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Last couple of hours. >> what about power? power outages in the number of 200,000 that were seeing so far. some locations have not seen any loss at all. what have you seen? >> were one of the lucky ones. were at a hotel here that kept its power. the power would sort of flicker on and off throughout the evening but basically held. yeah, those power outage numbers that have sloedsly and steadi - slowly and steadily cropped up throughout the corpus christi area, but we still have power. >> the wate...

Shes a hero to me, her name is erin, also works here. >> had your wife in a wheelchair. >> yeah, to help push her down. >> 90 minutes earlier she was delivering a baby. >> pretty much, three, four hours, right before when everything took place. as we get down there, the lights start to flicker on and off, and they kept telling us just kind of keep calm. we were on backup generators. with that being said, lights eventually went out. my wife was still under medication from delivering the baby, so ...

Flicker on and off and that swaying very abruptly turned into just a very violent shake and thats when i stood up and headed towards my doorway. >> so you saw his picture. you may not have recognized his face, but his singing voice you would recognize that is former "american idol" contestant, came close to winning, his name is elliott yamin. he was caught in the middle of the chile quake. we will hear from him. we have been saying hawaii dodged a bullet. did they really? there could be aftersho...

The lights were starting to flicker on and off. and then that swaying very abruptly turned to just a very -- just a very violent shake. and thats when i stood up and kind of headed towards my doorway and opened my door, of course, just to see if anybody else was doing the same and if anybody else was out, you know, in the hallways and i was kind of yelling out earthquake, earthquake, get out, get in the doorway. >> you were yelling to people, earthquake, get out? >> i was yelling very franticall...

Scariest night and morning of your life. tell me what happened from the moment that this first struck. what did you feel? where were you? what happened? >> well, i was -- it was about 3:20 in the morning. i was on the sixth floor of our hotel in my room. at my desk, coincidentally go figure, i was actually tweeting at the time that the earthquake struck. and it was just, you know, obviously without warning. it was a very abrupt kind of swaying back and forth. and then -- >> swaying as in the bui...

Recovery effort. >> reporter: good evening, brian. some mixed news out here in key west. actually, some surprising news, really. were out here, were looking around, we can see lights starting to flicker on and off. in fact, the place where were staying right now, we just saw the lights come on, so for a while people were being told it could be days, possibly weeks before the power was going to be restored. were definitely seeing some parts of the city re-energized with electricity at this point....

Tonight with a late live update of the damage from hurricane irma and remember, entire islands in the caribbean, entire islands in the florida keys, have been cut off. even though this was a weekend event, we are still uncovering, discovering and unearthing the damage and human suffering going on there. nbc news correspondent gadi schwartz was out in it from the start of the storm. he has made his way to key west, florida, tonight. gadi, i know its quite literally true, everywhere you look, you ...

The extent of the damage and the recovery effort. >> reporter: good evening, brian. some mixed news out here in key west. actually, some surprising news, really. were out here, were looking around, we can see lights starting to flicker on and off. in fact, the place where were staying right now, we just saw the lights come on, so for a while people were being told it could be days, possibly weeks before the power was going to be restored. were definitely seeing some parts of the city re-energize...