flash flood emergency. irma flooded streets there, turning them into rivers. got some time lapse to show you now. you can see the water coming up to about knee level. but in other areas, the water was as high as around 10 feet or three meters or so. all right. let s no gow to george howell standing by in atlanta, georgia, where it s been wet and windy. george? and remains wet and windy. a little less rain right now. the rain comes and goes. a lot worse earlier in the day, atlanta, this part of the united states certainly feel thing storm as it pushes north. talk about flooding, though. flooding in savannah, georgia. flooding in tiby island and chatham county, georgia, where i spoke with the public information office we are chatham county. i asked her about the situation there this night and through the next day or so. things are actually improving
years, these people really and truly know how to put themselves in a good position but we are moment by moment right now where i don t like where mike is, because that s all open water to biscayne bay behind him. around those islands. and let me also tell you there s a lot more people in those buildings than you think. one of the residents came down and talked to us last night when we were standing there, and he was in the building that s right above where that shot is. and he said, you know, there s 100 people in this building and i looked at him. he said the building management told them about 30% of the building decided to stay and he was kind enough to offer us a way to get out of the storm if it got bad. the problem with that, for mike today is that mike would have to wrauk through that flooded street to get to the billing. and if that water gets above knee level. right now, as we ve seen him, that water s been to about calf level in the street, but once it gets to about knee leve
us that just one bomb was deployed, and it contained metal pieces. how difficult would it be for one person to design, to build such a device? there are certainly many opportunities for someone to go online and try to build these types of devices. it was clearly effective with the number of deaths and injuries that we saw. you may remember back in the boston bombing when there was a device that was left, a pressure cooker on the ground, and the injuries, when the shrapnel went off, it created this pattern that spread out, but it was really at knee level for most of those injuries, and people had extremities damaged that had to be amputated. in this case, it was a more
awareness of your surroundings could be the only defense. what we learned from this is that these devices are crude, they re cheaply made, and they re made for two reasons only, wolf, and that is to spread terror and to kill. to kill and maim as many people as possible. that s right. that device that you saw, because it was on the ground just like the one here in boston, when that shrapnel came flying out, it was all at knee level for quite a distance. so the people close to that, that s where they were getting their injuries, that s what we saw here. pretty scary. thanks very much for that report. eye opening. frightening indeed. david mattingly reporting for us. appreciate it. we re standing by now, not for one, but two live news conferences. we just learned the boston police department is going to be briefing all of us on the boston the 19-year-old surviving suspect in this case. there s new information coming in. you re looking at live pictures from the boston police depa