policemen going door to door asking citizens to get in that bus and get out. because some of the areas of new bern contoured he will ration is su he wi, elevation is once th come, we can t get you out. into and that is yeah, you can t put first responders in jeopardy because someone else decided to stay. made a decision that could affect their lives and affect others, as well. listen, mayor, i know you re busy and have a lot to deal with. we appreciate you joining us. we ll be getting back to you on cnn. mayor dana outlaw from new bern, property in carolina. let s go to brian todd in hamp stead, north carolina for us. last we saw you, you were out with folks who were hedging their bets really on a flooded street. they decided not to do it which is good news.
has really decreased. the winds are still strong but nothing like a couple of hours ago. you ve got to come this way. two guys pushing their little mini cooper, unwisely tried to drive through the floodwaters that still remain. but the flooded street, the 7 9th street causeway, major east/west artery between the city as well as out to the beaches. that s a neighborhood right there. definitely a lot better. the water s down, the level of the water flooding the streets down. but a lot of these cars that you see right here behind me all lined up here in the median since this is the highest point of the street, clearly, they left their neighborhoods from both sides realizing, well, we d better get our cars out now. it s dry in the middle of 79th, so they just parked. look at all the debris. there s a black shoe, got a black sneaker over herement i mean, the whole street s riddled with debrief. rooftops are ripped. somebody s black shoe right there. so this is not the only street like this.
being pelted with rocks. check out that black car. that s the same one we were showing you several times earlier this afternoon that had stalled out in the middle of the flooded street. now you can see the waters in the street are finally starting to go back down. another big change here in miami-dade county is the wind and rain was coming straight at my face in this direction, northeast to southwest, it s now coming from the southeast heading to the northwest. so we re starting to get that rotation of wind and rain as the center of the storm now is getting further north than the latitude of miami, so we re getting the opposite wind effect, the wrap-around effect. it s still hellacious to be outside when it s coming in at 20, 30, 40 miles an hour, doesn t feel so good whatsoever. curfew tonight was so many roads are impassable and so many traffic signals shepard: the storm s hitting naples in earnest right now,
to check on folks. the coast guard is still in the air as is the u.s. navy and the the meantime, thousands of volunteers are also helping. one of the groups down there is team rubicon and they are using military veterans who use their skills to conduct sweats water rescues and pull people from rooftops. joining us on the phone, john connors. you sound remarkably awake for only two hours of sleep in the past couple of days, thanks for being with us. it s great to be here, thanks for having me. leland: you are doing incredible worked on there. we re looking at live pictures as one of our camera crews are making its way down flooded street. what we do is unite military
and operating immediately. thank you everybody. what a crowd, what a turnout. what a turnout. tonight the washington post puts it this way in the headline, in visiting hurricane ravaged texas trump keeps the focus on himself. and politico wrote it was a presidential trip to a dlujed state where the president didn t meet a single storm victim, see an inch of rain or get near a flooded street. the storm left communities with tragedies hard to imagine and heroes just trying to help neighbors. a 34-year veteran of the houston police department sergeant steve perez drowned in his patrol car when it became trapped in flood waters on his way to work sunday. his wife asked him to stay home. he said he had work to do. then there are the neighbors in houston who formed a human chain to help a woman in labor get out of her apartment and on her way to the hospital. and the u.s. coast guard who flew in to pull a mother and her baby off the roof of a house as