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>> if you have to move, if you have to stock up, if you have to get to higher ground, it has to be today please >> reporter: with time running out before henri's expected landfall before noon sunday, residents lining up for gas and boarding up, preparing for 3 to 6 inches of rain, 75-mile-per-hour wind gusts, and massive power outages that could last for days. what worries you the most? >> well, this is a significant storm event, high hurricane-force winds, significant rainfall, storm surge. >> reporter: emergency crews are on standby 500 national guard called up, officials urging residents to...

0 power, it can hit 65 miles an hour in a year. >> wow. solar trains. >> thank very much for watching. "nightly news" is next. we're back at 6:00. hope to see you then. tonight, the historic hurricane speeding to the northeast. henri at hurricane strength, growing more powerful. on track to hit long island and new england. which haven't seen a hurricane in 30 years, tomorrow. coastal areas now evacuating the rush to board up and stock up lines for gas. empty store shelves. governors calling up the naonal guard. >> you should be prepared to deal with the possibility that you could lose power ...

Community. i'm the state's chief financial officer and a citizen of the state of florida. proud to be here with the urban search and rescue men and women assigned here. this is the largest ever deployment of task force resources in the history of the state of florida that's not a hurricane. the same number of men and women that are on the ground right now the same as was deployed to hurricane michael, a 12-county storm event. they're working around the clock, 1 hours at a time. midnight to noon, noon to midnight. they come from tallahassee, orlando, tampa. they come from israel. they come from...

Federal, international community. i'm the state's chief financial officer and a fire marshal and citizen of the state of florida and proud to be here with the task forces that are assigned here. this is the largest ever deployment of task force resources in the history of the state of florida that's not a hurricane. the same number of men and women that are on the ground right now is the same as that was deployed to hurricane michael, which is a 12-county storm event. they're working around the clock, they're working 12 hours at a time, midnight to noon, noon to midnight. they come from tallah...

>> you have, unfortunately, got way too much experience with this, as you point out, the last couple of storms. what have you learned over the course of those storms that has helped you to prepare so that you're ready for any eventuality over the next couple days? >> we've become quite well rehearsed, as you mentioned. this is a fifth year in a row that we've had some storm event. we've learned, for example, where we can control the level of retention areas, of lakes. we have a couple lakes where we actually, for the last week, have been lowering the levels to create more retention for water. ...