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That's a good sign. we want people to get out because of the threat of life threatening storm surge. just three feet of storm surge water is enough to move a car. and we're anticipating four to seven. >> have you gone door to door? do you anticipate going door to door? what is your last effort to get as many people out as you possibly can? >> we have been using a number of methods, working with our media partners, social media, direct messaging through text alert systems, which you can sign up for and also we can just send to all the phones and also land line phones, so we're using about as ma...

Involvement in asking the bbc to stop their investigation, whether that gives the bbc time to pause and reflect, that is a question to answer. i have a lot to bbc journalist friends, the vast majority of them are very unhappy about the way the bbc has handled this. for internal morale reasons it is not great, obviously, and i think further delays in a sense only add to the internal issues. tim davie has a difficult position, i can see that, absolutely. the way this has been handled it is almost like an episode of w one a, who took the

Spokesperson for the if i of fort myers which is in lee county. liz, good morning. thank you. >> thank you. >> do you believe more lives could have been saved if lee county had ordered evacuations sooner? >> well, i think lee county ordered the evacuation when they thought that it was necessary. the city of fort myers we went ahead and we asked our residents, especially those living in zone a, which is the coastal areas to please voluntarily evacuate. we started doing that on friday. >> just so i understand how it works, is the county the only body that can issue a mandatory evacuation, becaus...

Morning. neighboring counties issued those same orders a day earlier. did the note go out too late. >> we based upon the data of the cone and the projection of the storm and the low liars first for the mandatory evacuation for zone a which is the barrier li islands and then the next day zone b. but people chose to stay. we sue this when people do not listen to the warnings from the media and local officials. they made the choice. it is what happened over the years here and we've had so many different storms and with the media reporting this tragic storms and nothing happens, they say well we'r...

Level that even if we have a surge, we are safe. and it's exactly what we did. anyone can go on the west side and check their elevation levels. and the news tells you that your home is going to be on elevation with a surge that you need to evacuate, then you need to do that. so, that's exactly what we did. we checked our level, and our home was safe. and that's why we stayed. so, for everybody in zone a, i believe that most people in sanibel got evacuate. and people in zone b also got evacuated. and that's it. we were in an area that later on we were told to possibly evacuate, that maybe we wo...