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We don't know. casey stegall in new orleans. what is the latest? >> hey, neil. it's looking more and more that way it will be upgraded to a hurricane and it moves off the yucatan peninsula. it will go through cozumel and then into the gulf where the warms water are expected to fuel it and strengthen it to hurricane status. where and when it makes landfall in a minute. first, a live look here at fair station 13, this is in the northern part of new orleans. you can see live the sandbagging operation that is underway. the firefighters say they have been here since 7:00 a.m. and people have been c...

Some a major sandbagging operation. 400 cubic yards of sand in this one location over the past three days, some sandbagging operations we were told will be up and running tomorrow in volusia county. but that will probably be the last chance for anyone to bag their homes because the storm is expected to get pretty bad starting around midnight tomorrow night, we could have tropical storm force winds into the early morning hours and they are telling us hurricane force winds here in daytona beach by sometime late sunday night, depending on which way the storm goes. >> melissa: rick, thank you. mia...

Homes and evacuate in preparation for hurricane irma's arrival. bren, the evacuation order will take effect just hours from now. >> reporter: yeah, tomorrow at 3:00, jake, that is the warning from the county, bre vard county to get out. we've been talking to a number of people, people say they're staying home. we'll see how that works out. right now though, still preparations under way for people who live in the county. you can see the sandbagging operation, that's behind us. those are inmates actually bagging individual bags of sand and throwing a maximum of ten into each car. a slow operatio...