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You live from miami where its just turned 1 00 in the morning. Thank you very much for being with us. And yes, we continue our coverage from here in tampa. The storm is still a powerful hurricane, its still a hurricane and it has weakened, and that has been good news for the people of tampa. If the eye of the storm has gone to the west of the city, there were great fears about storm surge causing havoc here. This is a city that is vulnerable to storm surge and has lowlying areas, a lot of development along the water. Even some of the cause ways, the bridges are fairly low. There was a lot of concern. We spoke to the mayor yesterday and that was his worry. The eye have moved to the east, which is a good thing. Well check how the storm surge is going to look now. I can tell you the water is still going outbound at the moment because of how the winds are going. The river here as dropped marketley over the last 12 hours. Lets bring in Kar ....
Flooding. Irmas strong winds are hitting atlantic. So far theres one death confirmed in florida, a single car accident. The death toll will likely rise. Theres the immediate issues that floridians are dealing with, lack of electricity, millions are without power. As weve seen all over the state people may be without electricity but they are certainly not without their strength. Irmas fiery, the path of destruction not seen in florida in decades. The storm knocking out power to millions. Ive been here for 22 years, i never seen nothing like it. The southern mo the. The southern most keys bore the brunt. The images show destruction. Some of the towns remain cut off, getting aid will be a challenge. Naples was hit hard as well. The number of homes damaged or outright destroyed is still unknown. But the impact of irma spans nearly the entire state. Many First Responders had to remain off the street during the storm, but quickly got ....
Humanitarian group youth being mission. Chris take us through what happened when the earthquake hit. Where were you where was t like . I was downtown mexico city on the 5th floor in our offices where we operate out of. Wed just been talking about the drill of because they had just did an earthquake drill two hours prior to to the earthquake because todays the 35th anniversary of the massive earthquake. When this happened it took us by surprise. The floor started shaking, the building started moving and we realized this is the real thing. People took off running and heading out of buildings and we were trying to stay calm. Then we went out and started looking to where we can help people. Can you estimate how long i know its hard to tell time in situations like this. How long it was shaking for . At least 20 seconds i would say, 20, 25 seconds before the top of our building calmed down. And i understand youve been trying to help people forming human chains at collapsed buildings to try t ....