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Might as well wait for day break. >> reporter: and don't forget that even after a storm comes through, limbs can be weakened and we have seen in the past in hurricanes where people are out afterwards and a limb that's weakened falls and sadly traps somebody or kills somebody. there's the dangers during the hurricane and there's also the dangers after the hurricane. so if you're thinking that you live in the area and once this passs through everything is fine, just take your time, especially not only with the weakened limbs on trees but also with the power outages. we have about 5,000 people in...

Relentless. keep in mind the actual eye of coast here.ere is well off the - but those outer bands are what have been hammering the island of the dominican republic. torrential rains. this precipitation what we are seeing. what we are likely to see will definitely pose a threat. the island here of course is in a delicate state. we have seen irma. we have seen jose. the streams are swollen. the ground is saturated. the precipitation we are likely to see will pose a serious threat. as for the people here in the dominican republic, there are plenty of tourists. thousands of them, many of them hopi...

That's just a short area. i'm not going to make it seem like that's representative. we haven't gone through all of tampa. i assume once day break and maybe we get choppers up, we'll have a better assessment. from what i've seen, it's a ten-minute drive from where we were downtown. this is the only uprooted tree i saw. we saw some brush in neighborhoods. we did notice a lot of homes were without power. and i think that may end up being one of the big stories also, is that people are -- don't have power. the question is, when will they have it back? >> that is a good question, for sure. with reg...

Mike, really has to be in places like alabama and georgia. listen, you know georgia well. you've got those pine trees up in the atlanta area. you know, if they go down and they take the power lines with them, and then you've got another emergency there on behalf of the people in georgia and perhaps alabama and parts north, so, you know, it's not just going to be unfortunately an event here in florida tomorrow. it's going to extend throughout the entire southeast. so we'll watch those four things as we move throughout the night. melissa: i heard you say earlier the temperature had dropped consi...

>> yeah. we have been shuterred for two hours. we have widespread tree damage and wires down. we will tackle that with the road crews. we have chainsaw crews out with heavy equipment that we use with your s.w.a.t. teams that we will clear roads with to get them back open quickly. >> reporter: god willing, you're going to be wrong in terms of your worst concerns. but what are they right now? in terms of before she rolls through in ernest, what are you worried about? >> like your reporter touched on earlier, we are a tree city here. we pride ourselves on the big trees that we have. at day break,...