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They believe that the vast majority of people from this county and this area heeded those warnings and evacuated. not just today but earlier in the week as well, even when hurricane irma's landfall haven't been pinpointed just yet. because of that the threat of it a lot of people took off and headed north. there are people who are staying back, in fact we ask the police chief down there on marco island, for anyone whose decided to get cold feet as this storm get closer, is it too late in his opinion to hit the road. he believes the time is up. this is time to shelter in place and brace for the...

Even when we have a near-miss hurricane potentially. still a lot of work to be done before we can give the all-clear. before it's time to go back to the status quo. >> on your on earlier point on complacency for those people still dithering, still undecided on what to do, what do you say to them? >> well, at this point, it's too late to evacuate. we'll be getting probably the strongest of our tropical storm winds rooifing in the next couple of hours and they'll be here until, you know, much of tomorrow. at this point, bunker down, stay at home. wherever you are. stay alert to the communication...

And currents. in the red shaded area, the entire peninsula of florida even over as tallahassee there are hurricane warnings. the impact, even though we're along the east coast a lot of people say, oh we're not staying here to miami in this area we're going to move to the west coast, and now the beg threat is to the west coast, miami is seeing a wind gust of 53 miles per hour. there's wind gust on fisher island that has winds 57 miles per hour. ft. lauderdale, 40 miles per hour, at kind dendal almost 60-mile-per-hour winds. tropical storm out. i know this area like the back of my hand. for atla...

Because we know just how fickle irma has been. i want to show you one other thing before my time is up here. this is a storm surge where you see the red, zoom in and all the way from the florida keys, the highest point is about 12 feet of sea level. you can see a storm surge of 5 to 10 feet, it'll be underwater, marco island. all these areas could be inundated with 10-15 feet of water. this is an estimate at this point. then as we go up the coast towards port charlotte this beautiful area where a lot of these inlets, santa bell, capetillo va those are areas that could be 15 feet storm surge. p...

>> yeah, we've been hearing about the storm surge, a lot of people up there in the west coast, florida worried very much about storm surge where you are. it's not exactly high ground. how concerned are you about that surge? >> well i'm not concerned about it for us, because like i said we're on the fourth floor. storm surge is not an issue for me. i'm sure once daylight get here and irma's done doing what she's going to do we'll go out and clean up, access the damage and mess and we'll help to rebuild and get the public back to where it used to be. >> tell me, you were pretty confident last ti...