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Every time people do leave, it's not bad and they take it for granted, instead of leaving, they got help. >> population about 2,300, apalachicola? >> oh, it's a little more. >> i don't know that it's that number, but i think it's a little more than that. >> stay with us it you can. our meteorologist is also in apalachicola. derek, if you can hear me, tell us what you're seeing? >> hey, john, good afternoon, listen, here in apalachicola and we have sustained hurricane force winds where we are, but what's the most surprising and the most astounding to be quite honest is out quickly the storm sur...

Terrible thing. >> do you think it was the saudis? >> i would rather not say, but the answer is yes. [ inaudible ] >> i would say fairly quickly. i would say fairly quickly. they're in touch, you may just speak to the first lady's folks because they're in touch and she'll be most likely coming to the white house and we'll work on it together. >> lindsay graham says there will be help. [ inaudible ] >> lindsey can speak for himself. but this is a bad situation. and we cannot let this happen. to reporters, to anybody. we can't let this happen. and we're going to get to the bottom of it, okay? yo...

The hospitals in the various parts of the area. they're also going to try and make sure that if there's any particular parts of the island that are known to have flooding or have already had calls out for help, that they weren't able to attend to during the height of the storm, they can go there. you have to understand, the emergency responders are hunkered down as well right now, so they can be healthy and uninjured with vehicles that work to come and get people at this point. the bridge hathaway bridge is closed right now, so they're not able to get to the mainland or from the mainland, agai...

Extremely high, and it's as bad as i have ever seen it. i've been here 35 years and it's blowing hard right now. the water is up. i figure we're going to get even more in the next few hours, but it's pretty bad here. >> it's been a few years, but i love your town, i've been there a few times. great shrimp, fishermen and the like, not many people leave. how many people do you think are still within apalachicola. >> i would say probably say 60% people stayed. >> what emergency services are available right now if somebody needs help? >> right now there's no emergency services. if they need help, ...

Don't want to go down where we're interfering with the people first responders, the fema people. i want them to focus on the storm, not me. so we'll probably look to sunday or monday to go down. and meet with the governors, meet with everybody and do what we have to do like we did in north carolina, south carolina, where that worked out really well. now, they're going do get hit, also. north carolina and south carolina are going do get a lot of water. nothing like they had two weeks ago but they're going to get a lot of water, also, and that water's still draining out so this is a pretty big p...