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Region, places like okinawa, japan. this is where families could take shelter before planning that much longer trip back to the states. real world lessons for american children seen at different part of the world. do your kids know the name kim jung un? >> they don't. we haven't touched on that, but our military kids are -- this is what they learn. in school they know what's going on. they know they have to keep up with current events that are going on around the world. >> reporter: raising a family in south korea, martinez as a veteran says she feels safe. she doesn't worry about a threat. sh...

Thank you. joining us on the phone the mayor of cape canaveral, florida. he left his town after mandatory evacuations were ordered. mr. mayor, i hope you and your family have made the proper accommodations for yourselves. how do you know about how the rest of the county and your municipality is reacting? >> well, we are evacuated. the state of emergency yesterday morning and the staff has started all evacuation procedures and preparation of the city. some people are staying onboard over there and i am hoping they are going to evacuate because there is going to be very extensive damage to the...

Fema administrator, and efhe wa dealing firsthand when florida got hit with the spaghetti strings of hurricanes back in 2004. mr. fugate, how are the evacuation procedures going? what do you know? what can you tell us? >> he's got about 1.5 million people in the evacuation zone, and you can hear from his and also local officials that this is no nonsense. you have to evacuate. as you move further north, as you point out the history, you actually go back a little fu furth further. a hurricane in savannah, georgia literally killed thousands of people that didn't have a history of hurricanes back ...

Point as if it's going to other parts of the hotel and all the way from the top floor. i don't see an attempt to try to put it out. i just can't see it from where i am. >> i will ask you to stay with us for a few more minutes. i will bring in cal perry again who has been monitoring this situation for us on social media and online as well. i don't know if you have had a chance to get an update either from the address hotel itself or perhaps from the government of dubai, but what else are you hearing at this point? >> the government is saying that at least four civil defense teams, those are jus...

Summer. and number two, the other thing that -- every death is tragic, but when you consider that we have had six tornadoes and there were only nine deaths, that means that building codes, that evacuation procedures, warning systems, all of those, are doing what they're supposed to do and saving lives. so, now the issue is, how does fema come in? right now all of these folks are going to descend on the areas and doing initial damage assessments and then they'll make a report to the governor, the governor will make a request to the white house, maybe or maybe not, depending on the numbers, and ...