bit. for people who are tuning in, though, in your neck of the woods, what do you want them to know? what we want them to know is you must continue to be individuvigilant in your respect for this storm. that means taking precautions such as not going outside your house. by all means continue to monitor the weather reports. continue to know this could turn at any moment, a tornado could pop up. there are a lot of things we like to think we re in the middle of it and it s not going it get any worse, but we don t know that. and we just have to go by the best information we have. what about precautions since it s about 11:15 just about your time there in biloxi. pitch-dark, people will be waking up the next morning not quite knowing how bad or how much wind damage, what then? we re hoping everyone will continue to respect the curfew which right now remains in
few hours, and the big fear of course is that water coming in from the gulf. really want to hone in on biloxi. thank you so much for now. with me on the phone the public affairs manager for the city of biloxi. vincent, thank you for jumping on the phone. i know storm surge is one of the biggest challenges or issues you re fatesing there right now. as we look at live pictures of biloxi, what is concern number one for you at this moment? well, the concern in biloxi at this moment is we re hoping this is the worst of it. we ve seen wind gusts here of well over 50 miles an hour. one of the things we re relieved about is this thing had huge building that it could have 1 foot storm surge and could come in as a category 2. we re not seeing that. what we re seeing is a storm that has been fast moving and
getting mike back. obviously, not the best weather situations to talk to mike in. he is okay, but he is in biloxi chasing down the storm here. just look at this. we were talking about power outages, 7,000 in alabama. 4,400 is the latest we have, 4,400 people without power in mississippi. so onto politics, president trump he is back in washington tonight after a quick trip to a fund-raiser in greensborough, north carolina. before he left the president followed a cryptic tweet with cryptic talk. here is cnn s katelyn collins. reporter: well, the president continues to fuel a series of questions and raise a lot of eyebrows after he s made a string of cryptic remarks lately. after he lament on twitter that he thought negotiations with north korea had failed for the
high tide. so that s the combination they re dealing with. that s what they feared, and now what they thought might happen has happened. 90s been inundated. part of the reason they had more than a dozen casinos shutdown and everyone leave. they were worried about just this kind of scenario because your first responders wouldn t be able to get through. this is the worst of it, brooke. they hope because this storm is moving so very fast, it s not going to linger long like this. maybe a couple of hours, but a couple of hours as we hear more bangs. and there is the skylighting up. it s either lightening or another one of those power transformers. wow, i heard it, a transformer potentially going off there. you are in the heart of it. martin savidge and the crew, thank you so much for being there and weathering this hurricane as it is so close to making landfall in biloxi.
asleep and they ve been tuning in to watch what it s like out their window. we ve been watching this storm. it s one of the quickest moving storms on record, maybe the fastest. and so folks are known by the time the sun breaks, it ought to be a pretty day. we ve been out on the streets monitoring things. and we re anticipating it s going to be hopefully much better than it could have been. it could have been a lot worse. it s not over yet, but the fact we re only seeing the major winds and the blows in the water this late in the day is going to work out pretty good for us, i think. so i think we re going be hopefully we dodged a major bullet today, but give us a few hours and we ll be able to tell you for sure. i know it. you sound like a couple of