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Exposed to it who may or may not have made plans to leave. then you have duration. when you're looking at a storm and its potential consequences. what does it mean when you up duration effect? having a stalled storm moving slowly, staying in one place? what are the additional factors? >> well much like with harvey, a lot of flash flooding and sometimes that's -- sometimes that's not fully anticipated by people on the ground. i would advise them to keep checking hurricane.gov, that's the national hurricane center web site that provides all the forecast and they have great products to tell you i...

>> oh, everybody is still paying a lot of attention to the situation, sam. most of the folks we talk to here along the immediate coast line are absolutely going to heed those evacuation orders and get out. some of the more interior people, you know, they were getting all the supplies, the generators, the fuel. but again, like you said, if this storm sits here for 24 hours, even longer, you've got the freshwater flooding threat that you could get trapped along with that wind damage threat, the surge threat, all that water from the atlantic is going to go up the rivers and into the inlets. where...

Sure that we all understand and appreciate the vast resources available in the aftermath of the storm. all of that is to help us replace your stuff. to save lives, you need to get out of harm's way and so important for us to continue to beat the drum to leave the coast if at all possible. >> dana: and coastal areas have really grown in population. so it's a wonderful place to be, people love to live there. but to your point, your asking them to heed the warnings so that you can hopefully come back to a safe environment and just stay away until they say it's safe to come back. >> absolutely, da...

Sometimes those are the unsung heros. >> shepard: senator tim scott, be safe. thank you. >> thank you, dana. >> dana: new controversy about hurricane marie's impact with president trump taking controversy with the number of people killed. 3,000 people did not die in the two hurricanes. when i left the island after the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. it didn't go up by much and then a long time later they started to record really large numbers like 3,000. republican lawmakers reacting. >> casualties don't make a person look bad. i have no reason to dispute the numbers. tho...

Out, hour after hour. that's devastating. >> dana: where will you be riding out the storm? >> either at my home here in charleston or the emergency operations center in charleston county. i am the chairman of the center. i enjoy hanging around with my friends who are still making sure that our citizens are as safe as possible. >> dana: it's all hands on deck. any other words of advice for your fellow government officials, either local, state or federal? >> i visited the south emergency management division this morning when i flew in to columbia. they're preparing hundreds of people at work. th...