through pitch dark southeast florida. many power outages are reported throughout the state, and already there about 2000 flight cancellations for today, many of them for orlando, tampa and jacksonville airports. it has been it has been downgraded to category one hurricane, but it s still very dangerous. the winds are slowing, but catastrophic with life-threatening flooding. we get life updates on its path and destruction. in orlando, there were estimates that as much as 20 inches of rain could have fallen, and it s been hammering the area for hours. let s go right to jesse coach who was there. i hope you re someone save, you were talking about having to go to higher ground earlier, especially the location being too dangerous. yes and at this point we are dealing with pretty consistent rainfall here. there were bands of it earlier, we continue to see gusts of intense wind. but the rain is been falling for hours. and you can see we talk to a short while ago with the wat
intense wind. but the rain is been falling for hours. and you can see we talk to a short while ago with the water inching closer and closer to the top step. and let s just take another look here. we have got to be millimeters away at this point, centimeters, millimeters away. very, very close to this water just completely coasting over the top of this. we are bracing for the possibility of having to move inside. we ve seen some flights lights flicker. thankfully the power is held on, our cell reception is holding up pretty strong in orlando as well. so far photographer tony can turn around and show you. he can t see it but just to the frame here on this side is a white circular life preserver, one of those discs that you might see decoratively on the side of a boat. that is because just to the