Evacuation Zone B News Today

we have teams on the ground as we prepare for the eventual landfall. we are in florida, and carlos suarez is in tampa in gulfport, and carlos, as weve been discussing, tampa, that is where the real worry is because theyre worried about storm surge and a lot of the residential areas there are vulnerable. >> reporter: that is exactly right, jim and poppy. the concern is the forecasted five to ten foot storm surge with hurricane ian. we are in gulfport. that is about a half hour drive out...

Going to one particular shelter near ft. Myers. Many of them are still waiting to get in. Were going to check in with our drew griffin whos there in the hour ahead. But first, lets get the latest most porntdly on where this storm is headed. Allison chinchar is in the Weather Center. Bring us up to date. Right, anderson. Take a look at what we have right now, imagery where we can see the latest on irma. Winds 125 Miles Per Hour gusting up to 155 Miles Per Hour. The movement its been what we call ...

Exercise that. but of course shelters are available if needed. >> what are you most worried about that you are not seeing covered enough in the media coverage of this storm? >> i mean, were kind of receiving word that there is still a decent amount of citizens who are saying that theyre just going to ride it out that are in these evacuation zones. in fact, as we speak, hillsboro county just effected a mandatory evacuation for that next level evacuation zone b now is under mandatory evacuation. i...

Joins us. thanks for taking the time, mayor. >> good to be here, neil. >> neil: im hearing in the keys, if you want to evacuate, you can. its a request. its not an order. when does it go to an outright order? you know what im saying. do you decide that? >> clearly the national hurricane center takes a big lead here. when they declare around we expect them too tomorrow, declare a hurricane watch, hurricane conditions are expected within 48 hours, that triggers broward county to have the state of ...

Nature of what is coming our way in the form of hurricane irma according to every single model. >> yeah. so much time between now and then. and yet when you think about it for the number of people who still could possibly evacuate, who could possibly get to shelters, which are not that far away, but, again, theyre now struggling to open up more shelters, we heard from the chief of the fire department down in naples, they are trying to open up shelters. a lot of their shelters are full here in ft...

Centennial park area where we are right now, if it raises 10 feet, this areas going to be flooded. 15 feet, theres no telling how much of this area will be flooded. this is actually evacuation zone b they call it. evacuation zone a theres already a mandatory evacuation for them earlier today. they also called out a mandatory evacuation for this area, b basically stretches south of here and west across the river. so its a really big area. theyve been sending out police with loud speakers saying, ...