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Phone. >> yeah. it's just, you'll see beams and it's probably, i don't know, two feet high. we keep bumping our heads. there's cables. wires. i don't know how much you can see. but it's a cinderblock house. it was built in 1956. those type houses, i'm a native floridian, they are sturdy. they hold up to just about anything. so we're safe. we're fine. >> when the storm came, i mean, did you -- did you hear the house, you know, creeking or shifting or moving? i imagine being underneath the house could be scary if you hear that kind of stuff. >> no, what made us get under here quickly is large li...

Coast, it's inland and lastly, george, the power out acknowledge concern will be significant and widespread from panama city, from the east, and in to tallahassee, where plenty of oak trees across the region, we expect a lot of it to come down. >> all right, thank you so much. this is a historic storm. pedrom laid out all the metrics. you their this part of the country has not seen anything like this in some some time. people think back to 2005, hurricane dennis, that was a strong storm. this right now, is something that officials warn, you have to be prepared for. some people have decided to ...

Side. just beyond this is the beach. and we're still seeing some very, very strong storm surge just a few feet from this house on the other side. we could not venture on to the right side, because what appeared to be some kind of a gas or water leak was there and we didn't want to go too near that. you go down this street, wolf. still a lot of danger with downed power lines. you can see the first responders way down there. >> brian, thank you very much. brian todd, panama city beach, for us. let's go further inland to tallahassee, the state capital. cnn's nick valencia on the scene for us. wha...

Widespread power outages left behind. it's very wooded here. it's quite a bit of canopy of oak trees that will take the brunt of the storm system, with the winds and the rainfall that will come down with it as well. as much as ten inches of rainfall that will allow the trees to come down very easily. >> thank you very much. again, we are starting to -- [ no audio ] okay, and unfortunately we just lost that connection. you are watching "cnn newsroom," coming to you live from destin, and we will continue our live coverage from there on the storm, you are watching "newsroom," we will be back af...

Situation they were tragic deaths. do you have any updates on any fatalities? do we know of any at this point? >> so many people did not leave their homes, with all of the coastline looked like and even to take you further inland where it turned into category three after it went through tallahassee, florida, for the capital is, huge oak trees were snapping in half, just falling over. in leon county alone where the capital is, 167,000 people are out of power. just in lyon county. you've heard over 300,000, but all the power companies are working together. governor scott activated the emergency ...