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storm, particularly get out of the areas that are vulnerable to coastal storm surge inundation and get into a facility that can withstand the winds, why he. understood. you will be briefing president trump this morning, what are you going to tell him? i spoke to him yesterday and will update him again this afternoon as well. secretary nielsen and i will be updating him later this afternoon. bottom line is how we re pre-positioned, if there s any any issues that we need to help our state partners overcome. proper disaster response is one that s locally executed, state managed and federal supported. what we do and i ve spoken to all three governs from south carolina to virginia as well yesterday to make sure we understand their response and recovery goals and how best to support the efforts that are under way. pre-position thing obviously we ve learned is so vital. i don t have to tell you how bad last year was in terms of hurricanes, harvey in houston, irma in the florida keys a
as people were out and about just try ing to make last minute preparations for hurricane maria, which was a little bit different. i ve got to tell you don, a little bit different than what we saw for hurricane irma. certainly there were preparations underway. but i made sure to ask all the people i talked to on the streets today, if this was different, and there seems to be an understanding yeah, this is different. and remember, i was talking to people before it became a category 5. people here really understanding that because we are expecting direct landfall and because it has been as you mentioned a decade, they really fear the devastation, the destruction that could be ahead with maria.to rico took in a lot of evacuees during hurricane irma. are those people still in shelters tonight even as we speak? reporter: still in shelters tonight, more than 100 of them, at last check, with government officials. many of them right now at the puerto rico convention center,