. >> joining us now is chris jones, the mayor of chiefland in levy county, florida.f fox folks evacuated. that takes some eyes off the ground, but i know you have a lot of emergency responders out. what are they seeing? >> pretty much most of the damage we sustained was pretty minimal. a lot of limbs down in the area. currently, we're still without power. there's crews and even some contract workers in town trying to get power restored. but overall, we faired pretty well. most of what i have seen is just damage from limbs down, but we haven't sustained any major damage, at least not directly in the area where i'm at in chiefland. >> are you getting any word from the coastal areas? i ask because it seems like they had really good luck with evacuating people from cedar key and other neighboring areas to you, but that also means that there aren't really a lot of eyes back in those areas. there's no wifi and koms up for people to report what the damage is like. are you getting any word of what it's like there. >> it's clear that we faired pretty well. i'm in the city lim

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the state inundated by rain with clearwater beach and chiefland both seeing more than 9 inches. officials inspected and cleared every bridge affected by the storm, adding search and rescue teams are making good progress finding and helping people trapped by floodwaters. let's get to meteorologist angie lassman. good morning. what is the latest on where the storm is and what damage it might still do? >> good morning, willie. we're seeing this system weaken, but the images from yesterday are hard to miss across social media and beyond. we've seen, of course, the wind damage, the water damage. the storm surge now starting to, of course, subside in places like florida. we're still dealing with this system. it hasn't completely weakened or moved offshore just yet. we've got a tropical storm still with winds at 60 mils per hour at 5:00 this morning. northeast movement, 21 miles per hour. it is dealing with vertical wind shear. that means it is trying to weaken. we don't have great conditions for it to continue to maintain its strength, but we're only going to see gradual weakening fro