gouging. the attorney general trying to crack down on that as the hurricane gets closer. we re here with rob. what s the plan for you and your family? we have done all our preparations. we actually started labor day. we ve got some wood to put up. that s where we re headed now. . reporter: why did you decide to ride it out? we didn t have too many choices. we don t have family locally, and seems like the storm is headed way up north. so i figured we would stay down here and take our chances at home. reporter: have you been through a hurricane like this before? sure, we went through wilma. we were out of power for six days. so we ve got some experience. i ve got a generator. and, you know, all the necessary supplies. so we re good. reporter: all right. beautiful got a full tank of gas here. best of luck, rob. take care. be safe, you guys. likewise, you too. reporter: nice to meet you. i want to show you a few more lines down here. you can see, state troopers are actuall
deep with cars falling and it hopefully they are strapped in because that probably saved them from being injured. reporter: take a look at that woman s suv at her and was pulled out of the sinkhole. the shows you how dangerous this actually was. they had to close down the airport when the runway flooded. lax in los angeles. flights were impacted and more than 80,000 people without power throughout the los angeles area. laura: what does the city do to make sure the streets surrounding areas are safe? i have lifted now they l.a. for a number of years. once you have the rain you have the season called a the mudslide season so what s being done to keep people safe? reporter: that s right, right now what they are doing is trying to stabilize and you can see the metal sheets. they will be putting those into the holes and do everything they can to secure it.
deep with cars falling and it hopefully they are strapped in because that probably saved them from being injured. reporter: take a look at that woman s suv at her and was pulled out of the sinkhole. the shows you how dangerous this actually was. they had to close down the airport when the runway flooded. lax in los angeles. flights were impacted and more than 80,000 people without power throughout the los angeles area. laura: what does the city do to make sure the streets surrounding areas are safe? i have lifted now they l.a. for a number of years. once you have the rain you have the season called a the mudslide season so what s being done to keep people safe? reporter: that s right, right now what they are doing is trying to stabilize and you can see the metal sheets. they will be putting those into the holes and do everything they can to secure it. one big question we have had
reporter: no, definitely not. one thing that was in great contrast between today and other days is that in the past, the soldiers, although they never stopped the glenn administrators from going through, they would do a pat-down, checking for weapons. but that ceased to exist. looking over right now from my vantage point, the military is nowhere to be seen, unless the tanks that were very close to the hotel have somehow moved underneath the overpass, they also have not visible at this point. that clamoring, the banging that the anti-mubarak demonstrators have been conducts throughout the night since they set up the makeshift barricades with the metal sheets they managed to get their hands on, it s still continuing as we speak. there s still a vehicle smoldering here. anderson, just a few hours ago, we tried to go to one of the hospitals. while we were there, the doctor was explaining the difficulties
the night since they set up the makeshift barricades with the metal sheets they managed to get their hands on, it s still continuing as we speak. there s still a vehicle smoldering here. anderson, just a few hours ago, we tried to go to one of the hospitals. while we were there, the doctor was explaining the difficulties he was going through, trying to get medical aid to the demonstration site. he said ambulances were being stopped and turned away. so he had to hide medics just to get them on site to get them treated. ben wedeman, at one point it looked like buses or trucks were front in, in front of the egyptian museum to create barriers. i assume that was military doing that, but i never saw where they ended up going, because some of those vehicles ended up being turned over. i wasn t in that position. i was more sort of really right in the middle where the two