, the damage would be as horrendous as ‘firing the Pope.’”

Five and Out: After long denying accusations of sexual abuse, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, 62, announced his resignation yesterday after a fifth man, one of his cousins, accused him of sexual abuse many years ago.

Murray is openly gay. “While the allegations against me are not true, it is important that my personal issues do not affect the ability of our City government to conduct the public’s business,” the Democrat said in a statement.

Nation: A Pennsylvania judge threw out charges of involuntary manslaughter against an Amtrak engineer driving the train in a 2015 accident that killed eight people and injured 200. Judge Thomas F. Gehret of Philadelphia Municipal Court said the engineer, Brandon Bostian, 34, bore no criminal responsibility and that it was “more likely an accident than criminal negligence.” — Authorities in Ferguson, Mo., abruptly and without explanation threw out five-year-old minor charges against Fred Watson, a black man arrested after sitting in his car to cool off after a basketball game. Watson was charged with failure to wear a seatbelt and six other offenses. His case was cited in the review of the Ferguson police department after the Michael Brown shooting as an example of police targeting black residents. — Eric Trump and wife Lara welcomed a new son, Eric Luke Trump, the first grandchild born during Donald Trump’s presidency.

The Obit Page: Edith Windsor, whose lawsuit went all the way to the Supreme Court helping to clear the way for same-sex marriage, has died at age 88. Windsor’s first wife died in 2009 and Windsor was charged an estate tax of $360,000, which she would not have had to pay if she had been married to a man. Her lawsuit toppled the Defense of Marriage Act, which denied same-sex couples the same benefits as hetero couples. She sued mostly to get the money back, but also won equality.

Tech Talk: Apple revealed its iPhone X. First tip, it’s the iPhone “10,” using the Roman Numeral, like the Super Bowl, which is now out of Xs into “L” for 50. Omnia Gallia divisa in tres partes est.

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