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And just trying to decide whether they're going to stay here and weather the storm. two years ago in irma, the last-minute unexpected turns really caused a lot of families anxiety. some having to change their evacuation routes at the last minute because of the changes in the storm. so people telling us this morning they don't want to be caught off guard. they're sending them to the back of the store to get water. as we've been telling you, they've been telling us, you can get as much water as you need and people shopping for generators, they don't want to be stuck without air conditioning in t...

Be a lot worse. willie, chris? >> julia bagg, thank you so much. julia, chris, right at the doorstep to the keys. she's saying she can't get there. bill karins is saying to us when the sun comes up, and we do the assessment, florida keys will have seen the worst. >> and how have the bridges survived there and elsewhere across florida? >> this is still a category 1 hurricane even as it passes over land, we hope and expect to be downgraded to a tropical storm. we're not there yet. we're just getting started here as florida wakes up to assess the damage from hurricane irma. the latest live pictur...

Go south on the overseas highway. what they're dock right now, florida fish and wild life competition officers are checking bridges. keep in mind, there are 42 bridges between here the mainland all the way to key west. so they got to make sure those bridges are skur so they can continue to bring people in to restore power and start recovery at first throughout the keys. >>. >> all right. julia bagg, thank you. . still ahead, we continue to follow the latest on hurricane irma as it moves north over florida into georgia. >> as the sun rises, we are getting our first look at the damage across t...

You can see flashing lights in the distance. that's florida city police. we have been check income with them, you know, what we are starting to see here this morning, most of these people have not seen even yet. we are about the turn into a trailer park here, show you a little bit more. but this is something that most of the people in town sheltered in place, well after sun down, so they're going to be waking up and just confronting everything that you are seeing here. >> julia bagg with a street level level eye view. still ahead, we continue to watch hurricane irma as it moves north over fl...

Wracking both on camera and off camera. so we're just trying to be very careful about where we are. right now we're on the western side of a building that's shuttered up here, so that helps us out. what we're looking at all of that being blown generally away from us. so as things get so much stronger here, this is critical that we find a place. we shelter ourselves against a wall so that we don't have to worry about that. when we were talking to you further south before, we were very careful that the area on the other side of the street was just an open area that was vegetation, that there wer...