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Evacuated during hurricane florence. are you seeing the same thing? >> well, we did not have as large of an evacuation area as we did for florence. >> right. >> the evacuation for this storm was really only zone a which is the coastal area. but we also had 100,000 visitors in town for the labor day weekend. we do feel that they did get out of town safely. as far as residents, i really don't have a gauge on that at this time. but our streets are very, very quiet. i know that people are inside, just waiting this thing out. and tomorrow we have crews ready to hit the streets to do damage assessme...

Hour. those conditions have been progressively deteriorating with wind gusts up to 30, 32, 33 miles an hour. you can see the vegetation, you can see it and also the rough seas. from talking to the mayor of the city, i can tell you that the biggest worry is the storm surge. it's expected at 4 to 8 feet. on top of that, there will be high tide at 1:30 this afternoon and on top of all of that, rain totals are expected at 4 to 8 inches. that's why all of this area along the coast, what is considered zone a is under mandatory evacuation, because of the conditions. according to the cnn weather cente...

Starting in different parts of the county. if you still need a place, we'll prova p provide that to them. er. >> i knoyou were concerned about zone a and zone b. zone a in mobile homes and substandard housing. have you been able to get through that area and know for sure everybody who neesds to get in that area is in the eastern part of the county. but we're mostly concerned about the eastern part. most of the residents when i went to different shelters, it was low lying area in the county. they did evacuate and when you're concerned about theile

And sisters from the bahamas. especially we have so many bohemians who live in dade and broward county in south florida. we are really worried about this storm because it is moving at a pace of 1 miles per hour, which is really slow. as we know when a storm is moving that slowly, it can change direction and staring us in our eyes. even if it doesn't hit us, it will go along the coast and so we are really worried about it. . >> we can still provide major damage there. parts are under mandatory evacuation orders. mayor, how confident are you that people are following those orders? >> we're confi...

Mandatory evacuation zones, zone a and zone b. this is a barrier island. think of it as the first line of defense between an approaching hurricane and the southeast coastline of the florida peninsula. this is a narrow strip of land that is very susceptible to flooding and land surge. ask the residents that built the house 100 years ago that used to have 100 feet of beach in front of it. now what i have seen are residents trying to soak in the last bit of their labor day weekend but they've also made it perfectly clear, the martin county sheriff's has come around saying this is an evacuation zo...