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Continuing the message of getting people out of harm's way, which by the way it is an ongoing effort. the storm is still hitting the united states from georgia and south carolina, and up inland flooding problem in tennessee. maybe north carolina is the demonic as you see the storm progress. it looks like the north and east of the key west, the storms there took the islands -- they took the largest brunt of the storm. i will speak to that when we take questions, and then if i could come back to 9/11, i think the lesson we learned that day along with others was that not only does evil exist, but...

Developing white caps. we just heard from maya rodriguez that some of that seems to be receding but miami will hit high tide in about one hour. we don't know what effect that will have whether there will be more flooding in the streets or less. florida has a flooding problem. miami has a particularly serious flooding problem. irma's winds brought down a construction crane in miami causing to collapse into a high rise building. it sort of bent over and went down. fortunately the area was desserted. more than 3.3 million people have reportedly been left without power. irma remains biggest evacua...

At what this city can expect when it comes to storm surge, but also for those cities pump system, how effectively it will work. >> reporter: that's exactly right, thomas. because as you said, the storm surge, it is really going to be the critical thing. here at least in southeast miami. i'm in miami beach, and i just want to show you this temporary pump that city officials have set up precisely to prepare for hurricane irma. this is a temporary pump. i just want to show you over there, it's connected to a generator, and i'm going to hop over the pump right here to show you the other side, beca...

Major flooding problem in beaumont and port arthur. rescuers are going door-to-door. the water is receding. the first beautiful sunny days they've had in texas in quite some time. at least they can do the work without the kinds of conditions they've been working in the last few days. >> trace: rick, it's widespread there in beaumont. how much longer before you think they get the water back? >> they say they have no way to determine how long this will take. they have to wait for the flood waters to recede from the water pump station before they can do the repairs they need. it could be weeks. w...

Same story. you may see the reporters they're not dealing with the storm surge. up the coast they are. you cannot put your guard down. it's going to be bad. these are the rainfall amounts we have seen. this is early in the game. we're not even 24 hours into the storm system. these are radar estimates over 7 inches of rain here. think about it. 7 inches of rain on any ord ordinary day can cause flooding. the winds are counter clock wise with the storm. you're getting the push of gulf of mexico sea water. combining with the fresh water. and causing a lot of problems where the water can't drain o...