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everywhere. i've never seen damage like this in my whole life. it's unreal. >> reporter: boats tossed like toys. the lone bridge connecting the island cracked and crumbled with the storm's winds putting some sections totally under water. >> we had about 200 households that didn't evacuate on the island that we know of. >> reporter: anyone still trapped on the isolated island now waiting for rescue by boat or air. we joined the lee county sheriff as he surveyed some of the hardest hit areas to see the full scope of ian's power. >> you know that as we are speaking right now, there are ...

Damage from the water and the waves. the storm itself is only located about 90 miles due south, about georgetown, in between charleston and myrtle beach, and it seems to be headed north and swinging towards the north-northwest. that will bring that landfall around 2:00 or 3:00 this afternoon. so just after high tide. here's what we're looking at windwise. above 50 miles per hour, we start getting power outages. gusts in charleston at 44, last check about 10,000 to 20,000 people without power in south carolina. that will grow. the hurricane warnings were extended last night towards the wilmingt...

Angela mcgowan and senteta jackson. so why the decision by georgetown. i'll begin with you deedee. >> they are catholic students. they want the expression themselves. i think it's a terrible thing. they spoke out and they were escorted out. that is all right. you are in college and you are learning. >> heather: what about georgetown. the incident to begin with? >> i think it was very wise political decision invite her. she catholic. she was raised in a roman catholic church but you have institutions that are very upset because she is impeding a rule that necessity don't believe in spiritually....

Health. >> heather: part of what she talked about in her speech there at georgetown, she talked about, invoked president kennedy, separation of church and state. she also urged graduates to weigh different views and policies and follow their own moral compasses. you you follow your moral compass when you are requiring religious hospitals and universities, you are requiring them to offer birth control coverage in your employee health care plans, how does it allow them to follow their moral com pags s? >> can it come from the government, really? >> freedom to practice your religion. if you are o...

Controversy with religious freedom. >> one of top pro-abortion politicians in the country and georgetown invited her to speak is a dishonor. [ male announcer ] the inspiring story of how a shipping giant can befriend a forest may seem like the stuff of fairy tales. but if you take away the faces on the trees... take away the pixie dust. take away the singing animals, and the storybook narrator... [ man ] you're left with more electric trucks. more recycled shipping materials... and a growing number of lower emissions planes... which still makes for a pretty enchanted tale. ♪ la la la [ man ]...