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>> thank you for having me. >> i really appreciate it. so this hit just before midnight. i can see behind you just some of what the storm has left behind. what are you seeing as the light of day has come and the light of day, what are you seeing now in your city? >> theres a lot of destruction. we were even seeing it even with no lights and power lines down. you could still see the destruction last night, even. and a lot of trees down, power lines, roofs blown off buildings. windows out. cars on...

Happened, in 1956 they rented out to various entrepreneurs. there was a shoe warehouse, there was trucking companies, guys who were restoring cars. >> anthony: so how long has it been like this, though? >> al: most of this damage happened within five years. >> anthony: within the last 5 years? >> al: yeah. >> anthony: wow. >> al: china had this olympia effort, and scrap metal went to a high price, so people come in here scrapping. they took the windows out, they just destroyed everything. >> ant...

House. the engineer said, i thought you wanted a hurricane house. we took it off. i wanted mo eed an overhang. we took it off. the eves and everything we could do that way we did, trying to make it a survival. we took windows out. instead there is concrete there. we did put the gulf view in, but the rest of it not so much. >> we put in hurricane windows by custom windows systems and those are rated for 140 wind, four pound projectiles. they did their job. >> how much more did it cost? >> the pre...

Atlantic beach area? >> we have a lot of older beach houses and a lot of newer ones. i just -- i just dont know. i dont know how to call it. i was 3 years old when hazel came. it hit at a category four. you know, that had happened with this hurricane and it would have been completely devastating like hazel. the fact it came in as a two, you know, im feeling better about it. i really dont expect buildings to be completely torn down like hazel did. i think some roofs and windows out. things like t...

Its larger than hazelle was when it hit in 54. those are the two benchmark storms for the carolinas. so just because youve seen a little bit of weakening in the winds doesnt mean those wind fields arent growing larger and going to affect a larger land mass. this is still a serious storm, a dangerous threat as we go into the next couple of days. >> all right. i have sam champion here. what do you have for brett adaire? >> so, brett, i think you made a huge point for these people because there is ...

Fields arent growing larger and going to affect a larger land mass. this is still a serious storm, a dangerous threat as we go into the next couple of days. >> all right. i have sam champion here. what do you have for brett adaire? >> so, brett, i think you made a huge point for these people because there is only one time that i have ever been forced out of a shelter, and that was a category 1 storm, brett. its exactly what you just said. is that it stayed over us for 20 hours. the building was ...

But the windows are fairly high off the ground, thats why they were using a ladder that police were presumably able to get up to them and get some people near those windows out. james, at this point, or at what point do the authorities try to make contact with any hostage-taker? and i need to remind our viewers, so far what we know from the lapd is just a simple tweet, where they said this is an active police incident at trader joes near the intersection of hyperion avenue and griffith park boul...

>> anthony: within the last 5 years? >> al: yeah. >> anthony: wow. >> al: china had this olympia effort, and scrap metal went to a high price, so people come in here scrapping. they took the windows out, they just destroyed everything. >> anthony: the place is pretty much open to anybody who wants to come in here. >> al: sure. theres a lot of urban explorers and people shooting music videos, taking pictures. oftentimes you see a wedding party come here and, you know, they use this as a backgroun...

Amazing public servants. i want to go to breaking news in st. louis. have a great weekend, sean. we will take you back to the streets of st. louis right now. we are going to will carr who is down in the middle of that group. will, is this growing as the night sets? >> well, i said 30 minutes ago two groups converge. we have a massive group out here. they werent able to get on interstate 64. so they have doubled back. we told you how they were in front of the hospital here. they have taken up bot...

Amazing public servants. i want to go to breaking news in st. louis. have a great weekend, sean. we will take you back to the streets of st. louis right now. we are going to will carr who is down in the middle of that group. will, is this growing as the night sets? >> well, i said 30 minutes ago two groups converge. we have a massive group out here. they werent able to get on interstate 64. so they have doubled back. we told you how they were in front of the hospital here. they have taken up bot...