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Speakers, told them they were doing the wrong thing. i spoke to people out, there they wanted to satisfy their curiosity. all had a plan to retreat as the storm gets worse. i talked about this and janice talked about how much of the problems, the water is expected to come rolling back into tampa bay and the connected bodies of water and doesn't have anywhere to go but to push into the low-lying areas, push into the tributaries. that is why the local authorities have been concerned. that's why they've been bang the drum about the mandatory evacuations here in tampa for zone a, across the bay in...

Joining us is mike tobin. how is it going? >> it's amazing how calm it has been in tampa throughout the night. we just started to get a little bit of restaurant last hour or so and every once in a while we'll get a few gusts of wind. but the streets are largely empty because most of people heeded the warnings and they have gone further upstate. but you still have people, you can probably see some of them out in the bars making a big night of it. and having a hoot. granted we are in a place that is not a mandatory evacuation area. further down is zone a and zone b. that's where you have a manda...

Cuba and consistently making their way north. i mean this is extraordinary. chris hayes, stay with us. we want to bring in johnny boynkins from pinales park, florida. first what made you decide to stay? >> well weren't in an immediate evacuation zone. my house is not near a coastal area. and i wanted to give those folks in zone a and b a chance to get on the rooted and i didn't want to get bogged down in traffic trying to get out of pinales county and the state of florida. >> let's talk about what you've done to protect your home. what precautions have you taken? >> well we've taken steps to y...

We are at a low lying barrier island and zone a, which was the first zone to be evacuated during mandatory evacuation. and we have experienced several hurricanes, we take it very seriously. our residents were actually very compliant. we also had our police and our fire out there, urging everyone to evacuate as soon as possible. that was good. >> so you wait with everybody else in your community there. what are conditions like right now in key biscayne? >> right now, i'll tell you, we have surveillance cameras and they're out, so there is no power. and throughout the day yesterday we were alrea...

They are making announcements to tell people this is a mandatory evacuation zone, advising people to take shelter elsewhere. so lieutenant morris, if you can describe to us a little bit about what you guys are doing, where we're at right now and why you are doing this now. >> well, like you said, we're letting everybody know this is a mandatory evacuation zone. not everyone's aware of that. many people shuttered up their houses and they think they're safe. last night, zone a was declared a mandatory evacuation zone. so, not everyone knows that. all south of pine island road is a mai a mandator...