The latest on Florida's recovery from Hurricane Irma.
6 p.m.
Florida students displaced by Hurricane Irma will be able to take virtual classes so they don't fall behind.
Gov. Rick Scott announced Monday that Florida Virtual School will provide remote access to educational resources to all Florida students who were displaced by the massive storm. FLVS will also provide access to digital educational materials to help the hardest hit school districts as they work to return to normal operations.
Many school districts were reopening Monday, with more set to reopen within the next week. Students unable to return to their home districts in the near future will be able to enroll in comparable FLVS classes and then re-enroll later at their old brick-and-mortar schools.
4:15 p.m.
Florida Gulf Coast University in storm-struck Fort Myers is holding graduation in December after all.
The school thought it would need to push the commencement ceremony back to possibly January because of the impact of Hurricane Irma on its academic calendar and questions as to whether the on-campus Alico Arena could host such an event.
But FGCU President Mike Martin says a deal was struck to hold the commencement in smaller bites, doing so by college. So the originally scheduled Dec. 16 date is back on.
Martin says with help of student body president Jalisa White and others, "we've got a solution that ought to be acceptable to the vast majority."
2:15 p.m.
Florida's agriculture commissioner says the path of Hurricane Irma "could not have been more lethal" to farmers.
Commissioner Adam Putnam, along with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, flew over hundreds of miles of Florida farmland Monday to view the damage.
Putnam said the citrus crop in southwest Florida is particularly devastating. The scope of the damage is more evident this week because the dropped fruit is starting to turn from green to orange, leaving piles of ruined juice oranges in the groves.
Florida is the nation's largest juice producer.
He added that some groves are still underwater, which will likely kill the trees.
Florida's citrus industry was already battling a deadly disease when Irma hit.
1:10 p.m.
Hurricane Irma is already being blamed for nearly $2 billion in insured losses in Florida and the amount is expected to keep rising.
The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation on Monday released preliminary claims data that shows that more than 335,000 claims have already filed since the storm ripped across the state.
State regulators say those claims are worth more than $1.95 billion.
Irma tore through the Florida Keys, before moving across southwest Florida and up the state. So far regulators say that more than 243,000 homeowners have filed claims associated with the deadly storm.
Hurricane Irma is the first major hurricane to strike Florida since Hurricane Wilma ripped through the state 12 years ago.
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The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services has sent more than 700 employees to treat medical emergencies in areas impacted by Hurricane Irma.
HHS Secretary Thomas Price visited Marathon in the hard-hit Florida Keys with Gov. Rick Scott on Monday. Price said he worried about problems polluted waters and carbon-monoxide poisoning may cause for people returning to the island chain.
Residents were allowed to return throughout the Keys on Sunday, a week after Irma struck.
Monroe County's director of emergency management, Martin Senterfitt, says initial estimates show 20 percent of Florida Keys homes "are not livable right now."
In a tweet Monday morning, Monroe County officials said more than 19,000 Keys households have registered for disaster assistance with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
10:20 a.m.
At least 48 county school districts in Florida will be serving free meals to all students for the next month as classes resume after Hurricane Irma.
Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam says meals will be available to students through the National School Lunch Program.
State officials say as many as 3,000 schools and 2.5 million students may benefit. The counties include the hardest-hit by Irma: Miami-Dade, Broward, Monroe and Collier.
Miami-area students returned to school Monday.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho posted on Twitter that power and air conditioning had been restored to all schools. One middle school remained closed Monday for cleaning.
In the Florida Keys and southwest Florida, students are expected to miss another week of school.
10 a.m.
Hundreds of thousands of Floridians are still without power more than a week after Hurricane Irma slammed into the state.
The state's emergency management division reported Monday that more than 407,000 homes and businesses are still without electricity. That's nearly 4 percent of all utility accounts in the state.
Large numbers of people in the badly-damaged Florida Keys as well as those in southwest Florida are still in the dark. Nearly 30 percent of homes and businesses in both Collier and Monroe counties remain without power.
Florida Power & Light, the state's largest utility, said it will take until Friday to restore electricity to most homes in southwest Florida.
Nearly 53,000 customers in Miami-Dade County are still without electricity as well.