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The eye wall hit. we have few reports from there but are expecting more. to the west along panama city beach, thats where we find the fox business network jeff flock. how does it work? >> fortunately not catastrophic damage. but as you can see its characteristic of what is happened. windows blown out. i dont know if you can see. a water line broke and water is pouring out. this is the kind of damage here, not catastrophic damage, largely because the building boom here come up buildings like this...

Weve been watching heavy surf smashing against the pilings. the pier is rated to 200 plus miles an hour. its hurricane proof. it replaced a wooden pier. its the very early stages. weve had wind gusts in the 25 to 30 miles per hour range so far. its clearly picking up. the waves in spells have been pretty dramatic against that pier, dana. right now its a very quiet eerie sort of a wait-and-see situation here. its not really raining yet and the wind is not blowing that hard but we know its coming....

You can see the new homes. we showed you them. perhaps vulnerable. depends on the storm surge. if you look at the fishing pier, the only concrete fishing pier in the state of north carolina. that thing is allegedly hurricane proof. its taking a beating now from some of those waves coming in as florence approaches. its not bad right now but we expect by 8:00 p.m. well start feeling hurricane force winds and get worse throughout the night and all day friday into saturday. were told we could be in ...

Hurricane proof window. the gun jammed. he abandoned the gun and fled the scene. governor scott is continuing his tour across florida trying to encourage lawmakers to vote yes on his $500 million massive plan. in that plan, he proposes that the state law be 21 years old to purchase again. the florida house has subpoenaed all responding law enforcement agencies for the day and the district for all information related to the massacre. theres a lot of rumors and allegations swirling here on the gro...

Reopening to the residents. folks have not been able to access these areas up until now. we saw this morning long lines of cars full of people trying to get in, trying to figure out whats left of their homes. now, where im standing right now is the key west area. if we can pan a little bit, you can see theres some folks slowly starting to get back to try to clear the debris, trees overturned. this area not as hard hit as some of the other places where weve been spending time. the middle keys, fo...

A pleasure to personally welcome you to the hemingway home tonight. thank you, craig. >> i appreciate it. next time i want a tour. well go from that to the chief of police for key west. this is chief donald j. lee. again, chief, you correct me if im wrong, but your jurisdiction includes the hemingway house. is that right? >> yes, it does, craig. >> i gather thank you heard my interview there with mr. gonzalez. what do you make of that decision to ride it out and the property itself pretty much b...

We saw an evacuation bus pull out and they did get inland. a little bit inland, you can be safe. its a much different situation, which is mi all officials are begging people to pay attention. >> its confounding. you spoke to the mayor last hour. he called this a nuclear hurricane. i mean, if thats what hes warning and you hear from the governor to the fema administrator, if you are in a flood zone, you need to get out, why would anyone stay there? >> well, i did speak to a man, scott abraham wit...

Theres many of them. >> we talked to a man who said hes riding it out. he seemed to be waivering. he lives on the 11th floor of an apartment building. good enough? >> not at all. even if he thinks the windows are hurricane proof, this is massive, powerful. i call it a nuclear hurricane. we have seen the devastation its caused throughout the caribbean. he should be getting off the island and going to the mainland to a shelter. if you have a pet, we have shelters that allow you to keep your pet. t...

>> neil: closing places of business, and two nuclear power plants. trace gallagher has more on that. where were these? >> we should note that both of these south florida nuclear power plants sit along the coast, both exposed to the strongest winds and highest storm surge. the reactors inside st. lucie is encased in six feet of steel reinforced concrete and theyre also well above sea level. if you go back to 1992, the turkey point power plant, about 25 miles south of miami, took a major hit from ...

We had a large storm here, we did leave. i had prebooked a hotel up in the panhandle and then another one in alabama and another one in georgia just to keep away from that particular hurricane. but i do recall that the hotels were absolutely full. and had i not prebooked i think we would have had quite a job chasing a place to say. so i thought, the house that we live in was built a year after hurricane andrew hit miami. that was in 92. and the way that its actually built is supposedly hurricane...