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Islands in some spots. and let's hope that your house has 12-foot pilings on it or else some of those buildings will be in trouble and that's why you as a person need to get out if you're staying there. >> i think that's really important what you're showing. when you look at the models sometimes you think it's going to pass through. when you show it's 48 hours, that shows how much water can dump on places that are already going to be hit with winds beforehand. that's going to be devastating. >> it is, because it's already wet. the rain is going to be 25 inches deep, and the wind is still going...

A lot of these no to of new homes are built over garage is on pilings but that would put water in the first floors above about the garages on most of these houses along the beach here. it's a beautiful night tonight, you can see folks coming out to take a look at the atlantic which is very calm. no rain today which is very hot earlier, it's cooled off quite a bit and obviously very calm before what could be a very destructive storm. and they've gotten a lot of rain over the past few weeks, the ground is saturated. 2-3 feet, maybe up to 4 feet of rain in some spots which will be dramatic, as yo...

We'll learn more on that tax reform plan in a little bit. milestone for president trump's southern border wall. as crews break ground on eight different pro-to types. now working on day two of what is expected to be a month long project. adam housely is live near the mexico border. >> reporter: this is where people go in to go down to the border wall. we just came back from the actual site itself. maybe half acre all told if you put all the eight different areas together. each company which is six companies building the eight different designs have a prototype. 30 days from today is when the a...

Because the storm waters from the carolinas, they have to move south. rick leventhal is live in st. augustine, florida, purity just south of jacksonville. beach erosion is another big issue, right? >> remarkable. we are in north beach, also known as vilano beach. this area hit hard by hurricane mathew a year ago. a lot of home owners had to do a lot of work to shore up their beachfront homes. they have a lot more work to do. this is a lot worse. look at the house right next to us that has come down on the beach. there are dozens of homes like this up and down the coastline that are either comp...

We saw in wilma in key west. from cudjoe to marathon we saw much greater storm surge than we actually had predicted. and we're seeing a lot of damage. but, you know, it's not damage from which we can't recover. the keys has gone through many cycles in our history and the -- probably the most challenging one in our lifetime certainly but we'll get through it. thanks to the tremendous report from the state and the national guard as well as locals. i have to say monroe county sheriff's department has done the job in the middle keys and marathon. they've been working at it through the storm. so, w...