numbers should not allude to a weakening or a downgrading storm. this thing you could fit two hurricane andrews inside it? absolutely. i will tell you. i was here in 04 when we had storms in succession and we had terrible damage. i hope that we have learned a lot from that. where i live projected to be on the northeast side as it comes through tomorrow night, we are preparing, everyone is preparing as native of florida, i can tell you this is a devastating storm and it s coming our way. julie: you sound that you re getting a bit emotional there. i worked with the eoc centers, i ve been there, we had a quiet period for 13 years and this is greater than anything we ever thought would hit us and hits the spine of the state of florida, it doesn t come from
accommodate anybody looking for shelters. right now we are stretched up pretty thin. mike: do you feel like your coordination between federal and state and local authorities is strong? it seems to be working very well right now and i have to give floridans some credit. some of our concern over the last couple of days has been maybe sense of come complacencyt in. a lot of people haven t experienced it or they forget what it s about. i have to give floridans credit, they are heeding the warnings, taking them seriously, listen to the information and and we ve had really good evacuation rates and great cooperation and, you know, i m encouraged because a lot of what i ve seen we had to evacuate our house, we were this the flood zone east of u-1 and had to get out of there and we have been traveling a bit and great sense of cooperation out there and people stepping up and bringing out the best in people, helping each other out and great
to try to outrun it at a moment s notice. if you noticed in the last few days how the forecasts change. things can change very quickly and you may run where it s going. julie: major héctor, we appreciate you coming on. mike. mike: julie, many centers at capacity and curfews in effect in broward county north of miami as officials make final preparations for hurricane irma u state state senator from broward county joins us next. julie is living with metastatic breast cancer, which is breast cancer that has spread to other parts of her body. she s also taking prescription ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor, which is for postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-
outages. 5,000 households, at least a minimum of 50,000 people without electricity all day and that s for miami-dade, broward and palm beach counties. duke energy provides central and north panhandle of the state, they released statement about an hour ago forewarning floridans that up to a million people, maybe even more may eventually at some point lose power and electricity during the storm before it s all said and done with because they re expecting significant damage and this could be days, weeks, possibly even months without power as was the case back in 2004, 2005, however the utilities have made great deal of improvement not only securing the line since that happened 12 years ago but also prepositions crews to respond just as soon as the storm is over, get out.
miami, was going to be bearing much of the brunt of the storm, those evacuation orderers, evacuation zones, have they changed at all? no, they are still in effect because obviously the it s a volatile storm. we are not going to take this lightly. things can change in the drop of a dime. one of the things that we have to remember is not just winds and rain, the storm surge, the areas can be affected by the storm surge, that remains in effect right now. julie: we hate to talk about storm surge and this one is i mean, record breaking as far as the state of florida not only is it two times the size of andrew but the storm surge here 5 to 10 feet putting many coastal areas, both west and east coast under water and water is one of the most deadly, if not takes account for about 80% of deaths after a hurricane. what do you tell the people who live anywhere along the east or