From the high desert and the great American Southwest.

I did you, good evening, good morning, good afternoon, wherever you may be in the world's time zones, all covered most reliably by this program.

Coast Coast a.m., I'm Mark Bell.

It's my honor and privilege to be with you throughout the weekend.

The big news is in Florida.

Of course, I don't know how many of you have been watching on CNN and the Weather Channel,

but it's cool coverage.

It's actually really neat coverage, and it's worth watching right now.

The eye wall has passed over land,

and the eye is now just about almost halfway over land in this very

slow, very slow moving a hurricane.

Now, massive hurricane Francis trudged, that's the word the AP uses, trudged toward land

with a hundred and five mile an hour winds.

They've measured more than that, by the way, and and pelting rain late Saturday knocking out power to two million people and forcing

Floridians to endure a frightening night amid roaring gales the shredded roofs and uprooted

trees transformers popping like corn sending sparks into the dark skies,

as families huddled in shelters, I'm sure, with radios, some of them in bathrooms, hotel

lobbies.

It's just incredible what's going on.

I've watched now for days.

I've been watching the Weather Channel. They really do good coverage of incoming, and it's going on. I've watched now for days. I've been watching the Weather Channel.

They really do good coverage of incoming, and it's been spectacular.

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