association encouraged all hotels to waive pet policies offer shelter and compassionate with cancellations. national guard. we ve already activated 7,000 members, which is right now every available member of the national guard, she have, been activated. law enforcement. fish and wildlife conservation preparing search and rescue teams for potential deployment and more than 200 officers standing by for the first wave of response based on potential storm impacts. reaching out to law enforcement across the state make sure they have resources to keep people safe. utility providers are actively prepositioning supplies around the state and in neighbors states. we know how important fuel and power will be. we will aggressively work with utilities to make sure if you lose power, get your power back on as quickly as we can. i want to thank the governors of other states that provided, every time i ve asked for something they ve provided it. i know the entire country is behind us. i know the presi
compassionate with cancellations. national guard. every available member of the national guard we have has been activated. law enforcement. fish and wildlife conversation has prepared search and rescue teams for search and diplomat and has 200 officers standing by based on potential storm impacts. we have been reaching out to law enforcement across the state to make sure they have resource to say keep people safe. utility providers. they are active throughout the state and neighboring states. we all know how important both fuel is and how important power is going to be. we will aggressively work with utilities to make sure if you lose power to get your power back on as quickly as possible. i want to thank the governors of other states that have provided every time i have asked for something, they have provided it. i know the entire country is behind us. i know the president is behind us. and we have the best first responders in the country spread throughout the state and neighboring
on the path of irma, he s watching it, he s activated another 900 members of the national guard. let s listen. i ve directed the remaining 6,000 of aylmer s of the floor to national guard to report for duty no later than friday morning. i positioned 13 helicopters and high water vehicles are on standby. the florida national guard and escorted him with other states and the national guard bureau to ensure approximately 30,000 troops, 4,000 trucks, 100 helicopters, and air evacuation crews are ready to support our state. the wildlife commission has arranged teams for potential deployment. they are standing by for initial response based on initial storm impacts. trucks, river patrol boats and atv are prepared for evacuation support, search and rescue
moving and intensifying but how we can better understand it to help noah and other storm centers how to convey storm impacts. and how do you compare this to other storms, other tropical storms? there have been major hurricanes that have bad maid landfall in the u.s. it s been 10 years since we ve had a historic catastrophic event. we ve seen other hurricanes intensify and develop off the coast, but what we re trying to understand of this storm is how the intensification structure is working, where we re having low water or wind sheer which is different winds with height, and how could it help the storm to intensify and eventually move up the coast of florida and ultimately dermine its trajectory either off the coast or inland. you mentioned one of your aims here is to help in the future in terms of forecasting the scope of these things, where they re going to be going. how reliable right now is the technology and is the forecasting that we have? that s right.
rain, which is the outside possible here, we re talking about catastrophic flooding inland areas. because that water will be held. it will not be allowed to drain as it does typically in florida back out into the atlantic. a reminder. disney parks closing in central florida starting at 5:00 eastern. an hour later we ll hear from governor nikki haley. in between we ll hear from officials in florida as they get ready for hurricane matthew s impact. a reminder, disney has only closed three other times in history, all because of the potential for storm impacts as you take a live look at video from florida. at this point, we have on deck the mayor of othrlando who wille talking to us, the mayor of west palm beach and we ll dive into how this storm got so historically big. the bahamas as you look at the wind, the waves, the storm surge. look at, this as we go to break, a look at the storm from above,