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>> thank you, carol. >> how many people have heeded the warnings and gotten to safety? >> in miami beach, a lot. i mean obviously we do not have a mandatory evacuation right now in miami beach. we expect to get some very, very strong winds. we're seeing the weather picking up. there's rain as well. we closed the actual beaches on miami beach. our fire department, our police department, our emergency operations are on full alert. fully staffed at this point. and we just tell everyone at this point to stay inside, make sure that you're heeding all the warnings. stay off the beaches, and next 24 ...

There are evacuation instructions for a large portion of the east coast of florida for storm surge. if you're told to evacuate get out now. the roads are open still. get over those bridges. if you're in mobile homes evacuate. that's a dangerous place to be because of the winds even if you move inland. >> rick, again, please emphasize how dangerous this storm is. this storm is a potential killer, correct? >> absolutely. and there are so many different hazards that take people's lives in landfalling tropical systems like this. it's obviously a hazard to have the strong, extreme winds of a major ...

>> i have to interrupt you because the south carolina governor nikki haley has begun speaking about emergency preparations in south carolina. let's listen. >> -- evacuation will start at noon is when we want to plan on doing that. as you heard, john, the big concerns that we have are storm surges are going to go much further inland than people realize. and that's a lot of water, all at once. the winds are going to be incredibly high, and then the rain is what we're concerned about that may give us something similar to what we had with the flood last year when you're talking eight to twelve inc...

Mexico, max winds at 105 miles-per-hour. forecasters say raymond will move west, a. from the united -y from the united states. >> a rough day for mr. las vegas, the singer, wayne knot -- newton's, yacht sank.

Rico. it's trying to flare up. here's the forecast path from the hurricane center. we are watching over the next five days the storm tracking towards florida, has to go over a lot of lands, and that's why we're thinking that what the state of the storm is come sunday night and monday will term exactly what the impacts will be. our forecast models, excellent agreement. you usually don't see this much agreement five days in advance. you know they all pretty much head for either the eastern gulf or over florida. that means the hurricanes center has got the forecast coming very close to tampa. als...