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Potentially sucked up or almost sucked up by a minor little sorticity near the city. and the strongest winds in naples. devastating news coming out. >> we are buoyed by the news that the storm surge apparently is not going to be as bad as promised or threatened earlier in the day. thank you very much for your work tonight and for explaining these boisterous rain bands that you're still facing down this late in the game, this late in the storm. a storm of dynamic intensity tonight in tampa. another break for us. we have a lot of the state yet to cover. this tremendous hurricane named irma that ...

So. in the beginning, they were raising rum drinks and making fun of those who evacuated prematurely, they said. but in the last several hours, as these reports came in, the traffic on u.s. 1 heading north is noticeably heavier. a man on his motorcycle said i was going to ride it out, now i have to get out. below us, a stunning sort of prototypical key west sunset happening back there. but there's nobody in mallory square, trust me, watching that with a boat drink tonight. in fact, many of them brought their cars here. and this shows the desperation when you live inches above sea level. this i...

These sandbags are hopefully going to be keeping some people dry. we have seen the pictures and videos coming from the caribbean so far up the last few days, and that storm looks extremely powerful. if you're not here at a cat five location, category five certified building, you should get out. coming down with the wind, look at the cars coming. an increase of line of cars. the most cards we have seen in two days, really, heading north. we have been for a couple of days, and has been pretty quiet. not many cars at all on the highway. some coming in here and there. police officers, sheriff's. y...

Vehicles to go south. still trying to get more fuel here. we have tankers coming from the panhandle to bring fuel to central florida. one of my biggest, my biggest focus this week, how to get more fuel in the state, because we've got to continue to get more fuel here. so what we've done is from wildwood to -- we've done, a lot of people allowed to be on the shoulder, making for an additional lane, and highway patrol out there are directing traffic. trying to keep everybody moving. we have road rangers 24/7 helping people. so we're doing everything we can to keep the traffic moving and try to g...

I wish you would not try to ride this out. please, go to a shelter. please go to a friend's house. get out of harm's way. wherever you can, we'll help you but you're putting people's lives at risk when you do that. i'll do what i can to take care of people and hope every would "vuk wait right now if in an evacuation zone. local officials, we see more evacuations that have come up and we learn more about what the storm surge will be. >> showing viewers, governor, live pictures from marion county in florida. you see the traffic heading north. huge, huge numbers of cars. very few cars heading in ...