people have been cleaning up the damage. jeff patterson rode out the storms last night in a hotel flooded by the tidal surge. he joins us now from a condo that also suffered significant damage. high jeff. >> reporter: good evening stacie. the damage on the first floor of the condo shows the re power of the storm surge. it crashed into this condominium and our hotel just down the street. the people here at cedar key have been pick today. as wind and rain hammered cedar key from hermine, waves started to rise from the gulf. in the daylight, we found docks at the marina torn apart by the storm. debris filled the streets and people working to clean it up. >> just trying to pick up debris that floated off the front porch and side porch. and random things here and hat store and tried to riped out the storm in his store. staying in the store turned out to be a bad idea. >> it was a heck of the night. when the water got five deep, we crawled up into the attic. a buddy of mine who happens to be the mayor called me saying what are you

our crews are right now surveying the damage as best we can at this hour. a number of downed trees, as you can imagine, all over the community. power lines snapped and disconnected. 100,000 customers through our entire service area that are right now waking up to no electricity. i will say i think the good news is that we know that a number of these outages are related to a couple of downed substations. once we're able to get to those and start to get those back up and operating, those are thousands of customers that can come back online in a short period of time. but it was a harrowing evening for a number of us here as we watched the winds and rain come through. we're tree capital usa, which we take pride in, but you can see is a downside when a storm like this comes through. but we're confident in our ability to recover. >> it is just incredible that a hurricane has not made landfall in florida for 11 years. that just sort of defies, you know, intuition where we think that florida is always the target. what is your biggest concern there this morning? >> w

residents stay shelter from the damaging storm. it is causing flooding and power problems in the panhandle. this storm now a tropical storm, set to make its way up the east coast. 25 million people in hermine's path. cnn's team coverage of the storm begins right now. good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm miguel marquez. it is september 2nd. 5:00 a.m. here on the east coast. hermine now a tropical storm with winds of 70 miles an hour. when the storm made landfall in the panhandle this morning, it was a category one hurricane with winds of 80 miles an hour. heavy rain and high storm surge and flooding along the florida gulf coast. now tropical storm hermine powering across southern georgia where the governor has declared a state of emergency. millions of residents all along the storm's path up to the carolinas under watches and warnings. preparing for the worst. earlier, florida governor rick scott making clear hermine is dangerous. >> it's life threatening. we will see big storm surge. we will see a lot

hermine could cause problems for the atlantic coast for days to come. we saw just how much damage it did around the bay area. let's begin our team coverage with steve jerve in the forecast center. i would say good riddance but i know so many people are still dealing with the aftereffects of the storm. >> indeed, we are seeing showers related to tropical storm hermine. the tail end of it kind of dragging across in places like new port richey. as a matter of fact, let's take a look at the camera. this is at the connorton area in land o' lakes. 4.7 inches of rain. working on five inches of rain since midnight. at our camera at new port richey. four inches of rain. impressive amounts as it trains across the area. that is where hermine is located as of 5:00. northeast coast for the holiday weekend there. the satellite shows how quick and fast and far it moved in a short amount of time since landfall at 1:30 a.m. near saint marx florida. now north of charleston spreading the rain and on shore flow north of the center of the storm in the coastal places of north carolina. there are the ar

this is video of the damage left behind in the outer banks of north carolina, plenty of flooding, but place like newburn north carolina still say the storm could have been much worse. the wind and rain damaging homes and businesses and knocking out power to thousands. >> sit on my porch out on the back, big gust of wind you could hear sizzling popping and a kind of loud explosion. >> some bad n weekend, tropical storm warnings have been issued as far north as connecticut. hermine is being blamed for at least two deaths one in north carolina and one in florida. >> dozens of families are under an evacuation order in pasco county as the anclote river is over flood stages. residents of new port richey are asked to leave. reports, some people are choosing to stay behind. >> some people at new port richey's blue heron point community don't want to leave, their valuables that made it through the floodwater. we haven't seen deputies out here and these people are worried about looters. their homes are covered by inches of water. first responders went door to ground. even dogs were forced to sw

people are trying to clean up the damage. kristen carosa is live with the latest. kristen: we are on golden brook road where a tree fell this morning, knocking out power to residents here. things are cleed up. the good news, power wasac but it wasn't the same story for others around the state. golden brook road in windham was quiet sunday aftnoon after a fast-moving storm swept through early this morning. >> we were looking out the window. it took maybe five minutes of raining before we lost power. kristen: robert reinhart was one of many people living in this neighborhood that lost power. >> we saw firefighters, a few other emergency vehicles going down that way. front of 13 golden brook road causing damage that was quickly cleaned up. for them, power was back on in two hours. for others, the damage was more severe. here's a picture from bedford of a massive tree that fell on back river road. then to epsom, where trees came down at webster park. and also in epsom, a tree came crashing down in someone's backyard. that was a similar sight in weare. >> at first, i he

surveying the damage, it is raining again. though were receding but in the last hour we have received more rain. >> it is becoming submerged the street is pretty much only naff gamble by a boat or we have ducks out here. people in up to the driveways. they cannot get out. the barricades are set up for a reason that's what the officials are stressing today. the barricades indicate that you should not navigate the roadway. this why. some of the roads they can be completely washed out. they said that more than 150 repaired. if you see standing water, especially barriers in front of them you need to turn around. another angle of the neighborhood here because we had to move positions because of how high the water rose just in the last hour alone. we were on one street it started creeping up. we needed to move for safety. and the roadways are completely flooded out for several blocks here by a spilled over the banks. the only thing as i said get down these are boats and docks. >> this is bad. and checking it out. >> and they have the

they're dispatching crews for rescue operations and assessing the damage. i road along with battalion chief lj white, he told me the but the fear is if we get any more rain with this all ready saturated ground, we could see additional problems while riding with the chief, i met up with charles ahers, a storm victim with a positive attitude. >> i think my car is totaled. the pickup truck, it's down there at the end. i thought it'd be out of the water enough. but it wasn't. and then i just got a call that my house was two feet so i'm doing pretty good today. yeah. maybe i should go buy a lotto ticket or something. >> pretty amazing the attitude of some people. the sheriff's office is asking citizens to be respectful and use common sense when it comes to flood water. obviously, avoid being in the flood waters unless you're wearing boots. and wayed so flooded areas -- avoid flooded areas, especially if you don't live in them. sightseeing. >> absolutely not. any idea of the number of homes and businesses impacted? what are we talking a about here? >> i did ask th

take a look at all of the damage right here. you can see trees like this all wind gusts picking up to 50 miles per hour. >> well, the truck started moving, so i ran inside. >> reporter: clean-up now slowly underway. just this area alone will take at least three days to clean. for the now, i'm nicole grigg. >>> i want you to check out what the height of hermine looked like from rivera bay in st. pete. strong winds, sideways rain. trees, bushes really blowing all over the place. there. it's tough to even make out what is happening, it's so volatile, the shaking of the camera because there is so much commotion. >>> and tonight people in partnership lass county are still recovering from all of the flooding o'er night. streets are still very much dangerous. >> the now, lauren rozyla joins us live from a neighborhood that was hit especially hard. >> reporter: yeah, guys. people are still dealing with -- out here. look how far this stretch of water spans. people are driving through it, biking through it. we even saw a few people playing

look the dock damaged. the surf so damaging in franklin county. michael paluska is in saint marks, 30 minutes south of tallahassee with just how damaging the storm was. >> reporter: the eye of the storm passed here clone to saint marks. the orsurge about two feet high, running into that bed and breakfast. now with the sun out, residents say they will clean up and rebuild.

incredible, the damage, right? e witness at the scene told our cnn producer paul murphy that the train went into the station without slowing down, it hit a concrete block so hard that the train went airborne and hit the ceiling and parts of the ceiling came down on that first train car, and we do believe that's where most of the injuries occurred, in that first and second car. the lights went out in the train, people were scrambling to get out. i talked with the man who was in the second car. he said the doors did not open in his car, he had to climb out the window after people poked it out. listen to what he told me moments ago. >> i had no idea, i didn't know this because it's my usual train that i take to office. for me, it wasn't that concerning because i was not paying attention. but the next thing i know, i'm on the floor and we are plowing through something and when the train came to a stop, i could see the parts of the roof on the first car and i could see some of the debris next to me, like two feet from me

right now on cbs 2 this morning...the damage after a night of severe weather in eastern iowa. the important results from a university of iowa survey about sexual misconduct. the iowa supreme court case where the field of dreams hangs in the balance. welcome to cbs two this morning...i'm kevin barry. barry.and i'm kelly d'ambrosio. d'ambrosio. let's get a check of our cbs 2 the heavy rains and severe weather that hit parts of north and east iowa - are making an impact this morning - there are a number of schools that have been affected. affected.right now -- north butler schools are closed for the day.that area was hit hard by heavy rain. schools in charles city -- nashua plainfield and rockford are all starting two hours late -- closings -- head to our website c-b-s 2 iowa dot com. com.you're now looking at a photo of a funnel cloud that was seen yesterday evening in charles city.ellie kew sent in this photo. now here's video from damage left after last night's storms in floyd county..powerful winds knocked trees into roadways -- closing some of them down.other large tree branc

. >>> the entire gulf coast is dealing with the damage left behind by tropical storm hermine. one of the hardest hit areas is to our north. this is video from cedar key in levy county. streets, businesses, homes all flooded by the storm surge. >> people there will spend most of the weekend cleaning up from the damage. jeff patterson joins us live from the area. jeff? >> reporter: good evening and rod. governor scott was here touring spots like this to see for himself. there was a mandatory evacuation order. a lot of people road out the storm in places like this and their stories are frightening. >> most of the night, we were on that couch. >> reporter: denise decided to ride it out in her condo. floor of her building. >> if you look out, you could see waves breaking over the rocks there. it was scary. it was very scary. >> reporter: as the storm raged on, things got worse. >> i saw my kayak float by which i had chained to the fence. then i saw the fence float by. it was very, very scary. >> reporter: tonight, governor rick scott toured the area by helicopter. >> we saw a plot o

the property damage on both sides. with the information of the explosion, you can see it down the block, it was across the street, glass everywhere, shrapnel everywhere, so that we didn't lose anyone, we were fortunate. and then the second response is we're not going to let them win. we're not going to let them win. what do they want? they want to instill terror. that's what they want. they want to make you afraid. they want to make you worry about going into new york city or new york state. they want to make you worry about going across a bridge or a subway. we're not going to let them instill fear because then they would win. so we have the best response team on the globe. it's here, it's working. the best protection team on the globe. on the side of caution we'll add an additional 1,000 national guard and state police just to make sure people know that we're on the scene and we're on the job. and we're going -- life will go on in new york just the way it did the moment before the bomb exploded. we're not going to let

bill: you look at some of the damage and some of the emergency responders screen left. f you have a train of that size, 10, 15 miles an hour. once you pass that bumper, it's a question time, how much damage do you do before you hit enough physical structures to bring that train to a stop. we'll get back to like leventhal -- we'll get back to rick leventhal in a moment. he's a few blocks away because the streets are blocked off in hoboken, new jersey. melissa: the expert talked about what happened there based on his experience. this is the end of the line in hoboken. he says it looks like he came in and went through the bumper postal the end of the rail or the end of the line as you would know it. at that point the train jumped up and went over the platform and into the office. the concern would be for anyone that was on that platform or in that office. it's right now -- it was at the time of the crash rush hour so there would be lots of people on the train. the people inside the train could be quite injured, but that's not what we would be looking for the worst of it. bi

there have been people coming by to check out the damage. and all of these people you right now, they're good neighbors just trying to help utility crews that are obviously overworked all over the city. >> this is probably the best possible scenario that this tree could have fell. it took out the power cable, and that sucks, but at least it didn't hurt anybody. it didn't take any people's houses out. >> it was alleges scary but we went around and hugged all our trees so i knew my yard was going to be safe. trees down, power lines down. many people without power. utility crews are saying it could be a few days or more before a ought of people get their power back. we will continue to update you guys throughout the day but for now back to you. >> all right, let's head back over to leigh spann in the forecast center for the latest on hermine. >> that's right. you can see it's still a huge. it's a tropical. it has weakened from when it made landfall as a hurricane at: i had just been at work a half- hour when it made landfall. the first hurricane

look the dock damaged. the surf so damaging in franklin county. michael paluska is in saint marks, 30 minutes south of tallahassee with just how damaging the storm was. >> reporter: the eye of the storm passed here clone to saint marks. the orsurge about two feet high, running into that bed and breakfast. now with the sun out, residents say they will clean up and rebuild. wet. >> we did save a lot but we lost a lot. >> reporter: this is the face of exhaustion after a night full of fear as the hurricane hit saint marks. >> it was nasty. it could have been worse. >> reporter: locals who have lived here their entire lives. >> it was a long night. >> hurricanes, hit, waters rise but they don't evacuate. >> this is home. >> reporter: getting back to normal is tough. >> this right here sets you back for at least a whole year. >> porter: hermine made landfall with 80 miles per hour winds but the power in saint marks went out well before it hit, leaving people are few options to escape. >> we didn't whether torun or stay or what. but we stuck it out. >> r

it sent items flying off the shelves and damaged buildings. several other states reported feeling that quake. >> anchor: right, and theres with one person injured in all this, and tonight it's all about the cleanup. damage across north central oklahoma after a 5.6 magnitude earthquake hit early saturday morning. >> we had an earthquake that was just unprecedented in this area. >> the quake was felt in at least six other states. this security camera at a high school in cushing, oklahoma about nine miles northwest of pawnee, a town of 2200 people. at least one historic building was affected, and a dozen other buildings or homes are either uninhabitable or heavily damaged. at this grocery store, a major mess as food and bottles went flying. >> the biggest one i've ever felt, it's quite an eye opener when you're sound asleep. >> reporter: only one minor injury was reported. a homeowner who is now out of the hospital. and inspectors say they didn't find any structura cleanup begins. >> we've had a lot of earthquakes in the last couple of years, and

the truck was badly damaged in the crash. wisn 12 news spoke with a person on the scene moments after the impact. >> i was able to wrench a door off, but the driver was caught in the vehicle. >> we have emails into the sheriff's office about the injuries and what caused the crash. >> while you slept, hurricane hermine makes land fall along the florida coast. >> it has been over a decade since a hurricane directlyit the state of florida. we show you the area where the storm first hit shore. it is st. marks. now, we'll look now from the abc stion in tampa. rain and high winds are the biggest concerns right n a shaking in the wind. it struck with 80-mile-per-hour wi thstamage has been from the downed and risg ood waters. the storm surges are up to 12 feet there as well. ginger zee is 4mile??hxa the srm making land fall and tweeted out the photos. ginger is live all with a look at the damage on the florida coast and watch for her reports on "goodorning america" at 7:00 after "12 news this morning." n? >> tim, in the pacific the r

the damage from the storm was minimal.n the area that polo is, more than 100,000 people are without power. the storm, it kind of gives you an idea of how unpredictable hurricanes can be. the storm was forecast to come straight toward apalachicola. it ended up hitting a couple dozen miles southeast of here. they dodged a bullet here. many people still have power. there's some debris in the streets. for the most part, as a police officer told me who i spoke to this morning as he was on patrol, this is about as smooth as it gets for a hurricane. it's really welcome news, especially because as governor rick scott mentioned yesterday, there's some concern over complacency as alisyn mentioned earlier. it had been about 11 years, since october 24th, 2005, that florida got a hurricane that made landfall. there was some concern that people perhaps had forgotten about how powerful a category 1 hurricane could be. also, a lot of people have moved to florida since then. they may not have, peer experie what that kind of storm could do.

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enjoy your day. >>> we continue to follow the latest damage caused by hurricane hermine. it made landfall early this morning south of tallahassee. >> ivan cabrera will have the z23ppz zy6z >>> we now have a tropical storm. hurricane hermine has been downgraded. we have 70 mile-per-hour winds right to be expected. it continues with the trend as far as the maximum sustained winds. the issue for us, regardless of with hermine are coming right on top of us here. that means for you and me, we are in for quite, as they said, heavy downpours throughout. the problem with flooding will accumulations of several inches to come. >>> four minutes until 5:00 right now. still ahead at 5:00, we're going to check in with our crews all along the gulf coast and damage reports come in now from hurricane hermine. >> we take you there live starting with ll captions by: caption colorado, 00) 775-7838 e- mail: comments@captioncolorado.com >>> now at 5:00 hurricane hermine made ndll withwind speeds of 80 miles per hour. ivan has a look at where the outer bands are hitting viewing area right now. >

the bay the damage left behind by hurricane hermine. this is lake mcgory. there's water going right up to people's homes. so many people's homes impacted. >> they all look like this one. you can see the water there everywhere. this is the imperial court mobile home park in new port richey. >> check out this incredible video we just got in from cedar key. whole strictures flattened by hermine's strong winds. joins us now in the forecast center. the worst over for us. but more rain means more trouble for the flooded areas. >> one area would be pasco county right now. kind of trailing off the extreme southern end of our tropical storm hermine which is now in the carolinas. let's take a look. you can see where it is located there. 50 miles an hour winds. there's the latitude and longitude. but a quick movement to the northeast at 20 miles an hour. picked up by the faster level winds moving this quickly to the northeast. and you can see long term tends to slow down in this forecast track off the northeast coast. so, it could cause some high seas and rains for the

the da he not the only damaged home on this et the little rockfish creek looks like a ver but it's still a creek. it damaged another home d we're going tohow you that coming up at r no live in hope mills, carleigh. >> thank you. one of the hope mills dam. here's what this looked like. crews had just started construction on the dam. >>> in spring make water from jumping run creek has subsided it. crest at 31 feet breaking a record set back in 1945. spring lake officials said the >>> a raeford restaurant flooded out by yesterday's rain is struggling to reopen. tonight cbs north carolina's steve sbraccia tells us although the owner has a big job ahead of him, he's got a lot of help. >> reporter: when we first showed up at this parking lot this afternoon it was full of automobiles and people hanging around. then we took a closer inspection. the parking lot is filled with sand and mud and there was they were volunteers come to help the restaurant owner. >> i need some people. >> he gave us all a big hug and thanked us for showing us. >> reporter: this owner has a big job ahead of him. water,

"the damage to the structure itself wouldn't prohibit the school the water damage, the smoke damage and the fact that we shut electricity down in the building may keep them from opening the doors today." and that's exactly what happened....classes were canceled. students who had already arrived at school... were bussed to messmer high school where parents could pick them up. the cause of the fire is still being investigated. the north shore health department confirms a dead crow found in the positive for the virus in milwaukee county since may first. health officials say north shore residents should be cautious-- and take the steps to protect themselves against mosquitoes. one person is rescued from a fire in whitefish bay. north shore fire crews were called out to the scene near henry clay and diversey early this morning. the person rescued was evaluated by paramedics on scene...but their condition is not known at this time. no word yet on what caused the fire. milwaukee the first taking place near 86th and hampton last night. police say a 21-year-old man was shot after two people trie

residents stay shelter from the damaging storm. it is causing flooding and power problems in the panhandle. this storm now a tropical storm, set to make its way up the east coast. 25 million

the damage structure that held the rocket could be seen from a dance. and the they lost their satellite which social media giant facebook would use in part to provide internet to >> lift off. >> it was in the middle of the year launching one rocket a month. >> the question now with their customers who pay $57 million per rocket waiting in line how quickly can it rebound if launch pad 40 suffered damage. >> they often times take a while to fix. in state and believes there are options, we. >> it is easing the old shuttle launch pad 39 a for the past two years the company has been pouring millions into retrofitting the larger launch pad with the falcon 9 left lift rocket which was scheduled to launch later this year. it may be they can move operations to 39. >> and after 90 days. and convicted of assaulting a woman outside of a fraternity house. he was sentenced to six months in jail. and sporing controversy over the issue of rape and the protestors were there as he was released. it does not make sense how they can do that to someone who is unconscious. tu

most of the damage was in the kitchen area. other parts of the building has smoke damage. the owner hopes they will rise from the damage.>> the owner of the building would love to have a stay here. we think it would be good if we could make it all work and have support of the community to continue right he. we just need a couple months later -- breather while we try to rebuild. >> the will see if they can rebuild. they want to make sure their staff still has a job. seven children are recovering this morning after their school breath -- after their school bus cracked into a creek. happen on wednesday. take a look at the pictures. the bus was traveling near squaw creek when it slid into the water. investigators say heavy rains may have played a role in the crash.>>> clinton and trump were in their first joint event. the topic was national security. we're two weeks out from the presidential debate. during the form they were asked not to contact -- attack each other. trump said after getting his first intelligence briefings he is convinced that military current strategy.>> bara

you can see all the damage at the denver international airport. the high school students were football players coming back from an out of state game in california. police say the bus driver ran off the roadway after picking the students up. at least 17 people were taken to the hospital. :24-:30 (stacey stegman/dia "i think some kids are pretty shook up right now and they're just waiting to go home to the at least 2 people are in critical condition. everyone else is said to have more minor injuries. the southern nevada water authority is promising to fix a big water leak that's been ongoing for several days now. here you can see the water bubbling up in the street near and they told us they would be sending out a wild college house party ends with dozens of students being rushed to the hospital. it's all because of a deck collapse-- now we're hearing witnesses describe the terrifying scene. more players and teams are joining colin kaepernick... and using the national anthem to send a message-- but now... one player is facing the consequences. we've

fortunately, this was the only damage to the home. four cars are parked in the driveway in his own. >> we saw two cars totally taken out. >> luckily, no one was inside at the >> my wife's car took the full brunt. thank god, we were lucky. >> the storm left just as quickly as it came in, causing several trees to come crashing down. >> i was calling the dog in because i was seeing the rain. a thunder pattern started to reporter: they say they are just glad the damage wasn't much worse. >> and looked like a war zone. i looked around the house in the neighborhood and i was like, nobody else got hit? we were the lucky ones. >> several of his neighbors in the immediate area were also impacted by the storm, but not as quite as much damage as he did. a tree right onto a car with a couple inside. they were at the holy cross cemetery. the driver was trapped inside the car but rescuers were able to get him out. his wife wasn't hurt. you drum -- you don't water on it, it runs off. if it is a wet sponge, it will when you have that sponge and there

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