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This is the sixth one weve seen fall from that building. this is what -- the third one weve seen on the ground, and its just tons of shards of glass that weve seen throughout the area. this is why officials do not want people on the streets, because frankly, the time at which you can probably get hurt the most is right after the system. there is still tons of debris around. the city of miami is sending out five recovery crews, essentially. debris crews to see how much debris is -- to evaluate th...

Here. you can no longer see because of the rain. i dont know if you can see this, but you see the down over there. can you see that? now the wind is really starting to pick up again. this is what we see throughout south florida. the type of wind that can tear down certain trees. a area with tons of trees, already down there. power lines down. this has been a sustained way now for about that bad. intermittent but not like this at all. about our in house ever since we started the show with you guy...

To bring tons of wind and rain. we are standing in the middle of cyprus creek road, one of the main thoroughfares in ft. lauderdale. im going to take you across this abandoned street here, brian, and show you what weve seen. we have some newly downed trees right here. we have some pretty significant swaying of signs, and what you need to know about this area is that this is the outer band. not prevented some pretty significant damage, major winds, pelting rain, and ft. lauderdale continues to be...

Like a propearl, i get it. does it keep going faster and faster like a propearl or is there a ballast adjustment or some type of mechanism to keep it under control regardless of the force against it? >> youre getting out of my pay grade but from seeing and experiencing it personally it doesnt necessarily rotate based on the speed of the wind. it will just sort of go in motion, sort of controlled. >> and the -- if it falls, dot, dot, dot, god forbid, these things are hundreds of tons of metal and...

Stations all over south florida. now trick, really, one, finding a gas station thats still opened. two, finding a gas station thats still opened and actually has fuel. >> that is the challenge here, and a lot of people, theyve bought the to try more than once. it takes them three or four times until they find the gas that theyre looking for. we seen in self gas stations tempers flare, in some instances, cops had to be called, you know, this is a very tense time. people are stressed out. theyre t...

Focused on working with local authorities and working with groups that have more limited resources. one of the things we noticed about harvey was that all this effort came in there, tons of resources, assets moved into houston. which is amazing. i have never seen anything like it. but a lot of that was focused on houston proper there were a number of outlying areas hit hard and still under water right now. the goal to outreach doctors right now are going to be focused on. so agencies that have m...

P.m. tonight. i expected the shelves to be empty. there was tons of food there. tons of supplies. i filled up a shopping cart. it was very orderly. there was a chevy security present as well. the people were calm. a lot of people have heeded the evacuation orders. and those who are staying, seem to be heeding -- they understand the seriously. sometimes in hurricanes, you know, the night before, you see people staggering around. theyve had a couple. we have seen a little of that in miami beach. p...

Needed enough gas that i couldnt get any in key west. >> where are you headed? >> im headed to. some relatives in lake mare rry. i need this far to get to orlando. i have enough if i cut the speed back a little bit from 70 because i get better mileage at 65. >> you know, best of luck to you. im glad you left the keys. thats the message we have been local wall to wall coverage here. we have been telling people the keys, they need to get out. this is the situation here as you can tell. tons of peo...

Propertyve property dvenlth and we got together people all over the country and they moved 60000 tons was relief to south florida. and you know what, there is aisson in that. it is not waiting for the government to save the turbs. it should be done as a coordinated effort between private and public. and sometimes i think, tuck, maybe because the government stepped in and we depend on them to take care of things in situations like this, that maybe we are too dependent. >> tucker: people seem leak...

>> reporter: now, i tell you one issue here in the center of the state, lake okeechobee may not be the storm itself but the rain it will dump. it is a slow moving storm and dumps tons of water on the lake and the watershed north of it, it could threaten those 143 miles of levees protecting all that water from spilling out and it could have a massive difficult astdisaster on our hands where were standing now. wolf? >> miguel marques reporting for us. femas acting deputy administrator katie fox is...