concern that too many people head north they could get caught in the storm as they try to move. brian todd, cnn, palm springs, florida. and other agencies are taking action as well. a local state of emergency has been declared in miami-dade county. about half the gasoline stations there are without fuel. officials say more is on the way so not to worry. friday marked the start of what s called the keen tide. that s the highest tide of the season. dorian isn t even close and already some areas are covered in water. that s some of the reason the mayor of miami beach is planning for the worst, listen. the challenge of the storm is really this. we can prepare for this. but because everybody sees it going everywhere in the state of florida, because the cone is so wide, people may decide it s not coming to them. they re going to play sort of russian roulette. and that s a big mistake.
and how strong it will be when it gets to florida? and the national hurricane center said it s going to slow down over the next 24 hour. to slow down means it s going to increase in intensity. the slower it moves, the more problematic it becomes. it s still a very powerful hurricane. a major hurricane, a category 4 hurricane that is moving towards the west-northwest, has supporting winds of 140 miles an hour. that makes it a medium-grade category 4, still a mega hurricane. but this clearly defined eye has really been so imposing to look at for days. i have to hand it to the people in florida. the first responders. the people, heads of government there, who have told the people what to do, get gas, make sure you got water, food, medicines, make sure you ve got a safe place to go. this has been brilliant on their part. to see this storm coming in this direction and threatening as powerful a system as this is
i m george howell. the cnn newsroom starts now. at 5:00 a.m. here on the u.s. east coast, we start with this big monster storm that s headed this way. hurricane dorian, a massive storm that is gaining strength as we speak, headed toward the state of florida. here s the latest update that just came in. dorian is described as an extremely dangerous category 4 storm. right now, it has maximum sustained winds of 140 miles or 220 kilometers per hour. it s still unclear exactly where the storm will make landfall. right now, it is projected to hit another melbourne, florida, on tuesday and go up the coastline. again, let s take a look from space just to see how large the storm is. this is the view from the international space station. dorian is still at least a day away from the bahamas where hurricane warnings and evacuation orders are already in effect. storm intensified very quickly
still not going to be battered on that western edge of this most powerful hurricane that is really trying meteorologists patience of where it s going to make landfall. and just to reiterate, that side of the storm, that s the worst side of the storm to be under, right? all of it is going to be bad. all of it. offshore, just pounding the coast all the way up that in 12e itself is colts traffiatastroph. hong kong pro democracy activists are not letting up they continue to fill the streets. why they say they re not afraid. stay with us. at t-mobile, what can you get when you a buy a samsung galaxy note 10?
they re preparing. we figured we would need about 17 to 20 hours to have all of our residents in the locations that are needed. so, we believe that sunday morning is a perfect time. so, that way, we can get everybody who needs to be evacuated. but what we re doing is we want to make sure the residents who lives in specific zones evacuate. but if you re not in one of those zones, what we want is for those residents to stay somewhere that is close. make sure they re in a safe place. but do not go far. because we don t want them to head on the highway. so that way, they they had north and get caught by the storm heading north. because this storm is heading all the way north and it could hit them all the way to jacksonville. that s the reason why we want our residents to stay in place. now our karen maginnis is here to tell us the latest information. karen, there s a lot of concern about where the storm is going