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What's going on. many shelters have plenty of room so that's what we want to see, is people at least taking time to go to a shelter if they don't evacuate. the charleston harbor will be closed at 10:00 a.m. national guard, yes, 2,000 on duty, 3,000 on standby. we are receiving like i said multiple resources from other states who have offered help but also fema is really stepping up and making sure we have the pre-storm supplies that we need going forward to man the shelters and do all the things that we need to do, then they will stay through the post-storm to make sure that goes on as well. o...

Assessments. both property and people. we do the same thing after her mine. they have not reported any is e issues yet. highway patrol has 150 troopers on public safety patrol right now and another 100 on standby. they have not reported any issues yet. we have over 145 shelters open. we have over 22,000 people in our shelters. i checked all night, and we don't have any major traffic or road issues at this time. we have been checking, and that's one thing i think that worked with our evacuation so far, we kept our roads open. all major roads, interstates in florida, are open. in miami and west ...

Weather conditions. people here -- >> mariana, we have to -- mariana, i have to interrupt you because governor rick scott is giving a briefing. >> while the eye has not made direct landfall, it still has time to make a direct hit and as we have seen, it has wobbled. we're very concerned about storm surge. the worst effects are still likely to come. if you remember, the jacksonville area has a low-lying area, especially nassau county. we're very focused on jacksonville. the potential for significant flooding there. damage assessments are just coming in from south florida. they will continue as ...

He was the target of the raid but we don't know anything more about that. >> do standby for me if you can. and continue to work your sources there. chris jansing is on standby for us in central paris. i assume you heard what laura was just reporting there about this woman who was wearing some sort of suicide apparatus who apparently blew herself up. do you have any information regarding that, as well? >> well, i don't have any information about that, except to say that anyone who again has studied isis or looked at isis knows that that is the ultimate goal for many of them to especially become...

And so that's the importance. regardless of where you are in the state, continue to stay home, continue to stay off the roadways. what we have right now is just a lot of resources at play. we have 255 active troopers on the road right now. certainly with more available. we have 1,000 d.o.t. maintenance workers that are working every single shift as we go forward. we've got half of our dnr officers activated right now, 320 of our sled officers on standby. we had and really plan to have in terms of sand bags and making sure we had enough of that, we were look at about 200,000 that we had, we've ...