dodging a bullet here, a relative thing. everyone was hunkered down. people out here on the streets were coming out saying we were in our houses and apartments for two days, some of them are saying we were watching the coverage as long as they could. [ no audio ] i think we just lost audio with john. we will get reconnected with john, joining me throughout the hour. very thankful he s there for us on the ground. so he s in miami right there. let s talk about daytona beach. first responders are out rescuing people trapped by the storm. they were doing that just this morning. the city wasn t expected to get a hard hit by irma, but oh, it did. sara sidner as you see right there was out in it this morning when the storm just moved in. brutal what she was standing there through. watch this. this is an incredibly powerful storm. in miami, that wasn t where the eye was we saw what it did as it