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Need to talk about, it's just high tide right now. midnight on the east coast. high tide combined with a storm surge of perhaps as much as 12 feet is going tock devastating for coastal areas and you have barrier islands where people live. evacuation orders very strict for those people, getting them off the islands. you saw hurricane sandy and that was tropical storm by the time it got to shore. this is a full-blown hurricane. seen power going out all around us, transformers blowing and this is just the beginning. >> earlier sarah sooider in was in ditone that and had waves coming through every...

I wanted to make sure there wasn't any power lines where i'm passing here. the higher winds are starting to work way onshore so we're going to have numerous power flashes and power lines coming down -- gigantic explosion -- another gigantic explosion. i don't know if you're watching my live periscope. this is west side offy sebasti. this is on highway 1 between 95 and 1, west side of sebastian, where the transformers are popping, probably trees and palm trees falling on the power grid in the same area, in the city of sebastian is where the power and large transformers are popping in sebastian....

Still seems like a lot we don't know. david mckenzie, thank you very much. we may never know. there's a lot more happening tonight. susan hendrix is back with the "360" bulletin. >> tom sader is tracking the storm and joins me with the latest. >> so far, susan, we've got very good news. here's tulsa, the suburb, just of the southeast, broken arrow. there were visual reports of transformers blowing. now we'll give you the structural damage. the good news this was an industrial park. if it would have just touched down one or two miles sooner, it could have been disastrous. on a larger scale, t...

Transformers blowing. now we'll give you the structural damage. the good news this was an industrial park. if it would have just touched down one or two miles sooner, it could have been disastrous. on a larger scale, two victims struck by light nick in montgomery county, a home is destroyed by a tornado, but no one was there. they've been cleaning up with rescue reports of water rescues in the state of kansas and coffeeville. east of wisconsin, as well, they have been dropped from illinois and missouri. still heavy wind and rain are dang damaging there. still a slight risk of oklahoma city. li...

Maybe predictions won't be as bad as expected. all of a sudden, the water came up. at the same time, the skies cleared a little bit. and then on other side of the bay towards staten island, towards liberty island and jersey we saw the flashes in the air. that was the transformers blowing. i could literally see staten island going dark. i could see areas of jersey going dark. it was just so surreal as the water was moving. i barely made it out of there in time. a lot of people got stranded down there as the water came up very quickly. as far as the winds went, these were the peak winds in the b...