out? i got out on foot. nick is with oregon s international guard at the air base in florida arrived shortly before irma. what is mission number one today? first off, thanks for having me talk today and our thoughts and prayers are with the people in the path of hurricane irma. right now early this morning about 6:00 central time, we sent out two california helicopters and they did an assessment and make communications with the county emergency manager and start reaching back via satellite due to the networks
remaining in the keys or you re going out. what s the decision? yes, ali, good morning. there s a collaborative effort under the great leadership of our county emergency manager and came up with the determination to shift our emergency services personnel out of the path of the storm, so as far as the middle keys where we were looking at being on the worst side of it, we re shifting our folks a little further north in the florida keys. we ll still be in the florida keys but out of its path. we ll watch it and work closely with noaa and determining if we need to continue shifting. right now we have to stay as close as we can to get back and assist those resident that failed to evacuate. your fear is what about staying, that the roads are going to be underwater perhaps or things are going to be down and your people, your rescue workers, your city officials are
at this point we re still in the keys but the track is looking, we ll be in much reduced wind and reduced storm surge, which puts us in a very good position to protect our people and then get back very, very quickly. i know the county emergency manager is working closely with the state and talking to governor scott. right now hopefully the plan will be to get air assets to get us and clear our runways and get to helping people and rebuilding after this is over. what s the infrastructure situation in marathon over the time that since hurricane andrew has hit? we just spoke to our reporters in southeastern florida around miami and hallandale and hollywood and all the new construction there they ve taken into account storm surges and high winds. have the keys been able to change any infrastructure to adapt to this type of a hurricane? absolutely. the keys, we have the highest building standards some of the highest building standards in