steve: he is standing out in a hurricane and it looks as if some of the rain actually impacted his microphone. jeff, have lost your signal. the audio portion. brian: if it pops back. actually sitting there on the rocks. in fact, he can hear us now. hey, jeff, you were saying you forget this is the gulf. exactly. this looks more like an ocean to me at the moment. [audio faded] steve: we tried. he has been in the rain for the last 48 hours. brian: your sun is beginning to come up. you are beginning to have a real perspective on what is happening. every time we go out to a reporter it s going to be news worthy because it s going to be revealing what the damage was. ainsley: originally that storm didn t look like it was heading for tampa. it looked like it was going on the east side of florida. all of my friends who live in that area were not evacuating. they were going to higher ground and elevated area. steve: i had friends on the east coast go to the west
next 24 to 48 hours. back to you, steve and brian, and ainsley. steve: don t forget how air travel has been disrupted. janice: most definitely. steve: airports closed in florida, fort lauderdale, jacksonville, miami, orlando, sanford, which is near orlando, sarasota, tampa, and west palm beach. ainsley: so awful them basically. janice: of course if you have got delays or cancellations in florida that s going to impact the rest of the country as well. brian: i don t know who would think they would be getting into a plane after what we have been witnessing the last few days. 40e7fully 5eur89s won t charge people while when they change flights. janice: that s why we need to be on top of it, too. brian: watching this water go out, especially in hillsborough in the tampa area, what s going on there? we are expecting water coming up, the surge. we have seen it go the other way. janice: these are fascinating and twitter was overtaken by these images. our own jillian mele posted these yesterda
down here. there are bridges to all of this. even though the bridges they cut them off to regular folks. fools like us they let us in. so, yeah, the bridges are open. steve: the bridges are open. and so is jeff flock describing what is going on down there in madeira beach in the tampa/saint pete area. brian: jeff, it s okay to put your hood on now. steve: he kept trying but it kept blowing off. ainsley: so nice we all have friends and family that live in that area, they all have questions, janice, about how is this going to effect their houses. one of my best friends lives right there in that area outside of clearwater. janice: that s why if you live in florida and there is a lot of very low lying areas especially along the west coast, you have to know your surroundings, right? you have to know where you are on the sea level. if you have a storm surge or what the flooding is like. are you near to a floodplain? are you near a river? that s why it s really important if you move somewhere
camera ability. if it s clear, i m going to get up in a helicopter to assess the damage. we will be running drones over the city to check neighborhoods that have been impacted. but so far i really do think that the gods were smiling on us and we missed a really serious storm that could have devastated this city. steve: sure. now you have to worry about that storm surge. bob, before you go, how much of your town is out of juice? we don t know yet. we do know there are large sections based on eyeballs being laid on those neighborhoods as the police officers move through them. i couldn t give you a percentage. i would have a better feel around daylight. there is a curfew in place. and we want people to stay put for a while until we re able to get in and clear the streets. make sure there is no live wires out there. we want people home as soon as possible. but we also want to be safe. steve: well, you have got a very busy day. thank you very much for spending a couple minutes with us. th
ainsley: i had think they will get over it surrounded by bunch of friends and family. sorry dad this will be a cool story for our kids. steve: i bet they have another marriage. they booked u all the stuff. although in that one everyone was dressed the same. ainsley: best guard in the guard happens to be a notary. brian: notary can marry you. ainsley: yes. i knew hand who would do that. charge 75 bucks come over in my living room and marry you. steve: maybe justice of the peace. ainsley: i read article said notary. steve: suddenly those people who do my taxes. ainsley: maybe it s different in every state. steve: residents in tampa still under a mandatory curfew as emergency crews get ready to hit the ground this morning. ainsley: what s the damage assessment as of now? let s ask tampa mayor bob buck horn he joins us live right now. good morning to you, mayor. thanks for joining us. you bet, thanks.