microanalogy of what this entire area is dealing with. we re flooding on our debris, just twigs and stuff that are coming down on the tree are blocking the drains so the water fills up so quickly. imagine that mag if iified for the sewer system here, which already say very low water table. it s very shallow because the water tables very high. so it floods very easily. just this rain alone would have completely overwhelmed it and still we re waiting on the storm surge and these gusts are the real deal. ed lavenderra is at ground level, we re up 25 feet, it is like a sand blasting to the face. what is it like down where you are? it s not about the levity, it s about the concern for the longevity? how long can naples take this kind of pounding and then when that storm surge comes in, then what? what are you seeing?
reporter: in georgia despite a flurry of tweets urging the removal or sand blasting and the georgia naacp stating. we as the birthplace of the civil rights movement must act in accordance with true american values. reporter: any change at stone mountain is complicated. georgia state law has a clear mandate for the memorial saying, it should be, quote, preserved and protected for all time as a tribute to the bravery and heroism of the citizens of this state who suffered. the carving of this monument was a 60 year project, initially involving a sculpt tour of south carolina s mt. rush more. it would be completed under richard nixon s administration. 45 years later, under the nation s 45th president, stone mountain s carving and confederate monuments like it, both landmarks and lightning rods. underscoring under perspective on americans of the
getting it very soon and it looks like we have several more hours, many more hours to go with this. chris, back to you. brian, we weren t with you earlier. give us a sense of how quickly sort of the tide turned and how quickly did those wind speeds build? yeah. i mean just a couple of hours ago this was almost a walk in the park out here. rainy walk in the park. but it wasn t difficult to with stand whatsoever. it s really only in the last one to two hours that this has turned like this. and quite frankly, because it s painful to be out here. when the wind is approaching 50 miles per hour and you re getting that sand blasting and the rain coming at you horizontally right across like this, this is, you know, potentially dangerous situation if people are not on their guard and if they don t know what they are doing. and i m very hopeful that those students were just having fun and the fact that they were jumping up and down in your live
is. if you see in the darkness a little bit you can see those waves forming. high tide in long branch is not due until about 7:18 tomorrow morning when it comes back here. where we are isn t that bad. it is pretty low pretty high position we are just a minute, please. thank you. but i do have to tell you that there are many areas along the jersey shore where they are very worried about that high tide. the other experience i m getting right now is you can feel or hear this rain against the microphone. it is sand blasting. it s not just rain. there is sand in this. it is painful to look into the wind. these gusts approaching 50 miles per hour were roughly 35 miles away from manhattan. if you re not getting this yet up there you probably will be
look at this. what happened here, this dramatic rescue after two workers were injured while trying to do some substantial maintenance inside a water tower. this type of maintenance is done every 10 to 15 years. they took all of the water out of that water tower. these two workers were in there on scaffolding. they were doing some sand blasting and the scaffolding gave way. you re looking at live pictures of these rescue workers bringing down one of the injured maintenance workers was working inside that water tower. this is 150, to 160 feet off the ground. so, very dangerous. very delicate operation. we re told from officials on the ground and the public affairs director for the city of hollywood, florida, that one of the workers has a serious leg injury. the other one was semiconscious.