Were a Dark Blue suit nixon, who had a real 5 00 shadow, didnt wear makeup. He was ten, pounds underway because hed suffered a serious illness if you see if they if they show a picture of it, he wearing a gray suit and blends into the background. So there was a lot of Showmanship And Kennedy was always a step or two or three ahead of nixon throughout that entire election. One of the amazing things is when you talk about health no one, no prison its an actual canada additionally, unheld more unhealthy than john f. Kennedy, but still the perception was the opposite. Chris wallace it sounds like just an incredible look at an incredible election. Thanks so much for being with us. Thank you for having me all right. A brand new hour of Cnn News central starts now and truly all throughout the day, Hurricane Milton now an extremely powerful cat four Storm Category four Storm And Closing in on floridas gulf coast. Conditions have already started to deteriorate weve seen that with our correspond
evacuation orders are issued. we re seeing long lines at every box store, every gross restore and gas station. i heard you mentioned the gas stations running out of fuel. four major cities have more than half the gas stations without fuel, including miami, gainesville, fort myers and west palm beach. stores like costco are quickly running out of bottled water and other goods because people are making a run on it. home depot, they re making a run on plywood and generators and again cans. some people are walking out empty handed. everybody is prepping early. that s a good thing. water has gone, generators have gone. plywood is flying off the shelf. yeah. crowds out there, trace, before the store opened before dawn this morning. yeah, that s why home depot s stock was up $5 yesterday.
away, shannon. the time to get out is running out. especially here in wrightsville beach because we are told they will close the main bridge from this town on the ocean to wilmington sometime tomorrow evening. folks told me if, they won t get off. it seems that most of the people that heeded the warnings, a lot of people gotten out another planning to leave tomorrow. in part because this is so huge and we could see it by videos released from the air force reserve, which has hurricane force winds, extending 50 miles out from the island in every direction. the storm force winds about 300 miles wide. a total of 1.7 million people in three states have been told to evacuate. we ve seen the results of that, long lines at gas stations, some running out of fuel, a lot of stores are running out of supplies like water, bottled water, food, batteries, generators, that sort of thing, home depot and other hardware stores getting a run-on plywood.
generators, home depot getting a run on plywood. a lot of folks porting up businesses and homes and it seems most people are not ignoring advice from the governor who says this thing is dangerous and we are right in the bull s-eye. hurricane florence will affect each and every one of you. the storm is a monster. it is big and it is vicious. even if you have written out storms before, this is different. don t bet your life on writing out a monster. that monster could bring storm surge of 13 feet in some areas and to defeat of rain, some spots, heavy downpour is not just on the coast but all
hurricane with wind speeds at 105 miles per hour. the problem with this system it s so large that those swells and that surge will be rolling in. we ll see a high tide saturday night and another high tide saturday morning and that would probably be the worst of it. adam, thank you for the update. i just received a note that president obama is going to leave martha s vineyard tonight. he s cutting short his vacation buzz of a hurricane. that s the only detail we re getting. we ll keep you updated on the president s plans. let s go back to long island now where mike is. mike, we just heard from jeff that it looks like long island will get a direct hit from hurricane irene. what are the preparations? the preparations are considerable but not as though people here feel or are acting as if they re in the middle of a bulls eye. i went to a general store, there s plenty of water, batteries, there s not a run on