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Dodge aid bullet today. >> what are they seeing? what are they telling you? >> lot of downed power lines, trees, limbs down. what we feared the most was the surge and the flooding. high tides have not come to a conclusion yet. the surge has yet to be finished. we're still seeing the bands around the backside of the hurricane. we have vehicles positioned. some of our high water vehicles are positioned to make sure that when that surge comes in that we can keep people out of the streets. but for the most part, the surge will be far less and far more damaging than we ever thought it would be. >> ...

Good luck. >> thanks very much. >> thank you, cherry. >> so she's okay and they have power there and they have food there even though she said that they are now going to mres, meals ready to eat. so delicious. but they are being well taken care of. thousands though already without power. tropical storm-force winds have been causing some damage downing trees in south miami heights. you heard from sam champion, he saw some limbs down. next what help will be available for florida with aid already stretched thin from hurricane harvey?

Fell over here. this is a town of about 70,000 people give or take a few thousand and about 24,000 of them now without power. there is no power in much of the town. we went driving around today. you had tree limbs down, entire trees split in half, some of them blocking some of the roadways here. people that did leave for hurricane harvey are being told by city officials please do not come back. they are trying to assess all of the damage here. they're trying to remove all of the debris and all of the trees that are now blocking so many of the roadways here. also another issue, water. the entir...

Power lines with cables hanging down, which as you mentioned can be really dangerous with water. as you can see this whole area got sort of tossed. trash cans tossed over. you can see this power line hanging down here. most of this area does look like it was tossed. the trees down, the limbs down, the power out. there does appear to be a little bit more movement on the roads than earlier today when we first started making our trek from corpus christi to victoria. it was still sort of a ghost town on the highways. we are seeing people out and about more. as this flooding continues, that's going...

How bad is it going to get? >> reporter: well, pretty bad. i can tell you it's actually picked up since we started around 5:00 this morning eastern time and don, it's not just the volume of the snow, it's also the weight and the heft of it, and the fact that it's moist. if you look at this, you can see the way the snow just is prone to stick on the limbs, of course, so much weight can bring limbs down, can bring trees down, power lines, as you've already said. it's been a long day across the country, and this is going to go on for quite a while. in chicago the afternoon commute was an icy, sno...