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coast of florida right now that are under hurricane warnings and at least 22 florida counties that have issued some level of evacuation orders ahead of hurricane idalia. >> joining us live to discuss is the public information officer with dixie county emergency services. so dixie county is located in the northwest part of the state in the big bend region and has issued a a mandatory evacuation. mandy, we appreciate the time. good morning. we heard from governor desantis about 30 minutes ago and he talked about big bend specifically, he said that that area hasn't really had a hurricane strike in this area in a long time. these coastal areas are not been through this before. what are you most concerned about? >> yeah, absolutely. our last incident was back in 2016 with hermine where we had seen some storm surge but nothing of this magnitude. and back then, we had some major destruction to not only homes but, you know, commercial