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They are down right now because the winds offshore. it will come onshore and the river goes up rapidly. john. >> we just had our first gust, j.b. a real gust. we had the first one that shook the porch that we're on. it will be impressive to me if the structures of the houses behind us can stand up to the wind they are getting. this is now several hours on and we're already seeing the bend in the palmettos. a tree doesn't snap in half. it weakens from the root system. that is what we see happening here. we are nowhere near your location in terms of intensity of the storm. >> no. we are feeling ...

Welcome back everyone. we're following this severe weather across much of the country. one person was killed in south eastern connecticut where a tree fell on top of a car during a violent storm. thousands were forced to take cover in boston as strong winds, damaging hail, heavy rain battered the region. look at what happened to someone's lawn in rhode island. peeled back like a carpet. incredible. 100,000 customers were out of pow herb at one point. >> did they put down fresh sod? >> incredible to see. the whole root system. that's very strange. >> it's looking messy. break it down. >> we're ...

Higher elevations, over a foot of rainfall. that leads to scenes like these. we're in a location where they have a big station wildfire back in 2009. so up on the top of the ridge here, you don't have much vegetation. there's no root system. the soil is loose. the heavy rain brings the mud right down to the streets. biggest headline of this morning, to our north, around malibu, a ten-mile stretch 0 the pacific coast highway shut down due to a rock slide. when you have complex terrain like this, incredible amount of rain coming down, those are the types of problems that you see. and we're going...

Giant tree uprooted as a result of the tornado. take a look at this root system here ripped out of the ground as a result of what we believe was a tornado about three-quarters of a mile wide, moving at least 50 or 55 miles an hour when it came through this area. again, with warning here, the national weather service did issue a couple of tornado warnings prior to the tornado touching down in this rejop. we do believe, alex, this is all part of the same super cell. still unclear until the national weather service can get out here. whether or not it was one tornado or multiple tornadoes that cam...