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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...

morning, particularly in the areas that were hard hit, just understand, this is still a hazardous situation. those folks that were in there, in the wee hours of the morning, were taking big risks as first responders navigating this. you have power lines that are down. you have trees that are down. you have a lot of hazards right now. we do anticipate a lot of the water will subside in some of the barrier islands and some of the coasts, but some of those inland places off rivers and off of these inlets, you're likely to have standing water there throughout all of today and even in the...

Spotted them, two power trucks and we're still in tropical storm force winds. they're not going to be up on top of poles, but it's the earliest i've seen power trucks rog into a coastal town while you're still getting tropical storm force winds. they're not getting up on the poles until the winds are done, but they're in position and ready to go. maybe you saw yesterday as this storm was making landfall here, that the eye was coming down and we were in the eyewall, we had transformers blowing all over town. it was 5:00 in the morning, maybe 6:00 before dawn and so we were seeing the blue, the ...

Type of condition was happening when we were down there we would have been stuck. there's no way we could have gotten out. and it pains me to know there were people still coming down there, don, when we were leaving to just look at things. they told us they were here just because they wanted to see us. i'm not super tiny. again, i'm almost six feet tall. the wind is really starting to move us along here. it is powerful. and we are four miles inland now because we had to get to higher ground. to give you an idea, those of you farther south from us right now what you're about to be experiencing ...

You are right in the middle of it. >> reporter: we certainly are. the wind picking up. we are getting 70 mile an hour winds, the rain coming down. transformers blowing and even here, standing here, i have counted 4 or 5 times the sky lit up with. colors of blue and stir guys diminish turquoise as it comes into this area, duke energy expecting 1 to 3 million people in the carolinas. power outages approaching 300,000 more or bring the power back on. this storm is not to be messed with. do not go out in this. the situation is only going to