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Secretary and lifted regulations to get gas to florida quickly. we're laser focused on how we get as much fuel as possible to our ports while they're open. i've offered school buses for transportation needs in several counts east. at this time mime dade is using these services to evacuate those with special needs and monroe has said they don't need the buses now but our offer still stands. right now there is mandatory evacuation order in effect for the florida keys. this means all residents and alvis tors. i was down there yesterday doing everything we can to make sure citizens can get out. we...

Leave fuel for people going further. if you won't need the fuel for the next week i'll work every day after this to continue to get fuel, to continue get power back on. don't take fuel you might not need or you don't think you'll need. others might need it to evacuate. >> bill: the other thing you need is volunteers. volunteers to work in shelters. >> the big thing is we'll have a lot of people in shelters and so i have -- i need 17,000 total volunteers. the red cross is providing 1,000. i've had 6800 sign up in the last three days. so i need about 9,000 more volunteers to work in shelters but...

And to provide ex court services to gas trucks to get through traffic to get to the stations faster. one of the issues is getting from the ports to the stations so they can put the fuel there and get back and get more. right after this i'll talk to all the fuel distributors. we know fuel is very important and we're absolutely devoting every state resource to addressing this and talking to the federal government about their support. but we're making progress, you'll see lines or outages. it has to be frustrating and we won't stop working on this. if you're concerned you don't have a way to evac...

Requests to the department of defense for readiness in post storm response and military watercraft and aircraft to move fuel. personnel resources and national guard that responded to texas have now -- anybody that responded to texas has come to florida to assist us if we need them. we've asked for a military vessel like a marine or navy ship to complete ship to shore. this allows us to move crews, supplies and fuel to the mainland. major concern for the florida keys regarding any potential destruction of bridges. they have over 50 bridges down there. if you lose one bridge it isolates everybod...

Families. we can get your house back and possessions back, can't get your family back. so what i tell everybody, take this seriously. doesn't matter which coast you're on. this thing can move. right now the track has gone up the east coast but it can move and go up the west coast or middle of the state. two things, the two big things i'm dealing with now. i have to get more fuel into the state. i've talked to the oil companies this morning. i'm doing escorts to fuel to our gas stations. i'm doing everything i can to get more fuel here because of the lines we're seeing right now. so i think we'...