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Anderson cooper in braden florida, where the winds have really picked up significantly just in the last ten minutes or so, they are really starting to whip here in downtown by, by the river. I just want to get a sense of sort of the wins. It's sort of hard to tell when you're actually in it you get a sense in the light over there. There's just been a steady downpour of rain and you can see it there. It reflected in the light as i was talking to erin in the last hour, there is a lot of along the river here. There's a lot of palm trees, a lot of these really large branches of these palm trees ar...

We'll try to get more information on that shot. heavy rain is still in the area. the guests are clearly -- let's go to al roker, who's in new orleans. what is the scene like right now? >> we kept the crew underneath a portico. this is the heaviest rain, lindsey, we have seen yet, combined with the strong wind. we've heard from transformers blow. we've seen some fire trucks go by, lights in the hotel have been flickering. there are a lot of power outages now, more than a quarter of a million people. even though this is now a category 4 storm, with 140-mile-per-hour winds, it's expected that lat...

This house here behind me could be in some dangerous with some falling trees and debris. power lines obviously are an issue, the last count we heard was 100,000, some without power, but that's obviously changing by the minute, you see power lines rocking here, and you have heard transformers blow in this area. the sheriff of walton county tweeted out of frustration, he said we have people who cannot exercise good sense, you may have a constitutional right to be an idiot, but you don't have a constitutional right to endanger everyone else. he's referring to people who are walking around the str...

Some time. that is the expectation here. we're getting winds north of 100 miles per hour, gusts of 120 miles per hour. brian todd, in a different part of panama city beach, give us a sense of what you're feeling. >> reporter: some real ferocious wind. look at this, this isn't too safe either. if you go down the street here, you can see these power lines shaking. that one there looks like it's about to come down. we've heard transformers blow, as you mentioned you heard them blow. there a couple of a transformers in danger as these trees are starting to contort. look at the violence with which ...

>> that's right. the storms i covered -- what is it. i can't think right now. the hurricane from florida. that came in so slowly and took all day long. it just pounded and pounded on the east coast. that is the only other hurricane that i remember that came in so slowly. this story is going to be about the rain that continues to for the next 24 hours. you know, where i'm at right now, i think i may relocate. i want to get away from the river and away from possible flooding that could happen. >> mike theiss, storm chaser. thank you for being with us sharing your expertise and experience. tellin...