immiillegal immigrants into this country. whatever the democrats and the left wing accuse the other side of doing it is what they re doing. you just showed joe biden giving a speech saying we must defend democracy. mind you, at the exact same time the democrats in colorado and maine are trying to prevent the voters from voting for donald trump. sean: all right. the amazing thing is, mayorkas actually, in the last week, has blamed climate change, blamed greg abbott, your governor, blamed you, blamed donald trump for what s happening at the border, and now they re saying congress hasn t done their job. we didn t have this problem when donald trump is president. the wall was being built, hundreds of miles, would have been completed by now, the border would have been secure. none of this would have happened. what is their motivation?
in hillsborough county. that is home to the tampa bay area. the other mandatory evacuation order is just to the west of us. that s in pinellas county. that is home to clearwater as well as st. pete. a number of hurricane shelters have also opened in anticipation of this storm. of course, again, the concern is all of that flooding associated with this storm surge as we head into tomorrow. the concern is just not enough folks right now have made that decision just yet about seeking higher ground. a lot of the folks we ve been talking to out here tonight tell us look, they don t think it s going to be that bad and so they re making the decision at least right now to stay put, which is something that emergency officials right now don t want to hear. kaitlan? so you re hearing from multiple people who say they re not leaving to go to higher ground? because we heard from governor desantis earlier saying you don t have to go hundreds of miles, we re just asking you to go to a shelter, go to
we expect it to intensify. we expect it to make land fall as possibly a category 3. but it s also the storm surge that s so significant. so the first thing i just want to tell everybody in florida is listen to your local officials. if they ask you to evacuate, please do so. it doesn t mean you have to go hundreds of miles. it could just be 10 or 20 miles inland to get out of that main area. if you are asked to evacuate, definitely take your important documents with you so you have those. so after you go back in and it s safe to go back in and you start to assess the damage, you have all of our important documents like insurance papers and identification to be able to start a recovery process. i think it s really important to mention we all remember august 29th, 2005 when hurricane katrina hit. that storm was a category 3, but it was the water that was the story. it was the water, the breaking of the dams that was the story there. is this storm going to be the
we have also called up 33 ambulance strike teams with over 200 ambulances that are ready to surge into any impacted area. also requested an additional six strike teams through our emergency management assistance compact with other states. this storm is going to hit tomorrow morning. you will start certainly seeing effects of this in different parts of the state later on today. you still have time this morning to be able to make your final preparations. if you are in one of those areas that s in line for some of the major storm surge and you are told to evacuate, you have time to do that. you have to do that now. you don t have to go hundreds of miles. you can go to a shelter in a different part of your county. go to a friend s house in an area that is not going to be susceptible to the storm surge. hotel. all these things are good to do and you should do that and heed. this is going to be a major
we know now that it s no longer a tropical storm. it has gained in strength to a category 1 hurricane and we are expecting that to grow even more powerful as this hurricane hits those warm gulf waters and intensifies to potentially a category 3. to remind people what kind of damage a category 3 storm can do, it s not so much about the wind as it is about the water. a category 3 storm, you will remember, hit in louisiana in 2005, hurricane katrina, and you remember the story there with the breaking of the looefs. it was all about the power of water. than is the fear now. the storm surge. you see how the beaches are flat. that water can be pushed right up and into very populated areas. so they are telling people to get to safer ground. you don t have to go hundreds of miles. you don t have to go to another state but get to safer ground