i know your county includes some of the hardest hit areas now, including punta gorda where we re seeing these awful incredible images of the wind. how dangerous are the conditions right now? i can t overstate how dangerous the conditions are right now. we have category 4 hurricane-force winds, life-threatening storm surge potentially in our harbor and along the shorelines, flooding rainfall. those conditions are nothing that you want to be out in or anywhere near much, hopefully, our residents heeded our evacuation orders, evacuation zone. i fear some is not. for those, i hope that they are seeking shelter, they are hunkering down. these are life-threatening conditions. i covered a lot of hurricanes over the years. this is awful indeed. your county, i understand, patrick, just enacted a curfew starting at 9:00 p.m. tonight.
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video with four of his closest advisers and coming out of the bunker that we understand he s been in under kyiv. appearing with his defense minister as well, which is important, given that, of course, putin is appealing to the military here to stage some sort of a coup. you see them there saying that we are all here. our military is here. we re defending our independence. glory to our defenders and glory to ukraine. still incredibly defiant here. you are obviously in the nighttime here. tensions incredibly high. nighttime is when you see a lot of these missile strikes that have come in. the explosions. you ll have a curfew starting in less than two hours where i am and in cities across this country. many of them will also go completely dark because they are worried about planes flying overhead, missile targeting. and now when the sirens go off there s an urgency. people are going to the shelters. we went to one today. it s packed. people go in there. they wait for the all clear and the
it s hard for me to speak because my child used to work care. she was at work just yesterday and nothing happened just yesterday evening. no russia recently demanded ukraine surrender the city of mariupol. the mayor of that city quickly shot down that threatening offer. russian forces have encircled the city where troops continued to bombard the area. officials say at least 2300 people have died in the city, but hundreds of thousands of others within the city are struggling to get out and remain trapped because it simply is just not safe to get out of that city. as a result, many cities around ukraine are strengthening their curfews. we know just outside of hearing kyiv to the east of us, the mayor has extended a curfew starting at 8:00 tonight and it s going to run through wednesday morning. we here in the city it starts in
that this could be one of the strongest storms to strike louisiana since the 1850s. that really was quite profound when he said that. of course we had four named tropical storms just last year, and you got to remember what those storms, including hurricane laura, did to the coastline here. it completely altered the ge geography. they re starting at 6:00 a.m. curfew starting at 6:00 p.m. this evening. people are doing their last-minute preps if they ve decided to stay, they re trying to protect their life and trying to protect their property and assets. check out these individuals sand bagging. let me just give you some context here. it is extremely hot. it is extremely humid. we got women, children, and, of course, men who are out here working tirelessly to fill these sandbags so they can indeed protect their homes.