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Just a whisper of the winds to come. many people have left miami beach as hurricane irma approaches. other state, federal, and local people are getting ready to respond when it hits. with me now, someone that has overseen preparations and at times the recovery effort, cnn contributor and former state emergency management director, david halstead. also is josh halstead, mayor of hollywood, florida. first of all, how are things in hollywood? here in miami beach, there's dunes. but in hollywood, there's a beautiful board walk right on the beach. >> a 2 1/2 mile board walk with hundreds of busines...

Place in florida? >> a lot of them are already staged, but they're air transportable. so i would imagine what fema is doing is looking at this from the stand point how do they get teams hardest hits and fastest. and two of those teams are based in miami. miami-dade county has one of the task forces. the other one is the city of miami and the surrounding communities. florida has other cities with urban search and rescue teams. so those will be the first on the ground. >> david, you've seen a lot of storms in your work here for the state. what worries you as you look at this storm? >> i think cr...

The area. >> barbara starr, appreciate that update. joining me now is craig fugate. and back with us here in miami is david halstead. craig, you heard barbara starr talking about the military assets poised to help. obviously, fema likes to preposition resources as close as they can. but when you have a storm this size that is going to hit as big an area of florida, that has to be extremely difficult. >> yeah. we've done exercises on this. the challenges with the hurricane coming up, you didn't drive resources staged to go south. that's why you have to have aircraft, because what may happen is ...