Boat Damage News Today

Here in a neighborhood, a blink and a nod. this is mile marker 97. thats how they gauge distance in this part of the keys here and just about every home weve seen sustained some damage. the mobile homes, obviously, more than others and the post-andrew heavy stone construction seemed to have survived pretty unscathed, at least down here, but were dying to get down south to the lower keys, but the florida department of transportation has to inspect all of the bridges before theyre going to open up...

Department, we saw some ambulances going on and on. i dont know if you can see this damage in front of me here, but the stone houses that i can say, this is a pretty general statement but the post andrew strong structures on stilts i think those homeowners are going to be pretty relieved. theres a lot of cleanup. theres a lot of downed trees. a lot of firewood, unfortunately. not that you need it down here in the tropics, but, you know, mostly looks like boat damage, stuff that was just loose le...

Mass from sailboats. while youre talking, were looking at a street scene in miami that would be unimaginable on a normal business weekday. >> absolutely. we have already seen some of that. we were passing by this marina, and you could see where the boats came loose and it started to slam fences. we spoke to a man who spent an entire half a day trying to secure his boat with 16 lines. he had three anchors in the water, and it was tied to posts, and he tried to keep it center. he said some of the ...

But were checking in with the contacts we have made over the last couple days around. were hearing from people on the atlantic side the key largo, who are riding it out. they are losing tiki huts, seeing sheets of plywood blow ahn. no major boat damage. the if you remember from andrew, the boats were stacked by corkwood, no with you has seen that yesterday, but the big concern is what they big winds will do to the infrastructure in this par of the keys. the ocean railroad they build back in the ...

Earthquakes that have happened in japan and in chile and then there was some boat damage and obviously some waves and local damage but nothing too expensive, high emergency, i guess, as most locals would consider it. so we saw a lot of people walking around and im seeing a guy right now walking down the street. interesting. but theyve all cleared out but they were kind of like, no worries, as far as they were concerned. i think its are more the tourists and those on the beach front areas, you kn...

Watch out. want to show you whats happening here. were watching this all morning long. people parked in the cars watching the ocean, waiting to see whats going to happen. here is how things worked here. it was 7:10 a.m. that we had the first anticipated arrival of a tsunami wave and in this coastline area we are expecting anywhere from one to three feet. here specifically at westport they were expecting a 1.1-foot wave to arrive at 7:25. many people were here. they were watching. and really didn...

It will ha 40 coming up. ben becker. >> shepard: in south florida and florida city, where we are still looking at new video coming in of the boat damage that has happened. florida city and southwest miami day. homestead were kirk and hedrick came to short 25 years ago, and other looking at new damage the reporter in florida city. let us listen. >> if you find yourself into a situation where you are stuck there or trapped there and are in some need is brian is telling us, authorities are swamped....