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Police officers in addition to what we already have so we're asking everyone if they are going to shelters, get in the shelters or evacuate now. we'll need them off the street pretty soon. >> jon: brenda, thank you. our thoughts and prayers will be with you and your community, thanks. >> thank you so much. you take care. >> jon: her residents are among the thousands ordered to evacuate the gulf coast as this monster cat 4 hurricane approaches. 145 mile-an-hour winds on their way and up to 13 feet of storm surge. senator marco rubio of florida joins us next. >> there is nothing our state cannot...

The next few days after we get ready to recover from this. >> sandra: due to the expected storm surge the area you described is vulnerable. why? >> well, it's right along the coast. you have some of the oldest communities in florida. north florida settled first 150, 160 years ago. you are talking about frame structures from some pre-civil war right at the tide line. again all focused on shrimping, fishing and oystering. you'll have to deal with clearing roads, clearing debris. the big difference between a cat 4 and cat 1, both you lose power. with a category 4 it knocks over the cell towers. i...

Director call it the hurricane of the worst kind unfortunately. he said this is final call for anyone who still needs to get out. we're doing everything we can but all we can do is hope for the best. the window to evacuate has come to a close. jon scott joining me right now. noaa gave an update. category 4 storm. 145 mile-an-hour winds. he said don't just focus on the core of this storm. 200 mile wind spread. it's a wake-up call to georgia citizens. this could be the worst storm, he said, that that state has ever seen. >> jon: a lot of people inland tend to think hurricanes are coastal events ...

That's where the fiercest winds will be. >> northeast quadrant. i will tell you this is one of the most intense hurricanes i have ever covered. category 4, 145 mile-an-hour sustained winds. if you look at the satellite presentation of this storm in the last few frames you can see that well-defined eye and that tells me this is a strengthening storm as it makes landfall. it is being influenced by land. the west side is really holding well together. we're hours from landfall. look at that eye. you rarely see that well-defined, clear eye in the middle of a storm. it's incredible. unfortunately it...

Yesterday. now as you've heard governor scott has put out if you did not evacuate you need to shelter in place. be prepared as you heard the prior commentator talk about, a 12-foot storm surge will topple houses on the coast along panama city. the foregotten coast. apalachicola, small fishing towns. they will absolutely be devastated by a storm surge like that and got to be prepared to respond for it. it enormous damage. i've seen it myself growing up in florida. i dealt with hurricane andrew, hurricane charley, last year hurricane irma, charlie was a cat 4. it cut an island in half off the co...