Right now theres widespread devastation, and an urgent search for survivors. The storm decimated towns with historic flooding washing out bridges and roads, and leaving some neighborhoods completely under water. Take a look at asheville, North Carolina, where homes and trucks were swept away by Raging Waters that have turned roads into rivers. At this hour, more than 2 Million people across the south are without power, hundreds are still unaccounted for. Well have live Team Coverage from across three states this morning. Joining us now, nbcs reporter, florida was the first place the Storm Hit. What are you seeing there . And im seeing George Solis there, who we will have on shortly. There is guad, also with us priscilla thomson. Guad, lets begin with you. Reporter total destruction in this area. So we are on treasure island. This is one of the islands on what they call the barrier islands, furthest west from the Tampa Bay Area, and i dont even know where to start here. So, the sand you
Evacuation of 19 patients after paper towel dispenser fire at Largo Hospital, Florida. Fire was extinguished by sprinkler system, no injuries reported.
it triggered a hospital evacuation and what an even more powerful jolt would do to the area. there s luckily no reports of serious injuries. crews are still on the ground assessing damages. jeff paul has more. hi, jeff. julie, yeah, a day after this powerful quake hit this community, we re starting to get an idea how this event has impacted this town. we re standing here in a department store. looking around, maybe you can see how strong this earthquake was. this place is a mess. all this stuff laying around on the shelves and the ground came from the ceiling. these are tiles that were shaken up during the earthquake or shortly after due to a water main break. there were employees inside this store as part of this ceiling started coming crashing down. they say they have never been through anything like this and didn t know what to do. i just got under that table. i didn t know what could have collapsed on me or anything i didn t know what was going on.