Gov. Rick Scott is taking emergency measures to make sure Florida’s nursing homes are safe after eight people died in an overheated assisted living facility this week. 

The Hollywood nursing home where eight people died after Hurricane Irma says it tried to call Gov. Rick Scott’s office three times before the first death at the facility, the latest in finger-pointing at the governor and the state’s largest electricity provider, Florida Power & Light.

The popular home-sharing site, Airbnb, has decided to lend a helping hand to Floridians left homeless post-Hurricane Irma, offering up rooms and entire homes to those displaced from the catastrophic storm which made landfall last weekend.

Florida universities climbed on U.S. News and World Report’s annual college ranking list, with the University of Florida cracking into the top 10 ranking for public universities while UF and the University of Miami ranked in the top 50 of colleges nationwide. 

Eight people were dead in a Broward County nursing home left without power post-Hurricane Irma.

Florida gubernatorial candidates continued to reel in the dough during the month of August, with Republican Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam leading the way in campaign fundraising while former U.S. Rep. and Democrat Gwen Graham wasn’t far behind. 

State officials continued to survey the damage left from the powerful storm on Tuesday, with Gov. Rick Scott making stops in Jacksonville and Ft. Myers as Florida recovers from the catastrophic storm which made landfall over the weekend.

Hurricane Irma made landfall on most of Florida Sunday, pummeling the state with high-speed winds, heavy rains, dangerous storm surge levels and leaving millions of Floridians without power as the weekend drew to a close. 

South Florida was placed under a hurricane warning and the remainder of Florida braced itself for Hurricane Irma’s fury as it continued its westward track Friday. Irma, a Category 4 storm, is expected to make landfall in Florida by Sunday morning.

Floridians hoping to flee the potential danger from Hurricane Irma were left with few options after several airlines reportedly price gouged tickets out of harm’s way, forcing airlines to respond and do their part to help fleeing Floridians.