switch to drug-free midnite®. its specially formulated to work with the body s sleep mechanism to promote natural sleep. try midnite® tonight. welcome back. one of the things tom satyr told us the day irma hit florida that the storm was sneaky. as it moved up the coast, it went east, whichment places like orlando and daytona beach were hit much harder than expected. a lot of media focus was on the west and there has not been a lot of coverage in the east, but it s hard over there. we are south in jacksonville with the latest on that. here s the latest on that. it s all gone. reporter: one year ago, joe and his wife moved to florida from south carolina. they d found their dream home. ocean front property on the beach. my wife and i are just going
you must become invisible. [hero] i ll take my chances. welcome back. one of the things tom satyr told us was the storm is sneaky. as it moved up the coast, it went east like orlando, daytona beach were hit. a lot of media focus was on the west and there has not been a lot of coverage in the east, but it s hard over there. we are south in jacksonville with the latest on that. it s all gone. one year ago, joey and his wife moved the florida from south carolina. they d found their dream home.
that you can t drive a major public rescue vehicle into. with major tires, high up off the ground. you ve got to take the big truck in, you ve got to drop the boat in that the rescue guys take, and you have to go down the road, get these people in a boat, get them out and back to a truck and drive them out. and then get them to a shelter or to someone s home that can take care of them. so it s deep, it s serious, and it s dangerous. and the threat is still with us. but this is anderson, this is what i told the people today. this is why we re here. this is my job. this is the job that policemen and firemen sign up for and firemen. and they are answering the call of duty. i m so proud of this community working their butts off to save people. we appreciate you taking the time to talk to us. thank you. wish you the best. thank you. thank you very much. i want to check in with tom satyr. in terms of jacksonville, how
it s dangerous. and the threat is still with us. but this is anderson, this is what i told the people today. this is why we re here. this is my job. this is the job that policemen sign up for and firemen. we appreciate you taking the time to talk to us. thank you. wish you the best. s. thank you. thank you very much. i want to check in with tom satyr. in terms of jacksonville, how long can people there expect to see this kind of flooding in jacksonville or the storm surge? basically this afternoon it started to recede, which is good news. we knew we were going to have this onshore flow even before the system made landfall. we were talking about jacksonville, i didn t think they would break the record from hurricane matthew last year, but they did. they got up to five and a half feet and that broke the record
tide. that s minimal right now. tom, thank you very much for increasing the information and the urgency. you have been explaining it throughout the day. we ll keep prompting you and having the rest of us tell us storm surge is no job. it is not just about the coastline losing some beach. it is about a wall of water come into places where it should not be and it will overwhelm you. let s take a quick break here. when we come back, we will check on all of our different correspondents peppering the coasts, all the different places that the governor said they are most concerned about right now. if you are in florida and in an evacuation zone, please heed the governor s warning. do what you can to be safe and stay with cnn. s us. we want all the teams, no matter where we live- with directv nfl sunday ticket. we want falcons in new york.