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leyla, let s start with you. it looks like those are some pretty strong winds. reporter: i think this is the strongest wind i ve felt since we ve been out this morning, kind of making our way north. earlier we were in melbourne, now in titusville. let s show you what it looks like in terms of the water that is rising. you can see the wind really showing in the trees, the water coming in. this is an area we should mention that saw really bad flooding after hurricane ian. so an area that was already vulnerable given the flooding that we saw just six weeks ago here. so i have spoken to emergency operation officials. they re really warning people to stay home because this isn t over yet, especially in those areas where coastal erosion has been deemed an issue just north of where we are right now in vo volusia county, they ve deemed
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going up. officials have stressed that it s decision time. if people are going to evacuate or hunker down, the time is now to make those decisions. the emergency operation officials are expecting that the damage will come in the form of flooding. there will be structural damages to the buildings from the wind that s coming, and they expect widespread power outages. in fact, they expect that the damage is going to be so widespread, it could take as long as three days for emergency crews to get to people. so right now people need to be making decisions about how they are going toen endure a rough three days. the time is not on our side. if you are voluntarily evacuating our city, now is the time to leave. you need to do so immediately. if you re planning to ride it out, again, make sure that you are able to hunker down, you have your supplies in hand. reporter: now, the evacuation order for new orleans is optional because new orleans is
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last year s experience? we did. last year we just we were cut off from the world for four days because out lying areas were flooded and interstate 40 and the city was flooded for four days so we prepositioned a lot of fuel, a lot of our resources came in from the state early on were prepositioned into higher ground closer to the city. obviously we have been going through these hurricane drills a couple of times a year, so our teams down here, our first responders, our emergency operation officials are always doing something different about every storm and we learned a lot from florence and we positioned a lot of our assets closer into the city this time than last time in anticipation if this thing does come ashore we ll be ready to help the folks and citizens out in our community. what do you want to tell the people who have evacuated, what do you want to tell them tonight in terms of what they can expect
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we have prepared for the worst. we go through the scares throughout the years. but this is a pretty massive storm. this is the biggest storm that i have seen and i have lived here all my life so i think most of the citizens in this community and this area have heeded the warnings from our emergency operation officials and have started to move out. have been moving out for two to three days. thinking about moving out or leaving, this is the time to do it today. because by tomorrow we ll probably be seeing tropical storm winds coming into the area and i have told citizens over and over, once this event is upon us we re not able to send emergency operation officials out to get you. until storm passes so please, you know, heed the warnings. get prepared. because it looks like we ll be getting a direct hit here. i understand that the mayor of puerto rico also reached out to you, as well. she did. and what did she tell you? she just shared with me what she went through many puerto ri
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