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And the prayers and thoughts are with those people right now. but, jim, the experience of being out here is similar to what i experienced when i covered hurricane rita and wilma. those were category 5 hurricanes. the wind is so intense. it literally nearly takes your breath away. it really does. it can knock you off of your feet if youre not steady. thats what it felt like during a category 5. this is a category 4 but it feels the same. it has that type of intensity when youre out here. i know t...

What we understand the structure will have to be looked at after the storm passes. another badly hit area is houma, louisiana. thats where we join cnns jason carroll, who is just getting hammered all day long. >> reporter: it is not letting up, jim. we are now on the backside, im told, of the eye of this horrific storm that just continues to take down and beat down on houma. its been like this for the past three hours. at a certain point the wind shifts direction and we saw even more damage. fro...

About at this point or are they hunkering down? are you seeing people try to look and see whats happening. looky-loos, that sort of thing. are you seeing anything like that? >> good question, jim. a couple of things. in terms of emergency responders, i do know that a number of them are hunkering down at a secure location next to the courthouse. that is a brick structure so they are hunkering down and not going out. they are waiting for this to pass before moving out and doing any assessments. i ...

Amounts we just dont want to see. >> all of this just mind-blowing seeing these images. tom, thank you. lets go to cnns jason carroll in houma, louisiana, not far from where the storm made landfall. what are you seeing, jason? >> reporter: its not just what were seeing. its what were feeling. its this incredible wind thats been barreling down on houma for the past few years and continues to do so. were on the backside of hurricane ida, and were expected to have these types of sustained winds f...

Chad myers. what are they looking at while they are on the ground? talk about the force that we are looking at. >> they are looking at damage. they are looking at what happened to a brick structure or its roof, what happened to a wood structure or its roof. they are not looking at mobile home parks. they are not looking at really manufactured homes because they can blow over in 80 or 95 miles per hour wind. we are way beyond that. we are only going to be able to learn how strong this was by a st...

Right now in sin ton, texas, not rockport. rock part is where this eye made landfall. there seems devastation there, unclear how many injuries. let me show you here in sin ton, texas. this is a brick structure. you can see it was boarded up and the powerful winds blew through overnight. thankfully no one was in sight. most of this downtown area has been evacuated. people got out of town. weve seen emergency responders here throughout the morning, trying to keep the roads closed. we have seen a l...

Safety because of high water near taft, texas. we were trying to make our way to rockport, texas, near where this eye made landfall, but there was high water there. so storm surge is obviously a concern. right now, we are getting pelted with some heavy rains. and look at this damage here. this is a brick structure. you can see how much damage is inside. this was all boarded up. the winds came in here and practically destroyed the inside of the structure. thankfully, no one was inside. this town,...

Down, we saw a police officer. there is one other vehicle right there. you can see the wind still kicking up here and, really, some of the things weve been seeing all evening. its slightly better now than it was a short time ago. actually, that is a police vehicle right there making sure that most people are off the roads. we -- this is a safe area compared to -- you know, we saw as we were trying to drive to rockport, we ran into high water, really unexpectedly, and quickly made the decision to...

Every time. there was always another one right around the corner. >> the tcf bank at the corner of ridgeland avenue doesnt look like the other commercial buildings at this busy intersection. its a two-story brick structure with colonial columns in front. in a span of four years, this bank has been robbed multiple times, and now its happening again. two men wearing traffic vests and hard hats enter. they look like construction workers stopping in to deposit a check, but these men are not here for...

Massacre at a black church in charleston brian todd joining us now from greeleyville in south carolina an hour from charleston. whats the latest over there, brian. >> reporter: wolf see whats left of the mount zion ame church. outside the brick structure still there. atf investigators told us not long ago they sent in canine team to look for accelerants to. night federal investigators believe this fire might have been started by of a lightning strike. that according to senior officials in the fb...