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Northern florida, the city of jacksonville reeling from a record storm surge and devastating floods. >> same threat facing other coastal communities like savannah and charleston south carolina with flash flood emergencies declared over night. so far irma being blamed for five deaths including two from falling trees. >> power outage a big issue. 6.2 million customers in florida. 1.4 million in georgia. hundreds of thousands more in a south carolina, north carolina and alabama. >> it will take a lot of time to restore normalcy. access still trying to even see the ex-sent. rosa flores took an aer...

Minutes past the you hour. tropical depression moving to the north devastation becoming painfully clear. rescue team the struggling to reach the florida keys. >> accessing the lower keys by boat is too dangerous because of all the debris in the water. us-1 which connects the keys is under water. later this morning monroe county officials will allow some residents and business owners back in. >> the biggest threat it this week will be river flooding in northern florida. city of jacksonville reeling. >> same threat facing other coastal communities like savannah, georgia, and charleston, south ca...

Some. >> we need water, food, we need gas. >> reporter: and in this area, broken boats litter the roads and the shores. >> it's not going to be any tourism down here for quite some time which is going to make life tough. no way to make a living. >> reporter: irma's impacts are cripples much of the southeast. in jacksonville it could take a week for the flood water to recede. today the mayor pleased first responders the for rescuing people from the rising waters. >> what i saw on the ground is nothing short of the definition of what humanity should be about. >> reporter: streets in charleston s...

Here. this is the main treem that we're seeing so many falling trees and billboards. we've seen boats and jet-skis in the middle of the road. we drove down actually to check out the snake creek bridge we had heard from one local -- why don't we go down here and see what's going on. we heard from one local that the bridge had gone out. it's the one draw bridge in this chain of islands and if those rumors were true it would have been devastating for the people of the keys because that would have cut them off from the mainland and made life so much harder. this is the atlantic side here, that is ...

They won't go out. it's simply too dangerous. >> michael, you can really hear the wind is whipping up right now where you are. hello, everybody, i'm john vause. thanks for staying with us. hurricane matthew as you can see battering the coast of florida he at this moment. the storm earlier plowed through the caribbean, 269 people were killed there, mostly in haiti. another 100,000 are living in shelters. we have more on the devastation caused in haiti. >> reporter: hurricane matthew was at strongest storm to hit haiti in a half century. and the devastation is just now becoming apparent. many we...