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>> reporter: yeah, so obviously the message at this point is for people to stay inside their homes. stay off the streets. but, look, there are shelters. there are five of them set up in this area for people to go to if they don't have a stable structure to be in. mobile homes comes to mind. or something like that. they don't want people staying in that because the winds, obviously, that could be really dangerous, really damaging. so there are a couple hundred people that have gone to shelters. but, look, the fire chief, i spoke to him not long ago. he said, look, it won't be until tomorrow tha...

This is a tornado watch. we even had a tornado warning inside the perimeter of atlanta, downtown atlanta. so tornadoes are going to be possible. we haven't seen as many as we typically do, but that's a good deal. but because we still have the core, even though we've lost the eye, the core winds around this are still sustained at 90 miles per hour. so as that moves to the north, we can expect wind gusts maybe up to 110. again, it's going to continue to lose strength, but even though it's a category 1, that circulation, anderson, has to be coupled with its forward movement. so, again, power outa...

Certainly life threatening. this is part of the damage here caused by this huge tree which blocked this whole road, smashed into this car. narrowly missed this house. it did take down some power lines which is why we're essentially in the dark with the exception of the camera light keeping us lit here. these neighborhoods all surrounding this area. dozens and dozens of homes. part of the tens of thousands of people without power here, going to go to bed tonight in dark homes. we see a house here that has a light on, it's being powered by a generator. the good news in all of this, though, ander...

And minds are going out to those on the coast who we watched all the horrific images come in f m from, basically water washing away communities out there. obviously, our issues in tallahassee are somewhat different than that. we have a huge tree cover in my community, almost half the community is covered with trees, which is quite unusual for an area as urbanizeded as ours. so obviously, we knew going into this thing our biggest worry was going to be wind and that wind with the saturating ground bringing down trees, onto homes, utility poles, onto properties and, you know, god knows we didn't ...

Deal. but because we still have the core, even though we've lost the eye, the core winds around this are still sustained at 90 miles per hour. so as that moves to the north, we can expect wind gusts maybe up to 110. again, it's going to continue to lose strength, but even though it's a category 1, that circulation, anderson, has to be coupled with its forward movement. so, again, power outages and downed trees are going to be the big factor. this was a storm that was predicted to drop up to 10 and 12 inches of rainfall and that really wasn't a big concern because of all the other life-threaten...