so long they end on the roadway at the very time the weather turns and that is the worst nightmare for law enforcement. you never have enough time, wolf. very important point, martin savage. joining us now, the mayor of hollywood florida, josh levy. thanks so much for joining us. hollywood right between miami and ft. lauderdale. what are you doing right now to prepare for this hurricane? so thank you. as a city government, we of course are mobilizing all aspects of our emergency response teams. that includes utilities crews, public works, police, fire, rescue, the whole gamut. even our financial services. as a government we re preparing the city both in advance of a storm to protect it and also preparing for the response so that we will quickly address any issues should the storm come this way. are you considering an evacuation order or a curfew at
have at least through the city of miami that have continued to provide that supply to the gas stations and then as a fire department, general public safety and the city administration as a whole, we actually have been topping off our tanks every single day so that we know going into the storm both our tankers and our fixed storage facilities will be completely full. you also serve as the task force leader of the south florida fema urban search and rescue team. what sort of work will you be doing during the hurricane and the immediate aftermath? yes. that is correct. the city of miami owns and operates one of 28 federal task forces. we are fortunate in the sense that it gives us 210 extremely capable individuals and probably about $50 million in equipment that can be immediately deployed to any disaster. we ve responded to every
hit as a category 4 storm. winds more than 130-mile-per-hour. we just heard from president trump. he is spending the weekend now at camp david monitoring the hurricane which he describes as a master one of the biggest, the president says, one of the biggest that we have seen, says there is only a very tiny chance, maybe the hurricane could move to the north, 5% chance but he says it could be devastating indeed. abbey, you just listened for almost a half hour to the president. what do you think. i think certainly on the storm what strikes me is thats in a white house who now has had a couple of years of experience under their belt with dealing with these. early on they had some major, major problems and failures, especially with a spate of storms that hit texas and puerto rico in the first year and how things are different. he is mindful of the optics of things. going to camp david once again which i think serves
weekend in celebration of the past and mike pence will do a great job. i felt it was important that i stay here and he ll be up at camp david working hard. we have a lot of things happening with respect to the hurricane. we have to be very careful. it could be one of the biggest that we ve seen. so far it s looking not good. i have to be honest. what i ll do is go to poland with a later date. we have a great relationship with poland. also angela merkel invited me to go to germany, so at some point we ll be setting that up. [ inaudible question ] i don t want to get into that. he s a bad guy. i can tell you that. he s a bad guy. i think he s a sick guy personally, but i can t get into that with andrew mccabe.
this point? not the that point. we have declared a state of emergency as has the county. i think that once the national hurricane center issues a hurricane watch for the county, that s when evacuation orders will be issued for the beaches, typically known as evacuation zone a and then area b which is of course westward toward u.s. 1. our county has 2 million residents. hundreds of billions of dollars in property value and property here, so any hit to a populated area as densely as south florida is might cause damage greater than we ve ever seen in a hurricane in the united states, so we re hoping, of course, to avoid that. what about gas shortages? what s the problem there? so look, as you ve been reporting, there have been gas shortages and there are so many people lined up at gas stations