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Evacuations tomorrow on thursday. >> director of emergency management for broward county. thank you. we appreciate your time. good luck to you. up to 37 million people could be affected by hurricane irma. joining me now, lieutenant general, commander of the joint task force katrina. we appreciate your expertise on this program and cnn. this storm is a monster. what more should emergency officials will doing to prepare right now? >> continue to repeat the message, don. the more they encourage peo...

I worry a little bit that floridians have a sense of complacency. we have been fortunate until wilma, which didnt affect too much of florida directly, we didnt have a storm for ten years. a lot of concern out there for some folks having gone ten years without a storm. they have gotten a little complacent. thats why we are urging people to take this seriously. i think we have seen in the last 24-36 hours an increased sense of urgency. people are stocking up, have been stocking up monday and tuesd...

What do you say to your critics, even some in your own party, who say it was the wrong thing to do? >> well, i let people think it was the right thing to do. sheriff joe is a patriot, loves our country. sheriff joe protected our borders. and sheriff joe was unfairly treated by the obama administration. >> in "the washington post" today michael gersten said, "the arpaio pardon constitutes the most forthright racist incitement of the trump era. complacency is permission. resistance is required. an...

Party, who say it was the wrong thing to do? >> well, i let people think it was the right thing to do. sheriff joe is a patriot, loves our country. sheriff joe protected our borders. and sheriff joe was unfairly treated by the obama administration. >> in "the washington post" today michael gersten said, "the arpaio pardon constitutes the most forthright racist incitement of the trump era. complacency is permission. resistance is required. any party that swallows the trump/arpaio ethic will be po...

A >> reporter: i have to tell you, ive covered hurricanes in the past, some dramatic ones. the hurricane comes in and then the hurricane leaves. its erie on the ground because the bands of rain just keep oncoming over and over again and it is not clearing out. as you say, the storm has stalled and it is just sitting on top of this part of texas and that is what makes it so dangerous. but the difficulty right now i think for officials and the thing that they are going to have to battle is complac...

Ships, that that could lead to some complacency and the problems we saw just two months ago. >> michelle, thank you for your reporting. joining us now is retired rear admiral john kirby. admiral kirby, to jim sciuttos reporting about the loss of steering, how does something, whether it is that or something else, how does something like this happen? >> if loss of steering was at play here, it could happen any number of ways. maybe you lose power in that part of the ship. maybe maintenance wasnt d...

Operational pause so that every u.s. fleet, every single ship across the u.s. navy will take at least one day over the next couple of weeks. its not as if the navy is going to shut down for one day. but each one of these groups is going to take that time to assess everything. even the basics. how did they deal with safety procedures? how did people on the ships and the ground work together? and they also want to do a large scale review of the entire situation of the fleet. and that should includ...

That the ability that we have to defend against any and all threats is much more limited than the american taxpayer has paid for. >> reporter: one of these accidents is surprising. four of them and all the voices out there seem to be saying the same thing, how is this possible? in fact, tonight cnn talked to a top naval analyst and former commander who said, maybe it has to do with an over reliance on all of this great technology that could lead to some complacency in how they do some basic task...

Im not in any way disempowered by the neo- fascist sensibilities of donald trump. ive been seeing it all my life in a variety of different places. im more emboldened by the folk who are waking up and shattering the silence, shattering the complacency. shattering the kind of distance and detachment from engagement and struggle around injustice. i dont care if youre muslim, buddhist, christian, we can come together. we can make a difference. this is the moment for them. >> i appreciate you being w...

Sensibilities of donald trump. ive been seeing it all my life in a variety of different places. im more emboldened by the folk who are waking up and shattering the silence, shattering the complacen complacency. shattering the kind of distance and detachment from engagement and struggle around injustice. i dont care if youre muslim, buddhist, christian, we can come together. we can make a difference. this is the moment for them. >> i appreciate you being with us. thank you. much more ahead tonigh...