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A pleasure to personally welcome you to the hemingway home tonight. thank you, craig. >> i appreciate it. next time i want a tour. we'll go from that to the chief of police for key west. this is chief donald j. lee. again, chief, you correct me if i'm wrong, but your jurisdiction includes the hemingway house. is that right? >> yes, it does, craig. >> i gather thank you heard my interview there with mr. gonzalez. what do you make of that decision to ride it out and the property itself pretty much being hurricane proof? >> well, you know, i don't think it's a wise or prudent decision. i hope tha...

We saw an evacuation bus pull out and they did get inland. a little bit inland, you can be safe. it's a much different situation, which is mi all officials are begging people to pay attention. >> it's confounding. you spoke to the mayor last hour. he called this a nuclear hurricane. i mean, if that's what he's warning and you hear from the governor to the fema administrator, if you are in a flood zone, you need to get out, why would anyone stay there? >> well, i did speak to a man, scott abraham with his 4-year-old son who said he was going to stay in his high-rise. he lives on the 11th floor....

There's many of them. >> we talked to a man who said he's riding it out. he seemed to be waivering. he lives on the 11th floor of an apartment building. good enough? >> not at all. even if he thinks the windows are hurricane proof, this is massive, powerful. i call it a nuclear hurricane. we have seen the devastation it's caused throughout the caribbean. he should be getting off the island and going to the mainland to a shelter. if you have a pet, we have shelters that allow you to keep your pet. there's no reason to stay. we don't want heroes, we want safe people. >> we are looking at the roa...

>> neil: closing places of business, and two nuclear power plants. trace gallagher has more on that. where were these? >> we should note that both of these south florida nuclear power plants sit along the coast, both exposed to the strongest winds and highest storm surge. the reactors inside st. lucie is encased in six feet of steel reinforced concrete and they're also well above sea level. if you go back to 1992, the turkey point power plant, about 25 miles south of miami, took a major hit from hurricane andrew, cat 5 storm. suffered more than 90 million in damage. the reactors themselves wer...

We had a large storm here, we did leave. i had prebooked a hotel up in the panhandle and then another one in alabama and another one in georgia just to keep away from that particular hurricane. but i do recall that the hotels were absolutely full. and had i not prebooked i think we would have had quite a job chasing a place to say. so i thought, the house that we live in was built a year after hurricane andrew hit miami. that was in '92. and the way that it's actually built is supposedly hurricane proof or at least to a degree, hurricane proof. we are going to find that out i guess in the next...