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Land. let's go to bill karins with the latest. where the the storm right now and where are we expecting it to make landfall? >> we're getting the breaking news stories from this storm. i was saying all along it was from sunset today to sunset tomorrow that a majority of the damage is going to be done from this storm. we're hearing reports that the abc station, newbern area is evacuating. pamlico sound, the winds have been coming out of the east all day long. they're piling the water up. the storm surge is coming in. there's a lot of flooding problems in the newbern area and all the little wate...

>> reporter: yeah. andy is going to look at the palm tree that's being held up here. an interesting point is i made the point we're ten miles away. when we woke up yesterday morning and said, boy, we're far away from where this storm is going to strike, especially when they were looking at the fact the eye was no longer going to hit miami, our thought was we wouldn't see much of the storm. where we were based at, there's a main water inlet, when you fly into miami you see them, lakes, other water inlets that go up next to these house. that's what we're interested to survey when the sun comes u...

Can you see yesterday 99-mile-per-hour winds uprooted trees along the road here around the airport. you can see the roots when we swing back over here, these are significant trees the palm trees stayed up. over here on the other side are the inlets. you can see different water inlets, we saw was suddenly a lake turned into waves. ultimately, that wind pushed these trees up and over in the area. more than 85% in miami, dade county has no power. so a lot of people are using places like these hotels to evacuate. 680,000. the skies are clear right now. it feels comfortable out. so once the sun ris...

Miami sees. if you fly into miami, you'll see the water inlets scattered around the city. to give you perspective of where we are in miami, we're ten miles away from where the coast actually is. we're about two blocks away from miami international airport. yesterday morning when we realized we would be stuck by this tree, we didn't think we would get too much of the brunt of the water wind until the storm came in. 99-mile-per-hour winds, which led to these trees coming down. we are watching what is actually a lake over our right shoulder here. we saw -- it was waves that were being pushed on, ...

Path of least resistance. it will go around these buildings and these seawalls and head into these access roads that lead back up to atlantic avenue which is the main north-south drive along the coast here in daytona beach and run as far as it will go. the real worry of all of the water inlets leading into the intercoastal waterway. that water is going to head toward the intercoastal waterway and will come up very, very quickly depending on how close that eye is to do daytona beach and how strong the winds are blowing at that hour. that's one hour we're really concerned about here in this area...