officials. get prepared. get ready. when it hits, these people are not going to be able to get out and help i or save you. they are going to be hunkered down, too, waiting for this storm to pass. we ve been preparing for the last 72 hours. we go through these emergency operations drills throughout the year. we work with all of the different teams, state and federal agencies here. we are all in one room here. monitoring the situation. we ve been preparing for obviously being here along the coastline. we prepared for it more than a couple of times a year. gist heed what your officials are telling you. a lot of wind and a lot of rain. if you prepare and take care of yourself, i ll be okay. listen to what your officials have got to tell you. when you re talking about the concerns you have as this storm passes up the coastline, the
they re worried now this storm will linger. this is such a massive system. it will drop so much water that they won t know what to do with it. the big deal for those people there within that region within kill devil hills, you have kitty hawk bay on the western side and the atlantic on the east coast. they are going to get it from both sides, the storm surge. reporter: you re right. there is nowhere for that water to go except to the middle. they are going to get a surge from both sides. it will lap up over the sides and will be an issue. they did refurbish the dunes here and rebuilt the area, rebuilt the beach. they are worried about the erosion. the wind will be strong enough that it will move some of the sand. again we keep talking about it, but it s those driving rains and the surge that s also going to wear away some of this new sand and some of the dune work. everybody poised to see what
ground. unfortunately, a lot of people we talked to today said they were going to ride this thing out. this is an area that s used to these storms. they ve been through storms before and they say they don t have a problem with waiting to see what happens. unfortunately, what the forecasters and emergency managers are saying here, most haven t been through a storm like this, and if they have it s been decades. the big concern is not only the wind, but the water. we talked about it all day and all night. the storm surge will be very strong. it s the rain. the outer banks flood with a heavy rain. now they will be pounded with this wind-driven rain for 10, maybe 12 hours. it s going to push water into places it s never been before. there are a lot of people who are worried about exactly what that water will do. as we walk back up and along the pier in and closer in between
hours. 36 hours could be the worse for new jersey. in atlantic city, they closed the casinos there sending everybody out the doors? reporter: could you run that by me? in atlantic city, do they expect that area to be hit particularly hard? probably both. they are probably doing it because it s a good public service move for sure. what if the storm surge is as advertised and you ve got major problems in the casinos? it s a smart move. sends the right message, we are taking it seriously. we like the move. i believe a lot of these casinos will be shut down by about noon on saturday. the expectation of the storm being to hit the jersey shore what time? reporter: outer bands are going to work in earlier than the center of the storm. we ll see some maybe as early as tomorrow morning, no doubt about
happens and how they get through this thing. how were evacuations from what you heard? did they go smoothly for everybody? they really did. that s the good story coming out of here. a lot of people heeding the advice of emergency officials and getting out early. there were never long traffic jams. there were lines of cars, but everybody that wanted to get to higher ground was able to do that in an orderly fashion. it s those that are staying. we visited with several families who decided to ride this thing out. those are the people the police and sheriff s deputies worried about. they have done some neighborhood checks. the time to leave is past at this point. what they told those who are riding this out, if you decide to stay, we are not sending our officers out during this storm. we are not putting them in harm s way to help. you if you have an emergency, it will have to wait until this storm cleared this area.