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them if they get injured they are on their own. 911, you re not going to get any help if you re out here. the warning came out yesterday. if you are going to stay in miami beach, you re not going to be, at some point, able to get any help from the police department and the fire department. and we keep talking about where the eye is traveling and how it will impact the west side. this is the early part. it s going to get much worse. kyung lah, stay safe. we re going to talk to the governor of florida, senator marco rubio and first responder in harm s way east of key west. stay with us. we ll be right back. [ livin thing by electric light orchestra ] sailin away on the crest of a wave, it s like magic
hurricane irma, i would be remiss if i didn t mention, that the storm is more intense, experts say, because of climate change. in 2012 when hurricane sandy and superstorm sandy, your daughter tweeted so are we still going to go with climate change not being real, fellow republicans? the republican party, as you know, generally speaking, acts as if climate change is not real. there are exceptions, you, your daughter, megan, republican mayor of miami. but generally speaking, the president, the governor of florida, et cetera, act as if it s not real even though the overwhelming science could be senses is that it s real and it s man made. why? i don t know because i can t define their motives. but i know this. there is things happening with the climate in the world that is unprecedented. second of all, we need to have, in my view, nuclear power as
the rain bands will be off and on, you ll go from light showers to to referenceal downpours. the winds will remain hurricane-force gusts for quite some time. the west coast side, you re going to start to see conditions deteriorate rapidly over the coming hours, especially the folks in tampa. allison, thank you so much. we re going to go back to miami beach. we re told the conditions you are are going to get worse. are you able to detect that just on the ground? i m not sure if you can hear me? let s go back to allison chin char. allison, the storm has made landfall obviously in key west, and it s making its way up the west coast the florida. there are a lot of individuals who fled southern florida for places upstate that are now
these dogs behind me right now, the water is now lapping up over these docks. that can happen at high tide. we re still three hours away from high tide right now. maybe the first signs that we ve seen that there is a storm surge coming in, expecting three to six feet here in miami. six feet would put it up to about my waist. if it came up to six feet, that would be about my waist into the storm fronts along the intercoastal waterway in downtown miami. the people who were told to evacuate in these low-lying areas and where kyung lah is there in miami beach, officials begging them, stay in shelters, the safe areas because it isn t safe to be out right now. not in these conditions, jake and they are going to persist for some time. obviously, john, the wind at 100 miles an hour, a huge concern. the storm surge a bigger concern, potentially, given that