be doing? it s interesting to look at the time line. because if you look at the movement you can see some tropical force winds approaching the coast on sunday and stretching across the state during sunday and into monday. we really need to spend tomorrow into sunday wrapping your plans up. get yourself ready and do it noi. ken graham as always thank you so much for being with us this morning. i m sure we ll have a chance to speak with you over the next few days. joining us now is pete gomez, miami s emergency manager and assistant fire chief. chief gomez, thanks so much. what are you doing this morning to get ready? i think we re doing the same thing that the rest of everybody in the state of florida is doing. this morning at 10:00 we have a meeting with our administrative with the city manager and all his administrative assistants to discuss exactly what we re going to do moving forward. but we ve been prepared. we ve been sending out messages to all department directors to
know cranes are up all over miami. so can t they come down now? no, actually, it s quite a process. we found out how difficult a process it is. it takes a long time to get those cranes down. it s actually too late to start bringing them down. so they have a process that they use, and unfortunately during irma we saw that they don t always meet their standards. but we do notify the surrounding committees and tell them to be alert. our inspectors go out and inspect those sites and make sure that the debris is cleaned up, those sites are as clean as possible and that the crane operators are aware of what s coming our way. that s nerve-racking. i mean, the last place you want to be when 125 mile per hour winds hit is in a crane or under a crane. so i hope they re heeding your warnings. chief pete gomez, thank you very much for taking time with us this morning. obviously we ll check back with you as this gets closer.