Hurricane Charley - WFOR (incl. Charlotte County Sheriff's Dept. during storm)
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[0:01] Now live, this is a special edition of
[0:05] CBS4 News tracking Hurricane Charlie.
[0:10] It is being called another Andrew.
[0:12] Deputies standing guard in Puna Gorda
[0:14] over what is being described as stacks
[0:16] of bodies. Hurricane Charlie moving
[0:18] across Florida overnight. Back out in
[0:20] the Atlantic where forecasters fear
[0:21] Charlie could regain strength. And that
[0:23] has residents on the East Coast bracing
[0:25] for the storm. People in Virginia
[0:27] preparing sandbags for a possible
[0:29] strike. Good morning once again
[0:31] everybody. Welcome to the special
[0:32] edition of CBS4 News this morning. I'm
[0:34] Danielle Knox. Good to be with you this
[0:36] morning. And I'm Jade Alexander.
[0:37] Officials say hundreds of people are
[0:38] missing this morning. And we do have
[0:40] reporters panned out throughout the
[0:41] state of Florida from Miami to the West
[0:43] Coast. Let's begin again this morning
[0:45] with CBS4's Art Baron who is in Port
[0:48] Charlotte. Actually, we're going to go
[0:48] to Jason Wheeler with a report.
[0:52] Piece by piece.
[0:56] The Charlotte County Sheriff's
[0:58] Department was taken by storm.
[1:02] About a halfozen deputies and the
[1:04] sheriff himself now faced with a
[1:06] personal emergency. Put everybody
[1:08] together. How to deal with a roof that
[1:11] was disintegrating.
[1:13] We joined them as they searched for a
[1:15] safe room in their own building. We're
[1:17] all holed up in here. It's the only
[1:18] place it seems to be holding together.
[1:20] Uh if the eye passes, we're going to
[1:22] make a run for the main airport. Our
[1:24] ears popping from a drop in pressure, we
[1:26] listened to the storm roar by outside,
[1:30] inviting the roof to join i