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Storm. so that eyewall, where it makes landfall, is crucial to determine who gets hit the hardest, who sees the most storm surge, and who sees the most devastation. do not let your guard down, listen to authorities, evacuate now if you can. >> from biloxi, mississippi, derek van dam. thanks so much. now to alabama where a state of emergency has also been called. cnn's ryan young is in the gulf coast town of mobile. ryan, what's the latest there? >> well, something i heard from derek when talking about the complacency, we've talked to several people who don't feel they are going to be impacted ...

Responder from the pulse nightclub shooting in orlando. so imagine that. so sadly they do have their training here. and they were able to jump into gear. but i've heard so many stories, just a number of people coming here in the airport saying they were trying to get out. many people can't get flights because they just want to get out of and people trying to rent cars and really just get out of ton and the folks who live here and work in these casinos, they have to deal with it. this place is where people come to relax, they let their guard down, even if you're on business. you go and enjoy th...

The red and the yellow. that is that front right quadrant from our center. so that's always been the case as the powerhouse area. but again keep in mind those winds extend out. give us a nice little pocket of dry air infiltrating the system. we'd like to see that get all the way in around the core to kind of choke off this system, the dry air will bleed it. and along with those winds to the north kind of shred the system. so it's going to be a formidable storm. still a category 2. do not let your guard down, hunker down throughout the night until the system is north. now, when it does move nor...

Much, much bigger than andrew. andrew, the worst of the storm passed 25 miles south of miami. it was terrible for homestead. but, again, downtown miami, miami beach was spared the worst of andrew. this thing could still plow right into tampa bay some time late tomorrow, sunday night. and by some measures this is the third most intense storm in atlantic history. there's something called a.c.e., accumulated cyclone energy, it's the size of the storm, intensity and integrated over time this is the third biggest since the satellite record began. it's way too early to let your guard down, east coas...

To see and proud of florida right now. mike: that doesn't mean folks in broward county should let their guard down, right? >> no, not at all. this thing -- first of all, these things can wobble and change at the last second as we all know. secondly the back part of the storm, the dirty part of the storm as they call it, significant winds, high rain, people need to take it seriously. it looks like broward and east coast dodged the bullet for sure in avoiding a direct hit but that's not any reason not to continue to stay hunkered down, stay indoors, we have the cur -- curfew in place for a reaso...