Storm Drawing News Today

damage to the south carolina coast where it struck today as a category 1 hurricane. this is the cherry grove pier in north myrtle beach, one of two that partially collapsed today. and just as on the florida gulf coast and later in orlando ian caused significant flooding in the charleston and myrtle beach areas and knocked out power to about a third of a million customers in south and north carolina. so weve also just received some new video in of a high wave sweeping several people off...

One of these vessels to make sure there wasnt somebody inside. and when you think about it in those terms, you see the sunken boats here in the harbor, it just fills your guts with dread. and amid all this debris right now i look down and just are reminder these are families lives were talking about. this is not -- you know, this is not disaster porn. these are human lives and these are somebodys grand babies and who knows where this came from. if you recognize these people you can hit me on soc...

Break when the storm hit early this morning. >> jon: earl ended up farther from the outer banks than forecasters had predicted so the wind was less fierce than it might have been. the storm still knocked out power to thousands and closed down the main link to the barrier islands to the main land. jeff flock was on the beach as the winds picked up. >> were now getting a wind shift with the storm drawing even with us here at nags head. we are really beginning to get sandblasted down this beach bec...