with these things, and it s not over. it s still going to get worse before it gets better. yeah. so you guys be safe there. we appreciate you joining us, mayor val zudans of vero beach, florida. thank you so much. it s my pleasure, don. absolutely. i want to bring in now mayor mike bernard of palm beach county. mac, excuse me. excuse me, mayor. thank you so much. what are the conditions like where you are right now? well, right now, you know, this dangerous storm is 100 miles east of west palm beach, and as i already reported, it s 130 miles per hour with wind dwufts running 65 miles per hour. we want to thank our residents for making their final storm preparation. our biggest concern right now is the storm surge because due to the intercoastal waters and also the atlantic ocean, we re expecting to get like anywhere from four to seven feet of storm surge, and also we are subject to high tide and around 12:00
reduce greenhouse gasses to stem the flow of climate change, adopting things like the green new deal. but what matters most is we re going to need to figure out how to protect these ecosystems that provide food, clothes and shelter. earth is a living being and ultimately it takes care of us. and we need to start taking care of the earth and we re going to suffer the consequences. same as the wetlands in louisiana that exactly. that were are being decimated as well. sam, i appreciate what you do long term and i m sorry for what you re going through right now and, you know, we ll hope hope we get help to all of those in need right now because lives are being lost. sam, appreciate it. take care. we re going to look at the storm preparation in florida next as well as something pretty surprising that president trump said about this and other hurricanes. later the death toll rising while the search for survivors
disaster, storm that isido dori. right now we re concerned about how it s going to move and how it could potentially affect palm beach county and the whole coast of florida. reporter: what s your area of biggest concern, mayor? well, we have like first of all, we have mobile homes. we have mandatory evacuations in palm beach county for zone a and b. zone a is pretty much our mobile homes and our substandard housing and low homes also. and also we have our barrier s islands, jupiter inlet, so we have some areas that we re really concerned about. pretty much our whole coast in palm beach county. right now because of the fact that we re going to pretty much around 2:00 really feel the tropical storm winds in palm beach county, we re urging all of our residents in palm beach county to make their final storm preparation, because this is not a storm that you want to have
palm beach county alone, a lot of people and a lot of lives to be thinking about today. and over the following days. what is your county doing to prepare for this storm? well, first of all, thank you very much for having me. our thoughts and prayers are with the folks who are experiencing this storm in the grand bahamas and we have to continue to pray for the residents in the grand bahamas and in palm peach we have a huge bahamian population. we are preparing for the storm right now. where we have issued a mandatory evacuation for certain zones. if you live in mobile homes and sub standard homes and also the barrier islands so we have issued mandatory evacuations. also, we really would like all of our residents to make their final storm preparation this morning because this storm is a very dangerous storm which is moving at 1 miles per hour very
states, who thank you they have learned from previous hurricanes that they can apply now? what we learn is that it s totally unpredictable. so have a plan in place and keep watching the storm. again, prepare for the worst-case scenario. you just don t know. remember back in 2012 hurricane sandy was an extra tropical storm. the damage lasted much longer. we saw the same thing with houston. the best thing to do is to just be extra, extra prepared for the worst-case scenario and hope for the best. is there any new technology or new strategies you think ought to be deployed in storm preparation or forecasting that we haven t even yet? i think our local and state emergency responders know what to look for in their particular area. florida, for example, is a peninsula. it s a little bit harder to preposition supplies. so everyone county in those