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take a listen to that. >> some water on the hood of my jeep, people swimming out of their windows down on the islands right now. >> phil, are you talking about people swimming out of their windows? >> swimming out of their windows. >> literally. from their homes. >> literally from their homes. >> reporter: and brenda says that she fears that they may have lost their home because of the enormous amount of water that it has experienced, but they all got out alive, and there have been some rescues that we've been hearing about, some folks are coming out and we saw a few in the house about 100 yards from where we are that came out early this morning, and you can see maybe down there some of the folks that are coming out as well. the water, chris, which is kind of been good news in all this
through -- this isn't over. we still got significant rain bands coming across the state. you still got on shore winds that as the tides go up and down you'll see flooding recede and come back up. until the storm moves out of the region, we're still getting impacts in florida. >> yeah, i was just talking to a little bit ago phil and brenda, his wife, who live just about 3 1/2 miles from where i am right now and he just came up with his jeep, which is really elevated but he was telling me that people are swimming out of their windows of their houses and he thinks that his house may be gone because of the water. this is really significant and these are areas, craig, you know this better than anybody else, this is very low lying areas, and this is areas that are surrounded by florida, you know, state parks. this is just, like, it is still going on. >> yeah. this -- again, i think the important thing is just because
responsible for getting our signal out. and as you can see, this is on the other side of the hotel where the -- we're as far away from kings bay that we can be and the water keeps going up. we have to strike it. i think you need to go, right? let me ask him. do you need to move? you need to move? now? no? he's got a couple of minutes. so, while we have a couple of minutes, we're coming out of this live view kind of different signals that we have, but i want to introduce you to phil and his wife brenda, who just drove up. he's got an elevated jeep here. phil lives 3 1/2 miles from here. and brenda and phil have been kind enough to say hello and how are you guys? >> fine. >> nice to see you. so you live very near here. >> yes. about three miles that way. >> and tell me how that is. >> well, pushing water with the
feet. >> oh, yeah. >> how are you doing, brenda? >> i'm doing good, you know. we're fine. we're alive and we're safe. >> the water is probably -- >> i think we lost everything. but i don't know. when we left, it was -- >> i called my brother-in-law. he's bringing an air boat down here and we're going to the house. i'll take some pictures and shoot them to you. >> you're thinking the water is up to your roof? >> up to my roof. >> i don't know. >> we live on an island. i'll show you. >> oh, boy. >> let me pull this up. we're on camera, i can't show the picture here because i'm kind of far. i just want you all to know how much we care about you. >> oh, yeah. >> and let's hope that everybody is all right. >> oh, yeah. >> and let's hope that that boat gets out there and gets people -- >> we talked to the fella -- we came back this morning. >> we came back this morning. thought everything was okay.
specific kind of area location, we were talking to phil and brenda, his wife, who were just living on one of the little islands, 3 1/2 miles from where we are and he feels some of the houses, people are having to swim out and he fears his house may be the water is to the roof. i'm wondering, we have had to move locations here. we had to move the live truck. is this water going to be here for a while? >> it does look like the water is receding on the west coast. even from tampa to points north up to cedar key, we have seen those numbers slowly ticking down. but still coming in upwards of six feet. it is going to take a little time. we have seen places starting to see the reveral of the storm surge. that's going to make some major improvements. inland flooding, that water came all the way in over a significant period of time and will need time to go back out. they'll likely be dealing with it for a little while longer at