freeland says his first instincts was to help his wife but says there were so many others hurt even worsea pretty harsh scene to see all these bodies laying all over the street and one was worser than the other and you didn't know which way to go. >> reporter: it was just after 4:00 p.m. yesterday a woman in the suv as seen in surveillance video going around cars and through tape. she doesn't stop until she crashes into the tent in the street. you even see her trying to back away. almost a dozen people from a six-year-old child to a woman in her 90's were hurt. we spoke with several witnesses at the scene. >> someone said their legs couldn't move. others bleeding out their head. >> i never seen anything like that before in my life. >> reporter: neighbors say the block party is an annual labor day tradition. the real purpose of it is to give kids back to school supplies. >> i hope the children are okay because they were here to just get their book bags. they was excited and then this happened. >> reporter: that's ivory robinson. she says the woman behind the wheel needs to be held accounta

about glen is calling from freeland, michigan. you're on book tv. >> duvery much. if i may, because i'm a trump voter, i think he gets a bad rap. he did totally condemn to the so-called neo-nazi, white nationalists, what war. think he was referring to more bradley the confederate debate about the statues and symbols and all that. but there's reasonable people on both sides of that. and the reason charlottesville was all painted as white supremacists and neo-nazis and all that is because we never had a chance to find out who the speakers really were on that side. they were closed down by the everyone free speech people before they even had a chance to speak. but anyway, let me ask you the question. i'm told that my call has been about. it's about iranment i know iran is a bad regime full of howl cast deniers and terrorists. what's your opinion on the iran nuclear deal? do you think president trump should stay in it or not? thank you very much. >> guest: well, it's an important question, and thank you. this was not a perfect deal. i'm not sure perfect was on the menu

mayor shelli freeland eddie feared to awake this morning to much worse. i've heard several mayors over the next several hours, pretty much the same thing, we dodged a bullet. are you feeling that way today? >> i feel that. this is a blessing. this is horrible, but it could have been much worse. >> you were expecting heavy flooding. >> we were expecting heavy flooding. we were expecting communities demolished. >> on a damaged neighborhood in sarasota's north side. >> if you have insurance, go ahead and file a claim. >> the mayor met residents and surveyed the damage from the weaker than expected storm. >> a homeowner doesn't care what the category is when there's a tree in their house. >> reporter: it presented many faces to florida, devastating the key, swallowing jacksonville with floods, while in many gulf coast communities that had braced for a crippling hit, like siesta key, there was surprise as owners who evacuated ahead of the storm returned today to mostly minor damage. >> huge relief for us. >> reporter: around here at least they'll be talking fo

shelly freeland joins me by phone right now. she is the mayor of sarasota, florida. down here as you can see, the worst of the storm is beyond sarasota. mayor, in fact are you feeling any substantial wind and rain right now? >> oh, yes, absolutely. we can hear the wind howling. i can hear it at my home here in sarasota. the rain is pounding, and the wind is howling. but we are just so thankful that it's not as bad as it could have been. we were at a category 4, and at the time that it was actual landfall, we were down to a category 2. so although it sounds bad, it could have been much worse. >> of course. it's still pretty serious. anybody who hasn't been in those kinds of winds, you know, most people haven't felt winds sort of above the 50s. you're still gusting to about 54 right now. at what point can you have your emergency services go out and evaluate what's going on in sarasota? >> once we get below a sustained-mile-per-hour, 45 miles per hour, then we will begin to redispatch our law enforcement and first responders to go out and assess damage, looked for any d

shelli freeland eddie, mayor of sarasota, florida. very much a part of the mix tonight. a quick break for us. 10:47 eastern time. >> i do have the new 11:00 advisory. >> okay. we're not going break. we're going get the 11:00 p.m. >> they put this out a little early. we're now down to 100 miles per hour sustained winds. so only down. only went down from 105. >> gusts are still possible. >> still a category 2, yes. 100-mile-per-hour winds. it is now located about 40 miles east-northeast of sarasota. about 50 miles southeast of tampa. the pressure is not rising all that fast. the key thing i was looking at, i was waiting for the hurricane center to redo their storm surges and they have. so here is the new one. cape sable to captiva, they're saying 4 to 6-foot storm surge. the captiva area, they have dropped that. that was in the 5 to 8. they dropped that to about 4 to 6. captiva to ana marie island is now 3 to 5 foot storm surge. >> that's much better news. >> that is. >> north miami beach to cape sable, including the florida keys, they're still saying storm surge of 3 to 5