the eye wall of dorian, but it s still going to get a lot of that rain and wind. florida s space coast is preparing for whatever the hurricane may bring. nasa is not taking chance. there s a space center spokesperson who said nasa s mobile launch platform is being moved inside. this is their only platform available for the space launch system, so they have to make sure it doesn t get any damage. nick valencia is in florida s space coast on cocoa beach. i know it looks beautiful right now, nick but with the way this storm is intensifying, i have to assume that the people down there are anxious really because they just don t know what s coming. reporter: it appears as though from the latest weather model florida will be spared a direct hit from hurricane dorian. that doesn t mean it s stopped preparations here. it was late last night that the brevard county sheriff s office issued mandatory evacuation
that he is at trump national playing golf right now. your thoughts, karen? not a good look, although, thankfully it appears that the storm is still offshore, and look, i think the week after we heard about the president complaining about going to the g-7 it was pretty clear the real reason why this president decided he didn t want to go to poland. i had heard from reporters who were supposed to go with him on that trip that it was over the course of the week getting shorter and shorter and shorter. i think, you know, this kind of gave him a bit of an excuse to not have to go, and not surprised that he s out golfing today. brian. that may be true as far as him not wanting to go to poland. there is a big difference between being on the other side of the potomac and the other side of the atlantic, and so i don t think there s any preparation that s not being done because he s out golfing today. and look, it s in the 70s and sunny outside, we re two to
now we switch over to the air force reconnaissance flight that out there at the moment. they are also picking up category 5 strength winds at this point reaching up around the 160 miles per hour range. so let s get some more information on this. we want to bring in major chris dike, an aerial reconnaissance officer with the u.s. air force reserve. we ve talked about this. when you look at the new numbers coming in, what sort of factors impact this data and information coming in? hey, allison, good morning. so we re looking at this data. there s a variety of different things that can be impacting, especially as the storm is strengthening or on the upswing, so a lot of times when we re going through storms like this, we ll experience significant updrafts and downdrafts and the thunderstorms as we re going through the feeder bands and into the eye wall, so this you know, some of these readings, you know, in and of themselves could be things like bursts of thunderstorm activity
t we will bring that to you. you see that podium there on the right of your screen. now, as we have said that dorian may have veered away from florida, still not clear of trouble. yeah, and governor ron desantis very well aware of that. listen to what he s saying. there is still significant chance of a strike on the state of florida. if you look at that cone, anyone inside that cone needs to be prepared. i think people are going to probably still understand, you know, that preparations need to be made and understand, even if it doesn t directly strike florida, you know, this is a big powerful storm, you re still looking at really significant storm surge on the east coast of florida. you re looking at major flooding events. now, listen, there are millions of senior citizens in florida, and gathering necessary food and water and medicine to try to ride out a storm, that alone can be difficult.
to stop a hurricane from hitting, and none is going to stop the destruction that s going to come if it hits at the force that it looks like right now. the preparations are being done. we have the institutional knowledge in place. whether or not they have an acting title or not is really irrelevant. we have a large bureaucracy of people who have been there for many years, and you also have the state officials being deployed in georgia and in florida, and they re going to be working hand in hand. whether or not they have a title doesn t matter. let s talk now go ahead, karen, you want to wrap this up? i was going to say, it s not just the preplanning. part of the problem in katrina, and part of the problem when you have someone who doesn t have experience is also the response, right? how quickly you get resources in place. how quickly the person understands and knows what kind of resources need to get where. so sure, we can t control the storm, but we can certainly control what we