If not before. But the key is code see heavy winds and rain as early as tonight. Authorities are urging people, dont try to ride this one out. This is a big, dangerous storm. Something that has never been seen before in the atlantic. It is headed our way. Are there a few people still in town . There are. I hope that they will heed the warning and end up leaving. Dont call 911, nobody is going to answer the phone. Harris lets get to the keys first. Griff jenkins in key largo. Thats right, you can feel the winds just the prevailing winds starting here in key largo. A message from the county administration very clear, get out. Because they are going to get a certain 12 punch. Person will be the wind, then the storm surge as much as 10 feet, and that could put key largo and other parts of the keys underwater. Thats why they are so worried. Im joined now by burgess warren, a manager here at the Key Largo Marina and the surrounding areas. This is a big one part of them never seen it, are you worried . Naturally, im worried about it. Extremely worried. Ive been here for 24 years, and a number of hurricanes. Cat 1 into 2, and we stayed there for those, but this is 4 and 5, considerable worry. We can see that we are just passed high tide, so what will go up from here with the surge. Just above high tide, and it will go up ten 10 feet from here. We have to look at everything around here, so we feel comfortable with buildings, but the big thing is that surge, what the water will do as they raise the boats up and come in. As we look beyond, those boats sitting over there, if this is high tide coming you had 10 feet, our viewers will be thinking that you are saying that that will go up as high as the buildings in the boats out of the marina. Make no light of it. We have been looking at the hulls right now. Thats the ability with the surge of 10 feet or higher. You look right here, the boats are tied up on the cleats, are those going to hold . We hope so. There is no guarantee. They are bolted down very deep into the concrete, they are designed to hold. But this is obviously a different type of situation. A unique situation. And depending on what the boats do, you can see the tied off the marina here, securing each other, floating around and blowing around in the middle. Hopefully the pressure will be shared amongst the cleats. How concerned are you with the officials warning that the wind is the destruction and the storm surge, but the fact that here in the keys you could be isolated, trapped without power and without water for days or weeks here . Well, there is a guarantee that the power will go off. No doubt about that. I have some friends here who are supervisors coming into they say, yes, when it goes out, it goes out. They dont turn the power out, because it takes weeks to get it back on. It will come back and they will gradually turn the power back in different neighborhoods as i can. Thats a reality. We are standing out here right now at 95 degrees, over 100 humidity. It is hot. It will be hot after this. Thats the nature when the storms go through. We will be dealing with this for a while before the power comes back on in these conditions. And finally, the officials are saying, get out, get out, get out. Are they overstating it . Not at all. Absolutely not. It feels nice. Theres a normal sort of wind that we usually get, but this is out of the east, northeast coming into this is what we get. It will go up to 150 knots or larger. As one goes out, one goes in. Everybody should be getting out right now. I have been in cat 1 and 2, and they get your attention. I cannot imagine what this one will be like. Are you getting out . I am leaving, yes. I have family, we can fix this place. But i cannot fix it if something bad happens to me or anybody else here. This is serious part of this is something that we take very seriously. There you have it come on guys, this is coming from one of the most seasoned general managers of the marina saying get out, get out now. As you can feel, the winds are blowing on us now. Harris we can hear it in your microphone and see it on the tree line behind you. Healthy skepticism on the couch here with me and melissa francis. Talking about how the boats were able to take a cat for, because they were tied together. I dont know, you look at that video, they have boats upside down and in trees. Hopefully it will work out. A worried merchant him that is the order of the day today. We are worried for florida. Thank you for the report. Sandra we want to get to chief meteorologist in the Fox News Weather Center as miami is currently bracing for this direct hit. What does the storm look like right now . Listen, south florida, not necessarily miami, we cannot say where it will happen as we have been saying all along. All of south florida is under the gun from this. The model changing a little bit over the last day. Still showing the righthand turn, we are so confident about. Take a look at this. If there is anything you will notice, still a big spread here. From the west side of florida to the east side of florida, and here we are about 24 hours away from at least Tropical Storm force winds getting into florida. We cannot say where the center of it will go. Keep in mind that it is not just a point, a center point, it is a big storm, hurricane winds expanding 70 miles from the center. You look at the satellite picture coming to see the little fixture going on right there. The replacement cycle, that we can say its a little bit. And it spreads out the wind field. In the short term, does it regain the strength . Very possible. At 150mileperhour speed speed 4 storm, more than 150mile storm, but we are showing that it will probably, s possible to strengthen a little bit more which would be bad. The big reason for that is the water will go over, the warmest it has been at any point since it has been going. So if it did interactive little bit with cuba, that would be horrible news for cuba, but it would weaken a little bit, one option. But you notice still, the entire both sides of florida looking at the threats of the land fall prey to the worst of it, the worst of the surge will be to the right of it. We will see a lot of water pushed up into south florida. Storm surge happening back towards naples as well as towards the miami area. At this point, it looks like we could be dealing with Hurricane Force winds across the entire peninsula. May be expending towards jacksonville. It becomes onshore, strong cat 4, going to die down. We will be looking at Hurricane Force winds throughout the entire area here. Looking at them extending up into Central Georgia before this winds down. So a lot is ahead here. Time is over. We will see rain moving in this afternoon, the first band of that. And by the morning, Early Morning we will have Tropical Storm force winds. Sandra its amazing to hear about the residents in south florida saying that they are going to wait it out. Buckle down and tried to weather the storm. I dont like hearing that. Sandra i think everybody right now as the miami beach mayor called this potentially a nuclear hurricane, the timing of all of this, what should we expect . It is friday and we are heading into the weekend, when should we expect first landfall . First landfall will probably be sunday morning. I will tell you this, any bright side, we are going to have landfall and the worst happening during the daytime hours, which is certainly at least you can see what is happening around you versus it happening at night. That may be one part of a bright spot. I have a friend of mine in miami say, should i go west or east on this . Should i go to the west side towards naples . There is not a good way if you are thinking westeast to escape. The only real way is north. But a lot of territory and a lot of people going on that. Looking at all of the lines and people without gas. But that idea right now, not a good option on that. Sandra thank you. Im sure we will be seeing a lot of you in the next couple of hours and days. Guy benson is on the couch. It is really unbelievable to watch the spread of the state is taking huge preparations. Guy florida, thank god, very experienced with this stuff. If any state knows how to deal with a hurricane, it is florida. Not to take anything away from other states, but the sheer power of mother nature, no way that humans or Government Agencies are a match for that. I hope the people in florida are listening to their leaders and authorities and saying, get out. And just the scale of the exodus from the state, almost the entire part of the state being evacuated, extraordinary, but clearly the right thing to do. Harris what is so interesting is the dichotomy from the two storms and the response to the evacuation. Texas, they were talking about it being impossible to move millions of people out of houston, and having to do almost in rapid succession in the same exact thing here in the state of florida, learning some immediate lessons. Im looking at the death toll, these numbers are going up now, sandra, every couple of hours. Now upwards about 23 commands where some of the deaths have happened. Puerto rico, u. S. Virgin islands, the British Virgin islands. Actually areas that did not get hit by the worst of this form. Sandra you hear about the island set have lost 90 of their structures, im sure that melissa will look at the Economic Impact in the long term fallout of this. Melissa my heart first of all goes out to the people in houston. You dont want to forget about them here. Another storm here coming along. And still in so much trouble. Im sure they feel like, dont forget about us and helping us. Pretty much all of my family is in florida, and to like you said, they are actually experienced with this. So at least they know where Higher Ground is, what preparation to make, what to do. But at the same time, the waiting its really hard. When you talk to people and they are just waiting for it to arrive and dont know what to expect. It is a time for everybody to pull together. Harris and harvey saw the second installment passed the house about 90 minutes ago, that hybrid spending bill, the debt ceiling bill at that a huge chunk of second money on top of the 8 billion they were promised in houston. So there is some movement of aid they are. Trish there will likely need to be a lot more in florida. One thing in all of this is that people at least because of the attention that was drawn to houston, those in florida are aware of it. It is the storm surge that they really need to be worried about. 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Police escorts for a big rig trucks coming in with gasoline, because you cannot drive out if you do not have gas. He is trying to fill up the filling station set of run out of gas. Also working with google, his team is, to give real time updates on the traffic flow as people head out. Running out of time has been the message and updates, updating about every hour or two. We will take those as they happen live. Offering free help to people if you are in an area where you have been evacuated but you do not have the resources or the wherewithal to get out. We will continue to cover the story as it happens. Sandra. Sandra it looks like President Trump is working on more deals with democrats. President trump in talks with Chuck Schumer as well as nancy pelosi on doing away with the need for congress to approve increases in the debt ceiling prior to the president was asked yesterday and told it could be discussed for many years, people have been talking about getting rid of the debt ceiling altogether. But House Speaker paul ryan does not love the idea. As imperfect as this tool is come i see it as a good tool for a fiscal discipline. And one of the article one powers as a constitutional issue, it is congress prerogative exercising the power of the first. You are not in favor of that . I like the fact that congress controls the power of the person, and who who gives us a fiscal deficit plan. Sandra you just recently spoke with the speaker of the house. Where do you stand on this . If that was with martha on tv. I had them on fox news radio. I asked him point blank, do you categorically oppose the idea of eliminating the debt ceiling altogether . He said, yes, we have no interest in doing that. Whether it was a good Pressure Point or leverage point to oppose fiscal discipline, at least what he called a speed bump in the road. And if you get rid of the limits on federal borrowing and going up forever and ever, then that creates fewer opportunities for fiscal conservatives to say, we have a problem with our spending and our death. If you automatically boost endlessly americas ability to borrow. Melissa i wish that were true, but it is one of those fake things that is going on in washington. I would love to see fiscal discipline. I would love to starve the government of funds paid i would love to see the government gets smaller, but it feels so fake. Because we come up against it. Everybody acts like oh, no, they are not going to raise it, and then they do every time. If it was supposed to impose discipline, it has failed miserably. Sandra nobody fears that it will actually happen. Trish we should not default on the debt. One of the things that has made us the most secure credit in the world is that we pay our bills. I dont think it is the end of the world, necessarily, if we did. But its not a precedent that we want to set. We do not want to go down the path. Melissa is right predicates raised every time. I dont like it. I would like to see a lot of fiscal discipline. Maybe theres another way we should be thinking about this right thing now. You know they are going to raise that anyway, we are not going to default. Why do we come up against this . Sandra i know we will deal with it and another three months. Harris if they were not so busy dating themselves and telling each other how wonderful they are through the process of lets not do anything, lets raise it. Maybe they could get something done in terms of killing some things what we are spending and justify raising the ceiling only when it is necessary. But they seem to only want to braid each others hair on this matter. Guy you are right, melissa, these are cliffs and crises, and we lurch from one to the next. Nothing gets accomplished. One exception of this was 2011, the budget control act, not a Perfect