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Tallahassee. in the last few minutes intensification of wind and rain. wind blowing the rain sideways and then it will, you know, slop off a little bit, then intensifying again. we are under old oak trees with the spanish moss hanging down. this makes tallahassee beautiful. but also makes these trees a little bit more vulnerable, they become heavier. when here is another problem. a lot of the industries with the spanish moss, look at those power lines. lo look at the proximity of the power lines to the trees. of course, these trees are vulnerable to come crashing down. the last few minutes, the if photo jushl journalist and i am working with had trees come crash downing near us. we have been keeping our eye on that over there. look at that thing. just completely being whipped ....
Irma remains. there are people still without power here, communities cleaning up debris. in some cases some that don t have clean running water. the winds are starting to pick up. we re seeing the rain start to drop on us, and we are still hours away from the worst of it. john. nick, stay with us. we head south to raphael. with maria bearing down, what are the concerns there about how much damage this storm could do? reporter: well, you know, for sure that the situation is deteriorating. once you start seeing rain sideways, and that s what happened in the last hour or so, the conditions have really changed now. the wind is really a factor. and we are in the north eastern edge of the island of puerto rico. it s the town of and just to give you an idea of how bad the ....
Looks like this! empty. completely empty. and that is for good reason, of course. the mayor of hoboken issued an alert to all businesses and restaurants and said, you must shut down at 8:00 tonight. and she also urged people to evacuates, especially those on the west side of hoboken, asking them, especially first-floor apartment dwellers that they had to leave, mandatory evacuation and then at 11:00, she asked everyone in hoboken to leave. of course, they didn t heed that warning. take a look here. it s pretty good right now. there is a little wind, a little rain. within the last hour, there was a deluge of rain. we were dripping wet, wind and rain sideways and then the band stopped. and we are having a break and we expect it to continue like that. it s not just here in hoboken. but the big problem, i should say, in case you are wondering, ....