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Mount pleasant, areas like that. some people are hunkered down in their homes but most people have left. the issue here and in every storm, stephanie, is going to be flooding. the winds will be heavy probably for the next six or eight hours. i'll see winds like this. just completely stopped now and then we'll get another squall but this water is coming in, most of downtown is flooded. they've opened up the parking structures. there are multi level parking structures in charleston, so people can park their cars above ground. that's going to be the problem we're seeing here. it has started flood...

Because the hospitals has been slow to start back up, these are volunteer doctors over here, who come try to gather supplies and take it out to the people who need it. they're trying their best, it's a slow process. let me see, why don't we help them. okay. >> if we can get a few doses we'll taking it over there. we have only anti-biotics. >> yeah that would be great. all right perfect. okay doctor. thank you. >> the other one i will get you. >> appreciate it. thank you. it's all about getting the supplies and getting them to the people who need it. these come from an organization called direc...

Viewers what they've done with the new construction is built it up from. the first four, five, six seven stories of the buildings tend to be parking structures and the residences start higher up so they've built these things to expect a good deal of flooding. >> reporter: that's right but at the same time, the winds are going to be a lot more intense the higher up you go so they also face that danger as well. it's best for everyone to have just gotten out. we saw a few of the buildings down there that had been boarded up whether with plywood or metal shutters and people decided to stick it out...

We've seen most free standing buildings be moved back or removed. that would be would the storm surge potentially would look like. this wall of water that would come racing in to this barrier island and goo into all of these different structures along here. you see the different hotels and high rises built up. some have parking structures on the bottom. i was speaking to one lady, two streets back off of collins. she was out here saying she is going to ride it out. she's on the second floor. when we talked about storm surge, she was a little bit worried about that. she said her nephew was here...

We got some information there, cal, but the airport operator saying that they are still keeping the airport operation suspended at this time. and there's still a bit of confusion about where people are and why people were on the tarmac. >> we were sort of talking about this when the press conference started. out of abundance of caution, they're going to go certainly through a number of things. one will be to lock down these parking structures until we know whether or not the shoot are came in on a flight or drove a car, they're going to be looking for that car. >> stand by. stand by. we're goi...