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Impacted, but you told residents this would be devastating, but you also stopped short of issuing a mandatory evacuation order. why is that? and why dont you have any shelters in your city? >> this was a call on the parish about the mandatory evacuation. i wanted to, they didnt want to, we didnt have an evacuation shelter under contract, so we couldnt do it. it was too late by the time they decided to do it. so we didnt call a mandatory evacuation. >> what are your biggest concerns, mayor, as we...

Step. they get so much rain so fast, they have nowhere to go. and as you know, charleston is a flat city. it is very hard to drain a flat city. it is barely above sea level. the water has nowhere to go in a city like this. >> so what do they do? how do they get rid of it? >> in some cases they can wait. like the high tide brought in it, the low tide will take it out and it goes right back to the river. we caught up with some crews that were manual will he getting rid of the water. they put down ...

Andrew back in the early 90s. irma is a lot bigger. were talking about the infrastructure and the buildings in boca raton, were they built after? are you confident about the infrastructure in boca? >> yes. most of the newer buildings built in our city, of course, are under the miami-dade building codes which were the result of the catastrophe from hurricane andrew. the buildings are fine. the city of boca raton we spent a lot of money maintaining our inf infrastructure. we have been cleaning out...

>> this exemp fshows he had an plan. a man with millions and has all these protections and then covered with soot. he still had an escape plan but this time it didnt work. >> he should be called mr. tunnel. he escaped in a tunnel in january. this time around he use aid manhole to get into the drain system. while there was a shootout in which the armed forces were trying to penetrate the house where he is, he was escaping with one of his lieutenants and he got as far away as stealing a car, drivi...

There? >> i understand the contamination is fairly localized out perhaps maybe 300 yards from the plant, its not floating out into the ocean -- >> not a mile, is what youre saying? >> no. i have not seen any numbers that are worse than 300 yards. but its important, because it will be flushed out into the ocean. it will be diluted into the ocean. the levels -- even levels there now that have been identified and in fact, there was a report today that they were less than theyve been over the last c...