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How do you feel right now? >> leaving. >> reporter: were leaving, she says, much of the county is now under a mandatory evacuation. where are you going? >> were going -- i dont know exactly where theyre going to take us. >> reporter: the county here is rural, agricultural, immigrants, and largely poor. many people without cars of their own, met at a local staging area to be bussed with police escorts to higher ground. if a storm hits here and destroys everything, what happens to this community a...

Happens to this community, what happens to these people? >> it goes down. it goes down. destroys everything. there wont be any work for, i dont know, years, the mill will shut down. the school. it will really, really destroy the whole town. >> reporter: emergency workers preparing for the absolute worst case scenario. >> its highly recommended that you leave, because theres essential danger. no one knows whats going to happen with the storm. >> reporter: the risk here two-fold. for one, areas cl...

And acted very diligently except for a few hardcore that just refused to leave. >> so you ordered this mandatory evacuation that meant lipolice, that meant emergency workers. is basically all you can do now is sit back and wait and then see what there is after the storm passes through? >> and that is correct. we are actually all hunkered down. we have a hotel in miami, but at a high altitude, highest elevation in miami. and i am here with the police chief, fire chief, our emergency personnel and...

This is cnn breaking news. >> hello, everyone. you are watching cnns breaking news coverage of hurricane irma. im isha sesay live in los angeles. >> and im isa soares live for you in miami. well bring you the updates in a moment. were tracking a breaking story, news out of mexico. a magnitude 8.1 earthquake hit off the southern coast near the g guatemalan border. tremors were felt some 600 or so miles or 1,000 kilometers to the northwest where people rushed into the streets in mexico city. part ...

To lea choice to leave. emergency workers. irma is going to come ashore and sop people are simply too vul internal. joining us now is hattie willis. executive -- also linda black shire. >> thank you for being with us. good luck and be safe. so, first, you. you need to be here because you want to help the seniors. and what is the word you have for those who feel that they just either dont have it in them, or physically cant get out because of their age and infirmity. >> i want them to stay safe, ...

Loss, maybe more if it hits with a vengeance. if you run over miami with such elevation, like ten or 12 feet, with a 20 foot storm surge, you knock everything down within two miles of the coast. if you miss the coast, you are 160 miles per hour because you are in the water. you are not other land. you are not decaying the storm. it comes up here. theres not a model that doesnt turn it left. we know it doesnt go left. it could stay along the coast the entire way like matthew and turn left eventua...

The storm is totally cleared. so she could find herself days before emergency workers and supplies and things can get to him. so i think she needs to put all that in perspective and understand thats a significant threat and storm because it has a unique aspect. >> there is no place i feel comfortable telling people is not going to impacted. how do you get energy crews and medicine down until the storm is cleared and the roads are opened. >> senator, i appreciate she hears you. i hope anyone else...

A moment. but it is hard to believe seven days ago we were talking about the impending hurricane named harvey preparing to make landfall. this afternoon, the floodwaters continue to recede in most places, revealing the sheer enormity and destruction. harvey downgraded to a tropical depression as it moves northeast. but the beast that was harvey battered texas, leaving a deadly trail in its wake. 38. thats now the official number of people killed by the storm, a figure expected to rise as emerg...

There are now significant health concerns from standing water to possible pollution from the huge texas petro chemical industry. and this afternoon, there it is. a troubling sight in the atlantic. a new storm named hurricane irma, intensifying, category 2. not clear if it is going to be posing a significant threat to the east coast. well talk about that in just a moment. but first, residents of the hard-hit coastal city of port arthur are returning home right now, and they are starting the clean...

Welcome back to our continuing coverage. im george howell, live in houston, texas. throughout the southeast part of the state, rescue missions are ongoing and the scenes are dramatic. for a fifth day now, emergency workers and volunteers went door to door, answering calls for help in port arthur, texas. patients were evacuated from a nursing home. the mayor of that city says the entire town is under water. the u.s. navy flew search and rescue missions over beaumont, texas, as they lifted 25 men,...