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Everywhere. you see a wagon that belonged to one of her children. and she tells me that she called her mother in bosnia. she's from bosnia and has been living here for 21 years. in a moment of desperation, she called her mom because she wasn't sure she was going to move it because of the overwhelming force that she experienced when this thing hit. take a listen to what she told me. >> i told the kids to go in the closet. they were look agent me like why. confused. i said please, just get in the closet. they did. then i heard a loud, loud noise, like, a lot of trains coming toward you. when the...

Stuff. but then you walk outside and look around, and he said earlier today, until you stand here and look at it, it's hard to process, and he was right. when i pulled into town, i'm still shocked by what i saw. >> reporter: yeah, it is like a scene out of a war movie. you can't believe this is what happened in your own hometown, your own home state, for me paz a kentuckian. it is surprising to me just to see the resilience of some people. they said they lost their home but they still had smiles on their face. it's incredible. >> i saw people today that had their chain saws out and they were g...

Kathleen miller in cranford, new jersey. she is the mayor there. sam, let's start with you. the numbers i am reading are crazy. 300,000 plus people without power, 3,000 in shelters, 25,000 displaced in hotel rooms. it's been ten days since this thing hit. what's going on? >> reporter: look, it's certainly not for lack of effort, stephanie. good morning. right now you're looking at a situation where there's almost 300,000 people without power, according to just entergy's number. as you walk around the streets, all you see are linemen and linewomen who have come in from all over the country tryi...

I was only 5 when this thing hit. my dad was only 40 then. you know it was a long time ago. when hurricane camille hit, nobody thought this is the strongest one since then. it's headed here to georgia. we're about to cross over i-10. somewhere around marianna, florida. marianna is just north of i-10. it's going to cross somewhere around marianna. the eye wall is breaking up a little bit. as it does after it gets over dry land, of course. but it's still hurricane force winds. so marianna, it's on the way. i-10 will be closed down in that area because the winds are way too high. if you have a bi...

With storm chasers read timmer, who joins us now on the phone. we told folks you were there in the keys when this thing hit, you've been in a lot of storms, but out of this one compare? >> covering the storms, we started off -- [indistinct] the whole entire island was inundated by a storm surge. we went east, where the exact i passed over. [indistinct] right there and just absolute devastation. you saw the damage that the storm surge had done. the power of that water.