The most since the 1940s. President trump canceling his trip to poland to monitor what he says could be a monster of the storm. Well, weve got you covered from reporters in West Palm Beach to Daytona Beach. I want to begin now with cnns meteorologist chad myers because hes got the hurricane advisora. What are we looking at. Julia, 140 at landfall. I think thats the big number. Thats the big takeaway from the 5 00 advisory. As it is on land, it will lose a bit of its steam. Weve had a wide cone for a long time. Now because its closer the cone is smaller and smaller. The uncertainty goes from the keys up to the space coast at this point in time. As you stated, it started o slow down. The currents in the upper atmosphere that pushes hurricanes around will fall apart. This is just inundated with rainfall. Therell be nothing to push it along for about 48 hours. This is the 72hour forecast. This is after midnight sunday night and monday morning 2 00 a. M. Now we will move you ahead until tuesday. This is a midnight landfall. One of the worst things you can have is a dark landfall. U yo hear things moving. You dont know how big that thing was that just crashed. Then all of a sudden it turns up to the north and centers itself close to orlando. That is the center of the line. Lets think about this plus or minus 1 4ur00 miles. How many people are in that cone at 100 miles here and almost 200 miles from here to here . So lets draw this out. If you are considering that this is a pretty good line here, it could be here and still be in the cone. It could go all the way across the state and into the gulf of mexico and still be in the cone. Thats what he problem is when we talk about a fiveday forecast, what could happen later on in the forecast. But overnight, the models acted astronomically. Better than ive seen them act on this storm all together. The watches are now posted for the bahamas, but look at whats happening to the storm here. 105 Miles Per Hour. Moving to the northwest at 12. This is the spaghetti model. We call it that because there are so many lines. You could call it whatever you want. These are just all of the models plotted on top of each other. They are in good agreement for southern half of florida for landfall. Even the gfs, the american model and the european model doing extremely the same this morning. Somewhere around west palm for the american model. Somewhere around west palm for the european model. Im thinking this turns slightly farther to the right because its going to slow down more quickly. But all of a sudden we have models in agreement because the noaa Hurricane Hunters went out there and did their job for us and put their lives on the line. Sfl so thats reducing some of the uncertainty here which i think is good news here. But weve been saying all along theres a chance here that this hurricane stalls, that its land fixed now over florida here. Whats that going to mean in terms of rainfall here . Because weve seen that problem in the past. 20 inches. Wow. 20 inches of rain on top of the storm surge that you may have which is the salt water flooding. There will be inland fresh water flooding from all of that rain. This is the european model putting down this purple 10 to 20, even 20 in jacksonville. Nowhere near where it makes landfall. But on up, it slows down more into georgia. Now lets take a look at the america model. What does it do for rainfall . Again, purple and white. Now, the purple centers near lake okeechobee. Thats 10 to 15 inches there. Even not near the center of the eye, if you will, there still will be tremendous amounts of rainfall with this. All right, chad. Were going to come back to you a lot over the next three hours. I think everyones got a lot of questions about the forecast, what that data all means, and what they should be doing right now. Please stand by and keep us posted. I will. Obviously florida has seen so many dangerous hurricanes. Residents, many of them know what to do. Theyre stocking up. Weve seen the lines stretching out the door. Rosa flores is live in West Palm Beach outside a home depot with the latest there. Rosa . We just moved inside the store, just opened. But the line started forming an area earlier because most people are looking for generators. You can see right now everybody has picked up their generators. Because people are paying for the generators at this hour. Most of them looking for gas cans, plywood, extension cords. All of those essential items. The state of florida, of course, preparing the governor issued a state of emergency across all 67 counties. 2500 National Guardsmen have been activated. Another 1500 are on standby. The state preparing for this hurricane as the state of florida always does. 800,000 gallons of water have been prestaged. Another 1. 8 million meals are also prestaged ready for distribution, again, waiting for the hurricane to make landfall. You can see behind me that people are still paying for these generators here, john and julia. But florida bracing for the worst here in west palm. Were talking about millions people up the coast a stretch of 500 miles. They all have to get ready because theres so much uncertainty about where it will make landfall. Thank you. Stand by for us. Florida beaches. This is a holiday weekend. Theyre normally packed this time of year. And this hurricane is already disrupting plans for millions of people. Travelers now scrambling, what do you do . Do i leave early . Nick valencia live on the boardwalk in Daytona Beach with the latest there. Nick . Reporter good morning, john. For those who are still planning on coming to florida this weekend, youre in for a nerveracking weekend. This would typically be one of the busiest holiday weekends. We have checked with the airlines and airports to see if theres any closures or reports of cancellations. So far we havent heard that. The airlines, some of them, are offering to waive the ticket change fees. Hotel group is offering distressed rates for those in florida, maybe further south in florida planning to evacuate north. This storm is three days away but making a lot of people nervous. Weve heard of cruise lines rerouting the track of their ships. Also College Football is back. Florida state and boise state were expected to play a game in jacksonville this weekend. That venue has changed further north towards tallahassee. Another thing were keeping an eye on are orlando theme parks. Theyve only closed a handful of times, the last time was for Hurricane Matthew in 2016. We have checked in with a couple of Restaurant Owners and local businesses here. I spoke to one yesterday who said his message for those who are watching here in florida, listen to those Emergency Management officials. Thanks so much for that. All right. Joining us now, someone whos been making reltsed decisions here. The mayor of jacksonville, florida. His city had flooding from hurricane irma. Great to have you with us. I know you were just listening to that and youve been part of the decision making, shifting the College Football game in particular. Tell me about your biggest concern right now and what preparations youre making. Good morning. Thanks for the opportunity to share and communicate with the public. This model has changed dramatically in the last couple of days. A few days ago it looked like we were going to take a direct hit. Now it looks like it would make landfall south of us and moving towards us really slow. Just people remain vigilant and stay tuned. Just because things have slowed down, we dont want people to tune out. Most important thing we want people to know is there is an evacuation zone. In the event we have to evacuate, we dont want them scrambling trying to figure out where that is. They can go to jacksready. Com to find that. Making sure theyre stocked up on all the supplies people need. People seem to be heeding that advice. We need to stay the course. This can be a roller coaster as you follow these models, but were just going to continue to prepare and work with our governor and take care of the people of jacksonville. We saw and we just mentioned there you had record flooding two years ago. So youve seen what it takes to prepare for this and what the aftermath looks like. What preparations are you making here . We were talking about up to 20 inches potentially coming here. We have our Public Works Team out. Theyre trying to mitigate any potential shutdowns of that due to the storm effects. But the key is to make sure our people are safe. That is they hear us, they listen to us. If we have to evacuate the top two zones which are zones a and b, thats about 2r50,000 people. Imagine evacuating a quarter Million People at the same time when you could have evacuations happening south of us, people moving in our direction. Thats probably the top thing that led us to move the Florida State boise state game to tallahassee. To make sure we had clear roads for evacuations. And also 30,000 visitors as well. Thats right. Tell me about the conversations youve had with the governor as well. You just mentioned that. And the White House Team working on this. What assistance are they providing at this stage . This is my third storm in four years. We work very closely with the governor. Its a great relationship. I was with him yesterday and the day before. He was here yesterday. Were talking about, you know, making sure were up to date on bridge closures, if theres an evacuation coordinating to make sure traffics not clogged because of all the people moving around the state. Access to resourcing and funds. Direct work with the state, the governor, the white house liaison reached out to me last night as they always do when we face a crisis situation. That we have direct access to them if we need them. Great to have you with us. We wish you safe and well. Thank you. We keep looking at that map as that Storm Hurricane dorian gets stronger and stronger, heads right toward florida. All 500 miles of coastline all the way up to georgia now at serious risk. Much more on that shortly. Also this morning, Vice President biden on defense trying to explain why a story hes been telling for years is filled with things that are not quite true. What his Campaign Says about this now next. We trust usaa mory other company out there. 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So youll line up all of those realities being in poland for a commemoration at the start of world war ii is not as important as making sure that his citizens are safe and his political aspirations are also safe. It is interesting that keeping the citizens safe didnt seem to be a priority when it was headed to make a direct hit on puerto rico. And theyve noticed. Yeah. Theres no doubt that the president doesnt view puerto rico as part of the United States. He doesnt view people who didnt vote for him as important. And he doesnt view people who arent white as important as everyone else. Thats just its that simple. We dont need any more examples of how he views the word. And thats unfortunate. On the other hand, it is right for him to stay here. And its not just symbolic. There are times you remember in with katrina where there were problems between state and local and federal and the president can sort those things out. He can get on the phone and get people to work together. So it is symbolically the right thing to do, but its also the right thing for the president to do. So all americans matter, but some americans matter more than most when they have Electoral College votes is perhaps what were arguing here. Rachael, come in here. What do you think . I think democrats welcome the president staying here when a hurricane is coming and potentially fwoi lly going to r upset florida and life there. They dont want to see the disparaged treatment when it comes to hurricanes or wildfires. You remember the president when california wuss deas dealing wi those wildfires in california, he suggested he was going to withhold aid to california. Ultimately he gave that aid, but again it just sort of comes down to why is he picking on some areas and not others. Democrats point to puerto rico and say, look. This is a place that is still recovering from Hurricane Maria where 3,000 people died. And the president , you know, as this hurricane was barrelling toward puerto rico tried to suggest that, oh, weve already given them 93 billion in aid. Thats a falsehood, first of all. Theyve only received about 13 billion. Theyre still really struggling. Why is it with puerto rico he cant seem to want to help . But when it comes to florida, a swing state he needs to win in 2020, hes jumping at the first opportunity to do what he thinks is right. All right. Lets walk through the adventure that is the joe biden story he has been telling for some time about a medal that he pinned on an afghan war vet. First, lets play one of the versions of the story that he told just last week. This guy climbed down a ravine, carried this guy up on his back under fire and the general wanted me to spin the silver star on him. I went to pin him and he said i do not want the damn thing. Do not do that. He died. He died. All right. So the Washington Post was the first to fact check this in an article they published. This is what the post says. In the space of three minutes, biden got the time wrong, the location, the heroic act, the medal, and the rank of the recipient wrong as well as his own role in the ceremony. One element of bidens story is rooted in an actual event. In 2011 the Vice President did pin a medal on a heartbroken soldier, Army Staff Sergeant chad workman who didnt believe he deserved the award. So there is a story of biden pinning a medal, just not exactly the one he was telling in the way he was telling it which was bidens defense of it now when he was asked about all this overnight. Lets play that. I was making the point how courageous these people are, how incredible they are, this generation of warriors. These fallen angels weve lost. And so that i dont know what the problem is. I mean, what is it that i said wrong . The details were wrong, errol. Thats the problem there. Now, the thrust of the story, the theme of the story may be right, but he didnt get the details right. So what . True but not accurate. Right . Those kind of distinctions can get you into a lot of trouble on the campaign trail. If youre saying you know, what i said wasnt true but it was the truth in some capital t. Which is kind of what hes saying. The point is i think its not going to necessarily resonate and not necessarily going to damage joe biden, right . Its not like he made up something in some malicious way that it grandizes him. He doesnt say anything. Its really about the situation. Its about what goes on with the afghanistan war, what goes on with the valor that the troops show. What goes on with the Foreign Policy which is the real point here. What does he want to do . How is he going to end the forever war . That sort of a thing. I think thats what voters are going to focus on. Not so much whether he got the branch of the military service right or the name of the veteran right. Or the time or the medal or the location or the person or the event. Come on. The most important thing he loses is his ability to say if he was going to try and do this in a campaign and if he is, indeed, the nominee that donald trump is losing. It donald trump doesnt have command of the f