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Branches. this is a mandatory evacuation zone less because of the wind but more the risk of storm surge. we have the risk of 47 foot storm surge pushing in and seeing 4 or 5 foot swells pressing over that retaining wall. the tide is going out so we are getting more of the beach back at this time but that has been changing, seeing the errant waves bringing debris with it. high water vehicles are in place along the coast preparing for any water rescue. the national guard is 4500 soldiers and airmen, they have a helicopter team on standby with eight blackhawks and chinooks ready for search and re...

Do knowing that they are very fortunate because in the case of here we are in cocoa beach, we are on a barrier island but we have somewhere to go. the people in the bahamas unfortunately did not in some cases. >> shannon: jeff paul, thank you very much. let's check in with corresponded jacqui heinrich. she's in jupiter, florida, . jacqui? >> we are under a mandatory evacuation order, we have been seeing is the independent winds pushed the you can see we actually lost a couple of stairs because the surface just really pushed up in the waves pushing the sand in and we lost the bottom two steps. ...

The storms come through. we've seen a few of those come in rapidly. they're very intense. this area is going to be a mess. that's why areas like this are under a mandatory evacuation order in jupiter. any low-lying, flood prone areas, anything substandard, construction or mobile home >> here's what you don't realize parks, they're all under a in these storm. everybody says oh, i've gone mandatory evacuation order right now. through a category two. look down to the retaining wall. i've gone through a category three. you can see even at low tide, what you don't think about is you have the giant ...

Thank you. if you leave cocoa beach, take a left, drive another couple hours off, you will hate west palm beach, where they are already feeling tropical storm force winds here let's get to jackie, reporting live. >> well, we are in a mandatory evacuation zone. this is why. dorian is still about 100 miles off of the coast. look at the third behind me. it is so violent. those waves. we have seen two, three, 4-foot crest. they are crashing into the partition there, the retaining wall, coming of the beach. we are still two hours away from low tide. you imagine when the tide comes in, the storm sur...

More to do with the storm surge and flooding risk. even without the storm, this area is affected by king type. it's when the position of the earth, the sun, the moon, gravitational pull creates higher than normal tide and so even without this storm this is supposed to be the highest height of the year. take a look out into the water, you can see the crests are just two, three, 4 feet high. storm surge has already been pushing in this way and that's with dorian still about 100 miles east of here from the coast. areas that are low-lying or flat-prone are under mandatory evacuation. if you can se...