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Get to these impacted areas, and my heart goes out to everybody impacted by this. i wish this had never happened. >> yeah. two reasons to stay off the road. number one, you dont know whats on them. there are power lines down, trees down everywhere. the emergency crews need to get out everywhere we can. we are getting a sense -- again, we couldnt get the drones up yesterday. it was too windy and too rainy. now that it is light out, we are beginning to see the scope of the devastation. what you ar...

>> we appreciate the effort you put into this and the warnings you have given people. it is frustrating for a lot of people on the gulf coast. cell service is spotty. they want to get the message out that they are doing okay. i want to go back to you in new york. now that it is light out, it looks even worse the damage thats done here. where there is not debris, there is trees down, leaves down. we have seen convoys of aid. they have their work cut out for them. >> it is stunning to see your bac...

Weve got a lot of debris. we have a lot of downed power lines. about 360,000 homes and businesses without power. just remember there is a lot of trees in this part of the state. it will take us time. we are trying to clear i-10 right now to get the roads up as quickly as we can. stay in your house. listen to the locals. be safe. dont do anything foolish. weve got a massive flow of rescue workers coming now to help you. >> speaking of brock long earlier was talking about the frustration that he h...

Unbelievable. they did rescues during the night for us. we have a massive flow of search and rescue highway patrol, national guard, utility workers pushing their way down to these impacted areas, and theyre doing -- were doing everything we can to get all the resources we need. my biggest concern, of course, would be loss of life. and i want everybody, everybody to think about this. you survive this unbelievable storm, stay safe. dont venture out unless you have to. listen to the locals. weve go...

It? >> its just devastation here. like i said, the end of the beach that were on, we didnt see this much. but when we came across halfway bridge it was like coming into a war zone. everything looks like it exploded. its insane. >> all right. so what was it like? what was it like for you as this storm was bearing down? >> it was scarey. it was real scarey. >> terrifying. >> you heard the winds, the rain. the trees were literally bent over in half. we took cover for like two and a half hours in a ...

And our locations of structures in the future. >> senator bill nelson, senior senator from the state of florida, thank s for being with us this morning. thank you, sir. >> thank you, john. all right. there is, believe it or not, a new 8:00 a.m. update on michael. no longer a hurricane. still, though, perhaps damaging and a threat to some parts of the country. lets bring in chad myers. >> still capable of bringing down trees. it went right over the augusta national golf course, now going over s...

Florida. alisyn camerota in new york. around me is the aftermath of hurricane michael. one of the most powerful storms ever to make land fall in the united states, period. the wind speeds for 125 miles an hour and the damage is expensive. now that it is light out, now that we can venture out a little bit, we are getting a sense of how bad it is. you can see behind me this was a grocery store, an office building made of cinder block that is just smashed into tiny, little bits. the wood is all spl...

That was report and that was at the air force base. >> its been a while since we have been able to check in on folks who are familiar with florida know what a great town it is. a great downtown. its all about boating and fishing and mariners. its a beautiful place to live and work. you did not want to be there earlier today. gabe has been able to establish contact with us again. how are they doing down there? >> reporter: now that the wind and the rain and the worse of it has passed, were hearin...

Much. the wind has started to die down here. the water was really rising as we were leaving downtown. that really started to take on water. there were several rows in that historic downtown that were under several feet of water and that water was still rising. the concern here again, local authorities has been the massive storm surge. were in the east of where this storm was making landfall. were on the dirty side of the storm. the worst of it was about an hour, hour and a half or so where it wa...

We lost that signal again. that happens in hurricanes. thats right outside of where lester is. you can imagine it becomes hard to maintain signals with modern technology that weve got. >> i cant stop thinking about florida especially parts of this region are rural. we know what a large senior citizen population exists there. >> large retired population. its not a complicated built up part of florida. its not like going down from west palm beach and ft. lauderdale and miami and down to the keys. ...