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Long time and have experienced these storms many times, power you talking with them about how this is going to be different. And what and so the difference between what they're used to and what this will be as a way to hopefully give them more encouragement to know that they need to get out you thank you, madam vice president. Yes, we've been emphasizing the size and the intensity of the storm and the direction in which it's approaching, which is unusual and really raises that storm surge risk for the west coast of florida we typically see hurricanes approach the west coast of florida from the...

Took into account what's happening in the bahamas, unfortunately, which is the fact that it basically slowed to 1 to 3 miles per hour. so if those models continue we expect serious storm effects tomorrow evening, beginning 5:00/6:00 p.m. and continuing through most of the day wednesday. >> and what kind of resources do you have in place, mr. mayor, to deal with it? >> this is my third storm in four years. we are ready. public works has been working. tomorrow we're deploying our swift boat teams. our emergency access teams. everybody's ready to go. we're prepared and we're ready. my ask of the ...

Prepare and work with our governor and take care of the people of jacksonville. >> we saw and we just mentioned there you had record flooding two years ago. so you've seen what it takes to prepare for this and what the aftermath looks like. what preparations are you making here? we were talking about up to 20 inches potentially coming here. >> we have our public works team out. they're trying to mitigate any potential shutdowns of that due to the storm effects. but the key is to make sure our people are safe. that is they hear us, they listen to us. if we have to evacuate the top two zones whi...

There, up in the hills. how vulnerable is it still? what are your concerns even with these type of storm effects? >> look, ten of thousands of people lost their electricity today in the metropolitan area. and dorian really didn't hit the island of puerto rico with any forcefulness. let's remember, chris, 30,000 people still go to bed every night -- not 30,000 people. let me correct myself. there are 30,000 homes in puerto rico where people go to bed every night and they have a blue tarp as a roof. can you imagine it would have been a category 5 if 70-miles-per-hour winds would have hit for tho...

Carolina. here are some of our peak winds gusts 106, cape lookout, fort macon and beaufort. wind surge topping 10 feet. right on top of the river there new bern where 200 people were rescued. 150 people still apparently on top of their homes waiting to be rescue you had. so first responders are trying to get there but it's too hard right now. so unfortunately that's going to be a difficult situation. this is not a wind event. i know we are focused on the category but it still has some of that energy from when it was a major hurricane. so that's why we're seeing the extraordinary amounts of sto...