Hurricane 2 News Today

Out of hand. at this point these arent tariffs, theyre attack on hard-working americans. the way that we can beat china in the global marketplace is by investing our american workers. our human capital is our most potent work force. neil: i know this pre-dates you almosting a congressman, but the hurricane in florida, dorian, seems to be taken a slight turn, and hes seen history where hugs that storm the coast go up to the northeast. as a staten island, and sandy that didnt register as a hurrica...

Changed. >> look, they cannot underestimate the power of a hurricane or a super storm. put a larger perspective on all of this. we dont trust authorities in the way that we once did. theres this stream of fake news, all of these multiple news outlets. people have got to trust what the authorities are saying. this is a matter of their own security and i urge them to both listen to the reports youre putting out and generally what the government is saying. >> good seeing you again. >> so good seein...

Off shore might be a category 4, but you get a hurricane 2 where you are anyway. >> no mandatory evacuation, but for the low lying counties in florida, and youre careful with. >> i would do what the experts say on that. i do the weather and they figure out from there. ive learned you dont go telling people what to do, but what i do, this is what i believe is going to happen and this is the best we can do, we tell our clients weve been on this since monday with this and we try to get people prepa...

Neil: they always look at florida wherever you are in the south, a hurricane judged by katrina standards. it did ultimate devastation after the fact. that was one that hopped over the state of florida, got into the gulf and the rest is history. most restrictive storm in united states history and resulted in 1800 death. former hurricane katrina task force commander lieutenant general russell joining us via skype. thank you for coming. what do you think authorities on the scene regardless of party...

Doppler radar and the noaa p-3. what we found was 150 mile per hour winds so very dangerous, very powerful america. neil: when you look at this in a slight eastward tilt? what does it mean? if its slight and its going in that direction, is it possible it misses flo florida altogether? >> yes, even the forecast shows it off florida, but so many things, a big hurricane like this is like a ship that has to turn, once it makes the turn its got to slow down. if it turns early it could be on the right...

Clearwater, florida not too far from tampa, florida where you might just call this the calm before the storm. dorian is a category 4 hurricane right now with winds in excess of 130 miles per hour. this could very well be by the time it hits florida, were told that could be late sunday night into monday morning. if it follows its current trajectory, with winds excess of 157 miles an hour. already this has turned slightly eastward and shifting more to the carolinas. theyre not taking chances in fl...

>> so far, as you know, with the exception of brevard county, kind of in the middle of the florida east coast. there have been no mandatory evacuations delivered from florida. officials now, even there, its for low lying beaches, cape canaveral, some of the others. by and large they avoid that im told because they dont know exactly where to tell people to go. its possible the storm of this size could hang for a while. if they went further inland it doesnt mean theyre getting away in florida, the...

Of convex around the center. the other thing we look at, the health of the storm and outflow. you see the high clouds moving out from the center, just a textbook situation of a very strong hurricane here. thats why in the latest update, this is brand new, were now up to 150 miles an hour on the wind and slowing down, too, moving west at 8 miles per hour. were getting information from the noaa hunters and the hurricane hunters, flying right into the eyewall. with the hurricane hunters and p-3, we...

Going to feel the disturbance and its going to take it to the north. its too close and too early to tell which side of the track its going to be. neil: but landfall anywhere would be a monday event? how would you describe it? >> devastating with a major hurricane. for the bahamas were talking conditions going downhill even tomorrow. very devastating in the bahamas. i cant emphasize that enough. 24 hours of rain and battering storm surge, even staying off shore, this is tuesday, not even making l...

Be careful. neil: they dont know where to go. following the katrina model where the hurricane hopped the state and get into the gulf, going in land is pointless advice so a lot of them, maybe i will stay until i know for sure whether -- where this thing is headed. >> you cant wait too long. if you wait to the last minute and everyone is trying to evacuate it will be difficult to get out so that is when places run out of gas so you cannot wait. right now you know you can go west. if you look at i...