areas. title claimant i m joined now by alessandra jerolleman, a disaster a disaster resilience expert and assistant professor at jackson state university. she s lives in new orleans and has evacuated to arkansaw. in the first instance, i want to say i m glad you re out of the immediate to say i m glad you re out of the immediate harm s way, that ou ve the immediate harm s way, that you ve left the immediate harm s way, that you ve left for the immediate harm s way, that you ve left for arkansas. - the immediate harm s way, that you ve left for arkansas. but - you ve left for arkansas. but can you talk us through the impacts of this hurricane, what people are going through in the worst affected areas goes yellow absolutely. in many areas, the worst is still to come. . , ., ., come. but we are starting to hear from come. but we are starting to hear from the come. but we are starting to hear from the lower - come. but we are starting to hear from the lower lying - come. but
michael holmes, what are the conditions like there now? reporter: i can tell you, john, in the last hour or hour and a half they have worsened considerably. driving rain, torrential rain gusts have been enough to move our position. we ve had to shift our position and we re still two, maybe three hours away from the worst of it. we ve been watching as transformers have been blowing around us, power going out, and it was a couple hours ago that brevard county emergency services said we re not going out any am. it is way too dangerous, if you for trouble, and you re on your own, you re going to have to look after yourselves. of course one of the big problems is the barrier islands and with that storm surge that you mentioned coming over those barrier islands it s going to be hours before we know what damage has been done but you ve got to imagine it s going to be severe. the national weather service for this area put out a warning a