as you know, wrightsville beach is where this storm first made landfall, 7:15 a.m. this morning. martin safrbage is there, we had problems communicating with him before. i want to check in, see if we can talk to him now. martin, what s the situation there? i m wondering if you were on the air or awake at 7:15, what it was like when it made landfall? we were awake. we were aware. the impact was strong. i will tell you that you do not see where we are significant damage in wrightsville beach, but let me put a caveat to that. we re just before the bridge. we can t go any farther because law enforcement has that bridge closed, and that means that right now, you just can t go in to see. but from looking across, when there was a lull, you did not see significant damage to either the many vessels that are there or the homes and businesses along the intercoastal. it s probably a very different
that is brave 18-year-old emma gonzalez, a student who survived the florida shooting. speaking moments ago at an an anti-gun rally in ft. lauderdale, florida. she s live with cnn s martin safrbage. martin. hey, ana. you know, this rally was organized by adults. it was put together by a number of politicians, but it was very evident from the beginning, it was student voices, voices like emma gonzalez and david here, who really delivered the most powerful message. you just went off. and but it was in such an emotional and deeply moving way. where did that come from? my heart. i don t want to be a sap, but yeah, i have been thinking of that stuff nonstop ever since before the election, all the news about the election coming forward, all the information coming forward about the current president, and i went off because i was given the opportunity to go off.