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Pretty good shape. the biggest concern is probably getting the power back on because the wind and the heavy rains took down a lot of poles. the ground was saturated, theyve been getting rain for days here. theres a lot of work left to be done in comparing the infrastructure, not just here in volusia but across the state where millions of people are without power. >> jon: we are seeing some of the footage that your crew shot of the flooding in the streets. as most of that receded now or is that s...

Of hurricane irma but the city is still faced with a huge laundry list of issues in the storms wake. mike tobin joins us now from tampa. mike. >> reporter: jon, the way one police officer reported to me in the early morning hours as the storm had evaded this town, at this time got lucky. now theyre trying to get back to normal. we watched as the boards came down from the windows in the stores opened up. the damage out here not as expensive as was. but the damage really came into forms, or exist ...

After andrew, there were new building codes in much of florida, but does there have to be a focus on reconstruction and where residential areas can build? >> i think we know a lot more now post-katrina in 2005. people thought that was just because we were below sea level. now you saw houston. you saw sandy really hurt the northeast and now you see florida devastated. these storms are going to continue to come our way. we have to build more solid, we have to build better. as you can see, each one...

Still a big system, no longer a hurricane but there is your center of low pressure there, what once was irma continuing to spend, looking through portions of georgia. its really become a rainmaker as it will doubtless direction. everything youre saying here, the darker colors, that was getting up to 8-10, in some cases 12 inches of total precipitation. you add that on the east side and thats where weve seen a little bit more of this high water. the storm surge and the flooding from the rain has ...

Hours but weve seen costs getting up to 55, 60 miles per hour. we still have some, even as system continues to spread they are very consistent in the 30s and hour after hour of that and then you begin to see some damage. im sure thats the case for folks in portions of north georgia stretching over into alabama and the carolinas. heres the radar, pay attention to the time-stamp. all you will see is a very slow move up to the north and then just a spreading out. by tomorrow im thinking were going ...

Thats where wed seen the most severe weather with the system as we speak and actually thats where we will continue to see the most severe weather. overnight tonight, even though the wind damage has been widespread across the southeast thats where these individual cells have been the strongest. that low-pressure system just to the south of atlanta right along the state line, the movement of this is going to continue to be to the north and the west. lets put a track on this and keep it moving. win...

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Are too difficult to get into. so 3-4 feet of floodwater and some mobile home parks very severely damaged as well. >> jon: we are seeing a lot of the video in your crew shot and there is a lot of standing water on the ground. in that rainwater runoff from the inches of rain that the hurricane dumped or is there some saltwater storm surge in there as well? >> reporter: there was some storm surge, it did not reach the 10-15-foot, not even the 8-10-foot mark, but in the run-up in the first wall beg...

No current models are bringing it to the united states shores but the fact that its turning this way, its got all of our attention. this is one we are going to be paying attention to. >> jon: is it expected to get a lot stronger? i see the ones on those locations. >> its going to stay in one and we are also expecting winds to capture it right here and send it out to sea. the fact that its moving that direction as weve seen, sometimes the traction can change. it makes us a little nervous. >> jon:...

Like this is the mosquito population. i was it tonight? >> not too bad, im from south florida, they are okay. we definitely had to use the spray but i think maybe a couple more days might be a different story. >> jon: they will be hatching with all that standing water, thats for sure. bryan llenas, thank you. hurricane irma delivered a surprisingly large punch to daytona beach, florida, on the east coast and quite a ways north where we join rick rick leventhal. >> there were a lot of streets and...