city kids on the high seas. ready to tack in three, two, one. it makes you just feel so powerful and strong. but it also makes you feel free. it has real, tangible benefits for the students that do it. it was pretty rough conditions, like 20 knots, wind against tide. let s keep behind, let s keep behind. the weather was crazy. right? and is the ambulance on the way, is it? the coastguard apparently lost contact with it. so when my parents first found out i was sailing, they were like, what s sailing? you re just on a boat. but once i qualified and now i m a sailing instructor, they realise that i m actually getting somewhere. it s not what they expected. the main reason why i do this whole programme is that it has real, tangible benefits for the students that do it. i ll probably use the helm one. sometimes it s hard for me to articulate myself. and when you re a boat with different people, you have to kind of communicate. if not, it can go wrong. so it kind of helped me g
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tonight and through tomorrow morning as the storm is moving at 1 miles per hour. governor desantis asked residents to heed the warnings and he said he spoke to president trump. people need to remain vigilant. if you are ordered to evacuate, you need to do that. get out now while you have time, while there is fuel available. i just spoke this morning with president trump. he is fully engaged in this. and you know, just reiterated that he will provide whatever resources that we need to be able to weather dorian. fema is fully engaged. joining me now is dan leonard in massachusetts and also with my former press secretary marsha captrin. the storm is changing minute to minute. what can floridians expect based on where the storm is seeming to be heading? you said it earlier, west at 1 miles per hour. it is essentially stationery. it has been over grand bahama all night and into the morning. and even though that is really bad news for grand bahama
when you hear that category 5 storm is battering the bahamas, it has weakened to a 4, but that storm won t be very far off this coast. the eye of this hurricane, if it goes a bit to the west, a cat 5, cat 4 storm definitely gets people s attention as we get more rain here there one of the outer rain bands. people seem to be heeding the warnings thus far. the governor also telling us that certain hospitals also in the area are also evacuating today as well. dave guttierez, my best to you and the crew there riding out the storm. let s get expert analysis from a former fema regional director and of course he is joining me now. so let s start with the ground game. where are fema teams positioning sthe themselves as we get closer to potential landfall or a massive storm surge there on the coast? the positions vary. it just depends on the location of the storm itself.
have a plan. have an old fashioned radio handy. know where you will meet your family, have a meeting spot. because sometimes phones will be out, cellphones will be unreliable as power lines will be down. but what we re also worried about and looking for are those powerful storm surges which are, you know, rising water that come in that we can see very high storm surges. and remember though just one inch of water can do serious damage to your home. it can do up to $25,000 worth of damage that sometimes insurance won t cover. in addition to the winds and the rainfall, fema is looking out for all of those things. and dan, if the storm hits at a period of high tide off the florida coast, we are talking 5 to 7 feet of water at least in people s homes, right? along the coast anyway. yeah, we are. but one thing that i will say, this is actually a better case