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Assesing the damage from the sky. Damage is excessive.

Jim Cantore of the Weather Channel gets battered with high winds, stinging rain and debris in this of his segment. Toward the end of the video he pauses for a moment after he gets hit with the debris as if he's about cry that he did not get killed.

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NEW ORLEANS - Coast Guard and Air Force rescue crews, who were en route to rescue the crew of the Bulk Freighter Antalina were forced to abort the rescue, Friday, Sept. 12, 2008. The rescue crews were forced to land in Lake Charles, La. due to prohibitive heavy weather.

The HU-25 Falcon rescue jet was able to reach the Antalina and observed 20-foot seas, 80-knot winds and visibility as low as a half-mile.

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“Unfortunately there were 80-knot winds on scene, well beyond the operating conditions for the air crews to safely rescue the crew of the Antalina. The safety of the rescue crews and the crew of the Antalina are of the utmost importance to us. The Coast Guard will continue to maintain contact with the crew of the Antalina and monitor their situation very closely,” said Rear Adm. Joel R. Whitehead, commander, Eighth Coast Guard District.

Now, the Coast Guard is flying in to rescue them.A woman and her dog waited to long to leave and got stuck in flood waters.

According to a local station, the Coast Guard got more than 150 calls for help from the Bolivar and Crystal Beach areas Friday.

Because they're using helicopters, they're only able rescue about three to five people at the time. So they're having to make several trips. Officials are trying to work quickly, because once the winds get too strong, they won't be able to fly.

Here is a time lapse camera from the area of Houston Texas During Hurricane Ike.
Notice how wicked Hurricane Ike gets as the camera shakes and water splashes on the camera.

Rescuers in Galveston, Texas, were going door-to-door Saturday to check on the estimated 20,000 people who failed to flee Hurricane Ike, which has slowed to tropical storm status.

As of 2 p.m. local time Saturday, the Galveston Fire Department had taken 22 people to a shelter in a high school on the coastal island, which was without electricity or water pressure.

"We are in a recovery mode," Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas said in a press conference Saturday afternoon. "This eye came right over us, stayed a while and went on, but it brought a lot of damage to our city."

Galveston City Manager Steve LeBlanc said the island would be closed while authorities assess damages, including to the causeway, which was in "bad shape" because of debris and road damage.

"The road buckled in a number of places," LeBlanc said. "Even if we opened it up you couldn't get through."

Ike was downgraded Saturday to a tropical storm 11 hours after it crashed ashore as a Texas-sized hurricane that walloped southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana.

Here are some more video of the damage that Hurricane Ike left behind.