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Questions about her private email server and what she understood about the messages sent and received as secretary of state. And bracing for impact. Americans along the east coast keeping a close eye on hermine. Promisinging powerful storm sur and potential for flooding. We start with Donald Trumps immigration policy under fire. Surrogates pressed on whether the 11 million undocumented immigrants have to go or not. No one has an answer. Here is mike pence on meet the press. Donald trumps made it very very clear that in his ten point plan were going build a wall. Were going to enforce the laws of this country. Were going end catch and release and all of the things politicians have been talking about for a generation. Hes also said there is going to be no amnesty and no path to legalization. If people want to get legalized or right under the color of the law they need to leave the country. Without leaving the country . He also did sa ....
We have been seeing these bands come through, they are tropical storm force winds, getting those outer bands of the wind and rain at this hour. i want to give you a little bit of a look of what s happening. you can see the water has come up just a bit there, and coming with adolfo to the edge of the water, where you normally would have poets going into the water so the tourists can go and residents can go and see the beautiful manatees that exist here. we re seeing quite a bit of lightning, lots of wind, the rain bands have stopped but we will see them again. here we go, this is picking up again and the fear here is what you re seeing there, that s starting to really come up, this is a very low-lying community, this is a community that is in a flood area, every part of this community is prone to flooding, the whole place of about 3,400 people here in crystal river, which is why people, there s a mandatory evacuation here, we have seen some folks leaving this morning to get out. a lot o ....
We re talking about, how high this water may go. come with me, adolfo, he will show you, you will see a lot of the grass here that has been pushed up and out of waters here. but i want to give you some sense of this sign. because we talk about in this area, it is predicted between 7 and 9 foot storm surge. i am 5 9 . so at the top of this, we are talking almost two of these. this may be under water when this major storm surge happens. and that is why people are being told you are not going to well if you stay in a place that is this low. by the way all of crystal city as we move past and go back towards the water as it is a wonderful and beautiful place when things are calm and no hurricane coming, but all of crystal river, the entire town, ....
Sara sidner is standing by live in crystal river, florida, part of team coverage, bill weir in steinhatchee, derek van dam, brian todd and john berman are in hall tallahassee where we just saw desantis and the power go out as the outer bands of the storm hit that city. and starting with sara sidner in crystal river, it s been intensifying all morning. what are you seeing right now? reporter: we are seeing a lot of wind and we re seeing that wind push the water onto shore. it has now come up. it was way back, see where that let s walk over with adolfo here, let s walk over to this little sign here, so that area right there that has those pipes sticking out of it, that was completely dry about two hours ago, the house that is next to it, and, yes, that is an occupied building is built so that there is a whole floor that has nothing in it, that they are ....
Incredible. impressive display of mother nature house power. we want to take you live back to crystal river where sara sidner has been reporting. sara, i see you ve recently moved in part because the water keeps getting further and further in. yeah, i m not a fan of standing in high tide. we are not there yet, but it looks like it. we are probably we re actually more i m going to get out of the way so adolfo can give you a look at the scene. we are more than a football field away from where we were standing literally 30 minutes ago, that s how far the water has come. what you are seeing here is the driveway and the parking lot of a hotel where some of us are staying on the second floor, of course. it was drier than a duck s back about 30 minutes ago, now it is underneath 3 feet or so of water. so the storm surge hasn t even begun. the worst of it isn t even ....