area. we have a lot of experts coming up. we ll be running things. it s sort of a control center. we ll be running things. we re going up with people we have a lot of people coming up to camp david. i ll be kmcoming back on sunday morning where i m going directly to fema and i think senator rubio and senator scott and i don t think the governor should be there. i think he wants to be in florida. the governor is doing a fantastic job, by the way, doing a fantastic job. how concerned are you about mar-a-lago being in the hurricane path? i haven t even thought about it until the question was just broached a little while ago. it looks like mar-a-lago is dead center. mar-a-lago can handle itself. it s a very powerful place. the thing i m worried about is the state of florida. because this hurricane is looking like this could be a record setting hurricane. maybe things change. we re hoping for one element that might happen and that s that it makes a right turn and
my body is truly powerful. i have the power to lower my blood sugar and a1c. because i can still make my own insulin. and trulicity activates my body to release it like it s supposed to. trulicity is for people with type 2 diabetes. it s not insulin. i take it once a week. it starts acting in my body from the first dose. trulicity isn t for people with type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. . in answering a reporter s questions on the south lawn of the white house. he s getting ready to head over to camp david out in maryland for the weekend. that s where he s going to be monitoring the storm. here he is, the president just moments ago speaking about the hurricane and other issues. thank you very much. the hurricane is roaring and it could be a big one. we re hoping that it maybe makes
and the acting dhs secretary. the president said he likes his officials in acting capacity, that it gives him flexibility and if he likes them enough then he ll make them permanent. he also said, wolf, that camp david will be a bit of a command center there as he tracks the hurricane, but also he ll be coming back to washington on sunday where he ll go directly to fema headquarters and monitor developments from there and get a briefing. he said at that point they ll make some key decisions whether parts of florida will be evacuated. he did talk about the seriousness of this strengthening storm, calling it a monster storm. he was also asked about the sudden resignation of madeleine westerhout. he was very close to her. he said he had just spoken to her over the phone before coming out. she felt really bad about what happened. she said some disparaging things about his family members we re told during an off the record dinner at the embassy suites in new jersey recently and it got
officials are in a very difficult spot tonight trying to figure out when and where to order mandatory evacuations. palm beach county where we re standing no exception to that. people are rushing to fill up their tanks in case they have to get out quickly. tonight officials in palm beach county tell cnn they expect to order mandatory evacuations beginning sunday morning. but they can t force people out of their homes. mayor mack bernard says they won t ask all the county s residents to get out but those in some coastal areas and inland neighborhoods with mobile homes will be asked to leave. what is the biggest mistake that people make in the run up to a hurricane? well, the biggest mistake is not preparing. they don t have food and they don t have the right water and so it s really to be prepared. then also after the hurricane sometimes we lose lives because people are running their generators and so they don t know how to operate it. the rest of the state is also
the gist of what the president saying, this could be a record setting hurricane, it could be devastating. it s not looking good. he is very, very concerned. he said there is a 5% chance maybe, maybe the hurricane will move in a northerly direction away from the coast, but he says that s unlikely. only 5% chance. pamela brown is over at the white house for us. pamela, the president went through a whole bunch of issues, but clearly the focus has to be right now on this potential disaster that awaits so much of florida. that s right. the president talking as he is going to camp david where he ll be surrounded by officials there monitoring hurricane dorian. the president was asked about his own properties. he several properties there in florida and he said he s not concerned about that even though he says that mar-a-lago, one of his properties, is dead center in the eye s track. he said he s not concerned about that. he s concerned about the state of florida. now, he will be surrounded b