threatening the cause even more destruction. >> she was able to file this report by phone minutes ago. >> i got to say driving up and down highway 98, there are other small smaller places. all of them look like a war zone. there are chunks of the the road that are gone. there are boats and cars pancaked on top of houses. there are even houses in the middle of the road. there's a point where we just couldn't drive any further into mexico beach. iconic restaurants like two cons, hotel, completely wiped out. you're starting to see residents come out and begin to get a first look at the horror and they tell you things like they don't know where they go from there. most of them, the folks we spoke to rode out the storm in mexico