brian todd, we appreciate it. a lot of the damage from the storm is expected to happen in rhode island. that s where we find cnn derek van dam live in new port. so, i see, it looks like you re starting to feel the outer bands? yeah, this s in fact, the first experience of henri that we had here in newport, rhode island. of course just to our west new york city getting hammered with heavy rain. over six inches in a very short period. we saw that unfold overnight last night. we are preparing for the first landfall in 30 years. this is really significant. the impacts of the storms but i walked around newport last night and people here, remember, this is high tourist season. people acting and behaving as if there wasn t a hurricane on its way. quite surprising. really the only people that i experienced yesterday taking this storm seriously were some of the ship captains and the
trapped inside their homes, i would say who have been watching what happened to the south who might have a false sense of security and that is always the danger here. i mean, you have so many people who didn t evacuate and now they re going to say i didn t evacuate when it was a mandatory evacuation zone. i knew we didn t need to. we survived this. they didn t even know they didn t go through a hurricane. there wasn t a hurricane in some of the southern locations, so those to the north inside their homes, i think are getting the word. if they do stick their heads outside, outside the door, they ll see, you don t want to be out here right nowhere. i m miserable. this isn t a fun place to be with a vehicle that has the gasoline think on e and wondering where we re going to go to next. be safe, okay? kerry sanders in jacksonville, beach. we want to go to daytona beach next, nearly a million people without power. thousands of folks as you heard kerry talking about, out of the homes as hu