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Million people the time for waiting is over and its time to get out. lets get right to it with florida congresswoman, debbie wasserman schultz. what is your top concern at this hour and what are you learning from your discussions with authorities? >> well, one of my main concerns is the folks that have refused to leave despite mandatory evacuation orders. while we have seen quite a few people make their way to shelters, get out from the low lying areas and miami dade, as you said, is undertaking...

To evacuate, they may be in a high-rise building and may have a disability, a frailty or other health issues. for those reasons they may not be able to evacuate. we want those cities to know where those individuals live and post-landfall, they can go and check up on these individuals. i might also mention that today we -- past two days we have been focused on a phase region evacuation within south florida, starting with monroe county, down south. and as this evening, miami dade issued their evac...

Filling up everything, their cars, gas cans getting ready for storm. weve been at this place most of the day, theyve delivered tens of thousands of gallons today. look at the lines, its almost 10:30 at night the giant line. its gotten much better. if you come around this way, this is u.s. 1, this is the main route from the keys thats already under evacuation where traffic has been steady all day. but given the concern that people have, the uncertainty of this storm and the strength of there stor...

Millions more are hunkering down. nbcs kerry sanders is in sunny isles, a place where the well-known trump tower property located on a barrier island just north of miami. we know gas and supplies are running low, but how are people there coping? >> reporter: let me give you an idea of how low fas is. you can see here, no gas. station after station like this. gas buddy is reporting in south florida, that is monroe, dade, and broward countys, the greater miami area, that only 38% of reporting stat...

Tallahassee along with general holland out of atlanta and they have done inspections. its at 16.68. we can take on a lot more water right now. the big risk they have there, of course, is to get too much water. and it looks like so far, you know, subject to change, this storm is moving fast. we would not get the same sort of rain that texas got. that could all change. the biggest risk on the dyke at coke choeby is too much rain. were doing the same thing with canal. so were trying to make sure --...

Number of people on the roads. we can expect additional evacuations as the storm continues to get nearer to our state. miami-dade has order evacuation for zone a and zone b. if you live in these zones and youre still home, leave now. the roads will get worse the longer you wait. volunteer evacuations being ordered in collier county. broward county has issued volunteer evacuations of mobile homes and low-lying areas dpop not ignore evacuation orders. remember, we can rebuild your home, you can ge...

Expeditiously into florida. all of these states worked quickly to respond to our request and we have waivers from georgia, alabama, south carolina, and north carolina. ive spoke within elaine chao. they of lifted federal regulations to get gas to florida quickly. all ports are still operating to bring fuel and supplies in. we are laser focused on how to get as much fuel to our ports as possible while they are open. i have offered school buses for transportation needs in monroe, miami-dade, and b...

Mandatory evacuation notice could begin to feel the effects of the storm as early as friday night. >> this is a catastrophic storm that our state has never seen. >> reporter: over 30,000 people have left the keys and mandatory evacuationvise been ordered across southern and eastern florida counties including miami dade and broward. two nuclear power plants will be shut down until the storm passes. >> the size of the storm, it is wider than our entire state and could cause major and life threaten...

There was this kind of standard description of donald trump as nonideological. >> hes not. >> that he was transactional and yet he was still the nominee. talking about trump in this regard, if hes not ideological, if there was a general description of him as such, why would you expect him to toe the line with regards to conservative issues and principles? hes cultural warrior. this that sense, they come together. but when it comes to these other questions, hes more of a democrat than anything. >...

Plan now and start moving out of the city. you can wait obviously a day but were recommending because as you know miami dade is a barrier island and only a few cause ways. i want to get people the opportunity to get out of miami beach with advance notice as possible. >> how are these preparations coming? what more needs happen before irma arrives? >> so first thing were advising people is they need to get their supplies and be prepared for three to five days and stay off the road until the storm...