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authorities have been urging peoples to stay inside and stay off of those roads, we are talking about some of the vehicles that are out there and still attempting to lead. they asked people to hunker down and get to that high ground. they have made city parking garage is available for people to park their ground cars on higher grounds until the storm passes. a lot of those are full, they were absolutely packed to the gables last night. sandbags have been handed out. at this point in time, the city has done what they could to prepare and it is these next couple of hours that they have...

people are now in 257 shelters like this woman right here. florida says it needs 5.5 million meals to feed them all. and 6.6 million liters of clean water. 2 million people still do not have power. water isn't running in five counties. 19 counties have boil water notices. and more than 200 health care facilities are evacuating, or considering doing so. 10 airports are closed. along with 24 ports. 31 transit systems. and nine railways. and then there is the death toll. the official number is now 14. though those same officials say that number is very likely to rise. and they are warni...

Message and to leave if you are and low-lying areas are manufactured homes. it's not worth the risk. you never know where storm is going to go. i can remember in 1979, hurricane david came through jacksonville, and while i didn't produce real damage, it was a real threat, and i don't think you should ever take it for granted. >> bill: looking at some of the sand movers behind us. the bulldozers are out here. what is the impact that i could have? >> they are protecting the inlets -- it will protect the beach itself, but where people walk onto the beach is a real concern. >> bill: the water coul...

Enhanced over the next several hours. high tide at about 4:00 and with high tide ordinary getting 2 to 3 feet but additional 1 to 3 feet and a lot of those low-lying areas will be unundated. but not just the storm sushlg on the surgeon the western part of florida. we have seen phenomenal report out of central coast of florida. in particular, in daytona, such heavy rain fall there right now that they are saying there's a real emergency. they had a huge cluster of storms inundate, through jacksonville. look at this long stretch of moisture. this is one of the outer bands from irma. there's a sec...