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We can show you, we are right on the beach here. daytona is not nearly as vulnerable to a direct hit from a hurricane at south florida is. they've only had one direct hit since 1950. that was in 1960. they do get bad storms here, including matthew last year, which swamped many of these oceanfront hotels. the 70 some million dollars worth of damages here. a lot of these hotels had to shut down and redo their windows, redo all the carpeting. flooding along the beach, shepard. they are concerned about the possibility that the storm could be wars. in matthew last year, they got help right away. th...

The west. so instead of the eye coming in that miami, it looks like, as of the 5:00 p.m. advisory, it's coming in on the west coast at the southwest of everglades national park, what we call the thousand islands write up the southwest coast. it's interesting that you mention immokalee because i just talked to the president of the maria university. >> shepard: is that right? >> it's 4 miles from immokalee. they have opened their gymnasium to the residence of immokalee because those are generally very poor people. so the university president is really showing that he wants and he talks in his fa...

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...

>> shepard: what was alike in puerto rico? sort of a glancing blow there. >> right. we have the center path about 7. we were in san juan and the elk risotto area. we dealt with hurricane force areas, but the tourist section, they held up really well. >> shepard: you wear on the dry side of that storm too? >> right. we are on the south side. a much different scenario here in florida. >> shepard: it's not a directional thing. it's not about north, south, east, and west, if it's moving east and west, dry side to the south, that's where you are. imagine being on the peninsula of florida as this co...

I'm not scared of the actual hurricane. i am scared of getting stuck here. no water, no electricity, all this kind of stuff. let's see. >> a lot of the people who did stay live in the miami high-rise condo towers. they do believe they are structurally sound, all stocked with hurricane impact windows. i will tell you, at 5:00, top of the hour, the very last bus left munro county to take people who wanted to get out but had no means to get out onto the mainland. no more buses from here on out. everybody from munro county to key west to key largo. you are here for the ride at this point. >> shepa...