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Rob: soldiers missing their marks and landing in trees at camp shelby, mississippi. jackie ibanez joins us, hundreds of soldiers at the camp to train right now. >> four paratroopers stuck in trees as emergency crews work to get them down. none of the injuries are life-threatening, this all happening at camp shelby in mississippi. camp shelby is the largest training site in the nation. according to an army spokesman, 84 soldiers were parachuteing from an airplane at 8:00 pm central time. the wind...

Called operation arctic anvil. according to army officials wind blew the soldiers offcourse into a stand of pine trees. several soldiers had to be rescued. the weather was fair and aircraft landed safely. they are trying to figure out what went wrong. they posted the. we strive to mitigate the risk as much as possible. forrest general hospital was notified prior to the jump of potential influx of patients and the types of injuries to be expected and emergency vehicles were on stand by at camp sh...

Appreciate it. while you were sleeping, a dozen army paratroopers injured in an airborne training exercise. the soldiers missing their marks and landing in trees at camp shelby in mississippi. jackie ibanez joins us as we learn how many soldiers are at the camp to train right now. >> reporter: four paratroopers stuck in trees as emergency crews worked get them down. the good news, none of these injuries are life-threatening. it is all happening at camp shelby, the largest state-owned training si...

Again, i come from the coast of south carolina. its called the low country of south carolina for a reason where i grew up. and literally on the farm that i grew up on you can see areas that there were pine trees growing up when i was a boy that are now salt flats. i believe in climate change. its to me illogical to say i believe in the miracles of science in terms of what it can do to our bodies at a hospitals at johns hopkins but i dont believe in science when it comes to earth. that, to me, is...

Now on youtube on the internet. and you can find a tree expert who could tell you but pine trees strongly recommended, yes. since they have the branches. you dont want to kill a tree. that would be wrong. you dont want to kill a tree. you have to do it the right way. >> tucker: what else do you recommend? >> dandelions. >> tucker: dandy lions, yes. >> they are loly did you know they are a super food? you can have -- there is calcium. there is iron. there is vitamin a, c, and k. and they are comp...

The tree, or just generic tree bark is good enough? >> it does. there are tutorials, how to find the right tree, right now, on youtube, on the internet. and you can find a tree expert who could tell you but pine trees strongly recommended, yes. since they have the branches. you dont want to kill a tree. that would be wrong. you dont want to kill a tree. you have to do it the right way. >> tucker: what else do you recommend? >> dandelions. >> tucker: dandelions, yes. >> they are lovely, but did y...

Into a 32-feet pine tree because our ceiling was 32 feet. >> your ceiling was 32 feet and the water was up there? >> and we were separated for about two days. we actually slept in the pine trees for two days. >> you slept on top of a tree. >> for two days. >> for two days. >> yes. a quarter of a mile away, each one of us apart. >> and how did you find your son? >> two days later in the evening i hear this person calling me. >> and it was your son? >> yes, it was him. >> what was he saying? >> he...

Coast, a lot of pine trees that could easily topple. that will cause issues. in charleston, we have a surge of three feet and going towards low tide. with he get up to high tide, we could have some of the highest surge values. well watch that as we go through about 1:00 this afternoon in the outer areas to the north. it wont be as bad there. the flood risk, water kills the most people with storms, we could see up to a foot of rain to myrtle beach, georgetown and charleston. >> well check back an...

Surge. they told everyone evacuate, get out, you should be gone. and in areas of north carolina, it looks like around 2 to 4 feet. the storm moving quicker, tgs n -- its not going to be as great of a concern. camp lejeune marine base, areas of north carolina are prone to flooding with the sound areas, the pimlico sounds, and we could get 10 inches of rain in the area. just because florida has been brushed, more like tropical storm, we could have all of the facets of a storm, of a typical hurrica...

Destructive waves. patrick ottman is live for us in freeport, bahamas, with the latest. patrick? >> reporter: good morning, again. grand bahamas getting lashed by the hurricane strength winds all night long. this is what we have heard in the dark here because much if not all of this island is without power. it is a haunting and frankly terrifying scene. im just going to step out of the way. cameraman is going to show you how the hurricane is whipping around the very tall pines. these are pine tr...