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Coast. folks need to take those very, very seriously. but again its not just folks on the coast. its further inland where you can see flash flooding. you can see tornados that spawn off of these types of storms even if they do not make direct landfall. >> rafael, thank you so much. you are definitely making us smarter this evening. former fema official rafael. we are going to keep trying to speak with chef jose andreas, but phone communication from the bahamas is very difficult. you saw the imag...

Panama city, florida. mr. mayor, can you walk us through the preparations happening now ahead of the storm? >> we have been preparing for this now for the last three days pretty intensively. were about as prepared as we can be. some of the things that we cant predict are going to be the tornados that spawn off of these storms. right now it looks like were directly in the path of the storm. >> i know evacuations are still taking place. how are those progressing? it is a mandatory evacuation, obvi...

Of the storm? >> well, we have been preparing for this now for the last three days pretty intensively. and were about as prepared as we can be. some of the things that we cant predict are going to be the tornadoes that spawn off of these storms, and so right now it looks like that were directly in the path of the storm. >> i know evacuations are still taking place. how are those progressing? its a mandatory evacuation but obviously people sometimes heed the warnings, sometimes they choose not to...

Of tornado that might be slipping off. >> you know, it sounds as confusing as all the words you just said. you see the rope tarnts. they come down under the cloud, do their damage, and go back up. but then you have the storm clouds, wedges, and sometimes mile-wide tornadoes that spawn off. thats why this is such a huge storm. it shows the energy of the storm when you talk about about the multiple vortices that are spinning. thats what trackers are trying to spot. now as it gets into a more popul...