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We've already talked about how many people lost their life in haiti. i don't want anybody to lose their life if my state. this is going to be bad, 140-plus-mile-an-hour winds, 9-foot plus storm surge, plus waves on top of that. 12 inches of rain, rip currents, beach erosion. if we don't have landfills -- if it doesn't hit land, we still will have hurricane-force winds. >> governor, you know there are people on the beaches, last-minute surfers, just a minority of people, but we're looking at live pictures now of some of them i believe in daytona beach. what's your message to these individuals? ...

Georgia, listen up, there are now mandatory evacuations in place for you, too. please listen to your local authorities and obey their orders for your own safety. all right. let's head to daytona beach and boris sanchez. that's where the brunt of the storm may hit later tonight or early friday morning. good morning. >> reporter: hey, good morning. yeah, things took a very grim turn here just a few moments ago. we got our first real taste of what's coming with hurricane matthew. some very harsh winds started pounding our crew and this beach when we were here yesterday that was full of people is ...

Category 4 still being approximate to jacksonville within the next 24 hours. but sometimes people get foolishly curious. that's why those curfews come into effect. >> and obviously south of where you are in miami-dade they have a lot of preparations going on. you're farther up the coast, more north. do they seem as prepared? >> reporter: as prepared probably so looking at the reports being put out by the mayor. it's a different type of presentatio presentation. you don't see things boarded up the way you will down south in the residential communities. coming in, there wasn't that level because...

The evacuation zone. it will be one of the largest mandatory evacuations, the largest since hurricane sandy in 2012 and the governor did not mince words when he spoke earlier. he said people will die because of this storm. i was talking to a couple that was at a hotel right next to ours from indianapolis who was visiting daytona and they had no idea that this was going to happen. they were thinking they could potentially hunker down in the hotel and stay. a few moments ago they were told they would also have to leave. this is the crucial window when people have to get out. the governor again r...

Jacksonville. that community hasn't seen a storm in a very long time. there's the concern about a storm surge going into the bay and pushing all of that water into the downtown area. it's not that the folks don't know what to do up there. they most certainly do. it's just a community that hasn't seen a storm. i spent a lot of time in jacksonville. it's just not the same hurricane culture you have in other parts of the state. you on the other hahow many peo prepared. we want to keep an eye on that in the kay days to come. >> senator, where are you and your family going to be riding out the stor...