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Ashore yesterday afternoon, we were knew it was one of the strongest storms to hit the united states. day tligt day brought harrowing evidence of the destruction a storm like that brings. this is ft. myers beach, one of the barrier u lands that ian slammed into as a category five storm. before the hurricane, it was a popular beach defendant naugs destination. much of it is leveled. one local resident told the local paper, ft. myers beach is gone. this is the causeway leading to sanibel island to the west of for the murz beach. it's the only road to that island. it impassable. all the bridges t...

Of five parishes that is currently under a flash flood warning and it's sunny, not raining, but it is because of what you see back here which is standing water on the road in addition to the downed trees making it impassable. that's from the nearby river which is already high because of all of the rains and storm surge. it is expected to rise above flood stage today and crest on friday which could cause additional water to go inside people's homes. look at this video to the east of us in hammond, louisiana. some roads there also look like rivers. many are still without power and the state's go...

Say, it was cllow. it's the next tide at 9:00 tonight which is the one we are anticipating the heaviest surge. >> chief, you have had some voluntary evacuations in westerly. has that changed at all? do you have any mandatory evacuations? are you urging folks to consider moving to higher ground? >> we are urging folks to consider moving to higher ground. we are going to have another briefing at 8:00 this morning and that will, in fact, we will decide if we are going to do any -- change the evacuation to a mandatory. then we are going to determine what parts of the beach areas we are going to sh...

And lakay. the thing about it is just the difficulty of getting there. you know, when the earthquake hit in port-au-prince which killed the exact number will never be known, but anywhere from 200,000 to 300,000 people, it was at least the capital. there was an airport there, you could directly fly into as soon as the airport was open. this is in a region that is very difficult, if not impossible right now to get to by road. the main road from port-au-prince, the south, has been cut off by armed gangs for quite sometime now. there's also debris in the roads making parts of it impassable, partic...

It's going to get quite dangerous overnight. >> kristen, you're in nag's head, which is under mandatory evacuation as of this morning. have people been following those orders? >> reporter: many of them have. we now have a hurricane warning here, and you heard molly talking about the one road. that's the same situation we have along these barrier islands. i've got major derringer with the county sheriff's department here. as we go into thursday and friday, what's the big concern for that one road? >> the road goes to hatteras. as the water pulls out, as the hurricane approaches, it will come ba...