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Grid and sent to my residents so they could see who was in a threat and who was on high ground and les of a concern. we want the right people to evacuate. you want u people in low areas to take it seriously and people in high areas who can make due, they shouldn't be clogging the emergency shelters. the. >> the map shows south beach and those areas along the water. really exposed. interestingly, exposed from the bay side because of the push of water that comes in. zpl they can get it coming and going. so if the winds sweep around from the east, they'll push a big boll louse of water up from th...

Side, like the atlantic side. >> they're still on the dirty side of the storm. they're still going to get wind gusts in excess of hurricane force, still 70 to 100-mile-an-hour winds. we'll still have power outages on the east coast of florida. so for everyone that evacuated that has power, that's better than sitting in your house a week or two waiting for the power to come back on. >> thank you so much for rushing that 11:00 on to the air. bill karins our meteorologist. we are joined by the mayor of key biscayne, florida, an island just off the coast and south of the city of miami proper in th...

Reason for that is? what are we going to say? there's a lot of paper and information. the people in this administration know it. they're going to try to protect themselves and this president. but they know it's for being go friends of the broadcast, great friends of the guest, and we are off topic compared to our usually evening. we turn back because of the urgency of the moment to hurricane irma. for that we go to sam champion who's been with us all eechg. i'm worried about two different aspects. i'm worried about the folks who left miami, drove west on 75 to the western coast, the gulf coast...

>> well, we have enough food and water to survive for weeks if we do get trapped down here. we've been scouting out structures as well. the whole entire town, we basically have a concrete bunker but it's very important for everybody to get out of the path of this thing. heed those warning. we're likely going to get out of the path here as well shortly if it looks like it's coming ashore as strong as it is. it looks like right now that track just to the west over the central keys as well. one issue with the florida keys is that you get storm surge from both sides, not only the atlantic side but...

Very much. > >> if you're in an evacuation zone, you have to get out. think about it. we love our families, i love my family. i want to keep my family safe. everybody has to focus on keeping their families safe. if you're in an evacuation zone in plor flflorida, you need to now. if you're in the southern part of the state, make sure you're off the road before midnight. you need to be off the roads because this storm is coming. it's not days away, it's hours away now. >> you've been getting briefed regularly by your emergency managers. i know you just had a briefing within the last hour. what a...