The surge, if people do foolish things, there could be loss of life and thats what we do not want to happen. We need to take this situation seriously. It is not something where we should jeopardize anyones life simply because we dont want to heed the warnings. There are those who doubt the intensity or severity of this storm, they need only look at the images that are coming back from haiti. This group many of us have dealt with storms in the past, charlie, francis, jean, wilma, this is like none of those. Im not saying this to be theatrical, you all know me, i dont lean towards bravado, i asked my captain today, do you have body bags, are you prepared for mass causalities, because if people do not leave and we get 140 miles an hour wind gusts in mobile home places, were going to have fatalities. This is like no storm in the record books. Were concerned about people deciding to stay in areas under mandatory evacuation orders. This is a mistake, this is not hype. This is not hyperbole,
At the top of hour, i am alice right here at msnbc, the hurricane is closing in on the southeast united states. As many as one and a half Million People have been ordered to evacuate throughout the sunshine state. Half a million more in georgia, thats where president obama signed a declaration of emergency as well. Another 3,000 are ready to stand standing by. Destructive flooding in florida. Thats another hour plus to go. States governor is warning president , do take this storm seriously our number one priority is protecting every life in the state. I think about my grandchildren and daughters and wife, i want everybody to survive this. We can rebuild homes and businesses, i just think of my own family, we cannot rebuild a life. Shelby danielson is standing by for us. What is it like out there but i can see from myself that you are get pounded with rain. Reporter absolutely, just horizontal rain blowing through here and the wind is powerful. You can see we are close to the front righ
a storm this big, says it s unprecedented, so for people to trust those old structures really made him very emotional to even think about it, because he was just begging everyone to leave. yeah, unfortunately, that can be a losing bet depending on the structure. shelby danielson, thank you for that report. alex? let s head to jacksonville, florida, where gabe gutierrez is standing by. what s it like? reporter: good morning, we re here, starting to see some rain, as well as some wind, wind only about 15 to 20 mile an hour so far, but that will increase throughout the day. here in jacksonville, as in much of the rest of florida, the local officials had urged people to evacuate. the mayor here in jacksonville ordered 450,000 people to evacuate. here s the thing, in florida you would think many communities have dealt with strong hurricanes before, but here in the jacksonville area, this area
patrol? well, we are 45 miles an hour. some where around 10:00 p.m. last night, we had to pull our officers off the street as the winds got over 45 miles per hour. we got them right back out right away ed cunningham, best of luck going about your job and all of you staying safe. thank you for what you do. thank you. lets go to our reporter, shelby danielson. we spoke to you the last hour, we could barely hear you because winds are blowing at you and how are things right now? reporter: well, the rain has slowed down a little bit. the rain when we were talking earlier, it feels like hail against your body.
boats around that area where those storm surges will be happening. lets just hope that those boats will stay tied down. shelby danielson. thank you for your report this hour. stay safe. we ll check with bonnie snyder tracking where hurricane matthew is now and where is it heading next.