Are now. Just to step aside to give you idea, vans coming through, been worse than this, comes and goes, strong at times, ripping through here gusting maybe 75 miles an hour. In a couple of hours, maybe three could be as much as 110 miles an hour. People been warning about the storm for days now, warnings getting more and more dire and heard from the National Weather service in melbourne and just read it to you. Language is dire. Locations may be uninhabitable for weeks or even months. Widespread extensive wind impacts, National Weather service dont mess around or exaggerate, that gives you pause. Talking about winds and rain at moment. Storm surge is something we also need to talk about, its just high tide right now. Midnight on the east coast. High tide combined with a storm surge of perhaps as much as 12 feet is going tock devastating for coastal areas and you have Barrier Islands where people live. Evacuation orders very strict for those people, getting them off the islands. You sa
And sunday. Yeah, thats right. Right now, were in miami beach, very close to the ocean. You know, 24 hours from now n all likely hd, we will not be able to be in this location. Were going to have to be more in miami downtown in a slightly elevated position. You try to plan out where the water may come where the flooding may come and we want to be able to broadcast all during the storm. We are looking at elevated positions that we can kind of get to tomorrow and broadcast throughout as long as were able to stay on the air. As youre out and about, you know, miami is a big city and folks are out and about all the time. People vacation there. What is it like . What are they saying . You know, its its been incredibly quiet today. When i got in this morning, i went to the publix soouupermark by the hotel. They were open and they were going to stay open until 9 00 p. M. Tonight. I expected the shelves to be empty. There was tons of food there. Tons of supplies. I filled up a shopping cart. It
More aid. Well, President Trump tweeting from his golf course today in new jersey responded with this. The mayor of san juan, who is very complimentary only a few days ago has now been told by the democrats that you must be nasty to trump. The mayor has been critical of the Trump Administrations response to Hurricane Maria, blaming the federal government for scenes like these, lines forming at stores and gas stations across the island, people waiting for hours with no guarantee that anything will be left when they finally make it to the front of the line. Mayors response to the events unfolding this morning, the goal is one, saving lives. This is the time to show our true colors. We cannot be distracted by anything else. Heres her emotional plea from cnn last night that started this whole exchange. People are dying here. We truly are dying here, and i keep saying it. S. O. S. , if anyone can hear us, if mr. Trump can hear us, lets just get it over with and get the ball rolling. We have
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