kerry was holding as he was trying to get back from the live shot that he did, he was holding onto a pole while there was another reporter holding onto him. this is just humans. now you think of these sustained winds hitting a structure on an ongoing basis with rain and that's the danger and what takes the power out and that can't be replaced very easily. >> i keep thinking about the locals. lester holt said when he went down for breakfast this morning he looked out the window and said it doesn't look like much of a storm. fast forward -- >> this is lester's crew trying to hold that window in earlier. they felt it blowing and felt it was going to blow and subsequently put a mattress there. you can see the window moving there. >> is allen pierce with us? we have allen pierce with us. he is riding out the storm in apalachicol apalachicola. allen, are you safe? >> oh yeah, we're about four blocks off the coast and we have