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Your advice in reality. where we are down here. downtown miami, i'm more than an hour from high tide, okay? but the difference in the wind and the difference in the storm surge already has this place water over the docks, the boats are straining their lines. the shoreline and where you see the bulk heads and the natural rock formations are already over capacity. the water is already going into parking areas. and again, storm is a day away. so the message is very simple -- it does not take much to make a major difference and that's why the officials here are saying, don't come back just because...

That should stop like a minute ago. this is not about left, right or about politics. this is about people. senator rube yo is not only a lifetime floridian who has seen a lot of storms come and go, but he's the official who has the information that is informing his perspective and his message was clear. if you were in this storm's path you have to heed the evacuation warnings, you have to get to a position of safety. you have to have a plan, you have to have supplies. if you're in a situation like we are here in miami proper where the storm path is shifting a little bit, you still are not now ...

Will be from irma, but it could be worse. the past three days, weeks and a lot of preparation here including people boarding up their homes and building sandbags. there was one sandbag spot in south daytona beach where they were filling thousands of sandbags over the past three days, dumping truckload after truckload of sand and shipping it out as quickly as they could bring it in. people were allowed up to 25 bags each. we talked to officials where who's at people got what they needed, but this is probably just the beginning. >> we are always concerned. but we are ready. we are as ready as we...

If anything it has gotten worse. i want our camera man to show you what people are facing. a sea of people as they try to leave south florida to he'd the warnings to get out quickly. it's not easy to do. there is a shortage of gas and 40% of the gas stations in miami and when they try to leave by air, they're facing canceled flights, airlines not bringing their crews here as often as they should be, and people here just trying to get out of the path of this monster storm. the airport is closing in on them quite literally. >> let me go back to sam champion. how confident are the folks at noah a...

Meetings with those parishes. that dialogue stays pretty open all the time. as soon as it looks like there's going to be an incident, those parishes are able to raise their hand and say hey, we think we might need guard help. chances are we're already leaning forward and we'll move guardsmen and vehicles in and boats and preposition those where we think we can get best at the impacted areas quickly. we did that pretty early on in southwest louisiana and that allowed us to make a difference in lake charles and some of those lower southwest parishes and several hundred people last night, we were...