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Ainsley: so whats the latest there in tampa? >> we have all of our crews out there assessing the damage. police officers and fire rescue person nefl have been on the streets since about 2:00. all of those reports are coming to this office behind me. so were trying to get a feel for what it looks like. we know that there is a lot of limbs down. there is a lot of power outages and telephone poles that are down. there is not much standing water, thankfully. but, yet, the surge is still ready to com...

Be a time where were not able to respond to them. and once we get rolling again, its going to make it harder to get to areas under evacuation, mandatory evacuation. >> and whats the cutoff for you? at what point do you cut off responding to the calls? >> its pretty much something that the command center is going to take into consideration, basically when winds pick up to a speed where its not safe enough for us to operate our vehicles out there. so thats when they make that decision. right now, ...

The guy thats going to get punched in the face. we train hard for this all year-round. we hope we dont have to execute but we are relentless about training. were a city that believes we play on game day the way we practice during the week. and we practice hard. its not looking good for us, were going to have severe impacts in terms of hours of high winds. hours of heavy rain. the storm surge for some of our low-lying areas that you talked about which are already saturated by virtue of it being t...

We see the command center in tallahassee where they are staying on top of the storm. the governors comments will be here in a few moments as soon as he approaches that podium. meanwhile we heard alain duke talking about search and rescue. some folks as far away as cape cod are standing by. theyve made the final preparations to try to keep folks safe. the votes have bank secured but the coast guard is prepared and ready as our fox news coverage continues let anytg keep you sidelined. come on! tha...

Command center in the morning and that will be one of our first things that we want to confirm is just where this path is going to take us so we can hone in more on what the storm surge is going to be. the stormo be. >> and when you and public safety officials in ft. myers are making these decisions and making your own plans in terms of how you are going to handle this this weekend, are you confident that your command center that youve set up, that the other facilities youre going to be operatin...

Virgin islands. i was wondering, with the communication being cut off and it being very difficult to get through to anyone on the small, remote islands, how do you know where you need to go to possibly save and rescue people? >> even at the height of the storm we evacuated some of our people, we did leave a nucleus of people in the virgin islands territories, in their command center. we also because we kept helicopters in puerto rico during the storm and a hanger, we were able to get those helic...

Everything is shuttered up. on ocean drive , everything is boarded up. you could throw a ball down ocean drive and not hit anything. >> what would you like to share with viewers who are listening who may be in miami beach right now? >> i would say this. number one, please, please, try to get out now. get on one of our buses and go tie shelter off the island. number two, of course, if there is some reason you cant, hunker down, stay away tr wfrom windowo into a stairwell if you have to, but well ...

Florida governor rick scott to talk to reporters from a command center in west palm beach. when it happens you will see it here. i want to bring in michael brennan, senior hurricane specialist at noaas national hurricane center. are things looking better or worse? when i look at some of those images in miami beach, see that people are still there, were reminded a lot of people cant afford to leave. that was the state in ta cree that, the situation in harvey last week. what are they going to face...

The companies promise full refunds for cruises or partial credits for trips that have been shortened. the citrus industry bracing. experts saying the damage could force some growers into bankruptcy. the problem until now has not been storms but a disease known as citrus greening. it is spread by an insect and leaves fruits green, bitter, and unstable. as a result, florida orange production has declined by 50% in just the last five years. this is insult to injury there. corporate america already ...

Can see there is just patches of the highway that are completely surrounded and flooded in, making it very hard for residents to come in and out. people here are in desperate need of supplies, of water. there is a huge military presence here. yesterday the military delivered 60 cases of food to residents trapped inside of viter. they have also set up a command center about two miles from here with a mobile medical unit as well as a distribution center. you can just see how the water flooded this...