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Here. >> of course. yes. >> this is your church. this is your congregation. the before and after, seeing those pictures, is just startling. you see all of this around you tonight, and what do you think? >> yeah, its surreal. like earlier they were saying that a bomb went off. it feels like that with all the trees down. im standing here in the parish hall. this is where we have our services after our masses, and we have our bookstore to my right and as you can see, cinder blocks. we have, you kno...

You see what it did to the grocery store and office building, exploding the cinder blocks and building all around me. panama beach was vulnerable. we were told 6,000 chose to ride out the storm. joining us now is mike thomas, the mayor of panama city. thank you for being with us. we are glad you made it through the storm. give us a sense of how your city is doing. >> we are doing as good as expected. it is beautiful. we weathered that real well, and being on the west end, i have been through sev...

This is where the western eye of the storm passed over. the winds were sustained at 100 miles an hour with gusts of 120 miles an hour. thats bad. thats enough to knock walls down, knock buildings down, tear down trees and power lines everywhere. the building behind me made of cinder block of brick, it was blown to smitherines here behind me. it is worse as you move east. the center of the storm and the eastern eye wall bringing more ferocious winds and storm surge. one of the communities were le...

More information on that. meanwhile, a remarkable story here, the devastating aftermath of hurricane michael. i am standing outside what was a grocery store and also office space in panama city, florida. this is where the western eyewall of the storm passed over. we were standing or trying to stand outside through the worse of it, and i am not trying to be trite here, but you know the story of the three little pigs, this was not a building made of straw or wood, but it was made of cinder block...

I am standing in the aftermath of hurricane michael. the storm passed through a little east of here when the eye made landfall. it was two miles per hour short of a category 5 storm. the most powerful storm to ever hit the panhandle. we know two people died already as a result of the storm, a man here in florida and an 11-year-old girl in georgia. trees fell on their homes. just to give you a sense of the power of the storm here in panama city, i am standing in what was some kind of office groce...

Panama city, florida. you can see what it did to this grocery office complex behind me, just shattering all the cinder blocks, twisting the piping and turning the wood into splinters. driving out here, trees down and power lines down, and as far as we know there are two deaths related to this storm, a man here in florida and an 11-year-old girl in georgia when trees fell on their houses. after sunrise we will get a much better sense of some of the damage that was done. i spoke to somebody from t...

Surge. 9 to 13 has been the forecast all week. thats when it was a cat two, then a cat three. now were cat four, heading to 145. that 13 may be shy of what is going to get into the bay. power outages will be absolutely widespread. millions without power for a long time. >> it was 1:00 a.m. when the florida governor said get out now if youre getting out. it is now 5 in the east. is it too late to leave? >> not if youre running from the surge, no. you need to get out of there. the surge will kill ...

Necessarily because they were trapped but because they simply had no shelter. the roofs were torn off their houses or they were otherwise so severely damaged they were uninhabitable. now what we can show you here is another roof torn off this house, the whole side of it over there where the cinder blocks are was also ripped away and you can see some of the debris just inside that sliding glass window there, you know, again, these houses are just in shambles, and there are also dangers here tonig...

Director louie cuccalinni is with us. and brian todd, whats the latest where you are? >> reporter: wolf, were able to assess the damage. look at this house where the rough just got completely ripped off. youve got cinder blocks there toppled over. now were going to show you this house over here. this green house. look at that roof, completely torn off there. we had video from earlier showing this actually occurring as the roof got completely torn off. were still getting some pretty strong gusts....

I was going to get a big free weight, throw it up against the window. and i was gone, man. but they searched us and found everything. >> fred mitchell has tried to escape three different times. he actually had 75 feet of rope which is pretty impressive. there is an officer gym room with free weights. he said he had codes to the door but the code changes i believe once a month so the likelihood of actually being able to get into that room are slim to none. he also tried digging out the caulking i...