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Best to help them folks in the state of florida. >> what can you tell us about cell phone coverage, a big problem for some providers after hurricane michael and what everyone is on and what they want to know about? >> obviously, it's a major problem and it really hindered i think the ability for folks to be able to take protective measures. but we have spoken with companies like verizon, they have a plan, they are implementing the plan, they recognize the threat from the storm and are taking action so at the end of the day, these are private companies, what we have done is said the state reall...

Facilitate fuel coming in from out of state. so that is happening as we spea speak. in terms of these nursing homes, obviously that's been an issue in the past. the agency for health care administration is making site visits or calls to all facilities where the state does not have updated info about generators. we now have a web site through the agency of health care administration where you can go to each county and see who's got the generators, who doesn't. so we think statewide about 120 that we don't have the information for a month so there's going to be site checks, phone calls to make s...

Where preparations are underway. >> the winds could be at 140 or even more in a state of emergency has now been declared in all 67 florida counties but no mandatory evacuations have been ordered because authorities don't know where the storm is going to hit, somewhere between central florida and as far south as west palm beach or even further south to miami. we know that a lot of preparations are underway including cape canaveral where they are stashing the equipment and military bases across the state where they are moving plans the safer ground and moving warships to safer waters ahead of do...

In alabama and another one in south carolina, 70 truckloads of relief supplies are en route to the maxwell air force base from the atlanta distribution center. there will be millions of leaders of water distributed throughout the hurricane zone. they are conducting 24-hour operations and preparation for potential landfall. as federal preparations take shape, the president taking the twitter this morning to tell floridians to get out of the way if they are so instructed. saying hurricane dorian looks like we'll be hitting florida late sunday night. be prepared and follow state and federal instr...

Remain in there and end up being in jeopardy, loss of life. if know if you are in an evacuation zone, know which zone you are in and know your evacuation route. in terms of our highways here, the florida department of transportation has already cleared the shoulders of all of our major highways like i-95 and i-75, so they've been swept clear. we will open the shoulders for traffic once evacuation orders are handed down. as of right now, the d.o.t. has not identified an abnormal traffic patterns but obviously we know that once counties make determinations for evacuation orders, you're going to ...