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Flash flood emergency. irma flooded streets there, turning them into rivers. got some time lapse to show you now. you can see the water coming up to about knee level. but in other areas, the water was as high as around 10 feet or three meters or so. all right. let's no gow to george howell standing by in atlanta, georgia, where it's been wet and windy. george? >> and remains wet and windy. a little less rain right now. the rain comes and goes. a lot worse earlier in the day, atlanta, this part of the united states certainly feel thing storm as it pushes north. talk about flooding, though. floo...

Years, these people really and truly know how to put themselves in a good position but we are moment by moment right now where i don't like where mike is, because that's all open water to biscayne bay behind him. around those islands. and let me also tell you there's a lot more people in those buildings than you think. one of the residents came down and talked to us last night when we were standing there, and he was in the building that's right above where that shot is. and he said, you know, there's 100 people in this building and i looked at him. he said the building management told them abo...

Us that just one bomb was deployed, and it contained metal pieces. how difficult would it be for one person to design, to build such a device? >> there are certainly many opportunities for someone to go online and try to build these types of devices. it was clearly effective with the number of deaths and injuries that we saw. you may remember back in the boston bombing when there was a device that was left, a pressure cooker on the ground, and the injuries, when the shrapnel went off, it created this pattern that spread out, but it was really at knee level for most of those injuries, and peopl...

Awareness of your surroundings could be the only defense. what we learned from this is that these devices are crude, they're cheaply made, and they're made for two reasons only, wolf, and that is to spread terror and to kill. >> to kill and maim as many people as possible. >> that's right. that device that you saw, because it was on the ground just like the one here in boston, when that shrapnel came flying out, it was all at knee level for quite a distance. so the people close to that, that's where they were getting their injuries, that's what we saw here. >> pretty scary. thanks very much fo...