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members of the florida national guard are at the ready, but as we just heard bill karins say, this is expected to go just a little bit you know, just off the coast, but we could get tropical storm force winds here, so officials are urging people not to let their guard down, but at this point, yes, it appears that it will stay offshore. many businesses are boarded up, many people evacuated. just after 5:00 a.m. in jensen beach, florida, gabe gutierr gutierrez, threw. let s go to julia bag live from daytona beach, florida. reporter: i just got off the phone with emergency managers who are holding their breath, they are hoping that dorian stays just far enough off the coast not to cause any major problems here, but there is still that threat for storm surge. just behind me here the halifax river in this area is where they re worried about that. we ve seen businesses with
a later date. hundreds more remain in custody, separated from their families. today president trump defended what officials are calling the largest enforcement raid ever in the country. staged the same day he was in el paso supposedly comforting terrorized hispanic victims. i want people to know that if they come into the united states illegally, they re getting out, they re going to be brought out. and this serves as a very good deterre deterrent. if people come into our countries illegally, they re going out. the white house claims it was not notified in advance to preserve secrecy, that does not address how an operation this dramatic could be carried out without a green light from the homeland security. let s get the scoop from gabe gutierr gutierrez. gabe, this is heartbreaking. you ve covered a lot of stories.
family. he has too many kids. reporter: how scared are you right now? i m scared because i don t know what to do with all my siblings. my mom has to work. i don t like them to be missing something. reporter: now, andrea, of the roughly 680 people who were detained during wednesday s raids, about 300 or so, a little less than that have already been released. about 400 or so remain in i.c.e. custody and they re being held in facilities here in mississippi as well as louisiana. gabe gutierrez, thank you so much. and it s inexplicable to me this would happen in the same week as the president s trip to el paso. how could someone say let s not do this right now? people are terrorized. he seemed to be indicating on the south lawn that deterrence was the point. yeah, i mean, clearly they
get around? reporter: to tell you where we are, we had pulled into town and began to see some of that destruction pretty much everywhere we turned there were downed trees, some damaged homes. couldn t get all the way in because we wanted to come out and alert our news desk that we had made it into town. and i explained the cell phone service here is virtually nonexistent. we made it to the outskirts of town by the freeway. we re about to go in and see more damage. our cameraman is saying multiple city blocks are decimated. brick structures collapsed. we heard earlier reports of people trapped inside one of the building. i can t confirm that at this point. we re trying to learn more information from local officials as we get further in. all right. gabe, stand by. i want to bring in the mayor of rockport. we were just talking to him.