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The situation in the morning. what we are seeing is there's major trees the and obstructions in the roadways. and access around portions of the island have been diminished. but we've opened up a lot of our major corridors so that we can get rescue assets on to the island. >> hey, chief, i just want to be clear. did you say you had a wreck u, you had to conduct a rescue? >> we conducted a few rescues getting people that were inside houses, water coming into them and/or had medical issues. a couple of people called in structural collapses where injuries. but it was not significant events as far ...

Out on the street, we pulled our officers off the street. >> you did. >> now, we have a contingency group in extreme emergencies that will respond, but no, we are not responding out on the street. >> what are you concerned about right now, chief? >> you know, just what's going to still be standing, what's going to be flooded, the wind damage. you know, i was out about two hours ago assessing where we stood out in the city going through downtown along our bayshore area. and it was holding up well. the biggest concern was there was no water and the bay was very shallow. and obviously when that w...

I want to give you an idea why they try to tell people to please stay inside. if you look, there's debris that's been coming down. there was some debris that came down from seven stories up from the hotel, something snapped off made of metal. then what we're seeing here on a1a is we're seeing a lot of plastic, and i think that's from the tops of trash cans. so if you look, those are strewn all over a1a right outside here, right outside the convention center, the ocean center as it's called in daytona beach. take a look behind me. you can see the gusts. look at that sign. the auditorium bouleva...

Again, close to 12 hours here in palm beach county. over on this street, flagler drive along the intercoastal waterway, we saw three transformers blow about a block away from us. an intense blue concussive blast going up in the shy and shorting out the power grid here. that rescue, that was fortunate. they're going to go and reassess that apartment complex in the morning to make sure everyone got out of their safely. at this hour, don, we believe that they did, but they'll have to reassess that when dawn hits. >> brian todd, be safe out there. i want to bring in chief mike murphy of marco isla...

Damage. what do you see? >> it appears that when the tidal surge came in, it was not as great as was previously predicted. however, we do have a lot of areas that are flooded in the roadway areas. we did have some areas that had water coming up into the garages of the homes, two major factors to this storm. we lost all power to the entire island. and the second component was our water system went down during the storm. we received a number of calls for assistance. we had one structure had a tree go through it. people were trapped. we got out on the road, we assessed the damage. a lot of people...