message out there. make sure you batton down the hatches, secure all your belongings in your boats and heed all evacuation warnings. more importantly, stay off the water. petty officer ashley johnson, thank you very much. we saw some people out there on the beach in ft. lauderdale, ignoring all of these warnings. i think blake is back with us. are those folks still out there? reporter: yeah, we do see some folks ignoring the warning. they look like they re going in now. the guy in the green shirt tells me he s a long-time floridan and he s not going to evacuate ft. lauderdale. he thinks he can brave it out. good luck to him because conditions are expected to worsen dramatically overnight. one of the big concerns here is as the hurricane passes off the coast, the storm surge could be up to 9 feet in florida, the governor is warning. the last time we had a big storm surge was it 2012.
lieutenant governor on an airplane a while back and he said if you stayed there, you d still be there. did you like that job? oh, it s a great job. absolutely. i talked to bob graham about it and he said charlie, when you re governor of the state, it s like being the quarterback of the football team. you have the opportunity to call a lot more plays than you do when you re serving in the u.s. snalt. senate. you re more of a spectator. where was he when you needed him five years ago. if he would have advised you to do that, you d still be governor. well, maybe so. i had the wonderf fuful opportu and my wife did, and they are lovely people. he is a great floridan and a great friend. if you had to advise somebody, what would be your main knocks against the republican party 2012 right now? well, i just don t think they re very toll rant anymore. and not very compassionate. at least the leadership.
did you like that job? oh, it s a great job. absolutely. i talked to bob graham about it and he said charlie, when you re governor of the state, it s like being the quarterback of the football team. you have the opportunity to call a lot more plays than you do when you re serving in the u.s. senate. you re more of a spectator. where was he when you needed him five years ago. if he would have advised you to do that, you d still be governor. well, maybe so. i had the wonderful opportunity and my wife did, and they are lovely people. he is a great floridan and a great friend. if you had to advise somebody, what would be your main knocks against the republican party 2012 right now? well, i just don t think they re very tolerant anymore. and not very compassionate. at least the leadership. my mom and dad are very compassionate people and they re still republicans. and i love them to death. but i think the leadership of the party really has lost its way.
laughable. why else would you take 14 days of early voting and condense it down to eight days and make that more difficult or make it even harder for people to do absentee balloting here in florida? certainly, it s not voter encouragement to say the least. it is voter discouragement and i think absolutely the wrong thing to do is as i saidier, make this precious right more difficult to exercise than easier. this ought to be something we push as hard as we can to make sure that every floridan, every american has the tount vote their will and to exercise their right to elect their leaders in the most convenient way possible and people who stand in the way of doing that should be held accountable for doing so. it is unprincipled, wrong and shouldn t happen.
precious right more difficult to exercise than easier. this ought to be something we push as hard as we can to make sure that every floridan, every american has the tount vote their will and to exercise their right to elect their leaders in the most convenient way possible and people who stand in the way of doing that should be held accountable for doing so. it is unprincipled, wrong and shouldn t happen. here s the irony. florid floridans took care of business. they stood in line even after the presidential election had been called nationally, they stayed in those lines because they wanted to cast that ballot. they were told in essence, this is what you cannot do. when you tell people that, they re like, really? who are you to tell me what to do, and so, they were determined. they became infuriated and they absolutely made up their mind they re going to exercise that