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The entire state of florida, snapping up supplies. outside this lowes near orlando before dawn, racing to get generators. and long waits for fuel at this tampa-area costco. this is what were seeing all across south florida. people preparing for this storm. loading up that plywood to board up their homes. at this miami home depot, we met jose noriega, buying 26 sandbags. >> obviously planning for the worst possible, but hoping for the best. >> reporter: dorian tore through the u.s. and british vi...

Joining me now is the mayor of miami gardens florida, oliver gilbert iii. hes declared a local state of emergency there. mayor gilbert, thank you for joining us. what are you anticipating happening, what are you doing in miami gardens? >> we are doing a lot. this is a very interesting storm because the cone is literally the entire state and really some parts of georgia. so you cant really be sure. we are preparing for the worst and actually hoping and praying for the best. from checking on, you ...

Is there potential that we can keep this just far enough off the shore that its a glancing blow? thats still a possibility. so let me give you the new update. it didnt change much of the intensity. it is about 600 miles away from florida. so still has a ways to travel over the ocean. this is the new hurricane path. no changes at all in the first about 48 hours. its heading pretty much due west. the turn is the whole key to this forecast, when does it kind of stall out and head northwards? the hu...

Storm. it is right over the open waters "the atlantic". if it stays there, it will definitely be category 4. take the heat. it will become more powerful. it will move to the north. we have its eye set on the eastern coast of florida. take a look at this. it is still pretty wide. it will be a couple days before we bring it in. southern florida, southern georgia. it is closer to the southern parts of florida. the one at 5:00 will tell us a little bit more. >> boy, michelle, that is a big uncertain...

To get supplies to those places. >> the storm could come ashore during one of the highest tied of the air. you just heard the report, and listened to the governor this morning about the shortages of things like fuel what is your biggest concern right now? >>. >> my biggest concern is when you have a cone of possible kwakt as wide as it is, almost the entire state, some people decide to roll the dice and not prepare, they will not bring yard decor inside, they will not get water for the days that...

Everywhere. >> florida is under a state of emergency, you talk about how wide that cone is. the governor has troops at the ready, do you feel like you have support already and how ready are you in your city? >> were getting a lot of support. it is a challenge when you have 67 counties potentially all having to do something assau simultaneously. we, because of our efforts, we have already converted a lot of our storm water system, we have bumps and vegenerators out. were cleaning the street so th...

The bahamas and is projected to approach the florida coast late monday. there is the map and where the projection is headed. we see it somewhere in the middle of florida there, hitting landfall. nbcss meteorologist bill karins is with us with the latest. bill, based upon your experience, does this look like its going to be a 3 or 4 when it hits florida? >> i would be surprised if it was a 3. most likely a fo4 and i think i has a good chance of going category 5 some time in the next 48 hours. wev...

Southern part of the state. the american models bring it up just a bit. we have an area of high pressure that could move it further to the north. these are main ingredients that need to be worked out over the next several days. but what remains in place is a category four storm anticipated by monday or tuesday along the east coast of florida. >> michelle with the latest on the coordinates. thank you. do keep us posted well be checking with you a great deal over the next few days. lets turn to be...

We are talking about not a monday landfall. it was originally a sunday one, but a category 4 potentially for south florida and the landfall has been pushed off till tuesday at 2:00 in the morning. keep in mind this is going to shift and change as we continue to work our way through the next couple of days. once you go out beyond five days you start to see a strong area, so anyone in the cone of uncertainty needs to stay prepared and needs to keep watching the latest fore hurricane dorian. >> tha...

A couple days ago we thought it was a relatively simple tropical storm. now we are looking at a possibly category 4 hurricane. thats some ng that we know well here in florida. so we know that it can be really, really bad or in the alternative it can be some rain and some wind. we are preparing for the worst, praying for the best. >> what are people in miami gardens supposed to be doing? because youre right, the cones really big. there may be some expectation that people in miami gardens dont hav...