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The eastern coast of florida is prepared to make that move as dorian is still a hurricane, just 1 mile an hour off of hurricane status. let's go to brian todd. what are you seeing and hearing from officials where you are? >> reporter: victor, they say we are not out of danger by any means yet and storm surge and wind are really the issue now even more than rain, and we've gotten a lot of rain. not raining at the moment but we're still getting a lot of storm surge. look at this jetty where i'm standing just off sewall's point. this is about 3 or 4 feet above normal stage. normally you can walk ...

We are keeping a close watch on hurricane dorian. the category 2 storm is nearing the u.s. mainland after causing widespread devastation? the bahamas. brian todd is along the florida coast for us. brian, what are you seeing? >> reporter: wolf, we are still feeling just how enormous and powerful this storm is. still getting hit with heavy winds, rain and storm surge. this is the indian river lagoon. we are told this area, a local police officer told us this jetty here, the storm surge is three it four feet above normal. he says normally you can walk to a beach area. this has been pounding this ...

Hoping they'll be able to return back to their homes soon. but, again, everyone's in suspense here this morning. just how long will they have to be kept away from their homes and their beach area homes especially? we're also under a curfew this morning. that's in effect until 6:00. yasmin? >> we'll be watching the progress of this storm throughout the day. julia bagg, thanks so much. appreciate it. i want to turn now to the authorities saying that the gunman who killed seven people in west texas in the drive by shooting spree on saturday, quote, was on a long spiral of going down before bein...

Up against a growing sentiment of those that would rather tow them or take them away. in what way would that happen, how if not naturally decomposing, how would they be removed? >> well, over the 30 plus years i have been dealing with this just about every solution has been tried or been used. and a lot of it is situation dependent. in remote areas, that decomposition option in place is the best one. if it is in a beach area, like a state park, sometimes it is buried. but ones that wash up in puget sound where you have lots of shoreline residents and development, they're posing a bigger challe...

Water-driven storm surge but rather the wind damage and the wind damage just a short distance from here, about a 15-minute drive, one of the marinas, a good portion of it collapsed. i've got to tell you i was out in the winds today at 150 some odd miles an hour. i didn't have a wind gauge. but i'll tell you, it took me off-balance. i was wearing a protective helmet, blew it right off my head. so what the folks who are doing now is determining how bad the damage is before they allow people back onto this barrier island, the three bridges remain closed because you can see the wind is still blowi...