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Get to these impacted areas, and my heart goes out to everybody impacted by this. i wish this had never happened. >> yeah. two reasons to stay off the road. number one, you don't know what's on them. there are power lines down, trees down everywhere. the emergency crews need to get out everywhere we can. we are getting a sense -- again, we couldn't get the drones up yesterday. it was too windy and too rainy. now that it is light out, we are beginning to see the scope of the devastation. what you are seeing on the screen right now, this is panama city beach. i'm not saying it wasn't bad. sustai...

>> we appreciate the effort you put into this and the warnings you have given people. it is frustrating for a lot of people on the gulf coast. cell service is spotty. they want to get the message out that they are doing okay. i want to go back to you in new york. now that it is light out, it looks even worse the damage that's done here. where there is not debris, there is trees down, leaves down. we have seen convoys of aid. they have their work cut out for them. >> it is stunning to see your backdrop now that the sun has come up. we do have other breaking news to get to right now because th...

We've got a lot of debris. we have a lot of downed power lines. about 360,000 homes and businesses without power. just remember there is a lot of trees in this part of the state. it will take us time. we are trying to clear i-10 right now to get the roads up as quickly as we can. stay in your house. listen to the locals. be safe. don't do anything foolish. we've got a massive flow of rescue workers coming now to help you. >> speaking of brock long earlier was talking about the frustration that he has often when these warnings are given. still so many did choose to stay. so going forward, you k...

Unbelievable. they did rescues during the night for us. we have a massive flow of search and rescue highway patrol, national guard, utility workers pushing their way down to these impacted areas, and they're doing -- we're doing everything we can to get all the resources we need. my biggest concern, of course, would be loss of life. and i want everybody, everybody to think about this. you survive this unbelievable storm, stay safe. don't venture out unless you have to. listen to the locals. we've got downed power lines. we have trees all over the place. this is a very -- a lot of this area has...

It? >> it's just devastation here. like i said, the end of the beach that we're on, we didn't see this much. but when we came across halfway bridge it was like coming into a war zone. everything looks like it exploded. it's insane. >> all right. so what was it like? what was it like for you as this storm was bearing down? >> it was scarey. it was real scarey. >> terrifying. >> you heard the winds, the rain. the trees were literally bent over in half. we took cover for like two and a half hours in a small bathroom. you don't know what's happening outside around. you can just hear the winds. thi...