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A deliveryman calling the fire department when he spotted this. this giant hole in the middle of the street. this was in bethlehem, pennsylvania. firefighters detecting a strong odor of gas, evacuating about 20 homes. that is a four-block area closed to traffic. several residents sheltering at nearby school. utility crews eventually shutting off the gas and making repairs. ♪ leland: even before president trump's inauguration the new congress will get to work next week. republican lawmakers looking to pass three key bills. the man of the hour, doug mckelway, live from washington. so what is f...

Could reach 9 to 11 feet. a major concern of low-lying areas of jacksonville and historic cities of savannah and jacksonville. utility crews in florida are working to restore electricity to almost 827,000 customers who are without power right now. millions of people involved. many of the people have heeded warnings to simply evacuate, to get out. cnn's alison kosik in central florida in orlando for us now where many on the eastern coast have fled to. alison, are people still arriving where you are? >> reporter: they are. orlando is 70 miles west of the coast. so what a lot of floridians do who...

Broken down. if you can get out and those cities that are just about in the middle of the east coast of florida, and down south, you can go above that please do not travel on the roadways. 600,000 people, 600,000 homes without power right now. half of those power outages are in martin and st. lucie counties and the governor said there will be more outages to come. he also said utility crews are already working to restore power. so let's talk about exactly where that storm is. how strong it is. how far it's wiggled to the west. chad myers has that in the weather center. >> carol, i have a quest...

And ready to help. what will they be doing tomorrow? >> well, they won't be tomorrow. we're starting today working further south. urban search and rescue teams and other teams are on standby as the storm moves north we're going to basically be following it supporting the state. their priorities will be getting back in areas doing safety rescue missions and also assessments. utility crews will be following the storm north. so this will be one where as conditions improve further south we'll be supporting the state if they need assistance. but as we get in to the areas of heavy impact, we're read...

. live pictures from tybee island. the breaking news this hour, hurricane matthew slamming the eastern coast of florida. we got these live pictures from tybee island in georgia right now. president obama warns that hurricane matthew is still a very, very dangerous storm, florida's governor says the worst may be yet to come for his state. georgia and south carolina, they are very much in the storm's path right now. here are some other late-breaking developments involving hurricane matthew. located 90 miles southeast of jacksonville, florida, with maximum sustained winds of 120 miles per hour....