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County extended that zone to zone b and that had people looking more carefully of where they were, where the hurricane is, and what the path could be. thats when a lot of people made the decision to finally, listen, im going to go to a shelter. it created a big log jam. it was sort of a last minute decision, but a decision that really required -- it required the information that people did not get until this morning. so thats where that decision came from and thats what created a lot of constern...

The heeds and get out of here if you can. >> yeah. bill weir. well continue to check with you. im glad that guy in that boat decided to believe his family. i was very concerned about that from the other night. i dont know if you can hear -- theres a police car come big with a police officer speaking on a loud speaker saying this is a mandatory evacuation zone, telling people to get out. obviously mandatory means some people arent going to do it, they dont have to leave by law, but they are certa...

Recovery 25 years later from hurricane andrew, which was a devastating storm. this is three times as big. and we do have our houses that have been built to a higher standard based on what happened with that storm. weve learned a lot about what we need to do to be prepared, and we activated. so now were activating even more with the huge storm surge thats predicted. we have called for evacuation of 600,000 people. >> you know, miamis a real city. its not just a place to go in the wintertime. you ...

Billions of dollars, what theyre not telling you is theyre giving it back to themselves. look at where we live at. they put us in zone b where all around us, to the north, south, east and west, is zone a. but all that land nobody lived there. so where the regular people live l live nobody is getting paid. we got the oil and it looks like florida got the money. >> bp executives are claiming, at least in the story on "60 minutes" theres been a lot of fraud when it comes to the payout. >> bp wanted...

Situation? >> there were a number -- there are a number of health care facilities and in consultation with the health care facilities not to evacuate them to begin a number of days ago discharging patients who were healthy enough to be discharged, moving patients on ventilators to other facilities in case, god forbid, something like this happened. so we really tried to reduce the number of people and take those who couldnt get off out. we believe most -- we believe the facility had excessive bac...

hurricane irene, now officially made landfall as a category 1 storm on the east coast of the united states. the most up-to-date satellite image we can show you now of re irene, showing wear and tear, described as sloppy, not very well organized but starting to get more disorganized. you can see it there, it was a more organized storm over the past couple of days but as its making landfall now and making its way up the east coast maybe not so much so. it has been lashing out at the caro...

are without power in north carolina and virginia now. hundreds of thousands are evacuating as irene heads up the eastern seaboard. it is down to a category 1 hurricane now, but make no mistake, it is powerful and dangerous. nine states from north carolina to massachusetts are under a state of emergency. the latest to be added now maryland. president barack obama stopped by the headquarters of the federal emergency management agency, fema, he says the government is ready to handle whate...

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heading back to washington, d.c. a day ahead of schedule. earlier he called irene a historic storm. >> i cannot stress this highly enough. if you are in the projected path of the hurricane, you have to take precautions now. dont wait. dont delay. we all hope for the best but have to be prepared for the worst. >> irene is on track to follow the northeast corridor right up to new england and beyond. cnn is there. reynold wolf is in new jersey, and athena jones is in annapolis, maryland. ...

Right now its 5 to 10. you know what, anderson, this just a bad flashback. you and me standing in tampa waiting for charley, a category 4, strong storm and it turned right into punta gorda and we had to chase it to the south. that was 13 years or so ago. the same thing can happen today. i have a wind gust possible in punta gorda, florida, tomorrow, of 150 miles per hour. the storm is still expected to grow as it gets into the warm water. this is serious and its the real deal. >> yeah. and people...