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Into the carolinas. could still happen up into the gulf. again, it does look like we could see a landfall in the north coast of cuba, could down grade it. the water is so warm, light jet fuel. looking at a major hurricane impact late this weekend and towards monday, september 11th. >> a lot of nervous people already gearing up for it, tom. thanks very much. tom sater, helping us. appreciate the enormity of this storm. people living in south florida, by the way, are already not taking any chances. they are clearly in the path of the storm. the size and strength of irma, that has not been seen a...

There who are part of this group. we need the public's help. we can't do it by ourselves. we have to have the community helping us and working with us to identify this and make this stop. >> he says, sara, basically they are still close to another tragetra tragetra tragedy there. they are still close to that from a year ago. >> reporter: yes, there is still an uncomfortable unsettling feeling here because people believe the city has not changed enough. there have been changes. there is a new interim police chief. first black ever police chief. first black city manager to manage the city. and t...

Corralling them. as he moved them -- if i can speak in these terms -- the location of the cafe, but as he moves them left five or six, maybe seven of them were stuck on the right and they bolted out the side door. they managed to make good and escape at that point. four of them ran towards elizabeth street, two ran up towards phillips street, one came towards us and ran down phillips street the other way. at that point there was a pause of maybe five or ten minutes, sue, and then we -- i'm assuming here but some sort of panic growing inside on behalf of the gunman, inside the cafe. we heard th...

They knew who he was. they began monitoring his social media presence and, yes, you'd say that they knew that the possible outcomes, what's happened here, people seriously injured, was a real risk when they moved in. >> his social media site was shut down just this evening and we know he'd been using the social media sites of the hostages to get his message through and that he'd been calling radio stations and television stations to put his demands through to the government. but the that information was obviously not made public to everybody because the police were hoping to hold on to that. s...

We'd been asked not to repeat his demands or show these videos. they didn't want to give him what he wanted and there was a real risk that he was inside the cafe monitoring what was being said and reported and put up on social media. so police probably had a bit of a better picture of exactly what was happening inside but they kept saying and understanding they have operational reasons they didn't want this man inside to know what they knew about him. >> sean, we'll cross back now to chris because we believe he has some more information for us from his vantage point. chris, what have you got t...