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It's kay yotic, it's difficult, but it may be the difference in being safe and not being safe. obviously they're all heading north. florida's governor shutting down offices, schools, colleges, even some hospitals have been closed. miami is a storm-savvy place. much of the construction is newer and built to storm specs, but 150-mile-an-hour winds are no joke. 20 feet or more of storm surge is no joke. it can easily overwhelm the best defenses, alisyn. that is the message. if you can get out, do it. >> chris, ten people have already been killed by hurricane irma. that number is expected to rise ...

Some of the information of what's actually happening on the ground. >> shepard: and as experiences go, and you've done this before, where it is puerto rico rate for you? >> we know puerto rico wasn't really that bad. i will say, we were in rockport, texas, during harvey a couple of weeks ago and that was extremely intense. we are expecting something similar to that here. >> shepard: i hope it goes well for you and yours and everybody in florida. thank you for taking a few minutes. we appreciate it. the mass exodus from florida is still on. this is alive look near ocala, i-75, obviously the nor...

The very southern points of south florida all the way north to get away from the impact zone and the worst of hurricane irma. that is the area that we've seen traffic running rather smoothly. we are approaching those final hours where people are urged if you're going to move, now is the time to move. i don't want to make it sound like this is the way, how clear, this is the plastic all the way to north florida. once you get closer to orlando, tampa, those areas, there is a fair amount of congestion and it gets much slower, but at least down here in the southern part of florida, in dade county,...

You want to go. but we want to get everybody where they want to go, and, oh, by the way, go to sl 511.com to see what the traffic is where year trying to go. there's an app called gas buddy, shows you where the gas is in the state. gives an idea how to do it. by the way, we will make sure, if you want to get out, if you want to get out we'll do whatever we can to get you out. call our 1-800 number. we will do whatever we can to get you out. looking for a shelter, go to disaster.org/shelter. we will do everything to get you to safety. my most -- i will spare no vent to keep people safe. >> our ...

And doing everything we can. it has tos frustrating, because there are lines. there are outages. it's not widespread. it's not everywhere now. we're going to do everything we can. keeping our evacuation routes open. i do ask, evacuate if asked to evacuate. listen to your local officials. every county is a little different. topography is a little different. listen to them about evacuation orders. don't wait. the longer you wait -- if you wait until the storm we can't take care of you. so we're working hard. we're working with fema to solve all of these problems, and so i pray for every citizen ...