street. when we walked here at 11:00 a.m. this morning the water was three blocksen land and it continues to rise throughout the day. as bad as it looks three blocks inland we were told, it is going to guess worse. 2:00 p.m. when the tides were 3 feet, now it s worse. at time we saw white caps in the waters as it flooded the street of downtown. i had my rain jacket on all day but i don t think i ever felt rain fall from the sky, it was the wind ripping up on these tunnel that it created down these downtown street to smack us when the water. you can understand the power of the storm surge throughout this day as we felt incredibly gusts of wind. for now the waters has receded but as the mayor told us, don t be fooled when you see some of the pockets of the water
flooding. irma s strong winds are hitting atlantic. so far there s one death confirmed in florida, a single car accident. the death toll will likely rise. there s the immediate issues that floridians are dealing with, lack of electricity, millions are without power. as we ve seen all over the state people may be without electricity but they are certainly not without their strength. irma s fiery, the path of destruction not seen in florida in decades. the storm knocking out power to millions. i ve been here for 22 years, i never seen nothing like it. the southern mo the. the southern most keys bore the brunt. the images show destruction. some of the towns remain cut off, getting aid will be a
left, take a picture. these are people that. reporter: right right right. you see wreckage and homes and family. reporter: exactly. what time just the day-to-day going forward? we got no power, no ac, no telephone running water. are you going to stay here and ride it out? yeah, stay here and help the residence as much as possible. get back to normal living conditions. we re devastated here. we have 50% of the building standing but other than that everything else is off its foundation so we re hoping to get back to normal living conditions. hopefully like i said, fema and sun communities will help out this sun community park and get us back on our feet. sun community bought a bunch of mobile homes. it s up to them to build condos or give back to people.
walk us through the area where you are. the images of those boats piled up it gives you the sense of the power and that wind. reporter: it really does. miami did not get hit as hard as it could have been. i m not coconut grove here in miami outside montys which is a well-known bar. this marina was really affected by the storm surge. came up and pushed all those boats on to the shore here. one boat after the other. a little bit down the street we saw a sale boat in a baseball field. the waters have all receded now but obviously it s going to take some time to clean up. we were here all day and people were walking checking out their boats shaking their heads, wondering if they d ever get them back in the water or even if it was worth trying. anderson. let s talk a bit about the power situation, not only in miami, just across florida. how long before that s expected
butts off to save people. mayor we appreciate you taking the time to talk to us. wish you the best. thank you. thank you very much. i think some people in other states haven t been personally affected of what happened hear, but whether you see what s happening in jacksonville you realize and there are people facing with water on the ground, electricity s out, it is dark, it is miserable conditions and there are millions of people without power right now. obviously that is a major concern. i want to check in with john berman who is in miami and has been all throughout this storm. the mayor there says 72% of the city has no power. for miami, that s 6.5 million people across the state. john, that s the vast majority of people in miami without power according to the mayor.