Transformers Blowing News Today

Anderson cooper in braden florida, where the winds have really picked up significantly just in the last ten minutes or so, they are really starting to whip here in downtown by, by the river. I just want to get a sense of sort of the wins. Its sort of hard to tell when youre actually in it you get a sense in the light over there. Theres just been a steady downpour of rain and you can see it there. It reflected in the light as i was talking to erin in the last hour, there is a lot of along the riv...

morning, particularly in the areas that were hard hit, just understand, this is still a hazardous situation. those folks that were in there, in the wee hours of the morning, were taking big risks as first responders navigating this. you have power lines that are down. you have trees that are down. you have a lot of hazards right now. we do anticipate a lot of the water will subside in some of the barrier islands and some of the coasts, but some of those inland places off rivers and off...

Spotted them, two power trucks and were still in tropical storm force winds. theyre not going to be up on top of poles, but its the earliest ive seen power trucks rog into a coastal town while youre still getting tropical storm force winds. theyre not getting up on the poles until the winds are done, but theyre in position and ready to go. maybe you saw yesterday as this storm was making landfall here, that the eye was coming down and we were in the eyewall, we had transformers blowing all over ...

Type of condition was happening when we were down there we would have been stuck. theres no way we could have gotten out. and it pains me to know there were people still coming down there, don, when we were leaving to just look at things. they told us they were here just because they wanted to see us. im not super tiny. again, im almost six feet tall. the wind is really starting to move us along here. it is powerful. and we are four miles inland now because we had to get to higher ground. to giv...

You are right in the middle of it. >> reporter: we certainly are. the wind picking up. we are getting 70 mile an hour winds, the rain coming down. transformers blowing and even here, standing here, i have counted 4 or 5 times the sky lit up with. colors of blue and stir guys diminish turquoise as it comes into this area, duke energy expecting 1 to 3 million people in the carolinas. power outages approaching 300,000 more or bring the power back on. this storm is not to be messed with. do not go o...

Here. now where brian todd was talking about earlier and i want to show you the east coast. this is whats interesting. youve seen the video, transformers blowing. south of sebastian, north of west palm, the st. lucie nuclear power plant had a wind gust of 99 miles an hour. thats quite some distance from the center. that is that onshore flow that continues to be quite strong in the feeder bands as we watched them come in from the atlantic and sweep around so again, theyre the same bands that plow...

No significant flooding along bayshore boulevards but that does not mean it will lot have been. it is still not a bad idea to come on in your house to check it out. a little bit of rain and some cast nothing compared to last night looked at the video that we shot last night. >> it is midnight here 61 miles per hour with a wind gust we are dealing with the rain and the wind but it can be pretty strong. we have seen a ton of transformers blowing. >> we shot that to give you an idea what the reside...

Here. it is being felt, has been felt here in miami since yesterday, since weve been standing here. weve been having these relentless wind gusts, sustained winds of 40 miles an hour and wind gusts much higher than that, not to mention the torrential rains. out there is miami beach. less protected even than we are right here. in over the last half hour, weve had this light show, an unfortunate light show out there on miami beach. transformers blowing. we saw a string of them blowing, starting dow...

>> rest up it is going to be a long night. in florida city. >> joining us a principle as crane spotter.com, a condo constructing -- it looks like theres transformers blowing, i know youre staying in the area because you want to focus on miami and see how things are holding up. doesnt seem that well at the moment. >> well, im sitting here at 22nd and disdain boulevard anybody who knows miami, they might have saw a movie called something about marry mary, that house is located behind me. ive been ...

Florida, standing by. gabe, whats happening there? >> reporter: hey there, brian, little hard to hear you, of course. we are really getting pelted right now. the wind isnt hitting me directly, but if my cameraman, aaron sassman, can zoom in behind me, you can see the debris here in downtown naples. the wind has really knocked several limbs off several tree branches down and weve seen power lines down, transformers blowing. this is getting to be the worst of it here in the naples area. the nation...