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Was it today and talking to the governor how does it look quick. >> it was a tough windstorm that was more dangerous than anythingug else. i was just listening to your report the third or fourth ever in recorded history and that is exactly what it was. so to a certain extent it is so dark with a lot of electric out and there is a lot of damage we ares hearing. there will be tremendous damage. b hopefully not houses with people in them. shannon: tonight you are f at the rally in pennsylvania some...

Tough wind storm. the wind was probably more dangerous than anything else. i was listening to rick. third or fourth ever in recorded history and thats exactly what it was. to a certain extent, we dont know because its so dark. electric is out. we hear theres a lot of damage. tremendous wind damage, a lot of things blown over. hopefully not houses with people in them. >> shannon: you are criticized tonight by some for going to the rally in pennsylvania. i want to give you a chance to respond to y...

Category. certainly it was a major hurricane for a number of days, category 4. as it weakened, as it moved inland, it became a cat 1 but remember, here in the northeast we had sandy that did devastating damage. that was an 80 mile per hour wind storm and it was the flooding and storm surge that caused all the damage. then harvey last year for southeast texas, people dont seem to realize that although it was a 4 when it made landfall, by the time it got to houston it was a tropical storm. these t...

Not on the beach in myrtle beach. its unbelievable. as far as the eye can see south, southwest and northeast, there is not another human around here. just earlier this morning and last night there were people walking around, people walking their dogs sort of getting that last walk in before the storm came, but now this storm is here. it is also too windy now around here to try and make that escape because of the fact that trees are coming down as dave said. he just saw an awning thats come down....

Marianna is about 40 miles up. if you look at the map, north carolina, south carolina jets out like this before it gets to north carolina. she is at the point where it jets out. matt bradley is half the distance from me in cherry grove, about 20 miles up the coast. how is it looking for you, matt? >> thanks, ali. i was telling you moments ago about the dangers of the gusting wind. i have decided to deliberately and foolishly get into the open more and show you this. this was projected to be 60-8...

Some of the bulls eye we are talking 30 inches of rain. thats just dangerous. its life-threatening and even far away from the coast you can get that with the terrain that could be really dangerous flash flooding. precautions what it is about being prepared. >> shepard: those who rode out hugo was a wind storm chopped off the top of pine trees. all you heard for a month is chain sauce. this you are seeming to suggest is more of a water storm. is that right? or does this pack a one-two? >> probabl...

Technically blizzard warnings -- look at that. this was just updated on my map. parts of minnesota and into northwestern iowa, also, getting in on a blizzard warning this morning as the national weather service starts to update their latest advisories and warnings. by the way, winter storm warnings for denver. in order for a blizzard to occur you actually have to have snow falling from the sky, winds us is continued at 35 miles per hour reducing visibilities to under a quarter of a mile, and tha...

Upgrade our power grid? >> absolutely we should, and its a reminder other threats to our power grid like terrorism. yes, absolutely, were hoping that the trump administration is taking this into account, that were making the proper investments. that as we collect more taxes because of the growth in the economy, thanks to tax reform, that some of that money is being used to protect us. imagine what this could do to our economy and the lives that would be lost. i hope secretary perry and the presi...

Roofs. you know, the other problem, of course, is the flooding not from that storm surge which is going to be the big legacy along that coastline once were able to get out of this storm and see it, but the wind damage, the first part of the one-two punch that was dealt here. the wind damage has been catastrophic. its just smashed everything in this area that we see and, oven, the flooding in -- of course, the flooding and the lakes rising, we have at least i would say a foot in the lake around u...

Will be under the eye very soon, and i know that it is a somewhat wobbly eye. they often become a little more disorganized once they get over the land. when you look around in your general vicinity there on fifth, steve, how does it look? >> reporter: it looks like a very powerful wind storm in this part of the city with a lot of debris on the roads, a lot of downed branches. im not seeing uprooted trees, im not seeing wanton, complete destruction of the kind we saw in katrina where entire build...