beach street area became inundated with water. it was in a matter of minutes 911 calls were coming. people were trapped in a surge of water. that was a category one, 30 miles offshore. here we have category 3 coming in and who knows what flooding? it is in a bowl. anytime there s a major rainstorm that bowl floods. some of it has been historic and people know that. now is the time to get out and move in land. this was a category 5, it has been downgraded to a category 3. it is not the wind that kills but the water. do you worry that now that it has been downgraded and not
up to 58 miles per hour and that is tropical storm force winds. it has been kicking up a lot of surf, just stumbled on a coconut that washed up on shore. if you look here into the dunes, this is a sad sight, a sea turtle nesting area, it is protected and these are all eggs that are just ruined. that s little balls that look like golf balls, these would have been protected there were wooden stakes in the area to prevent beach goers from interfering with those but this whole area has been lapped with waves and you can see the rain, one of those lands coming through right now and it is driving rain, hitting it sideways and i m feeling a lot of the sand spray up from the beach. this is how it is. they just come by and it is very intense for a few moments and then it passes and it goes back to being mostly just lighter wind. this is the story out here in
here in daytona beach, the temperature has dropped. this has moved all day, category 3, maximum sustained winds the 125 miles per hour. here in daytona beach, we are under a hurricane warning. they re telling people the eye of the storm may not make land fall but it could come 30 to 40 miles to the coast so this area is going to feel some of those effects news wednesday. authorities have warned people, if they are in an evacuation zone, they need to get out or prepared to be stuck in their homes or on the long haul because of how slow this storm is moving. right now, the national hurricane center says it is not
budging from the bahamas. up to virginia, people are told to plan for the worst, and gas was running out as people were stocking up. here in teach daytona beach, we weren t seeing many of these gas lines. now, for people who waited to stock up, it isn t the lack the water, everything is chosed. it is a closed. it is a ghost town. we drove around and couldn t find a single business, gas station, fast food, nothing was open. here in florida, looking ahead, we ve seen hundreds of utility trucks and their crews staging. the companies are getting ready to restore power after whatever dorian ends up bringing. in this area, they have staged a number of utility trucks and companies at the daytona international speedway, and also about an hour away from here, disney world, or disneyland,
he thought the risk is over. have you seen more people throughout the night? when was the last time you saw folks on the beach? reporter: haven t seen many folks in the last couple hours but i was surprised how late people are coming out. there is an area not far from here that is more protected, people who live in that area even though they are in a mandatory evacuation zone, they don t see flooding often. one of those folks stayed behind to ride out the storm. some people had a hard time transporting, they are watching the course of the storm to decide if they want to move later on. as far as folks on the beach, it is a good thing because we have seen it get a little bit dicey here and there. we lost a couple steps on the stairs to get down to the beach,