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Douglassaccount of his own life in that lowest period in his own life. and that written account did more than any other to galvanize the american abolitionist movement to bring an end to slavery. of course, it was not fiction. it really happened and it happened as frederick douglass said it did, and edward covey was a real person who operated a slave-breaking operation at his farm to which frederick douglass was sent. now, if you go back to that initial description, dug laz douglass describes co...

Life-threatening conditions along much of southwest florida. i want to bring in adam houseley. he is one of our correspondents, and he is down in key largo. adam, what can you tell us? are the conditions getting worse? >> reporter: yeah, elizabeth, theyve gotten significantly worse the last three hours. power went out locally around 10:30 in the morning. ive got my wind meter out, were on the ocean side of key largo towards the south about 55 miles south and west of miami if you were to go that ...

This is not a category 1. if you are in the keys, you need to go. if you are in the lower elevations of miami-dade, you need to go. you already have mandatory evacuations. ive seen so many people ride this out and theyre always fine. this isnt an always-fine kind of storm. this is a storm that will have a storm surge bubble of 15 to 20 feet. its already running over the turks and caicos. your house is not safe in the keys. oceanside, bay side, whatever, get out. whatever it takes for you to have...

Its hard to find sandbags here right now. but they want to know how bad its going to be. certainly the winds will be an issue. the surge will be an issue later. not as bad as corpus christi. but its the flooding after days and days of rain like this that really has people most concerned. you can see my photographer is higher than me right now. its because he is standing on top of a seawall that was put in a good century ago after a devastating hurricane here. the seawall did its job. there you h...

Chris, absolutely. shes getting nastier as first light breaks here over key largo. were at the northern most biggest key about 95 miles or so from key west. my heart goes out to those folks who decided to stick it down there in paradise. it is anything but. were start to go see as the light comes up all the downed trees, the boats in this harbor here bouncing up and down. its interesting that force of wind quadruples as wind speeds doubles. so people who have lived through maybe tropical storm f...

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Expressway and back down, youre talking 55 miles or so from the city down to cedar beach and gilgo beach. thats where the original body was found. were going to zoom in and find out why. whats the great location of this? we know fire island off there off to the east. thats where a call was made on the craigslist that we believe was to go to a fire island rand views, well just call it. but between cedar beach and gilgo beach theres a desolate strip of land. no houses on the beach and just a bunch...

On shore. michelle franzen is there on the beach this morning and i take it this oil is everywhere. >> reporter: it is, chuck. it is all up and down from this stretch of pensacola beach all the way up to the county line. up to the north. and they have been cleaning throughout the night and again you see the crews out here. overnight they tried to bring heavy equipment. out to scoop up the tar thats washed ashore all along this way but with the water and the high tides, it makes it very difficult...

Pavement. a spot where the fireworks will e-e. occur tonight. its a change of venue. its usually on the bay side. it will be on the gulf side. number of tourists are not expected to come this year. supposed to be off anywhere from 50%, 60% and that means income is not coming in for businesses and that means also their personal bills. >> the rabbits not going to come out of the hat this month. i depend heavily on bonuses and its not going to be there this time around. >> reporter: business is say...