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Here. >> of course. yes. >> this is your church. this is your congregation. the before and after, seeing those pictures, is just startling. you see all of this around you tonight, and what do you think? >> yeah, it's surreal. like earlier they were saying that a bomb went off. it feels like that with all the trees down. i'm standing here in the parish hall. this is where we have our services after our masses, and we have our bookstore to my right and as you can see, cinder blocks. we have, you know, metal frame doors. our roof is completely off. this hall is ruined. the church building has sig...

You see what it did to the grocery store and office building, exploding the cinder blocks and building all around me. panama beach was vulnerable. we were told 6,000 chose to ride out the storm. joining us now is mike thomas, the mayor of panama city. thank you for being with us. we are glad you made it through the storm. give us a sense of how your city is doing. >> we are doing as good as expected. it is beautiful. we weathered that real well, and being on the west end, i have been through several hurricanes, and it amazes me how much the

This is where the western eye of the storm passed over. the winds were sustained at 100 miles an hour with gusts of 120 miles an hour. that's bad. that's enough to knock walls down, knock buildings down, tear down trees and power lines everywhere. the building behind me made of cinder block of brick, it was blown to smitherines here behind me. it is worse as you move east. the center of the storm and the eastern eye wall bringing more ferocious winds and storm surge. one of the communities we're learning about this morning is callaway. that's where we find jeff who was there when the wall hit....

More information on that. meanwhile, a remarkable story here, the devastating aftermath of hurricane michael. i am standing outside what was a grocery store and also office space in panama city, florida. this is where the western eyewall of the storm passed over. we were standing or trying to stand outside through the worse of it, and i am not trying to be trite here, but you know the story of the three little pigs, this was not a building made of straw or wood, but it was made of cinder block and brick. this was supposed to be a strong building, but it could not withstand the force of this ...

I am standing in the aftermath of hurricane michael. the storm passed through a little east of here when the eye made landfall. it was two miles per hour short of a category 5 storm. the most powerful storm to ever hit the panhandle. we know two people died already as a result of the storm, a man here in florida and an 11-year-old girl in georgia. trees fell on their homes. just to give you a sense of the power of the storm here in panama city, i am standing in what was some kind of office grocery complex. this was not a flimsy wooden structure. this was a building made of cinder blocks, and i...