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Doesnt matter what the models are doing. it doesnt matter. the cone is 115 miles both ways of the center. but heres friday. five days before landfall. and there is landfall, that little orange dot. keep your eye on that dot. heres the forecast on saturday. same dot. heres the forecast on sunday. same dot. missing, yes, missing fort myers in the cone but remember the cone only covers two thirds. right through here, another third here, another third here. so in the technicality of it, even though ...

Definitely impacts on peoples lives when you evacuate them, especially if you evacuate them when it doesnt look like the storm is going to hit their area. i know were focused on this right now, but this is what were looking at. this is monday, 111:00 a.m. con. we live here where the red arrow is, and the cone showed it going to the panhandle, bouncing off of tampa. the national news narrative was, hey, this is going to hit tampa, tampa needs to evacuate, theyre going to get the first big storm i...

>> it possibly could. theyre going to have to do that research internally there. again, we learn from every event. weve been knowing all weekend the storm was coming. the exact path was switched. i think that could have made an impact. that county was in the cone of uncertainty. but early on prediction that it would go further north to tampa and you would get a side blow even though the worst side of the storm. theyll have to sort that out on the ground. the big challenge now is what do we do wi...

Habitants, everybody will have found a new life somewhere else. thats whats sad is our journey on fmb is probably over. >> there may be a lot of reluctance by some to come home. shawn, i want to ask you about -- much of the discussion today is about why there was a delay in the evacuation orders in lee county. what are your thoughts on that? do you think the evacuation order came soon enough? >> we actually said that that day. a lot of people are used to longer evacuation orders. we got it the d...

0 school students in oakland. what police are now saying. world news is coming up next and i will see you back here at 4:00. tonight the desperate search is under way in florida. families still being rescued days later and major new questions about mandatory evacuation orders. should they have come sooner? and tonight the remnants of ian affecting the east, north carolina through new jersey and new york in the coming hours. tonight the staggering death toll from hurricane ian now rising. survi...

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Because of the projected path we were not even in the cone and the storm was slow moving about nine miles an hour, although it packed a horrific punch. the second that we could and should issue that order, im confident that we did. again, we wouldnt change anything. also, i understand there are some people that dont want to leave their homes. we cannot force them to leave their homes. thats their homes. we can do everything we can to educate them and make sure theyre aware of whats coming their ...

To focus on, in the after action when people get a chance to look at that, one of the things i would be interested in with the hurricane center forecasting a lot of strengthening, how do we communicate uncertainty in forecasts so people understand, both the officials making decisions and also the public, as the former director max mayfield used to say, we dont focus on the skinny black line, but we look at the forecast area, the forecast cone. when they use statements like uncertainty, what does...

County, hillsborough, issued evacuation orders well before tuesday morning when lee county did. what do you say to residents who look at that and wonder why lee county waited to do so. >> and i said because of that projected path, we were not even in the cone and the storm was slow-moving. about 9 miles an hour. although at the time it packed a hoffic punch, the second that we could and should issue that order, im confident that we did. >> my colleague boris sanchez here in lee county asking the...

I see the projected path im going to send you everything that we have to help you. well that unpredict ability, he called me back and said, sheriff, look at what were talking about. that storm is coming your way. we werent in the projected path or cone. so im confident that we gave everything to this storm that we should have at the right time and i think more so the governor has it right. he said after the cameras are here and theyre long gone, there is a thirst to be first. everybody wants tha...