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Panama city, florida. you can see what it did to this grocery office complex behind me, just shattering all the cinder blocks, twisting the piping and turning the wood into splinters. driving out here, trees down and power lines down, and as far as we know there are two deaths related to this storm, a man here in florida and an 11-year-old girl in georgia when trees fell on their houses. after sunrise we will get a much better sense of some of the damage that was done. i spoke to somebody from the cajun navy, and he says he never seen anything like it before, it looks like a war zone. as we ge...

Surge. 9 to 13 has been the forecast all week. that's when it was a cat two, then a cat three. now we're cat four, heading to 145. that 13 may be shy of what is going to get into the bay. power outages will be absolutely widespread. millions without power for a long time. >> it was 1:00 a.m. when the florida governor said get out now if you're getting out. it is now 5 in the east. is it too late to leave? >> not if you're running from the surge, no. you need to get out of there. the surge will kill you. water, absolutely, way more powerful. it will drown you. it will kill you with the force of...

Necessarily because they were trapped but because they simply had no shelter. the roofs were torn off their houses or they were otherwise so severely damaged they were uninhabitable. now what we can show you here is another roof torn off this house, the whole side of it over there where the cinder blocks are was also ripped away and you can see some of the debris just inside that sliding glass window there, you know, again, these houses are just in shambles, and there are also dangers here tonight that you can not see. we smelled gas on the side of this house a short time ago. these gas leaks ...

Director louie cuccalinni is with us. and brian todd, what's the latest where you are? >> reporter: wolf, we're able to assess the damage. look at this house where the rough just got completely ripped off. you've got cinder blocks there toppled over. now we're going to show you this house over here. this green house. look at that roof, completely torn off there. we had video from earlier showing this actually occurring as the roof got completely torn off. we're still getting some pretty strong gusts. this roof got completely torn off, and that piece over there, we believe, is that part of the ...

I was going to get a big free weight, throw it up against the window. and i was gone, man. but they searched us and found everything. >> fred mitchell has tried to escape three different times. he actually had 75 feet of rope which is pretty impressive. there is an officer gym room with free weights. he said he had codes to the door but the code changes i believe once a month so the likelihood of actually being able to get into that room are slim to none. he also tried digging out the caulking in between the cinder blocks, which didn't go very far. he gets as creative as he possibly can. >> wh...