wind but almost 6 inches of rain. you put that on top of a tree with wet roots and all of a sudden trees start to come down. it s going to be a rough night. all right, chad myers, thanks so much. hurricane idalia already whipped its way through the western edge of cuba causing major flooding and damage there. how severe is the damage in cuba? reporter: the sun is out behind me, but don t be fooled. cuba took a licking today and they re just now assessing the damage. we re talking thousands of people forced to evacuate from coastal areas, now hundreds of thousands of people according to official numbers that are still without power and the government has to go, and it s slow work to begin the job of restoring power, of fixing power poles, downed power lines. we saw dramatic scenes of flooding across western cuba, people that had inches of rain in their house, storm surge. and, you know, that pickup