CNN’s Marquez on Mexico Beach After Michael: ‘It Is Something Reminiscent of a Nuclear Blast’

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MARQUEZ: "Well, I want to show you what is Mexico Beach today. We drove through the entire town today. What you are looking at, 24 hours ago, 36 hours ago was beachfront property here, beautiful homes and businesses completely wiped away. There are parts of Mexico Beach that no longer exist at all. The drive in here utterly treacherous. Thousands and thousands of trees downed, snapped in half, all in the same direction. It is something reminiscent of a nuclear blast that came through here, just entire forests mowed down all the way down here. Emergency services just getting up and going in Mexico Beach right now. Florida Task Force 2 is here, Louisiana Task Force 2 is here, the urban search and rescue are going through home after home. There’s 165 of them working pretty much 24 hours a day trying to get through here. They have found a lot of people who survived the storm here."