5 to 7% latino in all these communities, and there s one thing you mentioned i think that s important. it s very difficult for some of these communities to have access to later fema funds and access to all of the help that s being given. i think that s important that we mention that. it s important that everybody receives help. and important to also underscore it doesn t matter the immigration status they have. they will receive help if they need it. thank you. thank you very much for being with us. for more we re joined by lieutenant scott tumond, public information officer. i thank you for being with us this morning. levee county issued mandatory evacuations ahead of the storm. what are you seeing this morning and what are the biggest concerns at this hour? the biggest concern right now is going to be our tidal surge that we re still expecting. high tide is not until 2:00 in cedar key. over my shoulder you can see our
haven t seen in our area for over 100 years. so we re really hoping that our folks that are in place are safe right now and we want to push that message to them that we re coming, that it s going to be slow getting there until some of this water subsides a little bit, and we re able to clear our roadways and get debris out of the way so we can get emergency services to you. yeah, and we re looking at these images of the flooding and some of the parts where we are. lieutenant, i can t thank you enough for being with us. it s such an important time and really appreciate everything you and the fine folks that you work with are doing for our communities. i thank you scott tummond for being with us this morning. we are back in 60 seconds with a legislative update from tampa under pressure from hurricane idalia s storm surge. i ll talk to the mayor next. you re watching a special two-hour edition of josé diaz-balart reports live from florida. -balart reports live fm florida.