hurricane as it travels up to the coast. it is expected to continue to gain strength and speed and make landfall on wednesday morning. conditions here are shifting rapidly, literally minute to minute. it is very windy, it has been raining, and this is a mandatory evacuation zone. we are in clearwater beach, which is part of pinellas county. this is one of the counties that told people here to get out. now, i just want to give you a sense of where we are. the ocean is in that direction, about a half mile to the edge of the water. we can't see it now because it is absolutely pitch dark. but, in this direction is the street. inland. that is where people have been heading, in fact, i spoke to a man earlier today who was walking the length of the beach, kind of checking out conditions before things got bad, and he told me that even though there was a mandatory evacuation order here, he was riding out