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We know that a pre-landfall disaster declaration has been made. how do you move your people around? >> one thing we have to our advantage, we have troops and airmen across the state, from homestead, all the way to pensacola as i'm certain you know. so we go ahead and take those units and we have them posture in place. in some instances we move them closer to where we believe, anticipate the impact is going to be. but if we don't get there, given the shape of our state, obviously, if we're not there, when this event occurs, then we're late to need and we fail the citizens and that's not how we ...

To respond to those that are affected, certainly in florida on the east coast, regardless of how far this storm stays off of the coast, the barrier islands running from the south all the way up to the northern part of the state are at risk. the storm surge, we've had an extremely wet summer and so i would say if you have a place to go, you need to evacuate and in a accordance with the governor's direction. laura: how scary is it when people are told to evacuate and they head north had and they're going maybe into the path of the storm if it shifts? >> exactly. oftentimes, you know, florida is ...

Spoken to in the miami area have been watching the forecast reports. they have seen in the last 24 hours that the cone of concern appears like it's heading north. officials are trying to tell them they need to keep preparing, that they could see a lot of rain, very strong winds, things could still be dangerous and there's always a chance the storm could turn and things could change again. as you heard the governor say just a minute ago. so this area here, this is a hardware store in downtown miami, they have flashlights and gas canisters. they have coolers, they have everything that you could ...

Are still warning people not to let their guard down. >> we want to make sure that everybody continues with their preparations, because if this storm turns quickly towards us, then we need to move. but at this point, again, we just need to see what the storm's doing. as long as it continues on its projected path, this course of action is fine. laura: and we have jeff hall for us live in cocoa beach, florida. hi, jeff. >> reporter: hey, there. it is saturday. it's labor day weekend. it's hot and sunny. you can probably see behind me the beach out here, not a ton of people enjoying what nature b...

>> the storm continues to be a monster, it's a really large one and it continues to strengthen. this is that storm right now and when you see these really defined circular eyewalls, that shows you it's a powerful storm. winds up to 150 miles an hour, gusting up to 185 miles an hour. we think it will stay a category 4 as it moves slowly to the west. we're looking at sunday night into monday morning, the time we're running over portions of the northern bahamas. that is when the suggest forecat suggests the system starts to turn to the north. the cone of uncertainty is relatively wide. it is shif...