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Inside the sheriff al cannon detention center, a1a, disciplinary segregation, is not unlike other jail segregation units throughout the nation. it's solitary confinement 23 hours a day for inmates who violate jail rules. but here in charleston, there is one aspect of segregation that makes it different from nearly all others. it houses both men and women. while women comprise about 10% of the total inmate population of 1,300, relatively few get into serious trouble. >> we never have more than three to five females at a time. so to take up an entire housing unit for just females doesn't seem to...

In touch. we'll be back to you in a little bit. alisyn, we're in between bands and it's starting to pick up. why don't we do this together and get to chad myers and get the latest on what's going on with the path. >> chad, are you with us? >> i am. i'm just looking at jason's location. he's right there on the cape on route 1, not that far from a1a. here's whatti we're talking, i just heard the cocoa beach mayor talk about, the winds are shifting. going that way up here, going that way over here. going this way across here down here. and going to the north over here. so, as the eye moves to the...

Block from the beach. there is just to our left of this picture like parking and maybe some park area. there are the sand dunes and then there's the water. that's how close we are. so i think the surprise is that what we're looking at is that the storm surge has not come over the dunes and made its way here onto a1a. we'll position the car by turning a little bit left here because the wind is right now coming to us from the north. as we do that, i'll switch cameras and step outside so you get a better idea of what the wind is like because it can be rather deceptive when we're looking from just...

Which they often will go out with some of the power flashes. and then sometimes they come back on slowly. but, yeah, you really have to watch what's in the road and the debris that's flying at you and all kinds of things. it's around. >> what are you dealing with in terms of flooding on the street and any storm surge. >> i haven't seen any storm surge as of yet. i have mostly been thinking to u.s. 1 through a lot of my travels and also through a1a further south. i'm just getting into cape canaveral. i haven't explored this area. the main roads okay. how long that lasts, i don't know. >> what a...

>> chad, thank you. for using such strong language as the governor did as well. here are the live pictures right now. this is west palm beach as you just heard chad myers say it's going to get much worse there before it ever gets better. so joining us now two men in the bull's-eye of this storm. the mayor of daytona beach derrick henry and chief of daytona beach police department michael chitwood. mayor tell me what the situation is in your town of daytona right now? >> well, the situation is quite dire. we've got city of 65,000 people, and we're encouraging everyone who lives on the beach sid...