Pleasant Day Follows Hurricane Warnings
DONNA KELLEY, CNN ANCHOR: You saw what it looked like overnight, and this morning in Panama City, have things dried out any? Let's check in with CNN's Mark Potter. He has the latest from the beach. Hi -- Mark.</s>MARK POTTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We've seen some sun here, and we are seeing a lot of people out at the beach right now. If you look behind me, we've seen, actually, a couple of hundred people out here, walking around and enjoying nature's show here. The spectacular waves and the cool breeze have become a very nice day, now that most of this storm has gone away. In Panama City itself, at the Emergency Operations Center, the authorities are still putting the final touches on their report to the state on the damage caused by this storm, and preliminarily, it looks like the area did pretty well. There's been a little bit of power outages in the area, downed power lines, trees down on a few homes and cars, some roads washed out in the rural areas, others closed down for a short period of time. Nothing really big, no reports of water getting into people's homes, and certainly no reports of fatalities or injuries. Of course, that is the best news of all. An official with the Gulf Power Company said about 37,000 people were without power, half of them in the Destin, Florida, area. That's where the storm center came ashore. Another 9,000 of those residents are here in this Panama City area. And the officials said that work is under way now to restore power to everyone so that as many people as possible can get back to normal life as soon as possible. Donna, back to you.</s>KELLEY: Thank you, Mark Potter, on the beach in Panama City, Florida. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com