pacific as it heads toward hawaii. it s a category 3. with hurricane warnings up, let s find out what s happening right now on the big island. with the storm surge coming in, our former colleague, abc news photographier, ginny vicario, has retired in hawaii. joins us live by phone. thank you so much. we hope you re safe with your husband right now. we know you re hunkered down there. give us a sense of how you prepared. the first thing we did was board up the windows today because we knew they weren t kidding this time. everybody here in hawaii thinks, you know, it s going to pass us over because i guess that s been the record here. but we boarded up the windows. we filled up the bathtub. and we did everything that everyone warned us to do in advance. ginny, do you feel safe hunkered down at home? are there people evacuating their homes? do you know, honestly, we re out here right on the tip. when the hurricane comes, i think we re kind of at ground zero here. and so we don t s