Brevard County officials warn of hidden hazards as water recedes

We appreciate you, Jess Brooks. Thank you. We do have some breaking news this morning coming out of Palm Bay. Police confirm a search for a missing driver has ended in tragedy after crews found an adult man deceased. Yes, some areas there, of course, like we said, saw nearly an entire year's worth of rain in a single day. Two feet. Can you imagine? It's just it's hard to even wrap your head around that number. Amanda Ruiz joining us live right now. And Amanda, we just heard from Mr. Hayes, of course, in that neighborhood praying for him. And now it looks like they're they're They're gonna start that long road to recovery. Yeah, Mr. Hayes has lived here since 2004. He's the owner of that house right there and the owner of the four cars that have fallen into basically what used to be the road. It's now a giant ditch. He said that he's going to create a GoFundMe, so hopefully our viewers can help him out with that. We want to give him as much help as we can because he says insurance has been giving him the runabout, but he says he's still going to be pushing. This road right here, they just said He said that the road is closing now. Last call, it's going to be closed for about five to six hours. You could see that excavator right there. They are working on the road as we speak. Right now, we saw that they just moved that palm tree over there. They moved some sand over here. But again, a lot of people are panicking right now. This is a one road out of this neighborhood that's got a lot of houses in this area. They say that this is the only way out, so they don't know what to do. They can't drive out, but they've been walking out. We see a You can see someone walking down. I don't know if my photographer, Nick, is in a good vantage point, but there's two people that are walking down the road right now. They got groceries, it seems like. So they're just seeing, I mean, they say five to six hours, but you can't really guess this. This road is completely caved in. I don't know if we have video that we could pull up right now to really show you just how bad this road. This road is broken into pieces. What once used to be two-way in, one-way in, one-way out, is now... Ditched in pieces are all scattered around this area and we talked to Mr. Hayes just a half an hour ago and he said that he was inside with his family. He heard the storm come in, had no idea it was going to be this bad. He heard boom here long, loud concaves. He had no idea that was his driveway literally breaking into pieces. Take a listen to what he had to say. It's quite heartbreaking. I was just making a cup of coffee about to go to work and then I heard like a loud crack. So I went to go look out my back door and then that's when I noticed that the The canal had broke and it broke through my fence and it just started flooding my house, so I just ran and get all my family and animals out. I don't know because we don't even have transportation or nothing, so just got to see what happens. mr hayes tells me that his family and him are now staying at a nearby hotel but this is their home they say that they're they're completely heartbroken why they don't have flooding inside the home the outside is a totally different story this is pretty bad damage that we've seen here in Palm Bay and again like if you see water that's still standing and hasn't receded yet you need to be safe because it could look like this road right here and you don't know what's inside the debris the different contaminants also Power lines that could be here. They're gonna be working on this road for what Palm Bay police said, about five to six hours. And again, one way out, one way in. So these people are trapped. If they decide to stay on that side, that's where they're gonna be staying for the next few hours. We'll be sure to keep you updated on this, but again, it's a heartbreaking situation. People say that this whole road was full of water. It covered those cars that are over there, all the way to the top. We have pieces of fence that have been blown all the way. around. We have pieces of cars that have been flown all the way around. This is just a terrible situation. Again, people have said that they haven't seen damage like this ever, even when it comes to hurricanes. So we'll be sure to keep you updated. But right now, they told us to move back and they are working on the road as we speak. But guys, I'll send it back to you in studio. Oh my gosh.