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They could feasibly be stuck in a traffic jam when this thing hits if they decide to go too late? >> certainly, no one should be traveling anywhere at this point t. conditions here are getting worse. you can see the weather conditions moving in. no one should be traveling. you should be lunk u hunkered down. at this point few haven't found the location, you could head to an immediate shelter and there are many throughout miami-dade county. at this point we told residents, continue with usually, you know, identifiable cases, you will weather out the storm in a hurricane-proof billing and that s...

Get more fuel into the -- to be used and i got that done this morning. still working on some other regulations. i've talked to the white house, i've talked to fema, we're working on that. my concern is i want to make sure people can evacuate. they've got to have the fuel to evacuate, and then as soon as this thing hits, i've got to have fuel when people want to get back into their houses. and so i've got to think about how to get ready, but afterwards how do i make sure people can get back to normal as fast as possible. >> do you expect evacuation orders to expand as hurricane irma approaches?...

Ghost town. i-90 because they've been ahead of it, they've had hundreds of pieces of equipment, thousands -- tens of thousands of tons of salt put on this road, it's relatively clear given the conditions. but, still, officials warning no reason to be on these roads. stay home and most people are. all the schools in this area shut down. many businesses closed as well. the other big thing we're dealing with, kate, is the wind. you can tell it's just pelting me right now. winds gusting in the range of 30 to 50 miles an hour where we are here in framingham. further out to the coast they could get ...

And we have seen some people leaving as well. >> are you concerned that people in your area, because you may be hit the worst, are not taking the warnings, the mandatory evacuation seriously enough? one, this thing hits, it will be very hard to help them. >> i was at the beginning concerned, but now i have seen that more and more people are taking this seriously. we're seeing more houses with shutters up. our whole downtown area is shuttered up and closed down. and hopefully people are evacuating. because once the storm gets going, we're not going to be able to send out emergency vehicles. so ...

Personal to it. i kind of know what you mean, there's a point where it seems monstrous, absolutely. it's just utter devastation. it's the worst that mother nature can, you know, can put forth and it's just an awful thing to see. >> so what we're getting is the information from the congressman and others that when that thing hits, it hits and nothing stays. >> yeah, i mean with the devastation, i mean there are entire neighborhoods that were completely wiped out, just like your previous guest said, it's very reminiscent of may 3, 1999 that bent went through moore and wiped houses off of their f...