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Residents will have their choice of several celebrations across land and sea to celebrate the Fourth of July this holiday

The Department's Florida Healthy Beaches program samples water from beaches along the coast and reports water quality every week.

Keeping beach access open 24 hours, that's what Wakulla County Commissioners will soon decide on.

Got a word that tyndall air force base near the hospital we were just talking about, that's still shut down. usually air force bases are able to withstand this kind of thing, but apparently they suffered catastrophic damage at the air force base and don't know when it's going to be functional again. >> thanks very much. brian todd reporting. let's go to our correspondent gary tuchman in crawfordville. what are you seeing there? >> reporter: wolf, earlier in the day we went to a town 15 minutes away from here called shell point beach, a charming beautiful town, more than 50 miles away from wher...

Gone. >> we have our entire team spread across all of the danger zones. let's begin with gary in shell point. look, it has gotten worse for you there in the last hour. >> things are getting bad quickly and the worst is still yet to come. this is shell point beach, florida. it's a very vulnerable area. this town only has 300 people. it's a boating town, a tourist town. it got decimated 13 years ago during hurricane dennis. there is a lot of concern. i think what gives us some comfort from covering hurricanes, we always see curiosity seekers deciding not to evacuate. even with limited advanced n...