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Jillian: we are not seeing a tonel of flooding. right here we have a little bit of localized street flooding on the corner. it's not significant. i would agree with what matt finn is saying but we have been seeing a little bit of it we have been driving throughout the morning on bayshore boulevard. we were on davis island earlier this morning. we have not seen any homes damaged by flooding. i'm not saying that's the case everywhere. i'm telling you what we have seen so far this morning. what we are seeing a lot of is a lot of down trees throughout the area. you are seeing a lot of debris and d...

We definitely felt the hurricane-force winds in this area, category 1. we got a glancing blow from hurricane irma's extreme power. we know the keys were hit hard. marco island and still raising across the peninsula. a lot of down trees, down power lines, stuff you'd expect with a category 1 hurricane or impact from a category 1. there are over 850,000 customers without power in miami-dade alone. that's 79% of the people who live within this particular area that have electrical power -- electricity from that region. it's incredible. the reason why we don't have power here is because of trees li...

You only have about 24 hours left. you don't want to be sheltering in place unless you really have to. we slowed this down a little bit. as of 2:00 a.m. monday, it will still likely be a category 2 hurricane right over the top of central florida. that's where all our models are pinpointing. that's extreme power outages and a lot of down trees. people didn't have power for two weeks. don't think that further north is that much safer. by the time we get to 10:00 a.m. on monday, it's still in florida. we're talking about 24 to 28 hours of this storm remaining in florida. we still have about 24 ho...

Of our law enforcement are amazing. they do great work every single day. but it's individuals like joe arpaio who get to flaunt their racism and give law enforcement a bad name. pank panties -- boxers are a perfect example of that. but even more importantly the law and order president pardoned someone today, don, who was in contempt of a civil rights violation, which was racial profiling. and i think david said it earlier, david said it best, there's a director correlation between what happened two weeks ago in charlottesville. and it doesn't even feel like it's two weeks ago, but two weeks ag...

They mountain range hinds me. these fires spread incredibly quickly. >> one of the many firls burns in and around gatlinburg and pigeon forge. hurricane force wind gusts and extreme doubt drought combined to form a perfect storm. >> it is common to pick up embers of fire and take them more than a mile away. at the same time we're facing that challenge, those high winds were knocking down trees. the trees he were hitting power lineses and they were fueling this very dry extreme drought-like condition and everything was catching on fire.