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Since hurricane katrina 12 years ago in 2005. >> the storm is bringing strong winds, heavy rains. look at the flooding that was happening there in biloxi. this is video taken inside the golden nugget casino there and this storm is expected to weaken as it continues to move farther inland but take a look what they were dealing with there. we know that there are 330,000 customers who do not have power in alabama, florida, and the panhandle. the florida panhandle and mississippi. meteorologist chad...

Thought we were going to have a fast moving freight train coming through biloxi and talk of a category 2 with an 11-foot storm surge. we will take what we got any day of the week. if you look out there, there is a lot of debris that needs to be cleaned up and power outages but frankly we are not aware of any serious injuries or loss of life so we are thankful today in biloxi, mississippi. >> how many people do you have on standby to try to assess and clean up. >> yesterday, the state had assets ...

Waking up here, we know that nate made landfall as a category one overnight and here are some of the pictures to prove it. the biggest concern right now for some areas is storm surge but this is how powerful it was when it hit land at biloxi. >> this casino had to be evacuated. look at the cars, a couple of, still in the hotels parking garage just floating around tossed around by those water. >> the storm knocked out the walker to nearly 73,000 customers in alabama. the florida panhandle and mis...

Starting to have traffic go on this roadway. we are still under curfew here and going to be until 9:00 a.m. local time then you talk about the power outages and those are adding you. not like the storm came and went without any problems. its clear there are going to be problems. it just wasnt as bad as perhaps they feared but they are still adding things up. back to you. >> martin savidge there in biloxi, thank you so much. lets say in biloxi and bring in the public avers managffairs ma the city...

Went past. we didnt get much rain after that but the wind is still blowing and still stuff blowing around. you can see a little more traffic out here. a lot of this is still first responders those people have clearance to get to some of the areas that have flooded inside biloxi itself. there is a curfew still in effect and good reason too. u.s. 90, just walking along it. there are parts of piers. in fact, the fishing pier that used to be back there is all torn up and now large chunks are strewn ...

City of biloxi and the gulf coast when you consider here, here on the mississippi gulf coast, we had just thousands of visitors in town all week who were looking forward to winding down an event that grew people from across the country. im referring to crews on the coast where we had 8,200 vehicles from, i believe, 47 states here in biloxi. do you know before this storm struck, we had 750 rvs along our waterfront? just right there exposed to the elements! >> you had to get them out of town two d...

So we can get things back together and let the public know we are open for business and ready to move forward. this was something that could have just been so bad and it was just such -- it was a storm, quite frankly, you have to wonder if it lived up its billing and we are very thankful that we escaped the way we did. >> we have video and pictures. obviously the water doesnt move out as quickly as it comes in. any reports yet of standing water still several hours after the worst of the storm? >...

Biggest ive ever seen water spouts came on shore yesterday with tornado warnings there across the gulf coast. they are still possible today. >> they are. okay. >> chad, thank you so much. we got an update from officials in alabama. the number of customers without power now up to 50,000 there. add that to more than 270,000 in mississippi and thousands more in alabama and along -- rather the florida panhandle. we are going to -- the morning goes on, see the full scope of the damage created by nate...

Not much going on there. we spoke with the lieutenant governor there and all things going well there. in mississippi, the majority of the 330,000 power outages, they have 270,000 of them. also 50,000 in alabama and then tens of thousands more across the florida panhandle. you see the path of the storm, as chad said, this will be heading up the coast here and eventually getting to boston and just be rain by tuesday morning very early morning there. >> it is interesting to consider how far off the...

So at least its patable for first responders but not the way it was, say, four hours ago when you just had the gulf of mexico had flowed right all over. it. the concern what kind of flooding did you have on the ocean front here in biloxi and they are just starting to assess that. >> as the sun comes up there. martin, glad you and the crew are okay. you have toughed it out through a couple of hurricanes already. we hope you get home and get dry there. thank you so much, martin savidge. >> thank y...