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And our locations of structures in the future. >> senator bill nelson, senior senator from the state of florida, thank s for being with us this morning. thank you, sir. >> thank you, john. all right. there is, believe it or not, a new 8:00 a.m. update on michael. no longer a hurricane. still, though, perhaps damaging and a threat to some parts of the country. let's bring in chad myers. >> still capable of bringing down trees. it went right over the augusta national golf course, now going over south carolina in places now that are saturated from florence that was there just a few weeks ago. s...

Florida. alisyn camerota in new york. around me is the aftermath of hurricane michael. one of the most powerful storms ever to make land fall in the united states, period. the wind speeds for 125 miles an hour and the damage is expensive. now that it is light out, now that we can venture out a little bit, we are getting a sense of how bad it is. you can see behind me this was a grocery store, an office building made of cinder block that is just smashed into tiny, little bits. the wood is all splinters. all the metal twisted into bits. more than 500,000 people are now without power. as of now, ...

That was report and that was at the air force base. >> it's been a while since we have been able to check in on folks who are familiar with florida know what a great town it is. a great downtown. it's all about boating and fishing and mariners. it's a beautiful place to live and work. you did not want to be there earlier today. gabe has been able to establish contact with us again. how are they doing down there? >> reporter: now that the wind and the rain and the worse of it has passed, we're hearing clan saws. this is something we're seeing over and over in this area. all these down trees.thi...

Much. the wind has started to die down here. the water was really rising as we were leaving downtown. that really started to take on water. there were several rows in that historic downtown that were under several feet of water and that water was still rising. the concern here again, local authorities has been the massive storm surge. we're in the east of where this storm was making landfall. we're on the dirty side of the storm. the worst of it was about an hour, hour and a half or so where it was hard to stand outside and the water was dan r dangerously rising. what we saw driving out here d...

We lost that signal again. that happens in hurricanes. that's right outside of where lester is. you can imagine it becomes hard to maintain signals with modern technology that we've got. >> i can't stop thinking about florida especially parts of this region are rural. we know what a large senior citizen population exists there. >> large retired population. it's not a complicated built up part of florida. it's not like going down from west palm beach and ft. lauderdale and miami and down to the keys. this is very different. it's rural. it's small houses. it's wooden construction in many cases a...