houses, so tonight, unfortunately, the power has been cut or has been lost here on radio island where we are. it looks like across the bay we don't see any lights over at beaufort either, so we're not sure what the power situation is over there. but you can see the situation is getting even more critical out here. these winds are not going to allow first responders to go out and save anybody. so at this point it is all about hunkering down wherever you can find safety, and this is what we're going to see sweep through the north and south carolina in the next few hours. >> so that was radio island, north carolina, correspondent gadi schwartz. conditions have improved there since. that was really the calling card of the storm initially. it was after dark, and then before they were forced inside, they were forced inside because of the threat of the storm spawning a tornado in that area. we're going to take a break. when we come back, we'll go to