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through pitch dark southeast florida. many power outages are reported throughout the state, and already there about 2000 flight cancellations for today, many of them for orlando, tampa and jacksonville airports. it has been >> it has been downgraded to category one hurricane, but it's still very dangerous. the winds are slowing, but catastrophic with life-threatening flooding. >> we get life updates on its path and destruction. >> in orlando, there were estimates that as much as 20 inches of rain could have fallen, and it's been hammering the area for hours. let's go right to jesse c...

without power now. the winds are extremely high. and the water is rising. >> you can see forces of trees just clinging to -- i just don't know what they are -- they been flying through the streets. >> it's a center block wall that was the entire width of this area came down. >> no word on the back and now, and the great eye wall is coming through. we've had some of the strongest winds here so far. >> good morning, i'm philip mena. >> good to be with you at this hour, i'm frances rivera. it's 3 am in the east, midnight out west. thank you for joining us for a special edition of early ...

Of the winds you're dealing with there and how much worse would it get when it's at its peek? >> reporter: when it's at its peak, we're not going to be out here. this is something when we chase storms we're used to being in. when it gets about 11 miles per hour, that's when we've got to fall back and get behind some concrete barriers. we've established some fall back zones. but when it gets that back you're not really able to stand up. we're seeing a little bit of debris flying around. but they're mostly palm fronds. we make sure we're down wind. we're upwind from those palm trees. down from w...

>> it's hard to see this blowing over, but it's mard to see a lot of things. we are here today. great to see you matt. david, thank you as always. >> sure. we are following two fronts. the senate judiciary xhit tee issued a subpoena for paul manafort, compelling him to testify in public as opposed to what was being negotiated before, testifying behind closed doors. a second day of closed door meetings with investigators. this time, meeting with investigators on the senate. let's get to the capital where manu raju is following this. ma manu, is there word on what's going on behind closed door...