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Of concrete fall off the building around us, crash on to the ground. we have gas stations that have lost the canopies that cover the pumps, of course. we've seen the big signs out in front of the gas stations come crashing down. i wish you could show them to you. the streetlights are rare. we have a city about 80% without power. statewide we're looking at millions in the dark tonight. i'll tell you another thing on my mind right now, the people we have not heard from, the places that emergency officials can't reach. we had these constant alerts going off on our phones with the rescue workers p...

Of course. but of course, behind you, it just looks like a deluge of rainfall. yeah, michael. and it looks a lot darker now. i can tell you just in the last few minutes, there was a big boom of thunder. it sounded like a crack. and then all of a sudden the power went out here at our hotel and in a lot of locations right outside of where we are. so what you're looking at now is pitch black and a lot of locations, the streetlights have gone out. this as we are pretty much right on time for what we thought was going to happen for the city of orlando. as far as when we were going to see the worst ...

0 >> and i just want to send a quick thank you to our first responders. i mean, you see these images of them cutting down trees, trying to remove the debris so that we can get our days back to normal. but we still have quite some time to get through. >> and we're going to do, you know, it is the firefighters, it's the police officers. >> it is just everyone working behind the scenes. >> and hurricane ian water in parts of southwest florida, streets and buildings completely flooded, power knocked out at one point over two million people. and one of the most powerful hurricanes ever to hit the u...

Course, all around us here. we have seen traffic lights crash to the ground. we've seen streetlights crash to the ground. and this is actually -- let me see if i can grab this for you. i think this is part of colonial boulevard. holding it upside down. whoop, here we go. this is part of a street sign, colonial boulevard, the four-lane highway next to me that came loose and slapped the front of our vehicle. you can imagine this is not the kind of projectile that you want to be encountering in a situation like this. that's why it's so dangerous to be exposed to the elements in a lot of these cas...

Parts of streetlights in the middle-of-the-road here being tossed around like they're toys, like they're weightlessless, and these are big pieces difficult to move around. we can hear the transformers exploding in the distance around us. that's gone down a little bit over the past hour, because so much of the infrastructure has been badly damaged, so much power lost. emergency alerts constantly on our phones, saying we're not able to do rescues at this point. it's going to be a while. we don't know when we'll get out to start doing rescues. that's terrifying news for people that stayed behind ...