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County extended that zone to zone b and that had people looking more carefully of where they were, where the hurricane is, and what the path could be. that's when a lot of people made the decision to finally, listen, i'm going to go to a shelter. it created a big log jam. it was sort of a last minute decision, but a decision that really required -- it required the information that people did not get until this morning. so that's where that decision came from and that's what created a lot of consternation. but the county, state, police here have done a great job. they stood up, kept everybody c...

The heeds and get out of here if you can. >> yeah. bill weir. we'll continue to check with you. i'm glad that guy in that boat decided to believe his family. i was very concerned about that from the other night. i don't know if you can hear -- there's a police car come big with a police officer speaking on a loud speaker saying this is a mandatory evacuation zone, telling people to get out. obviously mandatory means some people aren't going to do it, they don't have to leave by law, but they are certainly strongly encouraged there. as soon as the police car starts to come by i'll maybe have ja...

Recovery 25 years later from hurricane andrew, which was a devastating storm. this is three times as big. and we do have our houses that have been built to a higher standard based on what happened with that storm. we've learned a lot about what we need to do to be prepared, and we activated. so now we're activating even more with the huge storm surge that's predicted. we have called for evacuation of 600,000 people. >> you know, miami's a real city. it's not just a place to go in the wintertime. you know that better than anybody. but i've got friends who are lawyers down there and people worki...

Billions of dollars, what they're not telling you is they're giving it back to themselves. look at where we live at. they put us in zone b where all around us, to the north, south, east and west, is zone a. but all that land nobody lived there. so where the regular people live l live nobody is getting paid. we got the oil and it looks like florida got the money. >> bp executives are claiming, at least in the story on "60 minutes" there's been a lot of fraud when it comes to the payout. >> bp wanted the fraud. they cut the deal to make it looklike fraud so they could appeal -- they wanted to be...

Situation? >> there were a number -- there are a number of health care facilities and in consultation with the health care facilities not to evacuate them to begin a number of days ago discharging patients who were healthy enough to be discharged, moving patients on ventilators to other facilities in case, god forbid, something like this happened. so we really tried to reduce the number of people and take those who couldn't get off out. we believe most -- we believe the facility had excessive backup generators, et cetera. for whatever reason, that has become a problem at nyu so in an orderly f...