I got my animals. I got me and my wife and our child out. Im just worried about our home. Block after block destroyed. 175 buildings gone. Lost in the flames. That doesnt count the human toll. Dont know if its burned or not. Just homing its not. That was everything. I just hope that everybody is okay. Reporter but there will be some relief. Late today the governor issued state of emergency for lake county. Good evening im dan. Amma is off tonight. 1500 homes still at risk of burning down. Fire broke out on saturday evening at this by the town of lower lake. Thats where most of the homes burned in fact. Laura anthony spent the day with evacuee wondering if the homes are still standing. I just hope that everybody is okay. Reporter he hasnt seen his ho3iuz yet but pretty good idea what happened to it. Given it was right in the middle of this. On sunday. All of a sudden at 10 30 sirens started to go off and helicopters and flames and planes and everybody got really serious really quick. Re
My son saved my daughter. Reporter a mothers pain. One can only imagine the emotions barbiening gallon is experiencing. Today was supposed to be a fun family day. We decidedded too spend time together and go fishing. We went to walmart and bought all the stuff we needed. We came out here and got everything ready and we were fishing and my daughter fell and jumped in after 11yearold crystal. Reporter he jumped in after her and grabbed her and was holding her up out of the water. I jumped in after them. Reporter barbie was able to grab ahold of crystal and tried to get to austin, but he went urn. The water is swift. Water of the peace river. Deputies hope austin may have climbed out of the water downstream and may be walking to find help. Barbie is praying that is the case but hours passing dont help. It is hard to tell myself that he is going to be okay and theyll find him safe and you know not feeling good and just wet and cold and it is really hard to say Sheriffs Office is classifyin
River, pouring about 45 feet of water in to this property. Threatening ac units and getting in to cars right there, and people here just say they are hoping Mother Nature will give them a break. Reporter desiree and her husband are having to relocate to a family members home. I look out my window, we have an ocean on our front porch. I had to get my kids out right away. I couldnt stay. Reporter residents in flood prone areas may have to stay away until midweek. The four ordered evacuations impact Worthington Court apartments, sun coast gateway mobile home park, efers and blue heron mobile home park. Im more upset than i am mad. I cant be at home. This side is really bad. Park and came back to get some medication, there is no water in her home for now. Governor rick scott touring areas where that wasnt the case, plans to ask the army corps of engineers asking for draining solutions. This is life threatening. Reporter county and state Officials Say hermines aftermath isnt over with yet.
Flit. This is video of the damage left behind in the outer banks of North Carolina, plenty of flooding, but place like newburn North Carolina still say the storm could have been much worse. The wind and rain damaging homes and businesses and knocking out power to thousands. Sit on my porch out on the back, big gust of wind you could hear sizzling popping and a kind of loud explosion. Some bad n weekend, Tropical Storm warnings have been issued as far north as connecticut. Hermine is being blamed for at least two deaths one in North Carolina and one in florida. Dozens of families are under an Evacuation Order in pasco county as the Anclote River is over flood stages. Residents of New Port Richey are asked to leave. Reports, some people are choosing to stay behind. Some people at New Port Richeys blue heron Point Community dont want to leave, their valuables that made it through the floodwater. We havent seen deputies out here and these people are worried about looters. Their homes are c
Were going now live to the flooding situation. Reporter a lot of flooding that people are dealing with. Right now were in the blue heron point Mobile Home Park. This is massachusetts avenue and congress up in new port where you can see this entire Mobile Home Park is filled with inches and in some parts feet of water here. Residents getting around by using mates up, air mattresses and a paddle to get around here. You see the dogs there. They are checking on each other. We saw hillsborough come up this way to help the county with smaller boats. They were taking people out, getting them to a bus, and available to a shelter. Theres a shelter but a lot of people telling us they did not want to go to the shelter. As we take a walk we can see same amount in the homes as well. People are saying theyve lost everything. As you can see, this entire Mobile Home Park filled. A lot of people reluctant to go to the shelter. They were worried about their pets. We are told that the shelter they can go